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30 year's experience
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Published over 150 scientific articles on fossil fuels.
Professional experience includes:
- Mobil Oil Canada
- Gulf Canada Resources
- Elf-Aquitaine (France)
- CSIRO (France)
- CNRS (Australia)
- Consulted and functioned as a director and technical advisor for a variety of small through large petroleum companies in Europe Africa North America and Asia.
Professor of petroleum and coal geology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of British Columbia
President of RMB Earth Science Consultants and a Principal of CBM Solutions Ltd. Past recipient of the A.L.Leverson memorial award from the AAPG and received the Thiesson Medal from the International Committee for Coal Petrography in 2002 for his contributions to coal sciences/organic petrology. In 2003 he received the Sproule Award for contributions to the study of unconventional gas resources.
Is or has been an associate editor of the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geology Bulletin Sedimentary Geology International Journal of Coal Geology and the Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences and is a member of the International Congress on the Carboniferous and Permian (ICCP) American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP) and Geological Society of America (GSA).
PhD in geology in 1980 from the University of British Columbia and is a registered Professional Geoscientist in BC | 