Graduate students

Margaret (Daisy) Pataki Rood- 2007

Mike Ryan - 2007 - Working with Jim Boles and Dalton Lockman of Plains Exploration and Production, on a previously undocumented igneous layer in the Inglewood Oil Field. The characteristics of which are still unknown. The project is three-fold; identify the igneous body, determine its age-date, and determine its' extent and significance. Research thus far has suggested that their are at least three different flow/intrusion events or simply three distinguishable layers of a dike/sill structure.

Grace Giles - 2007, M.S.  thesis on carbonate scaling in well tubing.  Currently working for EXXON in Houston.

Hilario Camacho- PhD student diagenesis study of the faults and fault-related cementation in the LA basin. Currently a manager employed by Signal Hill Petroleum, Long Beach, CA.

Rene Perez, Studies of fault related cementation in the Wheeler Ridge thrust, San Joaquin basin.CA.   Currently has his own company in Calgary, CANADA.

Laura Rademacher, PhD student, Studies of controls on seep water chemistry in the Mission Tunnel area, Santa Barbara, CA.  Currently a Professor at a college in Washington state.

Melissa Morse, M.S. graduated -employed by OXY at Elk Hills, CA

Marty Parris, PhD graduated, Hydrothermal alteration of the quartzofeldspathic sandstone, Salton sea area. Currently with the Kentucky Geological Survey.