Zachary Cotter Email & Phone Number

Columbus, OH, US

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Columbus, Ohio

• Worked with a team of geologists and engineers on a portfolio of military and commercial environmental remediation projects
• Designed and executed environmental sequence stratigraphy (ESS) project workplans, researched regional and local geology, identified potential depositional facies models for sites, digitized USCS soil data into.
• Supported senior geologists in field operations, involving supervision of geologic and geotechnical drilling, installing and developing wells, describing soil cores (USCS), and running site operations
• Assisted senior staff with data analysis, table preparation, and project reporting
• Participated in groundwater and soil sampling events
• Supported Battelle’s energy team by researching regional and local geology of commercial carbon sequestration sites, providing team members with potential target CO2 reservoirs and insights regarding reservoir quality.

Columbus, Ohio

• Worked with a team of geoscientists and engineers to display large-scale geologic field tests of CO2–driven EOR and associated carbon storage within Paleozoic strata of the Appalachian and Michigan basins
• Completed tasks involving geological characterization and mapping, formation evaluation, geomechanical characterization
• Interpreted and analyzed a variety of open-hole geophysical well logs including gamma ray, neutron porosity, formation bulk density, photoelectric, monopole and dipole acoustic logs, borehole image logs (FMI), nuclear.
• Reported results in team-based presentations and assisted in generating detailed technical reports for clients

Rawlins, Wyoming

• Mapped shallow marine and fluvial-deltaic siliciclastic strata of the Cretaceous-aged Lance and Fox Hills formations within localities of the Great Divide Basin, Wyoming
• Assisted in describing rock outcrop lithology, sedimentary structures and paleontological features
• Assisted in interpreting depositional environments from sedimentary structures and lithology

Taught physical geology and introductory earth science labs. Introduced lab topics, answered questions and graded labs.

Columbus, Ohio Area

• Assisted in developing sodium silicate gels and inorganic polymers as slow-release chemical oxidation technologies for applications in groundwater remediation
• Built and maintained experimental apparatuses and conducted differential density flow-tank and column leaching experiments
• Manipulated polymer/gel preparation techniques to withstand physical demands of a subsurface environment
• Utilized absorption spectrometry, X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) techniques to characterize pore architecture, mineralogy and mass-transport processes of polymer samples
• Managed laboratory to safety standards, keeping good lab hygiene, maintaining chemical inventories and disposal requests, keeping SDS/MSDS documents and certifications current

Master Of Science (M.S.), Geology, 3.65

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Petroleum Geology And Geophysics

Associate Of Arts (A.A.)