Monthly lunch - November 10 2010

Scott Tinker, Ph.D., Economic Geologist, UT-Austin

Scott W. Tinker is director of the Bureau of Economic Geology, the State Geologist of Texas, director of the Advanced Energy Consortium, and a professor holding the Allday Endowed Chair in the Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin. Scott spent 17 years working in the oil and gas industry in exploration, production and research prior to coming to the university in 2000. Tinker is president of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) and past president of the Association of American State Geologists. Tinker was a Distinguished Lecturer for the AAPG (1997), Society of Petroleum Engineers (2002), and Distinguished Ethics Lecturer for the AAPG (2006-2007) and he won best paper awards in the AAPG Bulletin and Journal of Sedimentary Research. He holds appointments on the National Petroleum Council, National Research Council Board of Energy and Environmental Systems, the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission and serves on several private, professional, and academic boards. His passion is building bridges between academia, industry and government. Tinker's degrees are from the University of Colorado, the University of Michigan, and Trinity University.

Expertise: oil and gas resource assessment; management of organized research; oil and gas reservoir characterization; carbonate sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy; energy; hydrocarbons.