CURRICULUM VITAE:
GARRY D. KÄRNER

VITAL STATISTICS:

Place of Birth: Adelaide, South Australia
Present work address: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
3120 Buffalo Speedway, P.O. Box 2189
Houston, TX 77252-2189, U.S.A.
Telephone: (713) 431-4361
FAX: (713) 431-6193
email: garry@ldeo.columbia.edu

EDUCATION:

B.Sc. (Hons. 1st Class), Marine Geophysics and Geology, Flinders University, 1974. Thesis title: "Paleomagnetism of the Brachina Formation, at Hallett Cove, South Australia".
Grad. Dipl. (Statistics), Canberra College of Advanced Education, Australia, 1979.
Ph.D. Columbia University, 1983. Thesis title: "The thermo-mechanical properties of the continental lithosphere".

HONORS:

1971-1974: Commonwealth University Scholarship
1974: Australian National University Vacational Scholarship
1980-1982: Australian Public Service Board Overseas Post-Graduate Scholarship
1984-1986: Elf-Aquitaine Fellowship in Fossil Fuel exploitation
1989: Storke Research Award (Columbia University)
1992-1993: DuPont Educational Aid program - Science & Engineering award
1993-1994: DuPont Educational Aid program - Science & Engineering award
1997: Wallace E. Pratt Memorial Award for best paper published in the AAPG Bulletin during 1996 (Development of sediment overpressure and its effect on thermal maturation: Application to the Gulf of Mexico basin. AAPG Bulletin, Vol. 80, No. 9, 1367-1396. Mello, U.T., & G.D. Karner)
1999: 2000-2001 Ocean Drilling Program Distinguished Lecturer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

A) Employment

1975: Mount Isa Mines, Queensland, Australia (Computer programmer)
1975-1978: Bureau of Mineral Resources, Canberra, Australia (Science 1, Marine Group)
1979-1983: Bureau of Mineral Resources (Science 2, Gravity Group)
1983 (Senior Research Scientist, Gravity/Marine Group)
1984-1986: University of Durham, Durham, England (Research Fellow)
1986-1993: Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University, New York (Associate Research Scientist)
1993-1996: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, New York (Research Scientist)
1996-2006: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, New York (Senior Research Scientist)
2006-present: ExxonMobil URC, Houston, Texas (Senior Research Associate)

B) Teaching Experience

1984: Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), Toulouse, France, Visiting lecturer
1986-1998: Federal University of Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto, Brazil, Visiting professor
1988: Columbia University (Science Honors Program), New York, Instructor in Geophysics
1989: University of Calabria, Cosenza, Italy, Visiting professor
1993: University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, Visiting professor
2002-2004:Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Visiting professor)
2004-2006:Federal University of Rio Grande de Norte, Natal (RN), Brazil (Visiting professor)

C) Doctoral students

Lake, S.D., 1985. Thesis: "The structure and evolution of the Wessex basin"
Marangoni, Y., 1994. Thesis: "A crustal model for Araguaia and Brasilia thrust belts as determined from gravity and topography" (CNPq/USP/Columbia University sandwich program)
Mello, U., 1994. Thesis: "Thermal and mechanical history of sediments in extensional basins"
McGinnis, J., 1995. Thesis topic: "Stratigraphic discontinuities and their implications for continental margin evolution"
Sperle Dias, M., 1997. Thesis topic: "Tectonic significance of the topography of southeastern Brazil" (CNPq/ON/Columbia University sandwich program)
Fang, J., 1998. Thesis topic: "Styles and distribution of continental extension derived from the rift basins of eastern Papua New Guinea"
Bender, A., 2000. Thesis topic: "Mechanisms of intracratonic and rift basin formation: Insights from the Canning basin, northwest Australia"
Cathro, D.L., 2003. Thesis topic: "Three-dimensional stratal development of a (mixed) carbonate clastic sedimentary regime, Northern Carnarvon Basin, North West Shelf, Australia" (UTIG student/Jamie Austin, prime advisor).
Tischer, M.J., 2006. Thesis topic: "The ocean-continent boundary transition off Northwest Australia: Implications for balancing the distribution of extension".
Guigon, J.M.B., Thesis topic: "Quantitative Basin modeling and computer graphics interfacing" (UFRJ/COPPE student/Luiz Landau, prime adviser).

