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Paul Weimer

Bruce D. Benson Endowed Chair
Director - Energy and Minerals Applied Research Center (EMARC)
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder

E-mail: paul.weimer@colorado.edu
Phone: 303-492-3809


Research Interests

My principal areas of research are in seismic and sequence stratigraphy and petroleum systems analysis of deep-water continental margins. Detailed studies concentrate on depositional settings within a sequence stratigraphic framework. Recent studies have been primarily in deep-water siliciclastic depositional systems in the Gulf of Mexico, although my work has encompassed all depositional settings in 40 basins worldwide. This research has focused on the integration of stratigraphy, structural geology, and petroleum systems analysis. New research focuses on interactive geologic displays for the public igp.colorado.edu.

Selected Recent Publications

Books written

Books edited

Entire issues of refereed journals dedicated to my research

Selected papers from 1998-2012

Refereed papers, in press

AAPG President Activities: 2011-2012

AAPG Presidential Short Course

SEG/EAGE Distinguished Instructor Short Course: 2004

Esso Australia Distinguished Lecturer Short Course - 2001

Computer Fly-throughs, Interactive displays, Study Area Movies

Roesink, J. G., R. J. Austin, P. Weimer, and R. Bouroullec

These will be presented in a series of .exe files so that the user can self navigate through the study area and fly along the sea-floor or move into the subsurface and study the exact nature of the structure, stratigraphy, or migration of fluids.

Director displays will allow the use to access all of the data generated from this project and view with the ability to display any set of parameters (seismic profiles, wireline logs, biostratigraphy, all maps, petroleum systems profiles).

Movies: will illustrate the 3-D distribution different data sets

Courses Offered

Applied Sequence Stratigraphy and Basin Analysis, Petroleum Geology, Petroleum Geology of Turbidite Systems, Historical Geology

Honors and Awards

1992 American Association of Petroleum Geologists, J. C. "Cam" Sproule Best Paper Award

1992-1994 Shell Foundation Faculty Initiation Award

1995 Landmark Worldwide Technology Forum, 2nd runner-up

1997 Landmark Worldwide Technology Forum, 2nd runner-up: GCAGS Best Paper Award (co-author)

1998 GCAGS Best Paper Award-Second Place (co-author)

1998-1999 AAPG Distinguished Lecturer, 16 cities

1999 GCAGS Best Poster Award-Second Place (co-author)

2001 Esso Australia Distinguished Lecturer, 6 cities, 1.5 day short course

2001 GCSSEPM Distinguished Service Award

2003 AAPG Distinguished Service Award

2004 SEG Distinguished Instructor Short Course, 25 cities, 18 countries, 6 continents, 1 day short course

2004 GSA Fellow

2005 AAPG Grover T. Murray Distinguished Educator Award

Selected Recent Professional Society Work (1997 - 2004)

1997 Gulf Coast Section-SEPM-President

1997-2000 Editorial Board, GeoMarine Letters

1997-2000 Associate Editor, AAPG Bulletin

1998-2000 AAPG Distinguished Lecture Committee, Vice Chairman

1998 AAPG Hedberg Conference, Galveston, TX. "Reducing Risk in the Gulf of Mexico" reservoir session co-organizer.

1998 AAPG/EAGE Third Research Symposium, Almeria, Spain.  "Developing and Managing Turbidite Reservoirs: Case Histories and Experiences" co- convenor (with Roger Slatt, Mike Bowman, and Peter Dromgoole).

1998 AAPG International Meeting, Rio de Janerio, Brazil. Co-convenor (with Cesar Cainelli, Petrobras) of one day sypmosium on deep-water reservoirs.Co-teach 2-day short course (with Carlos Bruhn, Petrobras) of deep-water reservoirs

1999 American Geological Institute Academic -Corporate Associates Conference, Keynote speaker, corporate/academic partnerships

1999 AAPG Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX. Co-convenor (with Hans Nelson, Roger Slatt) on comparing modern sea-floor images with 3-D seismc images of turbdiite systems. Co-taught 2.5 day short course (with Roger Slatt) entitled "Petroleum Geology of Turbidite Systems"

1999 AAPG International Meeting, Birmingham, England. Oral session chairman. Co-convenor (with Mike Bowman, BP) of session "Stratigraphic Prediction of Turbidite Reservoirs." Co-teach 2 day short course (with Roger Slatt) entitled "Petroleum Geology of Turbidite Systems"

2000 AAPG Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. Co-convenor (with Lloyd Wenger, Exxon) of session on petroleum systems of the Gulf of Mexico.

