INCLUDED: COVER LETTER, RESUME, REFERENCES, SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
GEOLOGY
Dr. W. Bruce Cornet
16921 Cielito Lindo
El Paso, TX 79938
915-921-1116
May 9, 2006
To Whom It May Concern:
Am a seasoned geologist seeking a permanent position for
which I am qualified, especially in areas that can tap into my full potential.
I can manage, run, operate a business or office, oversee employees,
delegate and regulate, and take necessary responsibility.
I have managed an independent oil company, a professional palynological
laboratory, and an institute for discovery science, all with two or more
employees. I excel at accomplishing
goals and assignments, meeting deadlines, and taking initiative when needed, but
I also enjoy working with others in a team environment, leading when
appropriate, following when necessary to achieve objectives. In the office and/or out in the field, I will bring to your
company/university/agency:
● Thirty-two years experience in geology, basin analysis, paleontology, palynology, performing geologic and geophysical analyses and interpretations, mapping geologic structures using outcrops and geophysical data.
● Twenty-two years professional experience managing drilling operations, well-site geology and mudlogging (11 wells), core description and analysis (7 wells), prospect generation and well-sites selection (7 different wells), and leading-coordinating exploration teams (e.g. Gulf Oil Corp and Geminoil, Inc.) comprised of geologists, geophysicists, micropaleontologists, palynologists, geochemists, mud loggers, and technicians.
● Five years teaching
experience: physical geology, historical geology, botany, combined biology,
genetics, and organic chemistry for MCAT, and reading hyperlearning for MCAT.
I am capable of teaching and training at the undergraduate and graduate
level.
I enjoy a structured environment, but I owe much of the
success in my career at solving problems to trying new and different approaches
and techniques. If a solution
cannot be resolved with a given set of data, I have gone out and collected
additional data. If a standard set
of techniques does not give desired results, I have tried new techniques. If thinking inside the box produces only confusion, I have no
problem stepping outside the box, to innovate, and to improve where needed.
My background in both paleobotany and vertebrate palynology, as well as
my education in biology, botany and ecology, gives me a greater library upon
which to draw upon for solutions.
If a multi-disciplined individual is what you need, then I
am the one you seek. Am interested
in a full-time position and am willing to relocate my family to a new location.
Would like to request an interview with you for the above said position(s).
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Sincerely,
Bruce Cornet
16921 Cielito Lindo, El Paso, TX 79938
Ph: (915) 921-1116 Email: bcornet@hughes.net
EDUCATION
High school (HS):
Conard High School, West Hartford, CT; diploma year 1963.
Colleges and universities attended:
Fairleigh Dickinson University Madison, NJ 07940 Major: Zoology (72 hrs) transferred 1968
University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06268 Major/Minor: Biology/Chemistry (50 hrs) B.A. 1970
University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06268 Major: Botany (21 hrs) M.S. 1972
Penn. State University University Park, PA 16802 Major: Geology (110 hrs) Ph.D. 1977
Undergraduate credits in chemistry: 22, Undergraduate credits in biology: 47.
Undergraduate and graduate credits in geology: 27.
Graduate credits in botany, paleobotany, and palynology:
112.
Adjunct Professor – El Paso Community
College, El Paso, TX 79998, From: 08/2004
To: Present;
Dona Ana Branch Community College, Las Cruces, NM 88001, From:
01/2006 To: Present;
Raritan Valley Community College, Somerville, NJ 08876, From: 01/2003 To: Present;
The Princeton
Review, 252 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ 08542, From: 01/1999 To: 01/2000, taught
MCAT.
Hours per week:
varies. Current Salary: ranges from
$2,300-$7,500/college/semester.
Supervisor’s name and phone number: EPCC: Dr. Bobby Ortega (915-831-2165). DABCC: Dr. Bernard J Pena (505-527-7625). RVCC: Dr. Paul Schueler (908-526-1200 ext. 8219). Description of duties: Currently teaching courses: Physical Geology, Historical Geology, and distant learning at RVCC - Geology (WebCT).
