EDUCATION
Ph.D.
in Geology, Department
of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas at
Austin (8/90 - 12/95).
Dissertation: Depositional
cyclicity of the Cisco Group (Virgilian and Wolfcampian), Eastern Shelf,
north-central Texas. Research on outcrop and subsurface
sedimentology, cyclostratigraphy, paleoclimatology, and isotope geochemistry of
marine and nonmarine carbonate and siliciclastic rocks, using qualitative and
quantitative techniques. Dr. M. Kominz was supervisor.
MS in Geology, Geology
Department, California State University, Fresno (1/88 - 8/90).
Thesis: Structural and
Stratigraphic Analysis of Multi-Channel Seismic Reflection Data, Offshore
Monterey Bay, West-Central California. Thesis research on
neotectonics, tectonostratigraphic terrane analysis, and seismic sequence
stratigraphy. Other researches include field and petrographic facies
analysis of carbonate rocks, and field and statistical experiments on field
clast counting methods. Dr. F. Harmsen of California State University and Dr.
G. Green of U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, were supervisors.
MS
study in Exploration Geophysics, Geology Department, Northwestern University, China (5/85-11/87)
Thesis: Transmission losses and
lithofacies prediction. Coursework on partial differential equations, advanced
statistics, liner algebra and vector analysis, signals and systems, statistical
pattern recognition, advanced applied geophysics. Prof. S.L. Zhao was
supervisor.
Thesis not defended and degree
not awarded due to departure to the U.S.
BS in Petroleum Geology,
Geology Department, Northwestern University, China (9/80 - 7/84).
Thesis: Characteristics and
forming mechanisms of abnormal compaction, Kongdian
Oilfield, Huanghua Basin, Eastern China. Wireline log
and core data are the major data source. Graduated with honors.
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor (8/2010 –
present): Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering, Missouri S&T.
Research Associate Professor
(8/2010 – present): Department of Geology, Wichita State
University.
Adjunct Research Scientist (2006
– present): Institute
of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Chair (7/07 – 7/2010), Associate
Professor (8/05 – 7/2010), Assistant Professor (8/99 –3/05), Graduate
Coordinator (8/01-6-07): Department of Geology, Wichita State
University.
Adjunct Research Scientist: Key
Laboratory of Continental Dynamics of the Ministry of Education, Northwestern
University, Xian, China, 2002-2006.
Emission Evaluator: Texas
Natural Resources and Conservation Commission, State of Texas, Austin, Texas
(5-7/99).
Associate Research Scientist: Bureau
of Economic Geology, The Univ. of Texas at Austin
(11/97 – 4/99).
Exploration Geologist:
Division of International Exploration and Production, Phillips Petroleum
Company, Bartlesville, OK (9/95 - 11/97).
Geological Consultant:
1. Tu-Ha Petroleum Bureau, PetroChina, 2007-2008. “Seismic
stratigraphy and reservoir rocks of Permo-Triassic
strata, Taibei and Tainan depressions.”
2. Research
Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development, PetroChina, 2006.
“Sedimentology, depositional environments, and cyclostratigraphy
of Cambro-Ordovician carbonates, Ordos Basin.”
3. Clayton Williams Petroleum Company (spring, 2005):
Sequence stratigraphy, basin-filling history, and petroleum systems, Jurassic
to Cretaceous deepwater strata, East Texas Basin, Gulf
of Mexico.
4. Division of North America Exploration and
Production, Phillips Petroleum Company (2001): Sequence stratigraphy,
depositional systems, and petroleum systems, Triassic to Cretaceous strata,
Northern Louisiana Salt Basin, Gulf of Mexico.
Research Assistant: The Univ. of Texas at Austin
(1-8/91,
Major fieldwork includes:
1) Cycle
delineation and correlation, and shelf-to-basin sequence stratigraphic analysis
of mixed carbonates and siliciclastics, Upper Pennsylvanian Holder Formation,
central Sacramento Mountains, southeastern New Mexico
(summer of 1994).
2) Cyclo-
and sequence stratigraphic and sedimentologic studies of Upper Pennsylvanian
and Lower Permian Cisco Group in Colorado River valley and Brazos River valley
areas, Eastern Shelf, north-central Texas (summers of 1991, 1992, 1993).
