Eleine Vence Telephone: email: eleine Graduate student seeking an MS Career goal: To become explorationist with special expertise in structure, tectonics, sequence stratigraphy, and subsurface basin analysis.

Subject of Thesis:
Subsurface structure, stratigraphy, and regional tectonic controls of the Guajira margin of northern Colombia

Current Education:

M.S.		UT Austin, presently enrolled
Academic Supervisor:		Dr. Paul Mann
UTIG Supervisor:		Dr. Paul Mann

Prior Education:

BS, geology

Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia, 2000

Presentations:
Vence, E., Mann, P., and Escalona, A., 2008, Tectonic controls on Middle Eocene to recent stratigraphic sequences along the Guajira margin of northern Colombia, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Conference, April 20-23, 2008, San Antonio, TX.

Vence, E., A. Escalona, P. Mann, and H. El-Mowafy, 2007, Along-Strike Continuity of Caribbean Tectonic Terranes and Their Controls on Source and Reservoir Rocks, Offshore Colombia and Venezuela, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Conference, Long Beach, California , American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

Vence, Eleine Melisa (Sipetrol), 2002. "Geo-chemical evidences of the evolutionary model of Huila Norte – Altamizal, Upper Magdalena Valley, Huila and Tolima Departments in Colombia". Second Technical Convention of Geologist & Geophysicist of the Colombian Petroleum Association, Bogota – Colombia.

Polo, Rosana & Vence, Melisa (Ecopetrol), 2000. Poster: "Prospective areas determination in the southernmost portion of the Upper Magdalena Valley. Mocoa - Villalobos Area". Technical Convention of Geologist & geophysicist of the Colombian Association "Geology And Petroleum in Colombia". Bogotá - Colombia.

Short Courses:
Structural Geology Principles and Section Balancing in 2Dmove environment. Oxy internal course for exploration group. June 27 – July 1, 2005. Bogotá.

Awards:
"Best Thesis of 2000" in the Geology Faculty of The Industrial de Santander University (UIS): "Determination of prospective hydrocarbon areas in the southernmost part of the Upper Magdalena Valley" (Mocoa -Vilalobos Area).

Distinguished Student, The Industrial de Santander University (UIS), Bucaramanga 1997

The highest ICFES Test score (Exit state test for high school students), Cooperativo El Buen Pastor School, Codazzi – Colombia, 1993.

Internships:
Fall 2007-Spring 2008: ConocoPhillips Fellowship
Summer 2007: Occidental Petroleum Company, Houston
Fall 1999 – Spring 2000: Thesis Student – Ecopetrol, Bogota
Spring – Summer 1999: Intern Ecopetrol, Bogota

About Eleine:
Eleine is supported by the JSG and the industry supported consortium CBTH to conduct MS research on the Colombian margin at the University of Texas at Austin. She was formerly employed as an explorationist by Occidental in Bogota, Colombia.