Assessment of natural hydrocarbon seepage studies in Australian waters
Graham Logan A , Andrew Jones B , Nadege Rollet B , John Kennard B , Georgina Ryan C , Emmanuelle Grosjean D , Karen Earl B and George Bernardel BA Geoscience Australia GPO Box 378 Canberra ACT 2903
B Geoscience Australia
C Geoscience Australia emmanuelle.grosjean@ga.gov.au
D Geoscience Australia georgina.ryan@ga.gov.a
The APPEA Journal 48(2) 454-454 https://doi.org/10.1071/AJ07044
Published: 2008
keywords: Seeps
Graham Logan obtained a BSc (Hons) from University of Glasgow in Geology (1988) and a PhD in Organic Geochemistry from the University of Bristol (1992). He worked at Indiana University and CSIRO Petroleum before joining Geoscience Australia. For the last five years he has been leading the Seeps and Signatures Project within the Petroleum and Marine Division of Geoscience Australia. Graham has published more than 50 papers and is associate editor for Geochemica et Cosmochimica Acta and a member or the Geochemical Society. graham.logan@ga.gov.au |
Andrew Jones obtained a BSc (Hons) in geology (1997) and a PhD in glacial sedimentology from The University of Queensland (2004). In 2001 he joined Geoscience Australia, where he initially worked on earthquake and coastal erosion hazard. His present research is focussed on natural hydrocarbon seepage in Australia and internationally. Member: PESA. andrew.jones@ga.gov.au |
Nadege Rollet is a research scientist at Geoscience Australia. She obtained a MSc and a PhD in geology and geophysics from the University of Paris–Pierre et Marie Curie, France, in 1995 and 1999, respectively. Her studies are focussed on geodynamic reconstructions and structural framework of the south and southeast Australian margins, on detection and characterisation of natural hydrocarbon seepage on the north and northwest Australian margin. She is now leading the Remote Eastern Frontiers Project within Petroleum and Marine Division at Geoscience Australia. Member: ASEG. nadege.rollet@ga.gov.au |
John Kennard is a senior petroleum geoscientist at Geoscience Australia. He obtained his BSc Hons in geology at the Australian National University (1974), and a PhD in carbonate sedimentology from the Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada (1989). His research studies are now focussed on the petroleum systems and evidence of natural hydrocarbon seepage of frontier areas offshore northern and northwestern Australia. john.kennard@ga.gov.au |
Karen Earl is a geologist with the Eastern Frontiers Group, Geoscience Australia. Karen received a BSc (Hons) geology degree from the Australian National University (Canberra) in 2002. She joined Geoscience Australia in 2001 and has worked in most of Australia’s offshore regions in the Petroleum Promotions and Prospectivity Group. Karen is the Federal Secretary for PESA and the local ACT PESA branch Vice-president. karen.earl@ga.gov.au |
George Bernardel obtained a BSc (Hons) at the University of Sydney in 1986, two Graduate Diplomas in Computing/Information Systems at the University of Canberra in 1997 and a BEng (Hons) from the University of Southern Queensland in 2004. He worked at Bridge Oil NL (1987), BMR/AGSO (1988-1991) and has been at GA since 1994. He has participated in a large variety of BMR/AGSO/GA projects including marine seismic acquisition and processing, basin/terrain analysis, Law of the Sea boundary determinations and hydrocarbon seeps/signatures work. george.bernardel@ga.gov.au |
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