Deputy Administrator - National Institute for Discovery Science, Las Vegas, NV 89118.
From: 01/2004 To: 05/2004. Hours per week: 40 Salary: $50,000/yr.
Supervisor’s name
and phone number: Dr. Colm Kelleher of Space Science, Inc. (702-932-5600).
Description of
duties: Manage NIDS, oversaw two employees, and investigated scientifically
various types of cases/research projects. Reason
for leaving: Bigelow Aerospace budget shortfall with layoffs.
Independent Geological Consultant - Self employed, El Paso, TX.
From: 03/1993
To: Present. Hours per
week: variable. Salary: job dependent.
Description of
duties: Current work: Evaluating prospects with an independent oil company in
Brazoria, Ft. Bend, and Concho counties, TX.
Recent work:
1) Worked with Dr.
Paul Olsen at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (July-August and December 2005)
to process and study hundreds of palynological samples from the
Triassic-Jurassic boundary in Morocco, Nova Scotia, and Pennsylvania.
2) Reservoir
analysis of Holly Field in Kansas for V.J.I. Natural Resources (report).
Results: Successful
drilling with completion of a well in the ‘J’ zone (2002-2003).
Accomplishments:
Well site geology, core description and analysis, seismic interpretation, elog
interpretation and correlation with seismic lines, gravity and magnetic surface
studies, geochemical evaluation and correlation, reservoir evaluation,
subsurface fracture and joint evaluation, hydrologic fluid movement, surface
mapping of geologic formations and faults.
16921
Cielito Lindo
El
Paso, TX 79938
(915)
921-1116
Alfred Traverse, Ph.D.
Professor of Geology and Botany (retired)
University Park, PA 16804
Office: Deike Bldg., Room 307
Office phone: (814) 863-3419
E-mail: traverse@ems.psu.edu
R.D.2 Box 390
Huntingdon, PA 16652
Home phone: (814) 643-1958
E-mail: atraverse@earthlink.net
Paul E. Olsen, Ph.D.
Storke Memorial Professor of Earth & Environmental
Sciences
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
61 Rt. 9W
Palisades, New York 10964-1000
Office phone: (845) 365-8491
Fax: (845) 365-8163
E-mail: polsen@ldeo.columbia.edu
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~polsen/nbcp/peo.cv1.html
Jim Levy
Petroleum
Geologist
Horizon
Exploration Services
PO Box 25
Eden, Texas
76837
Phone:
(915) 329-7660
E-mail: jim@geotexas.com
16921 Cielito Lindo, El Paso, TX 79938
Phone:
(915) 921-1116 E-mail: bcornet@hughes.net
Additional
Previous Experience:
Research Associate - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY.
From: 07/1989
To: 02/1993. Supervisor’s name and phone number:
Dr. Paul E. Olsen (845-365-8491). Description of duties: Responsible for
mapping and correlating lacustrine lithostratigraphy of the Newark basin, NJ;
palynological sample collection and analysis, petrology, and biostratigraphic
correlation of shallow to deep lacustrine units, evaporite playa units, and
deltaic-fluvial units in Newark basin; determination of stratigraphy and
structure of well site areas for seven 4,000-foot (7 km) coreholes in the Newark
basin, NJ (Principal investigators: P.E. Olsen and D.K. Kent); performed land
work to determine property ownership for chosen well sites; collected and
analyzed cuttings sample at well sites; described, photographed, and analyzed
all 21,000 feet of core during drilling using Amoco’s most advanced continuous
coring rig.
Post-doctorate Research Associate - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory,
Palisades, NY, From: 08/1988 To: 07/1989. Description of duties: Geological and paleontological field work - part of a rift basin study team. Contributed skills: outcrop mapping and correlation, stratigraphic description and analysis, palynology, paleobotany, manuscripts writing and grant proposals.
