Education
MS, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM - 2001
Major: Geology
Thesis Title: Proterozoic to Middle Tertiary Magmatic History of the Little Hatchet
Mountains, Grant and Hidalgo Counties, South-western New Mexico
BS, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH - 1997
Major: Geology
Minor: Chemistry
Field Camp: Indiana University 7 week field course in south-western Montana
Experience
Staff Research Assistant: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 2001 to present
Environmental field sampling of soil and water
Bedrock mapping of volcanic rocks
Logging volcanic rock cores
Construction of cross sections
Fracture characterization analysis
Groundwater modeling
Digitizing geologic maps in ArcMap
Staff Scientist: Souder, Miller, & Associates, Las Cruces, NM 2000 to 2001
Supervised drilling operations
Collected environmental field samples of air, soil, and water
Maintained, installed, and monitored remediation systems
Drafted well logs, potentiometric surfaces, and site maps
Teaching Assistant: New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 1998 to 2000
Prepared rock and mineral specimens
Lectured for physical geology laboratory and mineralogy laboratory
Geoscientist Intern: Texaco Exploration & Production, Midland, TX 1999
Characterized reservoir in south-eastern New Mexico
Described 350 feet of limestone/dolostone core
Evaluated a suite of electric logs
Assembled cross sections
Implemented sequence stratigraphy
Geologist: Rosebud Mining Company, Kittanning, PA 1997
Mapped coal reserves suitable for deep mining
Interpreted drill hole data
Used topographic and isopach maps
Drillers Assistant: McKay & Gould Drilling, Darlington, PA summers of 1995 & 1996
Installed piezometer wells, monitoring wells, and shot holes
Collected core samples and split spoon soil samples
Publications
Channell, R. A., McMillan, N. J., Lawton, T. F., Heizler, M., Esser, R. P., and McLemore, V. T., 2000, Magmatic History of the Little Hatchet Mountains, Hidalgo and Grant Counties, south-western New Mexico: New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, no. 51, p. 141-148.
Presentations
Southwest Section of American Association of Petroleum Geologists Midland, TX
New Mexico Geological Society 2000 Fall Field Conference South-western New Mexico
Certification & Training
40-Hour Hazardous Waste Site Worker Complying with 29 CFR 1910.120 (e)
Alice Hamilton Occupational Health Center, Los Alamos, NM October 5, 2001
40-Hour Basic Health and Safety Training Complying with 29 CFR 1910.120 (e)(3)(i)
Center for Hazardous Materials Research, Pittsburgh, PA March 28, 1997
MSHA (Mine Safety & Health Administration) surface mining only
McKay & Gould Drilling, Darlington, PA (Jack Gould, Instructor) April 19, 1997
Notary Public of the State of New Mexico — (Expiration: January 16, 2005)
Shortcourses
Trimble Navigation RTK Training with 5700 GPS Total Station 2001 Los Alamos, NM
Geology and Development of a Lower Cretaceous Natural Gas Field, Lavaca County, TX: Annual Convention of the AAPG 1999 San Antonio, TX
Texaco Core Workshop — Reservoir Characterization by Analyzing Carbonate Cores and Applying Sequence Stratigraphy 1999 Midland, TX
Reservoir Enhancement Through the Implementation of Horizontal Drilling 1999 Hobbs, NM COMPUTER SKILLS
Proficient with Power Point, Excel, Word, and Canvas
Moderate knowledge of Access, Auto Cad, Abode Illustrator, ArcMap, and SpheriStat
Basic Knowledge of ArcView GIS, Petra, and Powerlog.
Instrumentation Experience
Petrographic Microscope
X-Ray Diffraction
X-Ray Fluorescence
Photo Ionization Detector
4-Gas Meter
Digitizing Table
Surveying Equipment (standard transit with rod)
Trimble GPS 5700
Leadership Skills
Assistant Scout Master Boy Scouts of America
Vice President — Youngstown State University Geological Society
Arts & Sciences Representative YSU Student Government
Student Academic Senator YSU Academic Senate
Honors & Awards
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
Eagle Scout
Deans List Youngstown State University
Russell & Frankie Clemons Field Scholarship
New Mexico Geological Society Scholarship
New Mexico State University Geology Department Scholarship