2000 31st International Geological Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Co-convenor (with Cesar Cainelli, Petrobras) of session "Seismic Stratigraphy of Deep-Water Environments".

2000 Gulf Coast Section-SEPM Twentieth Annual Research Conference, Houston, TX. Co-convenor (with Roger Slatt, Arnold Bouma, David Lawrence, Jim Coleman) of conference titled "Deep-Water  Reservoirs of the World" www.gcssepm.org

2000- AAPG Foundation Trustee Associates

2000 Bert Fest. Houston, TX. Bert Bally retirement festival. Invited Speaker "Tectonic Controls on Turbidite systems, northern Gulf of Mexico"

2000 AAPG Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. Co-convenor of session on "Petroleum systems of the Gulf of Mexico."

2000 31st International Geological Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Co-convenor (with Cesar Cainelli, Petrobras) of session "Seismic Stratigraphy of Deep-Water Environments".

2000 Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Annual Meeting, Houston, TX. Co-taught a 3 day short course (with Roger Slatt) titled "Petroleum Geology of Turbidite Systems"

2000 Gulf Coast Section-SEPM Twentieth Annual Research Conference, Houston, TX. Co-convenor (with Roger Slatt, Arnold Bouma, David Lawrence, Mike Styzen, Jim Coleman) of conference titled "Global Production in Turbidite Systems Reservoirs"

2000 Colorado Scientific Society, Counselor

2000-2003 AAPG Distinguished Lecture Committee, Chairman

2001 The Geological Society (London), March 22-24. "Deep-water depositional systems of the world." Invited Keynote speaker

2001 SEPM 75th Anniversary Jubilee Symposium, Denver, CO. Convenor of Symposium (1.5 days) at National Meeting titled "Sedimentary Systems in Time and Space" June 8-9

2001 AAPG Annual Convention. Co-Convenor (with Henry Pettingill) of 1.5 day session titled "Frontier Deepwater Provinces"

2001 SEG Annual Convention, San Antonio, TX. Co-teach two-day short course titled "Petroleum Geology of Turbidite Systems"

2001 Gulf Coast Section-SEPM Twenty-first Annual Research Conference, Houston, TX. Co-convenor (with Dick Fillon, Henry Pettingill, Berend van Hoorn, Harry Roberts) of conference titled "Petroleum Systems of Deep-Water Margins of the World"

2002 AAPG Annual Convention, Houston, TX. Co-convenor of two-day SEPM Research Symposium "Modern Seafloor Swath and Subsurface Seismic 3D Images: Implications for Deep Water Systems Models and Deepwater Plays."
Co-convenor of one- day core workshop "Gulf of Mexico deep-water reservoirs"
Co-teach a 3 day, AAPG short course titled "Petroleum Geology of Turbidite Systems.

2002-2004 AAPG, Treasurer.

2003-2006 Gulf Coast Section-SEPM Foundation, Trustee

2003 American Geological Institute, Geology in National Parks Outreach Committee

2003 AAPG International Convention, Barcelona, Spain. Session Chair (with Steve Flint) titled "3-D imaging of depositional systems." Co-teach two-day short course titled "Petroleum Geology of Turbidite Systems"

2003 Gulf Coast Section-SEPM Bob F. Perkins 23rd Annual Research Conference, Houston, TX. Technical Program Committee.

2004 AAPG Annual Convention, Dallas, TX. Poster session organizer of "Petroleum systems of the northeastern deep Gulf of Mexico: An integrated sequence stratigraphic, structural, and petroleum systems modeling study."

2004 RMAG, 3-D seismic symposium, Denver, CO. Keynote Speaker

2004 Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, TX. May, Keynote speaker, “Mass transport complexes”

2004 EAGE Annual Meeting, Paris, France. Symposium organizer (with Remy Eschard) “Geologic modeling of deepwater reservoirs”

2004 GCAGS Annual Convention, San Antonio, TX. Symposium organizer (with Trey Meckel, Jon Blickwede, Erik Mason) “Petroleum systems of the northern deep Gulf of Mexico.”

2004 AAPG International Convention, Cancun, Mexico. Session organizer (with Nilo Azumbuja, Ian Stewart) titled “Pre-exploration predictions in deepwater.”

2006 AAPG Annual Convention, Houston, TX. Co-convenor (with Craig Shipp, Henry Posamentier) of two-day SEPM Research Symposium “The role of mass transport complexes in deepwater settings.”

2006 AAPG International Convention, Perth Australia. Session organizer (with Roger Slatt) Deep-water trends of the world.

2006 GCSSEPM Gulf Coast Section-SEPM Twenty-sixth Annual Research Conference, Houston, TX. Technical Program Committee.