3) Field
investigation of Jurassic eolian deposits, southeastern Utah (8-9/1993).
4) Field
investigation of depositional cyclicity of the Upper Cretaceous Rock Springs
Formation, Rock Springs, Wyoming (7/1994).
Student Geologist: California State University,
Fresno (6-8/88).
Conducted two projects in
sedimentology and stratigraphy:
1. Outcrop
and microscopic facies analyses of peritidal carbonates, Devonian Lost Burro
Formation, Death Valley, California, under supervision of Dr. F. Harmsen.
2. Field
experiments and statistical and sedimentologic analyses of clast counting
methods, under supervision of Dr. R. Brady.
Teaching
Assistant: The
University of Texas at Austin (Fall of 1990 and1991; Spring of 1992 and 1994).
Graduate
courses: Quantitative Stratigraphy, Carbonate Petrography.
Undergraduate courses: Mineral
Resource Exploration, Introductory Geology for Engineering Students.
Field Geology Consultant: California State University,
Fresno (Summer, 1990).
Co-taught
“Advanced Field Geology" with Dr. F. Harmsen.
Subjects include stratigraphic and sedimentologic studies of Paleozoic rocks
and structural mapping and analysis, White-Inyo Mountains, Inyo County, Eastern California.
Teaching
Assistant: Cal.
State Univ., Fresno (Fall, 1988; Spring and Fall, 1989; Spring, 1990).
Courses: Computer Applications in
Geology, Introductory Geology.
Lecturer in Geophysics:
Faculty of Geophysical Exploration, Department of Geology, Northwestern
University, China (9/84 - 11/87).
Conducted four research projects:
1. Derived
coefficients from the seismic wave-equation to establish a model for
transmission-loss correction and lithofacies prediction.
2. Programmed
on
3. Conducted
seismic data acquisition, conventional processing, and interpretation, Changqin
Oilfield, China. Completed structural and isopach maps, and a geologic report.
4. Interpreted
equal-interval time-cuts of 3-D seismic data to delineate the structural
evolution of a coal field. Research was part of a joint project on color
display and interpretation of 3-D seismic data, as the first Chinese experiment
on 3-D seismic technology.
Co-taught
"Exploration Geophysics" and "Introduction to Computer
Application in Geostatistics" with Profs. S.L. Zhao and Y.H. Yang.
Student Geologist: Dagang Oilfield,
Petroleum Ministry, China (5-7/83 and
HONORS
1.
Awards
1. J.R.
Berg Faculty Fellowship, 2006-2008, Wichita State University.
2. Honorable
mention
for best paper in 2004, Journal of Sedimentary Research. “Yang, W., Mazzullo,
S.J., and Teal, C.S., 2004, Sediments, facies tracts, and variations in
sedimentation rates of Holocene platform carbonate sediments and associated
deposits, northern Belize – Implications for “representative” sedimentation
rates: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 74, p. 498-512.”
3. Faculty Sabbatical Leave, Wichita State University, 2005. For the period
of Aug.-Dec., 2006.
4. Nomination for
the 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2001 Academy for Effective
Teaching Award and Board of Trustees Excellence in Teaching
award. Wichita State University.
5. A. I.
Levorsen Award: 10/2001, for best oral session “Yang, W., Bruemmer, M., Turner-Williams, 2001, Deltaic
progradation during maximum marine transgression, the Heebner Shale member of
the Oread Limestone Formation (Virgilian), Southeastern Kansas and Northeastern
Oklahoma” at the 2001 AAPG Mid-Continent Section Meeting, in Amarillo,
Texas.
6. Scientific
Research Excellence Award: Bureau
of Higher Education, Shannxi Province, China (1986). For excellence in a group
project "Prediction of Long-term Hydrocarbon Exploration Based on Analysis
of Oil Migration, Southern Kongdian Area, China".
2.
Awards won by students under my supervision in Wichita State University
1. Best Undergraduate Poster Presentation, April, 2010, to Jonathan Obrist-Farner for presentation “Comparison and contrast of fluvial
and deltaic sandstones of the Oread Cyclothem, NE Oklahoma.” 2010 Annual Undergraduate Student
Research Forum, Wichita State University. Prize of $150.
