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Carla Sanchez

Carla Sanchez

 

Graduate student seeking a PhD

Graduate Research Assistant

 

carla@utig.ig.utexas.edu

(512) 471-0334 

 

Current Education

 

PhD

Geological Sciences

University of Texas at Austin

Subject of Thesis: Mixed Carbonate-Siliciclastic Three-dimensional Architecture, Neogene Australian Northwest Shelf.

UTIG Supervisor: Dr. Craig Fulthorpe

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Ronald Steel

 

Prior Education

 

MS, 2006

Geological Sciences

 

University of Texas at Austin

Thesis: Quantitative Seismic Geomorphology of Pliocene and Miocene-age Fluviodeltaic Reservoirs in the Northern Gulf Of Mexico Shelf Province.

BS, 2001
Geophysical Engineering

 

Simon Bolivar University (Venezuela)

Thesis: Structural Interpretation for the estimation of the exploratory potential of Barua Area in the Maracaibo Basin.

 

Selected Awards

 

ConocoPhillips Spirit Scholar (2007-Present).

2008 American Association of Petroleum Geologists Grants-in-Aid award.

2006 American Association of Petroleum Geologists Grants-in-Aid award.

Honorable award for oral presentation. 4th SEPM - Latin American Sedimentology Meeting, Merida, Venezuela, November, 2001.

 

Selected Abstracts


Sanchez, C.M.; Fulthorpe, C.S.; Austin, J.A. Jr. 2008. Neogene Mixed Carbonate-Siliclastic Systems in the Northwest Shelf of Australia: Influence of Siliclastics Distribution on Shallow-Water Carbonate Sedimentation. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting. San Antonio, Texas.

 

Sanchez, C.M.; Fulthorpe, C.S.; Austin, J.A. Jr. 2007. Northwest Shelf of Australia – The Next Step in Understanding the Role of Eustasy in the Generation and Preservation of Stratigraphy. Drilling to Decipher
Long-Term Sea-Level Changes and Effects, Consortium for Ocean Leadership Workshop. Salt Lake City, UT.
 

Sanchez, C.M., and L. Wood, 2006, Quantitative Seismic Geomorphology of Pliocene and Miocene-Age Fluvio-Deltaic Reservoirs in the Northern Gulf of Mexico Shelf Province. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting. Houston, Texas.

 

Ollarves, R., F. Audemard, P. Camacho, C.M. Sanchez, A. Cataldi, and F. Zambrano, 2004, GPR as a tool in the search for active faults: a quaternary outcrop example VIII Venezuelan Geophysical Conference, Caracas, Venezuelan Geophysical Society.

 

Sanchez, C.M., and A. Peña, 2001, Structural Interpretation for Prospect Exploratory Potential Evaluation in Barua, Maracaibo Lake, IV Society for Sedimentary Geology Latin-American Section Annual Meeting Merida, Venezuela.


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