Publications in Modern Geology, 19, 1993; Review Paleobotany Palynology, 72, 1992; Geological Society of America Special Paper 247 (Global Catastrophes in Earth History), 1990; Virginia Museum of Natural History, 1990 (book); Evolutionary Trends in Plants, 3, 1989; Palaeontographica, 213B, 1989; Field Guide to the Tectonics, stratigraphy, sedimentology, and paleontology of the Newark Supergroup, eastern North America, T351, 1989; Rare Events in Geology, 15, 1988.
Independent Geological Consultant - Same as consultant, Houston, TX.
From: 04/1985 To: 07/1988. Description of duties: Prospect generation on salt domes in Brazos County - Tertiary marine and coastal plain, Gulf Coast, Texas; re-entry well prospects in southeast Texas - Tertiary coastal plain; well site geology in Chesterfield County, Virginia - rift basin shallow to deep lake and deltaic facies; mud logging in Appling and Wayne counties, Georgia - Cretaceous-Tertiary coastal and marine deposits.
Manager and Senior Geologist - Superior Oil
Company, Houston, TX (taken over by Mobil Oil Corp. in 1985). From:
05/1982 To: 03/1985. Description of duties: Managed palynological
laboratory; correlated deep marine deltaic fan and turbidite deposits in North
Sea.
President and Exploration Manager - Geminoil, Inc., Houston, TX. Owner.
From: 04/1981 To: 05/1982. Description of duties: Organized an exploration effort into Late Triassic basins in eastern Virginia. Responsible for managing and drilling six exploratory and wildcat wells in the Richmond basin (two deep stratigraphic test wells with Cornell Oil Co., Dallas, TX). Supervised geologic interpretations, made well site selections, supervised well site geologists and mud loggers, performed independent cuttings and core analyses, involved in reservoir petrology and diagenesis studies, documented and analyzed the geochemistry of all oil samples and source rocks. Geminoil interests purchased by SEPCO in 1985.
Senior Geologist - Exxon Company, U.S.A.,
Houston, TX.
From: 08/1980 To: 03/1981. Description
of duties: Provided palynological services: thermal maturation and diagenesis of
Gulf Coast overpressured zones; Paleozoic-Mesozoic, over thrust belt,
Utah; Triassic, Chinle Formation and Dockum Group, Texas, New Mexico, and Utah;
Cretaceous, Colorado.
New Discoveries on the Morphology and Anatomy of Rhacophyton ceratangium (a Late Devonian pre-fern from West Virginia), 1972: 92 p. Thesis advisor: Dr. Henry N. Andrews.
The Palynostratigraphy and Age of the Newark Supergroup, 1977: 505 p. Thesis advisor: Dr. Alfred Traverse. “Bruce's doctoral dissertation is still cited at PSU as one of the very best in the history of the Department of Geosciences.” http://www.palynology.org/history/traverse.html#cv
Geology and Paleontology
Course on electric log analysis (Houston, 1984: 144 hours).
Basic Core analysis school (Houston, 1980).
East Coast rifting seminar (Houston, 1980).
Seismic Interpretation for geologists (Houston, 1979).
Short course on structural geology (Houston, 1979).
Short course on fossil dinoflagellates (Stanford University, 1978).
Geologic Expertise (grouped according to years experience)
· Stratigraphy, sedimentology, paleoecology (facies interpretation), palynology (age and stratigraphic correlation), and paleobotany (22 yrs.).
· Core and outcrop description and mapping (18 yrs.).
· Well-log analysis and correlation (16 yrs.).
· Seismic line interpretation and correlation (8 yrs.).
· Geochemistry and kerogen-thermal maturity (7 yrs.).
· Geomagnetic field mapping and analysis; petrology-sandstone diagenesis (4 years).
· Mud logging; radiometrics and satellite telluric current studies (2 yrs.).
Alternative Career Training
Brookdale Community College (Lincroft, NJ), computer programming (‘C’), 1999-2000.
Chubb Computer Institute (East Brunswick, NJ), mainframe
programming (JCL and Cobol), 1998-1999.
