Curriculum Vitae
Associate Professor
Department of Geosciences
e-mail: michael.grammer@wmich.edu
ph. (269)
387-3667
Education
Ph.D.
Marine Geology/Carbonate Sedimentology 1991
Dissertation: Formation
and Evolution of Quaternary Carbonate Foreslopes,
Tongue of the Ocean,
M.S.
Geology/Sedimentology 1983
Southern
Thesis: Depositional
History and Diagenesis of the Viola Limestone (Ordovician), Southeastern
B.A.
Geology 1980
Major Research
Interests
••Integration
of sedimentology, diagenesis, and high-resolution sequence stratigraphy to
evaluate the effects of variable sea level change on the depositional record of
carbonate and mixed carbonate/siliciclastic depositional systems.
••3-D characterization and modeling
of depositional systems through the integration of high-resolution outcrop and subsurface data combined with
comparative sedimentology from modern envi
••Interplay of
diagenesis and petrophysics of carbonates in a
sequence framework.
2004-2006 Associate Editor
– Journal of Sedimentary Research
2004/2005 President –
2002/2003 AAPG Distinguished Lecturer
2000 Elected to the Texaco
Fellows Mentoring Excellence in Technology Program (top 1% of technology
leaders selection criteria)
1998 Outstanding Instructor
Award - Texaco Upstream Technology (UT)
1998 General Manager's
Outstanding Individual Contributor Award -
1998 Texaco Star Ambassador
Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions
1998 Outstanding Contributor
Award - Texaco North American Producing
1997 Junior Faculty
Development Award,
1996 Elected to
1996 Research Council Award,
1994 Keynote Presenter,
AAPG Internat'l. Hedberg
Conference,
1993 Best Poster Award,
Geological Society of
1992 1st runner-up, for
the
1987-1990 Doctoral Fellowship,
1983 Outstanding Masters
Thesis, Institute for the Study of Earth and Man, Southern
1983
1981 Scholarship, Mobil
Foundation Geology Field Course Scholarship
Research Grants
2004-2007 Establishing the Relationship between Fracture-related
Dolomite and Primary Rock Fabric on the Distribution of Reservoirs in the
Michigan Basin,
P.I., with co-P.I.’s
D.A. Barnes, W.B. Harrison and R. Gillespie, Department of Energy, $1,033,475.
2004-2005 Midwest Regional Carbon Dioxide Sequestration, co-P.I., with W.B. Harrison and D.A. Barnes, Department of Energy,
$99,969.
2004-2005 Continuation
of Satellite PTTC Facility in
2003 Upgrading Western
1997-99 High
Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy and 3-D Characterization of the Mississippian
1995-98 High
Resolution Stable Isotopic Fluctuations in Tropical Marine Waters Determined
from Inorganic Aragonite Cements: Implications to the Younger Dryas and other High-Frequency Climatic Events, P.I. (with co-P.I.'s
D. F. McNeill and P. K. Swart), National Science Foundation (Earth Science) -
Global Change Program, $208,455.
1997-98 A
Field-Emission Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope: New Frontiers in the
Electron Imaging for Biological and Geological Research, co-P.I. with R. P. Reid, P. L. Blackwelder, E. C. McKinney, and P. J. Walsh, National
Science Foundation, MRI Program/OSTI, $460,000.
1997-98 Software
grant for geophysical and geological reservoir characterization from Landmark
Graphics Corporation, Global University Grant Program, co-P.I. with C. A. Scholz and G. P.
Eberli, value approx. $400,000.
1994-97 Industrial Associates Program of the
Comparative Sedimentology Laboratory: applied sedimentology, stratigraphy,
geochemistry, and geophysics for petroleum exploration and production, co-P.I. with G.P. Eberli, D. F. McNeill,
and P. K. Swart. $168,000
per year.
1996-97 Cyclostratigraphic Correlation and Facies Partitioning of
Shoreface Sands in a Cretaceous Mixed Carbonate/Siliciclastic Depositional
System, Offshore Angola, P.I.
(with co-P.I. G. P. Eberli), Chev
1996-97 High Resolution Lateral Variability in a
Mixed Carbonate/Siliciclastic Sedimentary System - Applications to Natural
Resource Development, P.I.,
1995-97 Acquisition of
1995-96 Lateral
and Vertical Distribution of Marine Cements along the Margins of Carbonate
Platforms: Implications for Reservoir Modeling - A Pilot Study, P.I.,
Shell
Research (The
1995-96 Intra-annual,
Inter-annual, Decadal and Centennial Climate Variations as Recorded in the
Skeletons of Sclerosponges in the Eastern Bahamas and
Caribbean, (co-P.I. with D. F.
