Scott Thornton worked in the oil and gas industry in exploration and regional geoscience for 35 years. His regional and basin-specific studies cover over 85 basins worldwide in 4 continents. In terms of specialization, his peers in the industry consider him a sequence stratigrapher/sedimentologist/geophysicist. Thirty-one of those years involved international exploration, primarily in Brazil, West Africa, Mexico, Western South America, SE Asia, South Asia, Australia and China. He has lived in Mexico, Australia, Ecuador and Tunisia in his career. Scott has published papers, or given oral presentations on his academic research, as well as his work in the oil & gas industry on regional tectonics and basin formation, pre-salt, Lower Cretaceous carbonates and clastics in Brazil/West Africa passive margins, deep water turbidite/slope deposition, deep water fold belts, lacustrine sedimentary systems, the history of petroleum geology and regional tectonics. Currently, Scott is the Editor of the Sedimentary Record for SEPM. In the past, he was an Honorary Associate in the School of Geosciences, University of Sydney in 2008-2011 where he mentored undergraduate and graduate students, taught 2 short courses and participated in research with the EarthByte Research Group. Scott received his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in Geology and Geophysics, his M.S. in Geology at Duke University and his PhD at the University of Southern California in Geological Sciences, studying depositional systems, paleooceanogrphy and synkinematic sedimentation in the Holocene Santa Barbara Basin, California Borderland.
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