John W Snedden

John W Snedden
Research Professor, Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School of Geosciences

Office: ROC
Mailcode: R2200

Areas of Expertise

Gulf of Mexico Basin global expert, Sequence Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, Reservoir Development and Connectivity, Petroleum Geoscience


Research Locations



Current Research Programs & Projects

Gulf Basin Depositional Synthesis Project ( view )

Gulf Coast Section SEPM Foundation, (2019 - Present)

Organizer, Co-editor, Gulf Coast Section of SEPM, December 2017 Perkins Rosen Research Conference, Mesozoic of the Gulf Rim and Beyond (2016)

Geological Society of America Joint Technical Program Chair, GSA Charlotte Convention-2012, GSA Charlotte Convention-2012 (2011 - 2012)

Global Ambassador, SEPM-Society of Sedimentary Geology, SEPM-Society of Sedimentary Geology (2010 - 2011)

AAPG, Technical Program Chair, Cape Town South Africa Intemational Convention (2009)

Research Committee Member, Hedberg Research Committee, American Association of Petroleum Geologists (2009 - 2020)

Secretary-Treasurer, SEPM-Society of Sedimentary Geology, SEPM-Society of Sedimentary Geology (2008 - 2010)

Postdocs

Zachary T Sickmann
Basin Analysis, Convergent Margin Tectonics, Source-to-Sink Sediment Dispersal, Provenance Analysis, Sedimentology in the Anthropocene

Chris Lowery, 2016 - 2019, Institute for Geophysics


Graduate Students

Mario Andres A Gutierrez (Supervisor)

Harry L Hull (Committee Member)

William Waltrip, M.S., 2020 (Supervisor)
UT-Austin


Gulf of Mexico Super Basin: reservoirs, seals, source rocks, traps and successes, AAPG, East Texas Geological Society, New Orleans Geological Society, Various (2021)

Oxfordian Aeolian Sandstones of Mexico Offshore, Geological Society of London, London (2019)

Source to Sink Paleocene of the Greater Gulf of Mexico, International Group of the Houston Geological Society, Houston (2016)