McNeill and P. K. Swart), NOAA National
Undersea
Research Program, $20,302.
1995 Workshop on the Application of High-Resolution Outcrop to Subsurface
Sequence Stratigraphy to Exploration and Production Problems, (co-P.I. with G. P. Eberli), Elf
Aquitaine, Paris and Pau, France, $23,000.
1995 Proposal and Pilot Study for Developing an Integrated Multidisciplinary
Reservoir Characterization Model of Gas-Prone, Cyclic Carbonate Reservoirs,
P.I., (with co-P.I.,
1993-94 Influence
of Rapid Cementation and Sea Level Change on Windward Platform Margins, Great
Bahama Bank, (co-P.I. with D. F.
McNeill and R. N. Ginsburg), NOAA National Undersea Research Program, $15,000.
1992 Characterization of Sedimentary Processes along an Open Windward
Margin, Lee Stocking Island, Bahamas, (co-P.I.
with R.N. Ginsburg and D.F. McNeill), NOAA National Undersea Research Program
(NURP), $11,500.
1990 Post-Glacial Evolution of Leeward Platform Margins, Tongue of the
Ocean,
Professional and
Teaching Experience
2002-present Associate Professor, Department of
Geosciences,
Teach: Physical Geology for majors (GEOS 130),
Historical Geology (GEOS 131), Carbonate Sedimentology and Stratigraphy (GEOS
650 revised), Advanced Stratigraphy – Sequence Stratigraphy (GEOS 646 new).
1997-2002 Senior
Research Associate and Technical Advisor, Reservoir Characterization Group,
Texaco and ChevronTexaco Upstream Technology; provide consultation, technical
support, mentoring and leadership for Texaco and ChevronTexaco carbonate
operations worldwide. Specialized in the worldwide application of integrated
sedimentology and stratigraphy to 3-D modeling of carbonate systems by
combining modern and ancient analogs with sequence stratigraphy for better
reservoir characterization.
Instructor –
Texaco and Chev
1995-1997 Research Assistant Professor,
Comparative Sedimentology Laboratory,
Division
of Marine Geology and Geophysics,
*Funded
research projects included: 1) integrated high-resolution sequence stratigraphy
using outcrop and subsurface data for regional stratigraphy, basin analysis,
and 3-D characterization of carbonate and mixed carbonate/siliciclastic
depositional systems (two projects: Paradox Basin and Wind River Basin); 2)
experimental determination of the growth rates of marine carbonate cements; and
3) use of stable isotopes (C and O) in Pleistocene marine carbonate cements to
correlate
with the deep sea skeletal record of high frequency climatic events in the
tropical
oceans.
*Instructor and co-leader (1987-97) for field workshops and
seminars for industry and academic geologists to
*Guest lecturer (1991-97) for UM graduate courses: topics included
general sedimentology, mechanics of mass flow deposits, and carbonate
sedimentology and diagenesis.
*Senior thesis advisor; participant in
1996 Lecturer,
Taught upper level
course in "Coastal and Marine Science and Management" for
Geology and Marine Science majors with "excellent"
student evaluations.
1994-97 Consulting
Specialist, Elf
April
1994- Senior Research Associate,
Division of Marine Geology and Geophysics,
May 1995
1992- Post-Doctoral Fellow (
1994 Sequence stratigraphic analysis
of a Pennsylvanian mixed carbonate/siliciclastic system through the integration
of outcrop and subsurface data,
9/87-12/91 Doctoral Fellow (
1984-1987 Sedimentologist, Applied Geological
Laboratory, Texaco Inc.,
1. Sedimentologic
and diagenetic interpretation and evaluation of carbonate and clay-rich
siliciclastic reservoirs. Author of over 60 in-house technical reports.
2. Technical liaison
between geologic and engineering staff for the evaluation of microporosity on wireline log signatures and reservoir
deliverability.
3. Instructor for
amount
of hydrocarbons present and geophysical logging techniques.
4. Instructor for Texaco
Inc. school on Formation Damage specializing in the
analysis of porosity and permeability in reservoir rocks and the effects of
various introduced fluids in enhancing or reducing reservoir deliverability.
1983-1984 Texaco USA, Denver, CO
1. Development Geologist
responsible for the geologic development of several oil and gas fields in the
2. Initiated and
moderated weekly meetings for geologists and engineers to discuss various
topics of interest to petroleum and production geology.
1982-1983 Department of Geological Sciences,
Southern
Head Teaching Assistant
responsible for the coordination of Physical Geology laboratories being taught
by myself and eight other teaching assistants.