Brookdale Community College (Lincroft, NJ), mass media and TV production,
1996-1997 (24 credits; High Honors):
The Mass Media (CMP101)
Communications (CMP102)
Introduction to Journalism (JOU101)
Television Production (TV121)
Portable Video (TVB122)
Video Editing & Post Production (TVB224)
Audio Techniques (CMP115)
Fundamentals of Music Recording (CMP216)
Skilled at Scientific writing; Public Speaking; MS Word; Excel; Powerpoint; Canvas; Corel Draw; HTML and web design (Dreamweaver; Front Page); Adobe PhotoShop; graphics illustration; gif animation; video for the web (avi, rm, mov); professional photography; biological illustration (artist); Netscape Navigator/Internet Explorer; Javascript; JCL, Cobol, and ‘C’ programming languages.
1968 Summer, University of Michigan Vertebrate Paleontology Team, headed by Dr. Claude Hibbard. Collected Miocene and Pleistocene mammals, particularly small rodents in Nebraska.
1969 Summer, Yale University sponsored field trip to
Oligocene mammal beds in northwestern Nebraska.
Collected numerous partial and complete mammal skeletons and skull bones,
including the first complete skeleton of Daphaenocyon
dodgei, which was prepared and exhibited at the Yale Peabody Museum. http://www.sunstar-solutions.com/AOP/SOW/vpaleo.htm
1969-1970, quarried and excavated an Early Jurassic
lacustrine fish bed in the Hartford basin, Connecticut,
with Nicholas McDonald. Prepared numerous fish specimens, some for exhibit at
the Rocky Hill Dinosaur Park in Connecticut. Most of the fish specimens are now
at the American Museum of Natural History, and many have been used in various
scientific publications by various authors.
http://www.sunstar-solutions.com/sunstar/BluffHead/blufhead.htm
1971-1972, paleobotanical field trips to West Virginia to collect Devonian plants, including specimens prepared for my Masters thesis at the University of Connecticut.
1972-1977, hundreds of field trips to the numerous Triassic-Jurassic rift basins along the East Coast of North America to collect palynological and paleobotanical samples for my Ph.D. thesis at Penn. State.
1980, Summer, paleontological field trip to west Texas and the Texas panhandle in search of Triassic vertebrates and plants with P.A. Murry and A. Santa Luca. Discovered the most complete and well-preserved fossils ever found of Sanmiguelia lewisii.
1981-1982; 1985-1986, wildcat oil drilling in the Triassic
Richmond basin of Virginia. Described
and analyzed thousands of feet of strata using well cuttings and electric logs.
http://sunstar-solutions.com/AOP/SOW/geminoil.htm
1986, Fall, paleobotanical field trip to the Texas panhandle (Sunday canyon) to collect more specimens of Sanmiguelia lewisii from the Trujillo Fm. of the Dockum Group.
1988-1993, extensive field work in the Newark basin of New
Jersey and in the Richmond basin of Virginia,
mapping strata and collecting fossils. Wellsite geologist for the Newark Basin
Coring Project: Described, photographed, and analyzed over 21,000 feet of strata
from seven coreholes (1990-1993). http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~polsen/nbcp/nbcp.html
1992-1995,
completed a 200 square mile geomagnetic survey and map (1,800 stations) of the
Wallkill River valley, Orange and Ulster counties, New
York, in order to map and define magnetite bodies in granitic masses, which
represent erosional remnants of buried and partially exposed islands in the
Ordovician Snake Hill, Austin Glenn, Mount Merino, and Balmville formations.
Used a Precession Proton Magnetometer.
Responsible (directly or indirectly) for the drilling of six wells in the Richmond basin (Mesozoic), Chesterfield County, Virginia (1980-1986), one well on the Damon Mound salt dome (Tertiary), Brazos County, Texas (1984), and one re-entry well (Tertiary) in southeast Texas (1987). Participated in the successful completion of a new well showing re-generated reservoir conditions in the water-flooded Holly Unit (Pennsylvanian), abandoned 35 years ago, Graham County, Kansas (2002).
