EDUCATION
2004 Ph.D. Geology, University of Colorado
2000 M.Sc. Geology, Colorado School of Mines
1997 B.Sc. Geology, California State University, Chico
1994 A.Sc., Riverside Community College
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Stratigraphy, sedimentology, clastic facies analysis, seismic stratigraphy, tectonics and sedimentation
POSITIONS HELD
2006- Research Professor and Principal Investigator of Chevron Center of Research Excellence, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
2006 Consultant for ExxonMobil, Kerr McGee, Nexxen
2005-2006 Research Associate/Assistant Research Professor, Principal Investigator for Laser Assisted Analogs of Siliciclastic Reservoirs (LASR) Research Program, Bureau of Economic Geology, John and Katherine School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin
2005 Consultant for ExxonMobil, Kerr McGee
2004 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Laser Assisted Analogs of Siliciclastic Reservoirs (LASR) Research Consortium, Bureau of Economic Geology, John and Katherine School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin
2000-2004 Research Assistant, Energy and Minerals Applied Research Center, University of Colorado at Boulder
2004 Consultant for ExxonMobil, Total
2003 Geoscience Tutor, Student Academic Services Center, University of Colorado at Boulder
2002 Summer Intern, Upstream Technology Group, BP America, Houston, Texas
2001 Project Researcher, Journal of Sedimentary Research, Boulder, Colorado
2000 Research Assistant, Lewis Shale Consortium, Department of Geological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado
1999-2000 Teaching Assistant, Department of Geological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado
1999 Consultant for Algerian State Oil Company
1998 Summer Intern, Gulf of Mexico Deepwater business Unit, Chevron Exploration and Production Company, New Orleans, Louisiana
1997-1998 Research Assistant, joint appointment between the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior, Lakewood, Colorado and the Colorado School of Mines
1997 Weather Data Collector, the Weather Network, Chico, California
1995-1997 Teachers Assistant, Earth Science for Teacher, Ann Bykerk-Kauffman, Department of Geology, California State University, Chico
1997 Geoscience Tutor, Meriam Library Student Learning Center, California State University, Chico
1996-1997 Interning Geologist, The J. Byer Group, a Geotechnical Engineering Company, Glendale, California
COURSES TAUGHT
I designed and taught labs for the following classes at the Colorado School of Mines: Stratigraphy (GE 314 and GE 214), Multidisciplinary Petroleum Design (GE/PE, GPGN 342), Earth System Science (GE 101), and Field Camp (GE 316) (last week only). Student evaluations are available upon request.
FIELD SCHOOLS LED
Cretaceous Lewis Shale, Wyoming:
2006 Stratigraphy of a graded-margin succession, Lewis Shale, Wyoming (ExxonMobil Business unit)
2005 Stratigraphy of a graded-margin succession, Lewis Shale, Wyoming (ExxonMobil Upstream Research Center)
2003-2005 Shelf to base-of-slope changes in stratigraphic architecture of a mud-dominated, progradational system for (3 trips, Total Inc.) (co-leader was Roger Slatt)
1999-2001 Introduction to deltaic, slope, and submarine-fan strata (5 trips, oil companies that sponsored my Master’s research) (co-leader was Roger Slatt)
1999 Field Camp with stratigraphy emphasis (Colorado School of Mines)
1999 Deepwater depositional systems field trip (Colorado School of Mines, University of Colorado at Boulder) (co-leader was Roger Slatt)
Carboniferous Ross Sandstone, Western Ireland:
2006 Changes in stratigraphic architecture related to the filling of a structurally confined submarine-fan basin (Kerr McGee Oil Company, Nexxen Oil Company)
2004 Changes in stratigraphic architecture related to the filling of a structurally confined submarine-fan basin (ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company)
Tertiary California:
2005 Laterally accreting slope channels in the Capistrano Formation and vertically stacked slope channels in the Scripps/Ardath Formations, southern California (Kerr McGee Oil Company)
Cretaceous Formations, Front Range, Colorado:
1998-2000 Led many field trips to the Rocky Mountain Front Range formations for
undergraduate students at the Colorado School of Mines. Formations include:
Fountain Fm., Lyons Fm., Lykins Fm., Morrison Fm., all formations of the Dakota Gp., Pierre Shale, Fox Hills Sandstone, and the lower part of the Denver Fm.
