Stephen P. Becker
Postdoctoral Fellow

 

 Research Interests

Fluid inclusion analysis and interpretation
Fluids in basinal environments
Fluids in silicic magmatic systems
PVTX properties of H2O-NaCl solutions
 
Education

Ph.D. Geochemistry, Virginia Tech, July 2007

M.S. Geology, University of Missouri at Rolla, May 2005

B.S. Geology, University of Missouri at Rolla, August 2001

 
Professional History  

Postdoctoral Fellow, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin, June 2007–Present

Teaching Assistant, Department of Geosciences, Virginia Tech, 2003–2007

Teaching Assistant, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Missouri at Rolla, 2001–2003

 
 
Selected Publications  
 

Nagy, Z. R., Somerville, I. D., Gregg, J. M., Becker, S. P., Shelton, K. L., and Sleeman, A. G., 2005, Sedimentation in an actively tilting half-graben: sedimentology and stratigraphy of the late Tournaisian-Visean (Mississippian, Lower Carboniferous) carbonate rocks in south County Wexford, Ireland: Sedimentology, v. 52, no. 3, p. 489–512.

Nagy, Z. R., Somerville, I. D., Gregg, J. M., Becker, S. P., Shelton, K. L., and Johnson, A. W., 2005, Lower Carboniferous peritidal carbonates and associated evaporites adjacent to the Leinster Massif, southeast Irish Midlands: Geological Journal, p. 173–193.

Nagy, Z. R., Gregg, J. M., Becker, S. P., Shelton, K. L., Johnson, A. W., Somerville, I. D., and Wright, W. R., 2004, Early dolomitisation and fluid migration through the Lower Carboniferous carbonate platform in the southeast Irish Midlands: Implications for reservoir attributes, in Rizzi, G., Darke, G, and Braithwaite, C. eds., The geometry and petrogenesis of dolomite hydrocarbon reservoirs: London, Geological Society Special Publication 235, p. 367–392.

 

 
 
Awards  

OURE Grant Recipient, University of Missouri at Rolla, 2001

Ray E. Morgan Award, University of Missouri at Rolla, 2000

American Mineralogist Undergraduate Award, 1999

 
 
Contact

Stephen P. Becker
Postdoctoral Fellow
Bureau of Economic Geology
The University of Texas at Austin
University Station, Box X
Austin, Texas 78713-8924
E-mail:
Telephone: 512-471-8334

 
Professional Summary (Word format)
October 2007