2. Robert D. Cowdery Award for Best
Poster Student Paper,
September, 2007, to M. Turner-Williams for presentation “M. Turner-Williams and
Wan Yang, 300-Million-Year-Old Soils and Their Implications on Predicting
Ancient Climate Conditions,” AAPG Mid-Continent Section meeting, Wichita. Prize
of $2,500.
3. Eugene
Dehner Award,
Kansas Academy of Science, April, 2006, for poster presentation “Runnion, M.T.,
and Yang, W., Fluvial and lacustrine depositional systems and cyclostratigraphy
of Upper Permian Wutonggou Formation, Southern Bogda Mountains, Northwestern
China.” Kansas Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting, Wichita, Kansas.
4. Austin A. Sartin Poster Paper Award: Oct. 2002, Awarded to M. Turner-Williams, for
a first-place prize in Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Denver,
Colorado, by Sigma Gamma Epsilon. $100. “Micro-variability of
floodplain paleosols in the Snyderville Shale Member, Oread Limestone Formation
(Upper Pennsylvanian), Southeast Kansas”,
co-authored with W. Yang and M. Bruemmer.
5. Best student oral presentation: March 2002, Awarded to M. Bruemmer for a
third-place prize in American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual
Meeting, Houston, Texas. $300 individual, $600 department. “Where layer-cake
stratigraphy breaks down - The coeval development of highstand deltas,
condensed sections, and platform carbonates of the Virgilian Oread Cycle,
southeast Kansas and northeast Oklahoma”, co-authored by M. Turner, M.
Summervill, and W. Yang.
6. Nomination for the SEPM Student Poster Award
Session: Nov. 2002, by M. Turner-Williams, for an
abstract submitted to 2003 SEPM-AAPG National Meeting in Salt Lake City.
Awarded $400 travel grant by SEPM Foundation. “Micro-Variability of Floodplain
Paleosols in the Snyderville Shale Member, Oread Limestone Formation (Late
Pennsylvanian), Southeast Kansas”, co-authored with W. Yang and M. Bruemmer.
7. Eugene
Dehner Award:
Kansas Academy of Sciences, 2001, for poster presentation “Dynamic Evolution of
Fluvial Environments – Preliminary Results of the Ninnescah River Monitoring
Program of Department of Geology” coauthored by Bruemmer, M., M.
Turner-Williams, H. Burke, K. Dimmick, J. Hall, D. Sellers, K. Stair, M.
Williams, W. Yang, at the 133rd Kansas Academy
of Science Annual Meeting, Lawrence, Kansas.
AFFILIATIONS
Professional
services:
1. Member,
the Pettijohn Medal Selection Committee,
Society of Sedimentary Geology, 2008-present.
2. Session
Chair, “Exploration activities in China, SE Asia, Australia,” 2008 AAPG Annual
Meeting, San Antonio.
3. Poster
session chair and field trip leader, 2007 Midcontinent AAPG Biennial Meeting.
4. Associate
Editor (Announcement): Journal of Sedimentary Research, Society of Sedimentary
Geology (SEPM) (2003 – 2006).
5. Co-Chair:
SEPM Technical Program, 1999 AAPG/SEPM Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas.
6. Member:
Society of Sedimentary Geology (SEPM) (1/97 - present).
7. Member:
American Association of Petroleum Geologists (12/88 - present).
8. Member:
Kansas Geological Society (1999 – present).
9. Member:
American Geophysical Union: (2003 – present).
10. Member:
Geological Society of America: (1999 – present).
11. Member:
Limnogeology Division, Geological Society of America: (2002 – present).
12. Member,
Sedimentary Division, Geological Society of America: (2008 – present).
Paper,
book, and proposal reviews:
1. Journal
reviews: Journal of Sedimentary Research, AAPG Bulletin, Geophysical Research
Letters, GSA Bulletin, Sedimentology, Palaeogeography, Palaeoecology,
Palaeoclimatology, Journal of Petroleum Geosciences, Geosphere.
2. Proposal
reviews:
3.Textbook
reviews: Chapters of four textbook of physical geology.