The Directors

Dr. James M. Forgotson, Jr.

Dr. James Forgotson, Jr. received a BA from Washington University in 1951; BS from the University of Texas in 1952; MS (1954) and Ph.D. (1956) from Northwestern University. He is the MEE program director and Kerr McGee professor at the School of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Oklahoma.

His research interests are subsurface stratigraphy, basin analysis, petroleum geology, petroleum reservoir characterization, quantitative geological mapping, and statistical analysis of geological data with emphasis on the integration of interpretative methods combining geological, geophysical, and engineering data.

Dr. Forgotson’s current research studies include stratigraphy and depositional history of Mississippian and Pennsylvanian rocks in the Anadarko and Arkoma basins; the development of quantitative methods for the characterization of petroleum reservoirs using cores, well logs, and depositional models to improve the accuracy of production performance predictions by reservoir simulation models; the application of high-resolution seismic data and well logs to determine petrophysical properties of reservoirs and intra-reservoir heterogeneity; basin modeling of petroleum generation and migration in the Anadarko Basin and Red Sea/Gulf of Aden; and production of methane from coal seams with emphasis in the Arkoma Basin and production of gas from organically rich shales.

http://geology.ou.edu/

Dr. Robert Dauffenbach

Dr. Robert Dauffenbach received his B.A. in 1968 and M.A. in 1969 from Wichita State University and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1973. He became the Director of the Center for Economic and Management Research at the University of Oklahoma in 1990. He was named Exxon Research Fellow in Price College in 1997 and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs in 2002.

His principal training is in human resource economics and econometric methods; he has received extensive funding of his research on scientific and technical personnel from the National Science Foundation. Dr. Dauffenbach has served on various study panels of the National Academy of Sciences that investigated science and engineering personnel research and data needs for the 1990s. Additionally, he has served on the Biomedical and Behavioral Scientists Personnel study panel as well as on a National Academy of Engineering panel investigating adaptability and mobility of engineers.

Dr. Dauffenbach is the author or coauthor of articles appearing in Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Journal of Economics and Business, Journal of Economic Development, Journal of Labor Research, and International Journal of Manpower as well as reports to the National Science Foundation. Most recently, he is the author of two articles investigating Oklahoma’s occupational and industrial structure.

http://price.ou.edu/

Yoana Samper de Walschap

MEYoana Samper de Walschap is the director of the Energy Institute of the Americas (EIA) at Sarkeys Energy Center at the University of Oklahoma. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from Los Andes University in Colombia and a Master of Science degree in anthropology from the State University of New York.

Ms. Walschap has been associated with the Institute since it was established in 1995 and in 2002, she became the director. In 2001, Ms. Walschap joined the Institute for Energy Economics and Policy as the program coordinator of the interdisciplinary master’s degree program in managerial energy economics with a focus on international oil and gas in conjunction with the French Petroleum Institute.

http://www.sec.ou.edu/