Research Fellow with the Applied Geodynamics Laboratory (AGL) at the Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas, Austin. Prior to this position, I worked for 33 years in the oil and gas industry, for Shell, BP and BHP. My career spanned from production geophysics, appraisal subsurface, through exploration to regional and basin scale subsurface play fairway analysis. I have also managed technology projects. I am a clastic sedimentologist and stratigrapher, with expertise in deepwater reservoirs, salt-sediment interactions, and deepwater fold and thrust belts. My current research interests focus on deepwater turbidite stratigraphy and reservoir variability in salt tectonic settings. I am also interested in the source to sink response to dynamic topography.Outside research with AGL, I am co-director of Appeel Geosciences Ltd, and teach custom designed field classes on the Eocene Grès d'Annot deepwater system, Haute Provence, France.