Introduction
A blurb about why this blog exists and more details than you want about me.
Why the blog?
I've spent my career studying geology and physics and have a passion for understanding the cause of natural phenomena. I have lots of experience looking at large data sets - seismic, gravity, magnetics, electromagnetics, and miscellaneous subsurface geologic data. Most of these projects have been done in software like MATLAB, ArcGIS, or Spotfire.
More recently, I've started learning Python, Git, and various modeling/visualization frameworks to bring my intuitions about data exploration and data analysis into the world of machine learning and replicable data science. Until now, I haven't had a clear project or structured place to put my side projects. From now on, this blog will serve as that space! Whether it's simple visualizations with geologic data or building neural networks to predict March Madness brackets, I will aim to document it here!
Where in the world?!
I am currently a Gulf of Mexico exploration geophysicist for Hess Corporation in Houston, TX. I spend most of my time interpreting subsurface data and following seismic data reprocessing projects, but my past experiences have been much more varied. Below (and above!) are a few of my past roles and projects:
- Past Experiences at Hess Corporation
- Building workflows for cataloging well-based seismic amplitude analysis at a regional scale - Gulf of Mexico, USA
- Stratigraphic mapping of regional shallow hazards - Tano Basin, Ghana
- Data visualization using Spotfire for a geochemistry database
- Basin Scale Play Evaluation for New Ventures - Atlantic Margins (Ireland, Brazil, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Mauritania, Senegal)
- Prospect analysis and well planning - Offshore Newfoundland, Canada
- Master's Thesis and Research Assistant - University of Wyoming
- Processing and interpretation of airborne electromagnetic survey - Snowy Range, WY
- Geophysical data collection (Seismic refraction, ERT, GPR, Magnetics, NMR) - WY and CA
- Undergraduate senior thesis and IRIS internship on repeating earthquakes near Christchurch, New Zealand - Research at University of Wisconsin - Madison, thesis at Colorado College.