Laura Zahm’s interests include carbonate reservoir characterization for the purpose of building 3D geologic models which capture the depositional systems spatial variations, the petrophysical properties of carbonate facies, and integrating multiple scale data from SEM to seismic. Her research has focused on the Cretaceous carbonates of Central Texas and elsewhere in the world. She has also worked on several Permian reservoirs in West Texas. Laura completed her Master’s degree at UT in 1997 and then went to work for the Marathon Oil Technology Center from 1997-2000. In 2000, she joined the iReservoir reservoir characterization team from 2000-2003. She was part of the Jackson School family with BEG at the Houston Research Center and the BEG in Austin working on projects in Texas and Brazil from 2008 to 2013. In 2013, she joined the exploration research team for Statoil based in Austin. Laura Zahm has been involved on AAPG committees and served as a representative to the AAPG HOD since 2003. She is dedicated to outreach with particular focus on K-12, with three children of her own this allows her to blend her two passions.
Charlie Kerans is Goldhammer Chair of Carbonate Geology at the Department of Geological Sciences, and co-Principal Investigator of the Bureau of Economic Geology’s Carbonate Reservoir Characterization Research Laboratory, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin. From 1985-1990 Kerans was a Research Associate and Research Scientist at the Bureau of Economic Geology, being named a Senior Research Scientist in 1992. His areas of focus are in carbonate sequence stratigraphy and reservoir characterization, with an emphasis on integrating outcrop analog information for improved understanding of the subsurface. He has won some 10 awards for papers and presentations including two Wallace Pratt awards for best published paper in AAPG, and the Dengo award for best paper presented at the International AAPG in South Africa in 2008. He has been both a U.S. and International AAPG Distinguished Lecturer and has worked with companies around the world on carbonate reservoir characterization projects principally in the Middle East and the Americas. He has conducted field work on carbonate analogs in the U.S., Arctic Canada, and Australia, and is currently focused on Mesozoic carbonate systems.
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