B.S. Geology, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1969

M.S. Geology, University of Florida, Gainesville, 1971

Ph.D. Geology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1979

Professional Research Associate, Department of Geological Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 1978–1981

Development Geologist, Chevron Oil Company, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1971–1974

Loucks, R. G., and Ruppel, S. C., 2007, Mississippian Barnett Shale: lithofacies and depositional setting of a deep-water shale-gas succession in the Fort Worth Basin, Texas: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 91, no. 4, p. 579­601.

Ruppel, S. C., and Jones, R. H., 2007, Chapter 10. Key role of outcrops and cores in carbonate reservoir characterization and modeling, Lower Permian Fullerton field, Permian Basin, United States, in Harris, P. M., and Weber, L. J., eds., Giant hydrocarbon reservoirs of the world: from rocks to reservoir characterization and modeling: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, AAPG Memoir 88/SEPM Special Publication, p. 355­394.

Ruppel, S. C., and Barnaby, R. J., 2001, Contrasting styles of reservoir development in proximal and distal chert facies: Devonian Thirtyone Formation, Texas: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 85, no. 1, p. 7–34.

Ruppel, S. C., Ward, W. B., Ariza, E. E., and Jennings, J. W., Jr., 2000, Cycle and sequence stratigraphy of Clear Fork reservoir-equivalent outcrops: Victorio Peak Formation, Sierra Diablo, Texas, in Lindsay, R., Trentham, R., Ward, R. F., and Smith A. H., eds., Classic Permian geology of West Texas and southeastern New Mexico, 75 years of Permian Basin oil & gas exploration & development: West Texas Geological Society, Publication 00-108, p. 109–130.

Ruppel, S. C., James, E. W., Barrick, J. E., Nowlan, Godfrey, and Uyeno, T. T., 1998, A high-resolution Silurian ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr record: evidence of eustatic control of seawater chemistry?, in Landing, E., and Johnson, M. E., eds., Silurian cycles: linkages of dynamic processes in the atmosphere and oceans: New York State Museum Bulletin 491, p. 277–287.

Ruppel, S. C., and Lucia, F. J., 1996, Diagenetic control of permeability development in a highly cyclic, shallow water carbonate reservoir: South Cowden Grayburg field, Ector County, Texas, in Martin, R. L., ed., Permian Basin oil and gas fields: keys to success that unlock future reserves: West Texas Geological Society, Publication 96-101, p. 7–24.

Ruppel, S. C., James, E. W., Barrick, J. E., Nowlan, Godfrey, and Uyeno, T. T., 1996, High-resolution ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr chemostratigraphy of the Silurian: implications for event correlation and strontium flux: Geology, v. 24, no. 9, p. 831–834.

Society Membership: AAPG, SEPM, IAS, Pander Society, Austin Geological Society, West Texas Geological Society

Chair, Publications Committee, Austin Geological Society, 1992–present

Delegate, AAPG House of Delegates, 1999–2001

Levorsen Memorial Award for Best Paper, Southwest Section American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 2006

Honorable mention for excellence of presentation, SEPM annual meeting, Houston, Texas 1995

Distinguished Member Award: West Texas Geological Society, 2001

Dedicated Service Award, Permian Basin Section, SEPM, 2002-2003.

Wallace E. Pratt Award for Excellence of Presentation, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, 2002.

Stephen C. Ruppel, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Bureau of Economic Geology
The University of Texas at Austin
University Station, Box X
Austin, Texas 78713-8924
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