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
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Impact of syndepostional structuring and confinement on submarine-fan architecture (Gossau Gp., Austria; Ainsa Basin, Spain; Ross Sandstone, Ireland; Brushy Canyon Formation, Texas)
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Stratigraphic and hydrodynamic evolution of laterally migrating slope channels (Brushy Canyon Formation, west Texas; Capistrano Fm, California)
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Impact of slope topography on slope-channel architecture, Ainsa basin, Spain
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3D stratigraphy of a distributary basin floor systems: documenting the 3D stratigraphy of the Bridges of Ross exposure, Ross Sandstone, western Ireland
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Facies, architecture, and hydrodynamic processes in basin-margin submarine-fan strata in the Carboniferous Ross Sandstone, western Ireland: Applications to northern Gulf of Mexico minibasin-fill successions
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3D stratigraphy of an intraslope basin conduit, Grand Coyer outcrop, Annot Sandstone, southern France
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Analysis of slope to basin stratigraphic architecture utilizing lidar technology, Permian Brushy Canyon Formation, west Texas
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Applying the concept of grade to stratigraphic architecture and reservoir distribution: lessons learned from the Cretaceous Lewis Shale, Wyoming and the Ross Sandstone, Ireland
FUNDING, GRANTS, HONORS, AWARDS
Colorado School of Mines:
2007 Principal Investigator (Frank Harris co Principal Investigator, Charlie Rourke Program Manager): Chevron Center of Research Excellence in Subsurface Geology
2006 Principal Investigator (Frank Harris co Principal Investigator, Charlie Rourke Program Manager): Chevron Center of Research Excellence in Subsurface Geology
Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas:
2006 Jackson School of Geosciences Research Fellowship
2005 Principal Investigator: Laser-Assisted Analogs of Siliciclastic Reservoirs, an industry- funded research consortium at the Bureau of Economic Geology supported by financial contributions from nine petroleum companies
2005 Principal Investigator: Multidisciplinary approach to studying slope channel processes and architectures: ExxonMobil
2005 Principal Investigator (co-PI Renaud Bouroullec): Outcrop Characterizations of Capistrano Formation, southern California borderlands: Shell
2005 Jackson School of Geosciences Research Fellowship
University of Colorado at Boulder:
2003-2005 Petroleum Research Fund Grant PRF# 40277-AC8, “Quantification of submarine fan deposits, Carboniferous Ross Sandstone, western Ireland—Applications to reservoir modeling,”
2004 AAPG Best Student Paper Award, AAPG Annual Convention
2003 AAPG Grants-in-Aid
2003 SIPES Foundation’s Edward A. McCullough Memorial Scholarship
2003 Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Student Grant
2003 Bruce Curtis Award
2002 A.I. Levorsen Award for the best oral paper presented at AAPG meeting
2002 Gulf Coast Section SEPM Ed Picou Grant
2002 William Hiss Travel Award, travel reimbursement for convention
2001 William Hiss Travel Award, travel reimbursement for convention
2001 Bruce Curtis Award
2000 First place, Colorado Scientific Society Graduate Student Oral Competition Semifinals
2000 Second place, Colorado Scientific Society Graduate Student Oral Competition Finals
2000 William Hiss Travel Award, travel reimbursement for convention
Colorado School of Mines:
2000 Harry Kent Petroleum Geology Scholarship
2000 Pustmueller Scholarship
1999 AAPG Grants-in-Aid
1999 Colorado Fellowship
1999 John and Lois Haun Scholarship
1999 Graduate Student Scholarship
1998 Bureau of Land Management Research Grant
1997 Amoco Graduate Fellowship
1997 Chevron Graduate Fellowship
California State University, Chico:
1997 Chico Geoscience Students Scholarship
1994-1997 Chico State Dean's List
1996 Floyd L. English Scholarship
1996 Fred Newman Scholarship
1995 Chico Gem and Mineral Association Scholarship
1995 Dave and Frances Ramme Scholarship
Riverside Community College:
1993-1994 Dean’s List
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Geological Society of America, and Society of Sedimentary Geologists
GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY ACTIVITIES
Reviewer:
Reviewed numerous manuscripts for publication in the Sedimentology, AAPG Bulletin, Geo-Marine Letters, Marine and Petroleum Geology, Journal of Petroleum Geology, Gulf Coast Section SEPM Research Conference proceedings, and one book published by the Gulf Coast Section SEPM
Session Chair:
D. R. Pyles and R.T. Beaubouef, 2005-present, SEPM Research Group: Turbidites and Deep-Marine Sedimentation: SEPM-AAPG Annual Meeting research session.
