Michael Gardner

I am field geologist integrating tectonics and sedimentation in developing predictive geological rules that govern sedimentary systems. Since 1990, I have directed integrated outcrop and subsurface studies, first as a researcher at the Bureau of Economic Geology (BEG), at the University of Texas at Austin (1990-1994), and later as tenured faculty at the Colorado School of Mines (1995-2005), and Montana State University, Bozeman (2005-2015). I founded and was the Principal Investigator of joint industry-academic research conducted by the Slope and Basin Consortium and Geological Analogs and Information Archive (GAIA) project. I was a principal in establishing and directing the initial research conducted by the Chevron Center of Research Excellence at the Colorado School of Mines. I have advised nineteen graduate students conducting field-based studies across the western U.S. and in Mexico, New Zealand, France, Italy, and Spain. I have delivered ten invited keynote presentations, received four best paper awards, and was the 2008-2009 AAPG Distinguished Lecturer. I have conducted presentations and short courses in eleven countries and published hundreds of papers, abstracts, reports and field guidebooks.