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Charlie's research emphasis is on developing new approaches for the construction of sequence stratigraphic frameworks for reservoir characterization. He has been an AAPG Distinguished Lecturer and will head to the Middle East again in 2002 as an AAPG International Distinguished Lecturer. His research has won seven awards for best paper, including PBS-SEPM and WTGS talks and posters and the Wallace E. Pratt Memorial Award from AAPG in 1994 for best AAPG Bulletin paper. In 2000, Charlie was awarded an Honorary Life Membership by the Permian Basin Section of the SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology). He received the WTGS Distinguished Service award and was selected as the Qualline Lecturer at The University of Texas at Austin. He is the author or coauthor of 58 papers, 6 field-trip guidebooks, 46 abstracts, and 1 regional geologic map. His first digital publication on the Guadalupe Mountain region will be published soon as a joint publication by the BEG and AAPG.
Charlie has taught numerous short courses for companies in the Permian Basin, the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. Charlie's academic interests also include co-supervising M.Sc. and Ph.D. research with faculty at The University of Texas at Austin Department of Geological Sciences.
Education
B.S. Geology, St. Lawrence University, 1977
Ph.D. Geology, Carleton University, Canada, 1982
Postdoctoral Senior Research Fellow, Western Australian Institute of Technology
Professional History
Postdoctoral Senior Research Fellow, Western Australian Mining and Petroleum Research Institute, 1982–1985
Selected Publications
Kerans, Charles, 2000, Abo paleokarst heterogeneity styles, impacts on reservoir production characteristics (abs.), in Southwest Section AAPG, Geo-2000: into the future: West Texas Geological Society, unpaginated.
Kerans, Charles, Kempter, Kirt, and Rush, Jason, 2000, Predictive model for paleokarst heterogeneity styles at high-frequency/composite sequence boundaries (abs.): American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Convention Official Program, p. A77.
Kerans, Charles, 1999, Stratigraphic correlation surfaces and 3-D reservoir model construction: constraints from Walther’s law models and outcrop analog data, in Transactions, Gulf Coast Section SEPM 19th Annual Bob F. Perkins Research Conference, December 5–8, Houston, p. 205–211.
Kerans, Charles, and Tinker, S. W., 1999, Extrinsic stratigraphic controls on development of the Capitan Reef Complex, in Geologic framework of the Capitan Reef: SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) Special Publication No. 65, p. 15–36.
Kerans, Charles, and Tinker, S. W., 1997, Sequence stratigraphy and characterization of carbonate reservoirs: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Short Course Notes No. 40, p.165.
Selected Committees
Society of Petroleum Engineers, Development Geology Committee, 1996–present
AAPG Distinguished Lecture Committee, 1996–present
Awards
Honorary Life Membership, Permian Basin Section, SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology), 2000
American Association of Petroleum Geologists International Distinguished Lecturer, 2002
Qualline Lectureship, The University of Texas at Austin, 1998
Best of 1996 AAPG Hedberg Reservoir Compartmentalization Conference (Woodlands, Texas), presented at Vienna International AAPG
American Association of Petroleum Geologists Pratt Award for Best Paper in American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, 1994
American Association of Petroleum Geologists Distinguished Lecturer, 1990–1991
Contact
Charles Kerans, Ph.D.
Robert K. Goldhammer Chair in Carbonate Geology
Jackson School of Geosciences
Department of Geological Sciences
The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station C1100
Austin, Texas 78712-0254
E-mail:
Telephone: 512-471-4282
Professional Summary (Word format)
February 2006