Generating realistic facies models for reservoir characterisation

June Hill graduated with a BSc (Honours) in Geology from the University of Queensland in 1986. She then worked for the Australian Geological Survey on the Mount Isa transect. She completed a PhD in 1992 in structural geology and extension tectonics at Monash University based on field work in eastern Papua New Guinea. During this time she was also involved in a number of mapping projects in the Mount Isa Inlier. Post-doctoral research included one year at Otago University studying shear zones in Fiordland (NZ) and 2.5 years at Macquarie University studying the effects of granite intrusion on deformation structures in the Olary region (SA), Papua New Guinea and Arizona (USA). Subsequently she worked for a number of consulting companies in NZ, Australia and Indonesia, including Fractal Graphics in Perth, before returning to university in 2001 to study for a MEngSci (at the University of Western Australia), specialising in pattern recognition methods. She has been a research scientist at CSIRO since 2003 working on new methods of computer generation of static geology models.

June.Hill@csiro.au

Cedric Griffiths graduated in 1972 from Durham University, England, with a BSc (Hons, Geology). He carried out field work in Angola (deBeers), SE Asia, the USA, North Sea (Exlog) and Zambia (ZGS) before studying for a PhD at Newcastle University, England in 1979. From 1983 to 1988 he worked in Norway as a Senior Research Scientist for the Norwegian Continental Shelf Institute. Whilst in Norway, he went on to work for BP Exploration, Stratigraphic Research International (where he was the co-founder and Director) and The University of Trondheim where he was Nordic Council Research Professor of Petrophysics. From 1994–99 he held the South Australian Chair in Petroleum Geology at the University of Adelaide. In 2000 Cedric joined CSIRO where he is Group Leader in Predictive Geoscience, and spent three years as Theme Leader in CSIRO Petroleum Research. He coordinated the CSIRO submissions to the 2002 House Committee on Impediments to Resource Exploitation, and the 2006 Senate Inquiry into Transport Fuel Security. Member: International Association of Mathematical Geology (former council officer), International Committee on Quantitative Stratigraphy (former officer), PESA, Society of Underwater Technology.

Cedric.Griffiths@csiro.au