Robert Valdez Ii, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Nottingham, GB

Keyworth, England, United Kingdom

I contribute to the British Geological Survey's current strategy of supporting a more secure energy transition. This specific goal aims to enable the use of the subsurface to deliver net-zero emissions and ensure resource security for the UK.Primarily, I contribute to this goal through experimental subsurface characterization. I utilize the Rock Mechanics.

Houston, Texas, United States

Primary subject matter expert, technical lead, and manager of the geomechanics laboratory at Stratum Reservoir. I oversee all geomechanics projects to ensure the testing programs and resultant analyses remain in line with the clients overarching goals for their conventional, unconventional, & CCUS assets.

Spring, Texas

Geomechanics researcher within the Upstream Research Company / Research, Technology, & Development [RTD]. I was part of the subsurface characterization team leading geomechanically focused projects for conventional [i.e., Guyana] and unconventional [i.e., Permian & Williston Basin] assets.A few of the primary deliverables for these various projects were.

State College, Pennsylvania, United States

Rock mechanics experimentalist in the Rock & Sediment Mechanics Laboratory, Department of Geosciences, Penn State. This position functioned as a research position after completing my doctoral degree. My primary role was to 1) conduct deformation tests on core samples from numerous major plate boundary fault zones and 2) train graduate students on current.

State College, Pennsylvania, United States

Doctoral research & teaching assistant in the Rock & Sediment Mechanics Laboratory, Department of Geosciences, Penn State. Dissertation title - Mechanical Behavior of Major Plate Boundary Fault Systems: Insights into the Stress State of the Nankai Subduction-Accretion Complex Offshore SW Japan and Slip Stability of the Alpine Fault Zone in New.

Whataroa, New Zealand

As part of my doctoral research, I participated as an on-site physical properties scientist during the second phase of land-based drilling for the ICDP Deep Fault Drilling Project [DFDP]. During active drilling for DFDP-2, I aided in the characterization of physical and stratigraphic properties of drill cuttings to determine lithologic changes as we.

Tsukuba, Japan

As part of my doctoral research, I collaborated with colleagues in the rock mechanics laboratory at AIST, Tsukuba, Japan. This suite of testing focused on investigating the effects of temperature on the slip stability of natural fault gouge material from the Alpine Fault Zone in the South Island, New Zealand.The research was comprised of numerous high.

Nankai Trough, Offshore SW Japan

As part of my doctoral research, I participated as a shipboard physical properties scientist aboard the scientific drilling vessel 'Chikyu' during IODP Expedition 348. The drilling expedition targeted the deep interior of the Nankai Accretionary Complex, with the goal of collecting prism and fault zone samples for laboratory testing.During active drilling.

Tsukuba, Japan

Same as description above since this work was separated into two visits to AIST Tsukuba, Japan.As part of my doctoral research, I collaborated with colleagues in the rock mechanics laboratory at AIST, Tsukuba, Japan. This suite of testing focused on investigating the effects of temperature on the slip stability of natural fault gouge material from the.

Riverside, California

Teaching assistant for the upper division undergraduate structural geology course. I led the laboratory section of this course and covered topics such as: graphical solution of structural problems and laboratory map study, the genesis of rock structures, the physics of rock deformation, and Mohr diagrams and elementary stress analysis.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Geological And Earth Sciences/Geosciences

Bachelor’S Degree, Geology/Earth Science, General

Undergraduate researcher in the Earthquake Physics laboratory working with Dr. Harmony Colella and Dr. James Dieterich on simulated slow.