Lesli Wood (Principal Investigator)
Dr. Lesli J. Wood is a Research Associate at the Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin. Her technical expertise is in clastic sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy, specializing in integrated petroleum systems and prospect analysis. Dr. Wood has experience in international acreage acquisition, exploration prospect development and operations, and regional hydrocarbon prospectivity evaluation. She is well versed in the integration of biostratigraphic, oxygen isotopic, geochemical, seismic, and well-log and production data for subregional and regional basin analysis. Dr. Wood worked for 6 years in the oil and gas industry, first with the research division of ARCO and then with Amoco Production Company. Her initial assignment was with their worldwide exploration organization, then with the E&P Technology Division, where she was senior geoscientist of the Integrated Stratigraphic Group and a co-researcher on the Seismic Attributes Development team.

Mike DeAngelo (Geophysicist)
Mike DeAngelo has worked at the Bureau since 1997 after being employed for several year with Exxon and Western Geophysical. He is involved in vector-wavefield research. His specialties in 2D/3D seismic interpretation and seismic inversion analysis, geological/geophysical data-base management, development of seismic vector-wavefield technologies, and seismic data acquisition and 3D acquisition design.

Tucker Hentz (Geologist)
Tucker F. Hentz is a Research Associate at the Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin. His technical expertise is siliciclastic sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy, specializing in basin-scale depositional architecture and facies relations. Mr. Hentz has experience in sandstone petrography, particularly of tight-gas reservoirs; regional-scale geologic mapping of continental strata, Gulf Coast hydrocarbon trends and volumetrics, and field- and subsurface-based lithostratigraphic and sequence-stratigraphic analysis. Mr. Hentz has worked for the Bureau of Economic Geology for 17 years on a variety of research projects. Prior to joining the Bureau, he worked for Exxon Company U.S.A. in New Orleans, Louisiana, as an exploration geologist.

Hongliu Zeng (Geophysicist)
Dr. Hongliu Zeng is a Research Scientist at the Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin. His technical expertise is in seismic sedimentology, 3-D seismic modeling, seismic stratigraphy, reservoir characterization, and special processing and seismic attributes application. Dr. Zeng has been at the BEG for 2 years and has been a seismic interpreter for several reservoir characterization projects. His previous experience includes 4 years of teaching and research at the Petroleum University at Beijing and 3 years of research, exploration, and interpretation at Texaco, Inc.

Bob Barba (Petrophysicist)
Bob has been a senior petrophysical advisor at the Bureau of Economic Geology since 1996. His primary technical expertise is the integration of petrophysical information with the reservoir engineering and completion engineering disciplines. He was a Distinguished Lecturer for the Society of Petroleum Engineers in1995-1996 and a SPE Speaker's Bureau Speaker from 1995 through 1997. He is the primary author of the top industry short course on the use of petrophysics in hydraulic fracture optimization, with over 2000 attendees from over 100 companies attending to date. His industry experience includes engineering and technical management positions with Schlumberger and President of an exploration and production company. He has authored 25 technical papers on the integration of petrophysics with reservoir and completion engineering. He has a B.S. from the United States Naval Academy and has a M.S. from the University of Florida.

Mark H. Holtz (Reservoir Engineer)
Mark H. Holtz is a reservoir engineer with over 15 years of reservoir-characterization experience at the Bureau of Economic Geology. His expertise is integration of geology and engineering in both carbonate and sandstone oil and gas reservoirs. He has authored or co-authored 14 University of Texas Monographs, 45 technical papers, and 31 abstracts on reservoir characterization. His engineering experience has been broadly applied in primary and secondary oil and gas projects throughout Texas, as well as siliciclastic successions in the Australian Cooper and Eromanga Basins; various basins in Venezuela, Argentina, and Mexico; and the Vienna Basin of Austria. He has taught more than 15 short courses (in-house oil company courses, public continuing education, and DOE technology transfer courses). He holds a B.S. in geology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. He serves as a reservoir engineering technical editor, was the secretary of the Austin chapter for the Society of Petroleum Engineers, and is a registered professional engineer with the state of Texas.

Dallas B. Dunlap (Geologist)
Dallas has been employed by the Bureau of Economic Geology since 1996. His expertise is in subsurface mapping and geologic/petrophysical modeling. Dallas has been involved with multiple domestic and international reservoir characterization projects. Many of these projects were in Venezuela, on- and offshore, as well as Austria, and the Gulf of Mexico. He gives inhouse software training classes and gives software workflow guidance to many of the Bureau's projects. He acts as the system administrator to the UNIX geologic applications and helps with technical support. Dallas is also a member of the Bureau's 3D Visualization team, which uses emerging computer technologies to present geologic models and data in a virtual cave environment. He has a B.S. in Geological Sciences from The University of Texas at Austin.