Industry Experience

2001 - Present Consulting Geologist, Monte Vista Inc.

1999 - 2000 Production Geoscientist Exxon Mobil Corporation

1998 - 2000 Exploration Geoscientist Exxon Mobil Corporation

Sept. - Dec. 1998 Geologist/Geophysics Intern Exxon Exploration Co.

1997 - 1998 Contract Geologist, New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Minerals

Industry Training

Oct. 2000 Sequence Stratigraphy Field School (Exxon Production Research (EPR), 6 days)

Statistical Concepts for Geoscientists (EPR, 5 days)

Probabilistic Assessment (PROSPER) (EPR, 5 days)

July 2000 Well log Interpretation School (EPR, 5 days)

StratWorks (Stratagraphic modeling software) (EPR, 4 days)

April 2000 Geologic Operations and Evaluations School (EPR, 11 days)

July 1999 Advanced Salt Tectonics (Overview) (Dr. M. P. Jackson, 2 days)

April 1999 GeoDesk (Arc View proprietary software) (EPR, 2 days)

Z-Map Plus Geologic Mapping Software (Landmark, 5 days)

Applied Subsurface Geologic Mapping (SCA, 5 days)

Feb. 1999 Applied Seismic Interpretation (EPR, 15 days)

Geoquest 2D-3D Seismic Interpretation School (Schlumberger, 5 days)

Nov. 1998 Advanced Salt Tectonics School (Dr. M. P. Jackson, UT Austin, 2 days)

Mapping Experience

2002 - present EDMAP 1:24000 South Garcia SE Quadrangle (in progress)

2001 - 2004 Teaching assistant for UNM EPS319L Geology Field Camp (summer). Duties included instructing senior undergraduate and graduate students in geologic mapping, field identification of geologic formations, and orienteering methods

1996 - 1998 UNM Field Camp Teaching Assistant (Geologic Mapping and Methods)

1996 -1998 Masters Thesis Research: 1:6000 scale mapping: Silver Peak Range, Nevada

1996 - 2003 Teaching assistant for EPS310 New Mexico Field Geology. Instructed sophomore geology majors and non-majors in the fundamentals of geology in the field

Recent Publications

Petronis, M.S., Geissman, J.W., Oldow, J.S., and Mcintosh, W.C, 2004, Tectonic Summary of the Southwest Silver Peak Range, Central Walker Lane, NV: Paleomagnetic and ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar Data, in Review.

Geissman, J.W., Petronis, M.S., Lundahl, A, Roberts, J., 2004, Paleomagnetism of Permian Abo and Yeso Formation Strata and a mid-Tertiary intrusion, Placitas area, Sandia Mountains, and lower Permian Abo Formation Strata, