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John W. Snedden

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Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas - B.A. Degree May, 1977.
Indiana University Geology Field Camp, Cardwell, Montana, Summer, 1977.
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas - M.S. degree - December, 1979 Major: Geology. Thesis: "Stratigraphy and Environment of Deposition of the San Miguel Lignite Deposit, Northern McMullen and Southeastern Atascosa Counties, Texas". Major Professor: Dr. David G. Kersey.
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana Ph.D. degree - December 1985. Support: LSU Alumni Federation Fellowship. Dissertation title: "Origin and Sedimentary Characteristics of Discrete Sand Beds in Modern Sediments of the Central Texas Continental Shelf". Major Professor: Dr. Dag Nummedal.

Institute for Geophysics, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX

Director, Gulf Basin Depositional Synthesis Project, Institute for Geophysics, The University of Texas at Austin, July 2011 to present. Promoted to Senior Research Scientist, Sept. 1, 2013.
ExxonMobil Production Deutschland GmbH. (Hannover, Germany) Lead Stratigrapher, Unconventional Exploration, March, 2010 to July, 2011.
ExxonMobil Upstream Research Co. (Houston, Texas) Team Lead/Supervisor, Reservoir Connectivity, December, 2004 to March, 2010.
ExxonMobil Production Co. Inc. (Houston, Texas) Near-Field Wildcat Coordinator, February, 2004 to December, 2004.
ExxonMobil Exploration Co., Inc. (Houston, Texas) Skill Area Advisor, February 2000 to February 2004.
Mobil Exploration Norway, Inc. (Stavanger, Norway) Seismic sequence stratigrapher, July, 1998 to February 2000.
Mobil E&P Technology Center., (Dallas, Texas) Geological Research Advisor, Dec. 1990 to June, 1996 Senior Geological Research Advisor, June, 1996 to July, 1998.
Mobil Exploration Norway, Inc. (Stavanger, Norway) Senior Staff Geologist, Feb. 1988 to December, 1990.
Mobil Exploration and Producing Services, Inc. (Dallas, TX) Technical Specialist, January, 1986 to February, 1988.
Mobil Producing Texas and New Mexico, Inc. (Houston) Exploration Geologist, September, 1979 to August, 1983.
Mobil (Houston Exploration and Production)-Summer, 1978 Field mapping, Northwestern Arizona.

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The Gulf of Mexico Basin: New Science and Emerging Deep-water Plays

The surprising emergence of several new exploration plays and new ideas on the basin history demonstrates that we have much more to learn and harvest from this natural laboratory of sedimentary processes.