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AUTHORS
Dr. Jean-Christophe Wrobel-Daveau, Structural
Geology and Plate Tectonics Advisor, Halliburton
Landmark
Jean-Christophe has 12 years of industry
experience in play-based hydrocarbon exploration,
specialized in plate tectonics modeling and subsurface model
validity in data poor and structurally complex regions. He
currently supports the development of various products across
Landmark, including LithoTect ® , Dynamic Framework to Fill,
Neftex ® Plate Tectonic Framework, and QuickPlates ® . As a post-
graduate geologist, he worked for Total SA on the kinematic
evolution of the Zagros Fold-and-Thrust Belt and the evolution
of the Southern Tethys. Dr. Wrobel-Daveau has BSc and MSc
degrees in geochemistry, geochronology, and cosmonucleids
dating methods from the University of Grenoble, France and a
PhD in structural geology and detrital thermochronology from
Cergy-Pontoise University, France.
Prof. Bruce Eglington, Murray Pyke Chair,
University of Saskatchewan
Bruce studied geology in South Africa, completing
a PhD in 1987. His career began in mining and
exploration, then at the Council for Scientific and
Industrial Research and later, the Council for Geoscience,
before moving to the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.
He has a broad interest in geology and mineralization with
an emphasis on quantitative approaches. Bruce is an active
participant in various IUGS projects, currently co-leading IGCP
648 and the Petrology Working Group of IUGS-DDE (Deep-
time Digital Earth). Bruce has designed and developed various
online databases for geological data and is co-developing the
PalaeoPlates reconstruction model.
Dr. Graeme Nicoll, Solution Owner at Neftex ® ,
Halliburton Landmark
Graeme joined Neftex in 2012, after completing
post-doctoral work in geochronology and basin
dynamics at Edinburgh University, and working as
an industry consultant looking at North Atlantic crustal evolution.
He has developed our mineral deposit, geochronology datasets
and source-to-sink maps, and their subsequent integration into
supporting plate modeling and gross depositional environment
mapping. Graeme is now responsible for strategy, scientific
vision, and development of the Neftex ® portfolio of global
geoscience products connected to the Earth System. He holds
a PhD degree from Trinity College, Dublin.
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