The University of Texas El Paso

Geological Sciences Department

Special Seminar

Internal Deformation of Layered Evaporites

in the Deepwater Santos Basin, Brazil
Presented by

Joseph Carl Fiduk

Geological Sciences Department Room #123
Wednesday, January 28, 2015 4:00-5:00pm
Joseph Carl Fiduk
Chief Geologist, Schlumberger
Houston, TX
Carl holds a B.S. and M.S. degree in Geology from the University of Florida,
an M.B.A. degree from the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, and
a Ph.D. in Geology and Geophysics from the University of Texas at Austin.
Having held multiple positions in the oil industry, the Federal Government,
and Academia, Carl is currently Chief Geologist for WesternGeco in
Houston, Texas. His research interests cover clastic deposition, salt structural deformation
and evolution, basin analysis, shelf margin to deep marine depositional processes, marine
sedimentology, petroleum systems analysis, and the use of three-dimensional seismic data
in petroleum exploration. Current research interests include salt-sediment interaction, fluvial
deltaic deposition in the Cretaceous Seaway of NW Colorado, and deep marine stratigraphic
analysis in the Gulf of Mexico. Carl teaches internal training classes on seismic interpretation
and salt tectonics for WesternGeco and external industry courses for Nautilus U.S.A. and local
geologic societies. Carl is an AAPG Certified Petroleum Geologist, and holds membership the
Houston Geological and Geophysical Societies, the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, the
Society for Sedimentary Geology, and in is a member of the Gulf Coast Section SEPM where
he is the current President. Carl has published over 70 peer-reviewed abstracts and papers.