Education
    - Ph.D. from Columbia University (2000) - Dissertation title: Acoustic and Thermal Characterization of Oil Migration, Gas Hydrates formation and Silica Diagenesis (Download PDF [60Mb])
    - Graduate from Ecole Superieure d'Ingenieurs de Marseille (ESIM, Now Ecole Centrale de Marseille, France) (1991) - Major in Offshore Engineering
    - DEA (~MSc) in Ocean Sciences from the University of Marseille-Aix II (1991)

Interests
  As part of my PhD, I worked on the characterization of the geophysical signature of various processes in marine sediments:
   In situ acoustic properties of calcareous sediments across an OpalA/OpalCT diagenetic front (Download PDF [2Mb])
   Characterization of the in situ elastic properties of Gas Hydrate-bearing marine sediments (Download PDF [8Mb])
   Reservoir Simulation to validate 4-D seismics (Download PDF [30Mb])
   Numerical modeling of the thermal effect of fluid migrations in an active fault zone (Download PDF [11Mb])

  But the real beauty remains in sailing and getting the data at sea...

  I sailed as Logging Scientist onboard the R/V Joides RESOLUTION on the following cruises of the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) and the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) :
    Leg 148 (1993): Return to Hole 504B, Costa Rica rift.
    Leg 150 (1993): New Jersey Continental Slope and Rise.
    Leg 158 (1994): TAG Hydrothermal Mound, mid-Atlantic ridge.
    Leg 169 (1996): Sedimented Ridges II: Middle Valley and Escanaba trough.
    Leg 185 (1999): Izu-Mariana Margin.
    Leg 201 (2002): Deep Biosphere, Eastern Equatorial Pacific and Peru Margin.
    Leg 204 (2002): Hydrate Ridge, offshore Oregon.
    IODP Phase 1 mobilization (2004): Gamagori to Astoria.
    IODP Expedition 311 (2005): Cascadia Margin Gas Hydrates.
    IODP Phase 2 mobilization and sea trials (2009): Singapore to Hawaii.
    IODP Expedition 323 (summer 2009): Bering Sea Paleoceanography.
    IODP Expedition 317 (fall 2009): Canterbury Basin Sea Level.

  I also worked as a shore-based scientist on shear sonic logging data from Leg 164 (1995): Gas Hydrate Sampling on the Blake Ridge and Carolina Rise;
  spent most of the summer 2006 offshore India drilling for more gas hydrate during NGHP Expedition 1;
  and some of the spring 2009 on the Q4000 logging for still more gas hydrate during the Gulf Of Mexico JIP Leg 2.

Recent projects and publications
    - Sonic waveform attenuation in gas hydrate-bearing sediments from the Mallik 2L-38 research well, Mackenzie Delta, Canada (JGR, May 2002)
    - Log-Seismic data integration in ODP using IESX
    - Evaluation of heave compensation and formation properties from drillstring acceleration measurements (Geo-Marine Letters, July 2002)
    - Modeling of acoustic wave dissipation in gas hydrate-bearing sediments (G-cubed, July 2005)
    - Sonic attenuation in the JAPEX/JNOC/GSC et al. Mallik 5L-38 gas hydrate production research well (Geol. Surv. of Can. Bull. 2005)
    - Sonic Velocities in an Active Gas Hydrate System, Hydrate Ridge (ODP Sci. Res. 204 - 2006)
    - Velocity and attenuation in young oceanic crust: New downhole log results from DSDP/ODP/IODP Holes 504B and 1256D (G-cubed. 2008)

And if nothing else,
   I run ,

   Or digress about it.

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