-2005 Session Theme: Sinuous Slope Channels (perspectives from outcrops, flumes, and near seafloor studies)
-2006 Session Theme: Distributary Basin Floor Environment (perspectives from outcrops, flumes, near seafloor studies, and numerical modeling
Pyles, D.R., and P. Joseph, 2006, AAPG Annual Meeting: Effects of Active Structural Growth and Confined Basins on Sandbody Architecture: AAPG 2006 Annual Meeting oral and poster sessions
Nelson, H., P. Weimer, and D.R. Pyles, 2002, SEPM Research Symposium: Modern seafloor, swath, and subsurface seismic 3-D images: Implications for deep-water systems models and deep-water plays: AAPG 2002 Annual Meeting oral session
Field Trip Leader:
Rocky Mountain Section AAPG field trip to south central Wyoming to teach stratigraphic concepts in fluvial, deltaic, and submarine-fan strata from the Western Interior Seaway (co-leaders were Roger Slatt, Ron Steel, Christian Carvejal, Mark Olson, and Jeff Crabaugh)
Short Course Convener:
Weimer, P., M. Sweet, M. Sullivan, J. Kendrick, D. Pyles, and A. Donovan, 2002, Deep-water core workshop, northern Gulf of Mexico: GCSSEPM and AAPG (at AAPG 2002 annual meeting)
COLLABORATORS
Renaud Bouroullec (University of Texas), Mary Carr (Colorado School of Mines), Douglas Paton (Colorado School of Mines), Bruce Trudgill (Colorado School of Mines), Piret Plink-Bjorklund (Colorado School of Mines), Jim Borer (El Paso Oil Company), Julian Clark (Chevron Research Company), Morgan Sullivan (Chevron Research Company), Frank Harris (Chevron Research Company), Marge Levy (Chevron Research Company), Tim McHargue (Chevron Research Company), David Jennette (Apache Oil Company), Mark Tomasso (University of Texas), James Syvitski (University of Colorado), Roger Slatt (University of Oklahoma), Rick Beaubouef (ExxonMobil), Vitor Abreu (ExxonMobil), Daniel Schwartz (Shell Exploration Company)
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Papers:
Pyles, D.R., J.P.M. Syvitski, and R.M. Slatt, in prep, Stratigraphic attributes associated with graded and out-of-grade basin margin morphologies: lessons learned from outcrops of the Cretaceous Lewis Shale of Wyoming and Carboniferous Ross Sandstone of Ireland: to be submitted to Sedimentology.
Weimer, P., R. Bouroullec, J. Roesink, H. Gonzales, J. Martin, R. Sincavage, D.R. Pyles, R. Crow, J. Austin, in prep, Stratigraphic evolution of eastern Mississippi fan: to be submitted to an SEPM Special Publication.
Pyles, D.R., in review, Stratigraphic evolution and basin-scale controls on local stacking patterns in a structurally confined submarine fan, Carboniferous Ross Sandstone, western Ireland: Applications to northern Gulf of Mexico minibasins: Journal of Sedimentary Research.
Pyles, D.R., in press, Architectural elements in a ponded submarine fan, Carboniferous Ross Sandstone, western Ireland, in T. Nilsen, R. Shew, G. Steffens, J. Studlick, Atlas of Deepwater Outcrops, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Special Publication.
Pyles, D.R., and R.M. Slatt, in press, Stratigraphic Evolution of the Upper Cretaceous Lewis Shale, Southern Wyoming: Applications to Understanding Shelf to Base-of-Slope Changes in Stratigraphic Architecture of Mud-Dominated, Progradational Depositional Systems, in T. Nilsen, R. Shew, G. Steffens, J. Studlick, Atlas of Deepwater Outcrops, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Special Publication.
