When at EESD Bill worked with Brian Glenister, Phil Heckel, Brian Witzke, and Greg Ludvigson.  He spent most of his career at Occidental Petroleum specializing in Permian Basin and Middle East carbonates, training & mentoring, staff management, and technical quality assurance across the company.  

Education:

• BS and MS University of Iowa
• PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison

Classes taught [Industry and Academics]:

• Carbonate Sedimentology and Diagenesis
• Basin Analysis and Burial History Modeling
• Carbonate Reservoir Characterization
• Unconventional Reservoir Characterization
• Carbonate Petrophysics (Lucia Method)
• Sedimentary Petrography
• Core Description and Analysis
• Geology for NonGeologists
• Field courses 
  • West Texas/New Mexico Franklin, Sacramento and Guadalupe Mts (Ordovician through Permian)
  • North Oman (Triassic through Cretaceous)

Research interests:

• Using carbonate systems as sensitive recorders of biologic, chemical, and physical processes to perform high resolution stratigraphy and interpret Earth history
• Carbonate Reservoir Characterization for Petroleum, CO2 Sequestration, Aquifer, and Critical Mineral (Lithium) analysis
  • 3D geologic models (Petrel)
  • Carbonate Petrophysics (Lucia methods)
  • Sedimentary Petrography
  • Facies analysis & Depositional systems
  • 3D Seismic interpretation

Work history:

• ARCO International Oil & Gas, ARCO Alaska
• Phillips Alaska
• New Mexico Tech University
• Occidental Petroleum