Michael H. Gardner is an Associate Professor at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana and a geological advisor to Marathon Oil Company. He received his B.A. in Geology from the University of Colorado and his Ph.D. from the Colorado School of Mines. Refined through outcrop studies conducted since 1983, his applied research focuses on outcrop characterization of sedimentary architecture by integrating “old-school” field methods with three-dimensional, geospatial visualization technology. Mike teaches and leads the Slope and Basin Consortium at Montana State University, where his current research focuses on developing, testing and verifying geological rules for deep-water reservoir prediction through the Geological Analogs and Information Archive (GAIA) project.
Michael H. Gardner