Slatt, R.M., J. Minken, S.K. Van Dyke, D.R. Pyles, A.J. Witten, and R.A. Young, in press, Scales of heterogeneity of an outcropping leveed-channel system, Cretaceous Dad Sandstone Member, Lewis Shale, Wyoming, USA, in T. Nilsen, R. Shew, G. Steffens, J. Studlick, Atlas of Deepwater Outcrops, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Special Publication.
M. Tomasso, D.R. Pyles, F. Bonnaffee, R. Bouroullec, and D.C. Jennette, 2006, Outcrop versus Seismic Architecture of Deep-Water Deposits: Use of Lidar along a Slope-to-Basin Transect of the Brushy Canyon Formation, West Texas, 26th Annual Gulf Coast Section SEPM Foundation Research Conference, p. 1-12.
Pyles, D.R., P. Weimer, R. Bouroullec, 2001, Stratigraphic and tectonic framework of the DeSoto Canyon and Lloyd Ridge protraction areas, northeastern deep Gulf of Mexico: implications for the petroleum system and potential play types, in R. Fillon, N.C. Rossen, P. Weimer, A. Lowrie, H. Pettingill, R.L. Phair, H.H. Roberts, and B. van Hoorn, eds., Petroleum systems of deep-water basins: Global and Gulf of Mexico experience, 21st Annual Gulf Coast Section SEPM Foundation Research Conference, p. 285-314.
Pyles, D.R., and R.M. Slatt, 2000, A high-frequency sequence stratigraphic framework for shallow through deep-water deposits of the Lewis Shale and Fox Hills Sandstone, Great Divide and Washakie basins, Wyoming, in Weimer, P., R.M. Slatt, J. Coleman, N.C. Rosen, H. Nelson, A.H. Bouma, M.J. Styzen, and D.T. Lawrence eds., Deep-water reservoirs of the world: 20th Annual Gulf Coast Section SEPM Foundation Research Conference, p. 836-861.
Books and Atlases:
Weimer, P., M. Sweet, M. Sullivan, J. Kendrick, D. Pyles, and A. Donovan, eds., 2002, Deep-water core workshop, northern Gulf of Mexico: Gulf Coast Section SEPM Foundation, 93 p.
Anderson, R., S. Manydeeds, R. Slatt, D.R. Pyles, C. Zahm, J. Robalin, P. Varney, M. Sherwood, and S. Drake, 2000, Atlas of oil and gas plays on American Indian Reservations—Reservations located in Montana, North Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Division of Energy and Mineral Resources, 234 p.
Published Field Guidebooks:
Pyles, D.R., and R.M. Slatt, 2002, Lewis Shale and Fox Hills Sandstone, eastern margin of the Greater Green River basin, in Steel, R., D. R. Pyles, R.M. Slatt, C. Carvajal, M. Olson, and J. Crabaugh, Almond, Lewis, Fox Hills and Lance systems in the Greater Green River Basin, Wyoming: Rocky Mountain Section AAPG/SEPM Field Trip No. 1, September 5-8, p. 49-94.
Dissertation and Thesis:
Pyles, D.R., 2004, On the stratigraphic evolution of a structurally confined submarine fan, Carboniferous Ross Sandstone, western Ireland: Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, the University of Colorado, 322 p.
Pyles, D.R., 2000, A high-frequency sequence stratigraphic framework for the Lewis Shale and Fox Hills Sandstone, Great Divide and Washakie basins, Wyoming: Unpublished Master’s Thesis, the Colorado School of Mines, 267 p.
Abstracts:
Amerman, R., B. Trudgill, E.P. Nelson, M.H. Gardner, P. Arbues, J. Borer, J. Clark, G. Ford, H. Ortner, D. Paton, P. Plink-Bjorklund, and D. Pyles, in press, Comparison of deepwater matt transport complex settings: West Texas; south central Pyrenees, Spain, Northern Carlcareous Alpls, Austria: AAPG Annual Meeting Official Program with Abstracts.
