A.A. Math and Science, Onondaga Community College, Syracuse, 1964

B.A. Geology, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1967

Ph.D. Geology, The University of Texas at Austin, 1976

ARCO Research and Development, Plano, Texas, 1983–2000

Cities Service Research Lab, Tulsa, 1981–1983

Mobil Research Lab, Dallas, 1980–1981

Research Scientist, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin, 1975–1980

Texaco, Inc., Midland, Texas, 1968–1972

Loucks, R. G., Mescher, P. K., and McMechan, G. A., 2004, Three-dimensional architecture of a coalesced, collapsed-paleocave system in the Lower Ordovician Ellenburger Group, central Texas: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 88, no. 5, p. 545–564.

Loucks, R. G., 2004, Hydrocarbons in karst, in Gunn, John, ed., Encyclopedia of caves and karst science: New York, Fitzroy Dearborn, Taylor and Francis Books, Inc., p. 431–433.

Loucks, R. G., 2003, Understanding the development of breccias and fractures in Ordovician carbonate reservoirs, in Hunt, T. J., and Lufholm, P. H., The Permian Basin: back to basics: West Texas Geological Society Fall Symposium: West Texas Geological Society Publication #03-112, p. 231–252.

Loucks, R. G. and Ward, W. C., 2001, Stratification and Beach-to-Dune Transition in a Holocene Carbonate Eolianite Complex, Isla Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico, in Abegg, R. and Harris, M. (eds.), Modern and Ancient Carbonate Eolianites; Sedimentology, Sequence Stratigraphy, and Diagenesis: SEPM Special Publication No. 71, p. 57–76.

Loucks, R. G., 1999, Paleocave carbonate reservoirs: origins, burial-depth modifications, spatial complexity, and reservoir implications: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 83, p. 1795–1834.

Loucks, R. G., Moody, R. T., Bellis, J., and Brown, A. A., 1998, Regional depositional setting and pore network of the El Garia Fm. (Metlaoui Group, Lower Eocene), offshore Tunisia, in MacGregor, D. S., Moody, R. T. J., and Clark-Lowes, D. D. eds., Petroleum geology of North Africa: Geological Society, London, Special Publication No. 132, p. 355–374.

McMechan, G. A., Loucks, R. G., Zeng, X., and Mescher, P., 1998, Ground penetrating radar imaging of a collapsed paleocave system in the Ellenburger dolomite, central Texas: Journal of Applied Geophysics, v. 39, p. 1–10.

Crossey, L. J., Loucks, R. G., and Totten, M. W., eds., 1996, Siliciclastic diagenesis and fluid flow concepts and applications: SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology), Special Publication No. 55, 222 p.

Loucks, R. G., and Sarg, J. F., eds., 1993, Carbonate sequence stratigraphy; recent advances and applications: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Memoir 57, 545 p.

President, Gulf Coast Section–Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists,
2004–2005

Co-convener of Carbonate reservoir characterization and simulation: from facies to flow units: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Hedberg Research Conference, El Paso,
March 15–18, 2004

Associate Editor, AAPG (1998–present)

Member, AAPG and SEPM Research Committees (1987–1990; 1993–present)

Wallace E. Pratt Memorial Award, Best Paper, 1999 American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin

Mideast AAPG Dean A. McGee International Distinguished Lecturer (for Fall 1999)

Honorary Research Fellow, School of Geological Science, Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, UK, 1997

SEPM Excellence of Poster Presentation Award, AAPG/SEPM Annual Meeting, Dallas, 1991

SEPM Excellence of Presentation Award, AAPG/SEPM Annual Meeting, Calgary, 1982

Robert G. Loucks, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist
Bureau of Economic Geology
The University of Texas at Austin
University Station, Box X
Austin, Texas 78713-8924
E-mail:
Telephone: 512-471-0366