D) Local & International committees

1988-present: Lamont-Doherty Geol. Obs. Computer Users Committee (Chairman)
1990-present: Member, Advisory Committee for Geosciences, Columbia University Press
1986-1997: Associate Editor, Basin Research
1992-present: Steering committee member, NSF Margins Initiative
1994-1995: Team Leader, Oil & Gas group, Applied Earth Sciences, Institute International (AEScII)
1996-1998: Member, ODP Tectonics Panel/Dynamics of the Earth's Interior Steering and Evaluation Panel
1999-2000: NSF/OCE/MG&G Panel member
1998: Tectonophysics Program, AGU Spring Meeting Committee
2000-2003: Chair, MARGINS Steering Committee, National Science Foundation MARGINS Program
2003-2005: Member, IODP interim Internal Liaison Panel (iILP)
2005: Tectonophysics Program, AGU Spring Meeting Committee
2005-2006: Tectonophysics Program, AGU Fall Meeting Committee

E) Oceanographic Cruises

1976 HMAS Cape Don. Shallow-water bathymetric mapping of the central coastline of Western Australia.
1976-77 R/V VEMA Cruise V3313 in the Bismarck, Solomon, and Coral Seas, New Guinea-Australia. Underway geophysical surveying of western Pacific marginal/back-arc basins.
1979 R/V SONNE Cruise SO-7 in the Coral Sea, northeast Australia. Underway geophysical surveying of the Queensland Plateau and the extinct northwestern spreading centre in the Coral Sea.
1982 C/V QUEST field trials for the GSS Bodenseework marine gravimeter, Grand Banks, Canada.
1992 LAKE ALBERT CRUISE, Uganda and Zaire. Distribution of crustal extension and regional basin geometry of the Albertine rift system, East Africa.
1994 R/V RIG SEISMIC Cruise RS124. Underway geophysical surveying and swath mapping of the Australian-Pacific plate boundary south of New Zealand.
1998 D/V JOIDES Resolution drilling Leg 180. Active continental extension in the western Woodlark basin, New Guinea.
2001 D/V JOIDES Resolution drilling Leg 194. Sea-level magnitude and variations recorded by continental margin sequences on the Marion Plateau, northeast Australia.
2001 R/V EWING Cruise EW0113. Exmouth Plateau and Cuvier continental margin, offshore Western Australia.
2003 D/V JOIDES Resolution drilling Leg 210. Drilling the Newfoundland half of the Newfoundland-Iberia transect: The first conjugate margin drilling in a non-volcanic rift.
2005 D/V JOIDES Resolution drilling Expedition 305. Oceanic core complex formation, Atlantis Massif, mid-Atlantic Ridge: Drilling into the footwall and hangingwall of a tectonic exposure of deep, young oceanic lithosphere to study deformation, alteration, and melt generation, January 8 - March 2, 2005.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:

American Geophysical Union
Geological Society of Australia
Geological Society of London
American Association of Petroleum Geologists

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Thematic objective: The integration of geological, geophysical, geochemical, petrological, gravity and magnetic data to define the geological and tectonic development of extensional and compressional basins, their environments of deposition, and their tectonic-related spatial and temporal heat flow histories.

Technical objective: The application of Quantitative Basin Analysis (QBA), which combines quantitative kinematic and flexural modeling of the deformation of the lithosphere with seismic sequence stratigraphy, to:

1) Map the multi-phase tectonic history responsible for the development and architecture of sedimentary margins and basins (extensional and compressional) from the preserved stratigraphy and paloebathymetry/topography (in particular, the stratal patterns and the age and distribution of unconformities);

2) Estimate the spatial and temporal distribution and amplitude of extension and compression of the preserved stratigraphy within basins (extensional and compressional) using knowledge of the first-order processes responsible for both the deformation of the lithosphere and the transport and deposition of sediments;

3) Predict the basal heat-flow, source maturation, and regional migration pathways consistent with the reconstructed tectonic and geologic development for both two- and three-dimensional basin systems;

4) Quantify and ground-truth the fundamental processes responsible for the extensional deformation of the lithosphere and the development of sedimentary basin architecture and infill stacking patterns over a range of spatial and temporal scales;

5) Use process-oriented gravity modeling techniques to map and quantify the importance of basin-forming processes, such as rifting, thrusting, sedimentation, compaction, erosion, eustasy, lithospheric flexure, magmatic underplating, crustal intrusions, impinging plumes, and volcanic flows (e.g., seaward and landward dipping reflectors).

PUBLICATIONS:

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