Bouroullec, R., D.R. Pyles, D.E. Schwartz, D.C. Jennette, and F. Bonnaffe, in press, Impact of local accommodation on the architecture and stacking patterns of three Capsitrano Formation slope channels outcrops: San Clemente, Dana Point Harbor, and Point Fermin, California: AAPG Annual Meeting Official Program with Abstracts.
Bouroullec, R., M. Tomasso, D.R. Pyles, and K. Lee, in press, Stratigraphy of an interbasinal deep-water conduit: lessons learned from the Grand Coyer Sub-Basin, Eocene-Oligocene Gres d Annot Sandstone, SE France: AAPG Annual Meeting Official Program with Abstracts.
Bouroullec, R., D.R. Pyles, D.C. Jennette, M. Tomasso, and F. Bonnaffe, 2006, Stratigraphic architecture and evolutionof a meandering slop channel complex, Capistrano Formation, San Clemente, California: AAPG Annual Meeting Official Program with Abstracts.
Paton, D., B. Trudgill, H. Ortner, D. Medwedeff, M. Carr, D. Pyles, and R. Amerman, in press, 3D geospatial and structural modeling of a structurally complex deep-water basin; the Gossau Group, Western Carcareous Alps, Austria: AAPG Annual Meeting Official Program with Abstracts.
Paton, D., M. Carr, H. Ortner, B. Trudgill, D. Medwedeff, D. Pyles, and R. Amerman, in press, The influence of tectonics on temporal and spatial variations in sandbody architecture; Cretaceous Gosau Basin, Western Calcareous Alps, Austria: AAPG Annual Meeting Official Program with Abstracts.
Plink-Bjorklund, P., M. Carr, R. Amerman, J. Borer, G. Ford, E. Mortimer, D. Paton, D. Pyles, B. Trudgill, and R. Wild, in press, Variety of complex sediment gravity flow mechanisms, Cretaceous Gosau Basin, western Calcareous Alps, Austria: An outcrop example: AAPG Annual Meeting Official Program with Abstracts.
Pyles, D., M. Tomasso, D. Jennette, R. Beaubouef, and C. Rossen, in press, The role of secondary flow onfacies associations and stratigraphic architecture in sinuous slope channels: Concepts learned froma 3D exposure of a sinuous slop channel, Brushy Canyon Formation, west Texas: AAPG Annual Meeting Official Program with Abstracts.
Tomasso, M., D.R. Pyles, F. Bonnaffe, and D.C. Jennette, in press, 3D geological and seismic forward modeling of a confined sinuous slope channel complx, Brushy Canyon Formation, west Texas: AAPG Annual Meeting Official Program with Abstracts.
Tomasso, M., R. Bouroullec, K. Lee, and D.R. Pyles, in press, Stratigraphic architecture of early channel-fill within an interbasinal conduit: Grand Coyer, Gres d Annot Formation, SE France: AAPG Annual Meeting Official Program with Abstracts.
Tomasso, M., D.R. Pyles, F. Bonnaffe, and D.C. Jennette, 2006, Using LiDAR Data to enhance 3D Geological and Seismic Forward Modeling: Example of a Sinuous Slope Channel Complex, Brushy Canyon Formation, West Texas: GSA Penrose Meeting: Unlocking 3D Earth Systems—Harnessing New Digital Technologies to Revolutionize Multi-Scale Geologic Models, Durham, UK.
Paton, D., J. Borer, B. Trudgill, R. Amerman, D. Pyles, M. Carr, H. Ortner, M. Sullivan, D. Medwedeff, and J. Clark, 2006, Using 3D Geospatial Modelling to Investigate the 4D Structural Controls on the Deposition of the Gosau Deep Water Sedimentary Basin, Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria: GSA Penrose Meeting: Unlocking 3D Earth Systems—Harnessing New Digital Technologies to Revolutionize Multi-Scale Geologic Models, Durham, UK.
Boyce, M., R.M. Slatt, D.R. Pyles, 2006, Characterization of Cretaceous Age Lewis Shale Deepwater Lobe Sands: Sanger Ranch, Washakie Basin, Wyoming: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Rocky Mountain Section Annual meeting Official Program with Abstracts.
Bonnaffe, F., D.C. Jennette, J.R. Andrews, D.R. Pyles, R. Bouroullec, and M. Tomasso, 2006, A method for acquiring and processing ground-based LiDAR data in difficult to access outcrops for use in 3-D virtual-reality models, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting Official Program with Abstracts, p. 12.