1981-1982 Department of Geological Sciences,
Southern
Teaching
Assistant responsible for teaching 3-4 Physical Geology laboratories per week.
1980 Department of Geology,
Research Assistant
(undergraduate) for R. A. Davis Jr. working on the stratigraphy and morphologic
development of Holocene barrier islands.
1979-1980 United States Geological Survey,
1978-1979 Hillsborough County Environmental
Protection Commission,
Marine and
Shipboard Experience
1993-95 Geologist/Sedimentologist,
Influence of Rapid Cementation and Sea Level Change on Windward Carbonate
Platform Margins, submersible operations, Exuma
Sound, 25 days.
1992 Geologist/Sedimentologist,
Quaternary High Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy of the Mixed
Carbonate/Siliciclastic Margin of Belize, C.A. (joint project between the
University of Miami and Rice University combining single-channel seismic
acquisition with piston coring and vibra-coring), 24
days.
1990 Chief Scientist,
Evolution of Bahamian Foreslopes, submersible
operations, NOAA Nat'l. Undersea Research Program, 9 days.
1990 Geologist, Bahamas
Deep-Drilling Project, core analysis, 15 days.
1989 Scientific Advisor, NOAA
Field Test of Harbor Branch SCOOP ROV, Little
Bahama
Bank,
1988
Scientist,
Interdisciplinary Research on Slope Processes, Bahamas, submersible operations,
NOAA National Undersea Research Program, 8 days.
Invited
Presentations
Predicting
the Distribution and Geometry of Carbonate Platform Reservoirs – Insight from
the Integration of Modern and Ancient Analogs, AAPG Distinguished Lecture, presented
to 19 institutions and organizations in
Formation
and Evolution of Steep Carbonate Platform Margins – Lessons learned from the
Modern, invited paper for special session on Carbonate
Platform margins at GSA,
Comparative
sedimentology in the new millennium: Recent advances and future directions,
Geology
and Petroleum: Applications of Earth Science in the Oil and Gas Industry,
Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ, Sept. 1999, AAPG - VPG Program.
Geology
and Petroleum: Applications of Earth Science in the Oil and Gas Industry,
Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA, Nov. 1998, AAPG - VPG Program.
Application
of Integrated Reservoir Characterization for Enhancing the Predictability of
Carbonate Reservoirs, KIO/KOS,
Application of Comparative Sedimentology to Enhance the Understanding
of Subsurface Hydrogeological Problems, Association of Women Geoscientists, Nov. 1996,
Distribution
and Geometries of Platform-Carbonate Reservoirs - Insight from Modern
Counterparts in the Bahamas, with co-author R. N. Ginsburg, Oklahoma
Geol. Survey and DOE sponsored Workshop on Platform Carbonates in the Southern Midcontinent, March 1996.
Application
of High Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy in Developing an Exploration and
Production Strategy for a Mixed Carbonate/Siliciclastic System (Carboniferous),
Paradox Basin, U.S.A., Tour Elf, La Defense, Paris and Elf
Research Center, November, 1995, Pau, France.
Understanding
the Distribution and Architecture of Algal Mound Reservoirs through Outcrop
based High-Resolution Sequence Stratigraphy: An
Example from the Paradox Basin, USA, 1995 AAPG
International Conference, Sept. 1995,
Correlation
of the d18O Composition of Marine Aragonite Cements
to the Skeletal Record during the Latest Deglaciation,
1st SEPM Congress on Sedimentary Geology, Aug. 1995, St. Petersburg, FL
Laterally
Discontinuous Reservoir Facies Controlled by Multiple Orders of Sea Level
Change, Paradox Basin, Utah, U.S.A., Keynote paper
presented at the AAPG Hedberg Conference, Sept. 1994,
Paris, France.
Timing
of Deposition and Failure of Steep Carbonate Slopes, Tongue of the Ocean,
Evolution of Bahamian Foreslopes:
Highstand vs. Lowstand Deposition,
Evolution
of Quaternary Carbonate Foreslopes, Tongue of the
Ocean,
Depositional History and Diagenesis of the Viola Limestone
(Ordovician),
Student Supervision
Advisory Capacity
M.S.
Thesis Advisor (WMU): Anthony Sandomierski, Evaluating Controls on the Formation of
Niagaran Pinnacle Reefs in the
**Mr. Sandomierski has
recently been awarded an internship with ExxonMobil
in
M.S.
Thesis Advisor (WMU):
Undergraduate
Honors Thesis Advisor (WMU):
Audrey Ritter, Mode of formation
for Pennsylvanian phylloid algal mounds in the