Shelby Bowden Email & Phone Number

State College, Pennsylvania, United States

Responsible for managing personnel and operations of the TIMS, MC-ICP-MS, and ultra trace metal clean lab at Penn State’s Laboratory for Isotopes and Metals in the Environment

State College, Pennsylvania Area

High temperature geochemical-based project investigating the chemical and physical signatures of asthenosphere/lithosphere Geodynamics beneath the Arabian Plate.

Midland, Texas, United States

Geoscience internship focused on both: 1) becoming an active member of the geology operations team, including steering wells and working alongside drilling engineers, and 2) assessing the geologic controls on operations and production-related hazards, such as H2S production, tortuosity, and ROP decreases.Primary jobs:-Python-based machine learning to analyze disparate data from geological, geochemical, and engineering datasets-Writing scripts for more efficient operations-related computational tasks, such as calculating vertical minimum curvature across a wellbore, normalizing and exporting log collections, and importing logs from an API for use in StarSteer and Petra-Using Starsteer, Petra, IHS Kingdom, and WellView to plan drilling operations and oversee geosteering

Geochemical-based work focused on 1) investigating basin-wide trends and anomalies in rock and oil chemistry, and 2) reconciling rock and oil chemistry to locate drivers of organic change and oil migration, providing a better understanding of basin-wide chemical characteristics and more successful targeting of new leases

Bowling Green, Kentucky, United States

Bowling Green Area, Ky

Multi-disciplinary work based in Ethiopia investigating the geodynamic history of the Ethiopian plateau from Neoproterozoic continental collision through Cenozoic plume-related uplift and rifting. Methods employed included field mapping, geochronology, thermochronology, petrography, scanning electron microscopy, and high temperature geochemistry.

Bowling Green, Kentucky, United States

Designed, implemented, and oversaw other instructors' running of physical geology and structural geology labs.

-Won first place in the Eastern Section-Served as the structural and geochemical geologist in a four person team-Utilized 2D seismic, gravity, magnetic, structure maps, and basin modelling in Bristol Bay, Alaska to identify two prospects within stratigraphic and structure plays.

Survey technician responsible for processing multibeam data collected as part of a NOAA contract.

Sonar survey technician aboard the Okeanos Explorer and Pisces.

Charleston, South Carolina Area

Responsible for planning the Seafloor Mapping class, giving class lectures, grading, assisting students in their research projects, and serving as a survey technician for the BEAMS cruise.

1) Designed and taught a seafloor mapping class that taught the processing, manipulation, and utilization of multibeam sonar data for addressing geological problems expressed in seafloor topography.2) Taught marine geology labs focused on the chemistry of the ocean basins and geomorphology of coastal areas3) Taught environmental geology labs

My research experience includes volcanism studies looking at isotope ratios in lava flows, beach and coastal surveying, ArcGIS and ENVI info mapping, and bathymetric surveys and analysis.

Greenville, South Carolina, United States

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Igneous Petrology

Masters Of Science, Geosciences, 4.0/4.0

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Geology And Environmental Geoscience

Activities and Societies: National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Geology Club, Garden Club, College of Charleston Orchestra, College.