Bouroullec, R., and D.R. Pyles, 2006, Large sand extrusions affecting slope channel architecture and evolution, Mio-Pliocene Monterey and Capistrano Formations, Dana Point Harbor, California: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting Official Program with Abstracts, p. 13.
Pyles, D.R., 2006, Hierarchical stacking of submarine channels and their depositional lobes in distributary landscapes, Carboniferous Ross Sandstone, western Ireland: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting Official Program with Abstracts, p. 87-88.
Pyles, D.R. and R. Bouroullec, 2006, Processes and facies associations in basin-margin strata of structurally confined submarine fans: example from the Carboniferous Ross Sandstone Ireland: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting Official Program with Abstracts, p. 88.
Pyles, D.R., R.T. Beaubouef, D.C. Jennette, C. Rossen, M. Tomasso, R. Lovell, A.R. Sprague, 2006, Insights into reservoir characteristics of sinuous deepwater channel fills from outcrop analogs—Part 1: Stratigraphic and sedimentologic evolution of a sinuous slope channel-fill, Beacon Channel, Brushy Canyon Formation, west Texas: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting Official Program with Abstracts, p. 88.
Seidler, Lars, J. Stewart, B.J. Fischer, C.J. Lyttle, A.R. Sprague, D. Box, J.R. Maynard, K.M. Campion, R.T. Beaubouef, D.R. Pyles, 2006, Insights into reservoir characteristics of sinuous deep-water channel fills from outcrop analogs—Part 2: Testing production scenarios using outcrops as templates for geologic and reservoir simulation: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting Official Program with Abstracts, p. 97.
Tomasso, M., F. Bonnaffe, D.R. Pyles, R. Bouroullec, X. Janson, R. Bouroullec, D.C. Jennette, J. A. Bellian, and C. Kerans, in press, Application of seismic forward modeling of detailed outcrop data in improving sub-surface interpretation: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting Official Program with Abstracts, p. 107.
Pyles, D.R., M. Tomasso, D. Jennette, F.L. Bonnaffe, R.T. Beaubouef, C. Rossen, 2005, Evolution of a sinuous slope channel: Beacon Channel, Brushy Canyon Formation, West Texas: British Sedimentological Research Group Meeting, program with abstracts.
Tomasso, M., F. Bonnaffe, D.R. Pyles, R. Bouroullec, D.C. Jennette, 2005, Outcrop versus seismic architecture of deep-water deposits: a slope to basin transect of the Brushy Canyon Formation, west Texas, 2005, Evolution of a sinuous slope channel: Beacon Channel, Brushy Canyon Formation, West Texas: British Sedimentological Research Group Annual Meeting Abstracts Volume.
Tomasso, M., F. Bonnaffe, D.R. Pyles, R. Bouroullec, D.C. Jennette, 2005, Outcrop versus seismic architecture of deep-water deposits: a slope to basin transect of the Brushy Canyon Formation, west Texas, 2005, Evolution of a sinuous slope channel: Beacon Channel, Brushy Canyon Formation, West Texas: British Sedimentological Research Group Annual Meeting Abstracts Volume.
Tomasso, M., F.L. Bonnaffe, D.R. Pyles, R. Bouroullec, D.C. Jennette, 2005, 3D visualization, characterization and interpretation of deep-water outcrop analogues using LiDAR Technology: application to stratigraphic research and teaching: British Sedimentological Research Group Annual Meeting Abstracts Volume.
Pyles, D.R., 2005, Basin-Scale and Local Stacking Patterns of the Carboniferous Ross Sandstone, Western Ireland: Applications to Northern Gulf of Mexico Minibasin Reservoirs: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting Official Program with Abstracts.
Pyles, D.R., J.P.M. Syvitski, and R.M. Slatt, 2005, Graded versus out-of-grade basin-margin morphologies and their relationship with basin-scale stacking patterns and local attributes of submarine-fan strata: lessons learned from outcrops of the Cretaceous Lewis Shale of Wyoming and the Carboniferous Ross Sandstone of Ireland: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting Official Program with Abstracts.
