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University of Wyoming

 

 

Mark Tomasso

Enhanced Oil Recovery Institute

University of Wyoming

1000 E. University Ave.  Dept 4068

Laramie, WY 82071

Phone:  307-766-3284

Fax:  307-766-2737

e-mail: mtomasso@uwyo.edu


Education
Ph.D. Earth Sciences, 2001, University of Birmingham, UK.
B.Sc. (Hons) Geology, 1997, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

Professional Experience
2007 - Present: Senior Research Scientist, Enhanced Oil Recovery Institute.
2004-2007: Research Associate, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin.
2002-2004: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Geology, University College Dublin, Ireland.
2000-2002: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Geology and Geophysics, The University of Edinburgh, UK.
1997: Operations Geologist, ARCO British Ltd.
1995: Database management, Enterprise Oil PLC.

Areas Of Experience
- Outcrop and subsurface characterization applied to regional to near-field stratigraphic and structural evolution of siliciclastic and carbonate systems. Integration of sedimentological and stratigraphic information using conventional and digital data.
- Deep-water sedimentation in confined min-basins.
- Salt tectonics.
- Ground-based lidar acquisition, processing, and interpretation.
- Geological and petrophysical modeling and seismic forward modeling.
- Seismic interpretation.
- Use of rock magnetics to determing paleoflow directions from structureless deep-water sandstones.
- Project management.

Selected Publications
- Tomasso, M., Underhill, J. R., Hodgkinson, R. A., and Young, M. J., in press, Structural styles and depositional architecture in the Triassic of the Ninian and Alwyn North fields: Implications for basin development and prospectivity in the Northern North Sea: Marine and Petroleum Geology. (PDF)
- Childs, C., Walsh, J. J., Manzocchi, T., Strand, J., Nicol, A., Tomasso, M., Schöpfer, M. P. J., and Aplin, A., 2007, Definition of a fault permeability predictor from outcrop studies of a faulted turbidite sequence, Taranaki, New Zealand, in Jolley, S., Barr, D., Walsh, J. J., and Knipe, R. J., eds., Structurally Complex Reservoirs: Geological Society, London, Special Publications 292, p. 235-258. (PDF)
- Lee, K., Tomasso, M., Ambrose, W. A., and Bouroullec, R., 2007, Integration of GPR with stratigraphic and lidar data to investigate behind-the-outcrop 3D geometry of a tidal channel reservoir analog, upper Ferron Sandstone, Utah: The Leading Edge, v. 26, 994–998. (PDF)
- Manzocchi, T., Walsh, J. J., Tomasso, M., Strand, J., Childs, C. & Haughton, P. D. W., 2007, Static and dynamic connectivity in bed-scale models of faulted and unfaulted turbidites, in Jolley, S., Barr, D., Walsh, J. J., and Knipe, R. J., eds., Structurally Complex Reservoirs: Geological Society, London, Special Publications 292, p. 309-336. (PDF)
- Tomasso, M., Bonnaffé, F. L., Bouroullec, R., Pyles, D. R., and Jennette, D. C., 2006, Outcrop versus seismic architecture of deep-water deposits: use of lidar along a slope-to-basin transect of the Brushy Canyon Formation, West Texas, in Slatt, R. et al., eds., Reservoir Characterization: Integrating Technology and Business Practices: Proceedings of the 26th Annual GCSSEPM Foundation Bob F. Perkins Research Conference, p. 755–770. (PDF)
- Tomasso, M., and Sinclair, H. D., 2004, Deep-water sedimentation on an evolving fault-block: the Braux and St. Benoit outcrops of the Grès d'Annot, in Joseph, P., and Lomas, S. A., eds., Deep-Water Sedimentation in the Alpine Foreland Basin of SE France: New Perspectives on the Grès d'Annot and Related Systems: Geological Society, London, Special Publication 221, p. 267–283. (PDF)
- Vizán, H., Carney, J. N., Turner, P., Ixer, R. A., Tomasso, M., Mullen, R. P., and Clarke, P. R., 2003, Late Neoproterozoic to early Palaeozoic palaeogeography of Avalonia: some palaeomagnetic constraints from Nuneaton, central England: Geological Magazine, v. 140, p. 685–705. (PDF)
- Sinclair, H. D., and Tomasso, M., 2002, Depositional evolution of intra-slope turbidite sub-basins: Journal of Sedimentary Research, v. 72, p. 452–457. (PDF)