Cornet,
B. and Abushagur, S., 2005. Take Virtual Tours to the Franklin Mountains of El
Paso, Permian Basin and Big Bend of West Texas, and Cretaceous of New Jersey. http://www.epcc.edu/sites/faculty/brucec/
Vasanthy,
G., Cornet, B., and Pocock, S.A.J., 2004. Evolution of proangiosperms during
Late Triassic: pre-Cretaceous pollen trends towards mono- and dicotyledonous
taxa diversification. Geophytology
33(1&2):
99-113. http://www.sunstar-solutions.com/sunstar/Vasanthy04/Vasanthy_Cornet_Pocock04.htm
Whiteside, J.H., Olsen, P.E., Sambrotto, R.N., and Cornet, B., 2004, Milankovitch modulation of d13Corg and fish communities in the tropical great lakes of the Triassic-Jurassic Pangean rift system. Geophysical Research Abstracts, v. 6, 07738.
Cornet,
B., 2003. Upper Cretaceous facies, fossil plants, amber, insects and dinosaur
bones, Sayreville, New Jersey. http://www.sunstar-solutions.com/sunstar/Sayreville/Kfacies.htm
Cornet,
B., 2002. When did angiosperms first evolve? http://www.sunstar-solutions.com/sunstar/Why02/why.htm
Cornet.
B., 1999. Fossil evidence for rapid orderly genetic evolution: The first
detailed fossil record of microevolution with missing links. http://www.sunstar-solutions.com/sunstar/Crinopolles/crinopolles.htm
Cornet,
B., 1996. A new gnetophyte from the late Carnian (Late Triassic) of Texas and
its bearing on the origin of the angiosperm carpel and stamen. In Taylor and
Hickey (eds.), Angiosperm origin,
evolution and phylogeny, Chapman & Hall, NY, 32-67. http://bcornet.tripod.com/Cornet96/Archaestrobilus.htm
Olsen, P.E., Kent, D.V., Cornet, B., Witte, W.K., and Schlische, R.W., 1996. High-resolution stratigraphy of the Newark rift basin (Early Mesozoic, eastern North America): Results of the Newark basin coring project. Geological Society of America Bull., 108: 40-77.
Cornet, B. and McDonald, N.G. (Abst. 1995 and MS). A new cheirolepidaceous conifer bearing flowers from the Early Jurassic of Connecticut, USA. http://www.sunstar-solutions.com/sunstar/Conanthus/conanthus.htm
Fowell,
S.J., Cornet, B., and Olsen, P.E., 1994. Geologically rapid Late Triassic
extinctions: Palynological evidence from the Newark Supergroup. Geological
Society of America Special Paper 288: 197-206. http://bcornet.tripod.com/MassExt/Fowell94.htm
Cornet, B., 1993. Applications and limitations of palynology in age, climatic, and paleoenvironmental analyses of Triassic sequences in North America. In Lucas and Morales (eds.), The Nonmarine Triassic. New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science Bulletin, 3: 75-93. http://bcornet.tripod.com/Cornet94/Cornet94.htm
Cornet,
B., 1993. Dicot-like leaf and flowers from the Late Triassic tropical Newark
Supergroup rift zone, U.S.A. Modern
Geology, 19: 81-99. http://bcornet.tripod.com/Cornet93/Cornet93.htm
Olsen, P.E., McDonald, N.G., Huber, P., and Cornet, B., 1992.
Stratigraphy and paleoecology of the Deerfield rift basin (Triassic-Jurassic,
Newark Supergroup), Massachusetts. Guidebook for Field Trips in the
Connecticut Valley Region of Massachusetts and Adjacent States,
vol. 2, 84th Annual Meeting, New England Intercollegiate Geological
Conference, The Five Colleges, Amherst, Massachusetts, October 9-10-11: 488-535 http://www.sunstar-solutions.com/sunstar/Olsenetal92/NEIGC84.htm
Cornet B. and Habib, D., 1992. Angiosperm-like pollen from the Late Jurassic (Oxfordian) of France. Review Paleobotany Palynology, 72: 269-294. http://bcornet.tripod.com/Cornet92/CH92a.htm
Olsen, P.E., Fowell, S.J., and Cornet, B., 1990. The Triassic/Jurassic boundary in continental rocks of eastern North America; A progress report. Geological Society of America Special Paper 247: 585-593.