Jennette, D.C., F. Bonnaffe, D.R.Pyles , R. Bouroullec, M. Tomasso, 2005, Taking turbidite outcrops to the next level: 3-D visualization, characterization, and interpretation of analogs using lidar technology: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting Official Program with Abstracts.
Pyles, D.R., 2004, Vertical changes in submarine-fan channel morphology related to increasing depositional area, not proximity to the shelf edge, Carboniferous Ross Sandstone, western Ireland: Society of Sedimentary Geologists Sequence Stratigraphy Research Group Meeting.
Pyles, D.R., 2004, On the stratigraphic evolution of a structurally-confined, submarine basin—Carboniferous Ross Sandstone, western Ireland: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting Official Program with Abstracts. (I won the best student paper award for this talk)
Weimer, P., R. Bouroullec, D.R. Pyles, J. Roesink, H. Gonzales, J. Martin, R. Sincavage, 2004, Stratigraphic evolution of the eastern Mississippi fan: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting Official Program with Abstracts.
Weimer, P., R. Bouroullec, J. Austin, H. Gonzales, J. Martin, R. Sincavage, D.R. Pyles, V. Matt, S. Melton, 2004, Sequence stratigraphic setting of the Neogene sediments, Mississippi Canyon and northern Atwater Valley, northeastern deep Gulf of Mexico: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 54, p. 761.
Pyles, D.R., 2004, Stratigraphic architecture of the Carboniferous Ross Sandstone, western Ireland—applications to northern Gulf of Mexico minibasins: Newsletter of the Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists.
Pyles, D.R., 2003, How stratigraphic architecture, facies, and hydrodynamic processes change as a structurally-confined submarine-fan basin fills—proposed research for the Upper Carboniferous Ross Sandstone, western Ireland: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Search and Discovery.
Pyles, D.R., 2002, The temporal and spatial evolution of architectural elements and facies associations in the Carboniferous Ross Sandstone, Western Ireland—applications to the construction of reservoir models in structurally confined basins, northern Gulf of Mexico: Newsletter of the Gulf Coast Section SEPM.
Pyles, D.R. and R.M. Slatt, 2002, Stratigraphic response to tectonic forcing in the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway, Lewis Shale, south central Wyoming: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Rocky Mountain Section, Official Program with Abstracts, p. 36. (I won the A.I. Levorson best paper award for this talk)
Slatt, R.M., N.H. Hurley, D.R. Pyles, 2002, Lewis Shale (Wyoming and Colorado) exploration and production issues related to stratigraphy: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Rocky Mountain Section, Official Program with Abstracts, p. 38-39.
Slatt, R.M., D.R. Pyles, C. Bracklein, R. Young, and J. Staggs, 2002, Sub-seismic scale architecture of a sinuous submarine channel complex, Lewis Shale, southern Wyoming: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Annual Meeting Official Program with Abstracts, p. 164.
Weimer, P., D.R. Pyles, and S.H. Yoon, 2001, Petroleum potential of the ultra-deep water DeSoto Canyon, northeastern Gulf of Mexico: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Annual Meeting Official Program with Abstracts, p. A213.
Slatt, R.M., D.R. Pyles, C. Bracklein, R. Young, and J. Staggs, 2001, Architecture of a sinuous submarine-channel complex, Lewis Shale, southern Wyoming: Geological Society of America, Annual Meeting Program with Abstracts, p. 36.
Pyles, D.R., and R.M. Slatt, 2000, A high-frequency sequence stratigraphic framework for the Lewis Shale and Fox Hills Sandstone, Great Divide and Washakie basins, Wyoming: Rocky Mountain Section Society of Sedimentary Geology Newsletter, v. 25, no. 2, p. 1-3.
Pyles, D.R., and R.M. Slatt, 2000, The Upper Cretaceous Lewis Shale of south-central Wyoming: An analog to deep-water Gulf of Mexico reservoirs: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Annual Meeting, Official Program with Abstracts, p. A121.
Pyles, D.R., 2000, Stratigraphic anomalies associated with a tectonically active embayment in the Cretaceous Western Interior seaway: A story of the Lewis Shale and Fox Hills Sandstone, Wyoming: Newsletter of the Colorado Scientific Society, November, p. 2-3.
