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JESSE GILBERT SELF
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Geological Scientist leveraging hands-on approach, technical/scientific knowledge, research skills, and high personal ethics to secure quality deliverables in stride with key stakeholder needs. Remarkably self-motivated and exceedingly passionate in the fields of geology and geoscience.
● Key contributor to the US Government’s CENTRAL ENERGY TEAM, conducting research and creating publications on natural resource reserves contained within multiple Rocky Mountain Basins in the western United States, with the majority of time spent estimating oil reserves contained within the Eocene Green River Formation.
● Extensive experience working with the Nation’s western region oil shale data, digitizing and streamlining hard copies of data onto an online database for current and future scientific use on research projects. Data types include, but not limited to, well log descriptions, Fischer Assay samples, geophysical logs, histograms, measured stratagraphic sections, and photographs.
● Professionally trained field geologist, specializing in the mapping and interpretation of the relationship between fluvial, marginal lacustrine and open lacustrine strata.
EDUCATION/CREDENTIALS
Master of Science in Geoscience – COLORADO STATE UNIVERISTY
Grade Point Average – 3.7/4.0
Expected graduation date of December 2011
Thesis entitled “Reservoir properties and depositional environments of the Eocene Wasatch Formation, southeastern Uinta Basin, Utah”.
Research focused on the tight gas fluvial reservoirs that comprise the Wasatch Formation
and their relation with the overlaying, lacustrine deposited, Green River Formation.
Bachelor of Arts in History – COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY
Supplemental Education – METROPOLITAN STATE COLLEGE OF DENVER
General and advanced geological, chemical, physics, and mathematical courses taken
Technical Skills: Adobe Creative Suite, SAS, MS Office, MS Access, ArcView, GIS, Grapher, GeoGraphix, AutoCad, Petrographic Microscope
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Environmental Intern | BENETERRA, LLC | Sheridan, WY | 2011-present
• Responsible for site investigations in north central Wyoming, monitoring groundwater activities and soil quality.
• Sample collection and reporting on soil quality as it pertains to subsurface drip irrigation systems, using water from nearby coalbed methane production.
• Monitoring and assessing crop health, crop growth, and pest pressures; in connection with finding environmentally conscious solutions to hydrocarbon production.
Geologist | UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY | Denver, CO | 2007-2010
• Integral member of the Central Energy Team, conducting resource assessments in the Greater Green River (WY), Piceance (CO), and Uinta (UT) Basins. Obtained crucial data on region’s oil shale, carbonate minerals, and natural gas deposits.
• Developed multiple professional research papers. Most notable: In-Place Oil Shale Resources in the Western United States.
• USGS publication credits:
o Assessment of In-Place Oil Shale Resources of the Green River Formation, Piceance Basin, Western Colorado, 2009
o Assessment of In-Place Oil Shale Resources of the Green River Formation, Uinta Basin, Utah and Colorado, 2010
o Assessment of In-Place Oil Shale Resources of the Green River Formation, Greater Green River Basin, Wyoming and Colorado, Expected publication date 2011
o Fischer Assays of Oil Shale Drill Cores and Rotary Cuttings from the Piceance Basin, Colorado, 2009
o Fischer Assay Histograms of Oil Shale Drill Cores and Cuttings from the Uinta Basin, Utah and Colorado, 2010
o In-Place Oil Shale Resources Underlying Federal Lands in the Piceance Basin, Western Colorado, 2010
o Nahcolite Resources in the Green River Formation, Piceance Basin, Northwestern Colorado, 2009
o Fischer Assay Histograms of Oil Shale Drill Cores and Cuttings from the Piceance Basin, Northwestern Colorado, 2010
o Stratigraphic Cross Sections of the Eocene Green River Formation in the Piceance Basin, Northwestern Colorado, 2010
o Stratigraphic Cross Sections of the Eocene Green River Formation in the Green River Basin, Southwestern Wyoming, Northwestern Colorado, and Northeastern Utah, expected publication date 2011
Field Research Assistant | YALE RESEARCH GROUP | Marmarth, ND | 2005
• Vital assistant to a graduate student conducting paleobotany research near the K-T Boundary.
• Managed efforts diligently in fossil collection/mapping, specimen gathering, specimen preparation for paleomagnetic dating.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Paleontology lab assistant, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, 2005
Geological Society of America Member, 2008
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