Cornet, B. and Olsen, P.E., 1990. Early to middle Carnian flora and fauna of the Richmond and Taylorsville basins, Virginia and Maryland, U.S.A. Guidebook No. 1, Virginia Museum of Natural History, Martinsville, 83 p.
Cornet, B., 1989. The reproductive morphology and biology of Sanmiguelia lewisii, and its bearing on angiosperm evolution in the Late Triassic. Evolutionary Trends in Plants, 3: 25-51 (cover picture). http://bcornet.tripod.com/evtrend/Sanmig2.htm
Cornet,
B., 1989. Angiosperm-like pollen from the Late Triassic Richmond rift basin of
Virginia. Palaeontographica, 213B:
37-87. http://bcornet.tripod.com/RBpollen/primref.htm
Cornet, B. 1989. Jurassic rift basin floras and their climatic implications. In Olsen, P.E. and Gore, P. (eds.), Field Guide to the Tectonics, stratigraphy, sedimentology, and paleontology of the Newark Supergroup, eastern North America. International Geological Congress, Field Trip Guidebook T351: 47-52.
Olsen, P.E. and Cornet, B., 1988. Evidence for early Mesozoic mass extinctions in eastern North America rift deposits (Late Triassic-Early Jurassic, Newark Supergroup. IGCP Project 199, Rare Events in Geology, Berrichte der Geologischen Bundesanstalt (Wein), 15(Abs.): 20.
Cornet,
B., 1986. The reproductive structures and leaf veneation of a Late Triassic
angiosperm, Sanmiguelia lewisii. Evolutionary
Theory, 7: 231-309. http://bcornet.tripod.com/evoltheo/Slewisii.htm
Cornet, B. and Olsen, P.E., 1985. A summary of the biostratigraphy of the Newark Supergroup of eastern North America with comments on early Mesozoic provinciality. In Weber, R. (ed.), III Congresso Latinoamericano de Paleontologia. Mexico. Simposio Sobre Floras del Triasico Tardio, su Fitogeografia y Paleoecologia, Memoria: 67-81.
Ziegler, D.G. and Cornet, B., 1985. Newark rift system: a potentially prolific hydrocarbon province. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bull., 69 (Abs.): 1452.
Cornet, B and Ziegler, D.G., 1985. Structural styles and tectonic implications of the Richmond-Taylorsville rift system, Eastern Virginia. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bull., 69(Abs.): 1434.
Olsen, P.E., Remington, C.L., Cornet, B., and Thomson, K.S., 1978. Cyclic changes in Late Triassic lacustrine communities. Science, 210: 729-733.
Cornet, B., 1977. Preliminary investigation of two Late Triassic conifers from York County, Pennsylvania. In Romans, R.C. (ed.), Geobotany, Plenum Press, New York: 165-172.
Cornet, B., Phillips, T.L., and Andrews, H.N., 1976. The morphology and variation in Rhacophyton ceratangium from the Upper Devonian and its bearing on frond evolution. Palaeontographica, 158B: 105-129.
Cornet, B. and Traverse, A., 1975. Palynological contributions to the chronology and stratigraphy of the Hartford basin in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Geoscience and Man, 11: 1-33. http://bcornet.tripod.com/hartford/Hartford.htm
Cornet,
B., Traverse, A., and McDonald, N.G., 1973. Fossil spores, pollen, and fishes
from Connecticut indicate Early Jurassic age for part of the Newark Group. Science,
182: 1243-1247.
http://www.sunstar-solutions.com/sunstar/science73/1stpaper.htm