Pyles, D.R., and R. M. Slatt, 1999, An outcrop-based sequence stratigraphic framework for the Upper Cretaceous Lewis Shale and Fox Hills Sandstone, south-central Wyoming: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 83 no. 7, p. 1187.
Pyles, D.R., 1999, Sequence stratigraphic-based correlation strategy of the Lewis Shale and Fox Hills Sandstone, Great Divide and Washakie basins, Wyoming: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 83, no. 11, p. 1894-1895.
INVITED LECTURES
Universities/Societies
2006 University of Oklahoma, Geology Colloquium: Stratigraphic and hydrodynamic concepts learned from a 3D exposure of a sinuous slope channel, Brushy Canyon Formation, west Texas
2006 University of Oklahoma, Reservoir Characterization lecture: University of Texas at Austin, Weekly Stratigraphy Seminar: Processes and facies associations in basin- margin strata of structurally confined submarine fans: example from the Carboniferous Ross Sandstone (Ireland)
2006 Colorado School of Mines, Van Thyle Lecture Series, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering: Stratigraphic and hydrodynamic concepts learned from a 3D exposure of a sinuous slope channel, Brushy Canyon Formation, west Texas
2006 Colorado School of Mines, Petroleum Geology Lunch Lecture: Processes and facies associations in basin-margin strata of structurally confined submarine fans: example from the Carboniferous Ross Sandstone (Ireland)
2006 Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin, Weekly Colloquium: Stratigraphic and hydrodynamic concepts learned from a 3D exposure of a sinuous slope channel, Brushy Canyon Formation, west Texas
2005 University of Texas at Austin, Weekly Stratigraphy Seminar: Processes and facies associations in basin-margin strata of structurally confined submarine fans: example from the Carboniferous Ross Sandstone (Ireland)
2005 French Institute for Exploitation of the Sea: Outcrop characterization of slope channels 2005 University of British Columbia, Geology Lunch Lecture: Processes and facies associations in basin-margin strata of structurally confined submarine fans: example from the Carboniferous Ross Sandstone (Ireland)
2005 Colorado State University, Geology Lunch Lecture: Processes and facies associations in basin-margin strata of structurally confined submarine fans: example from the Carboniferous Ross Sandstone (Ireland)
2005 Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin: On the stratigraphic evolution of a structurally confined submarine basin, Carboniferous Ross Sandstone of western Ireland
2004 SIPES of Colorado Lunch Meeting: On the stratigraphic evolution of a structurally confined submarine basin, Carboniferous Ross Sandstone of western Ireland
2000 Rocky Mountain Society of Sedimentary Geologists Monthly Lecture: A high-frequency sequence stratigraphic framework for the Lewis Shale and Fox Hills Sandstone, Great Divide and Washakie basins, Wyoming
1999 Denver Study Group Meeting: A high-frequency sequence stratigraphic framework for the Lewis Shale and Fox Hills Sandstone, Great Divide and Washakie basins, Wyoming
Industry:
2006 ExxonMobil, Chevron, Marathon, Statoil, ConocoPhillips, Shell: Research results of Laser Assisted Analogs to Siliciclastic Reservroirs (LASR) Research Consortium
2005 ExxonMobil: Outcrop characterization of slope channels using LiDAR technology
2004 Chevron, Exxon, BHP: Research results of Laser Assisted Analogs to Siliciclastic Reservoirs (LASR) Research Consortium
2003 Chevron Technology Center: On the stratigraphic evolution of a structurally confined submarine basin, Carboniferous Ross Sandstone of western Ireland
2003 ExxonMobil Upstream Research Center: On the stratigraphic evolution of a structurally confined submarine basin, Carboniferous Ross Sandstone of western Ireland
2002 BP: On the stratigraphic evolution of a structurally confined submarine basin, Carboniferous Ross Sandstone of western Ireland
2002 BP: Proximal to distal changes in stratigraphic architecture associated with a prograding margin, lessons learned from the Lewis Shale, Wyoming
2000 Texaco: A high-frequency sequence stratigraphic framework for the Lewis Shale and Fox Hills Sandstone, Great Divide and Washakie basins, Wyoming
