Education:

• 1998, Ph.D., Geology, University of California, Santa Barbara
• 1984, M.S., Geology, Texas Christian University
• 1981, B.S., Geology, Tennessee Technological University

Responsibilities:

Basic and applied research in reservoir characterization and modeling, with emphasis on carbon sequestration, enhanced oil recovery, and gas storage. Diagenesis, low temperature geochemistry, and water-rock interaction in siliciclastic and carbonate rocks, and faults and fractures.

Professional Organizations:

• American Association of Petroleum Geologists
• American Geophysical Union
• Geological Society of America
• Society of Sedimentary Geology

Publications and Abstracts:

• Hanks, C.L., Parris, T.M., and Wallace, W.K., in press, 2004, Fracture paragenesis in detachment folded Lisburne Group: Implications for the thermal and structural evolution of the northeastern Brooks Range, Alaska.
• Parris, T.M., and Boles, J.R., in review, 2004, Fracture-derived sandstone cements, Mecca Hills, California: Journal of Sedimentary Research.
• Parris, T.M ., Burruss, R.C., and O’Sullivan, P.B., 2003, Deformation and the timing of gas generation and migration in the eastern Brooks Range foothills, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 87, p. 1823-1846.
• Tye, R.S., Parris , M., Barker, F., Aytuna, S., and Ozcelik, Y., 2000, Sedimentologic and reservoir quality characteristics of the Cretaceous Velibey Formation, Zonguldak, Turkey: Turkish Journal of Oil and Gas, v. 6, p. 3-29.
• Parris, T.M., Fishman, N. S., Burruss, R.C., and Pawlewicz, M.J., 2004, Petroleum inclusions and the origin of gas in the Upper Cretaceous Lewis Shale, San Juan basin, New Mexico [abs.]: American Association Petroleum Geologists Rocky Mountain Section Meeting, Denver, Colo.
• Parris, T.M. , and Burruss, R.C., 2004, Temperature, pressure, and fluid composition conditions of fracture cementation in the Brooks Range fold-thrust belt, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska [abs.]: American Association Petroleum Geologists Hedberg Conference, Stuctural Diagenesis: Fundamental Advances and New Applications from a Holistic View of Mechanical and Chemical Processes, Austin, Tex.
• Burruss, R.C., and Parris,T.M., 2003, Fluid inclusion evidence for dynamic pressure fluctuations during basin evolution [abs.]: American Association Petroleum Geologists National Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah.
• Hanks, C., Wallace, W., and Parris, T.M., 2003, Progressive fracturing and folding during burial, deformation, and unroofing in the northeastern Brooks Range, Alaska [abs.]: American Association Petroleum Geologists National Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah.
• Parris, T.M. , Fishman, N.S., Pawlewicz, M. J., and Christiansen, G. E., 2003, Origin, timing, and conditions of gas generation in the Lewis Shale, San Juan Basin, New Mexico [abs.]: American Association Petroleum Geologists National Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah.
• Hanks, C.L., Parris, T.M. ,and Wallace, W.K., 2002, Fractures and detachment folds in the northeastern Brooks Range-conditions of formation and reservoir implications [abs.]: American Association Petroleum Geologists/Society Petroleum Engineers Meeting, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2002.
• Parris, T.M., Burruss, R.C., and O’Sullivan, P.B., 2002, Timing of deformation and gas generation and migration in the foothills region of the eastern Brooks Range fold-thrust belt (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska) [abs.]: American Association Petroleum Geologists Hedberg Conference, Deformation History, Fluid Flow Reconstruction, and Reservoir Appraisal in Foreland Fold and Thrust Belts, Sicily, Italy, May 2002.
• Parris, T.M., and Burruss, R.C., 2001, Tectonism, fracturing, and gas generation, northeast Brooks Range, Alaska [abs.]: American Association Petroleum Geologists National Meeting, Denver, Colo.
• Parris, T.M., and Burruss, R.C., 2000, Syntectonic fluid flow and fracturing, eastern Brooks Range, Alaska [abs.]: Geological Society of American, Abstracts with Programs, Reno, Nev.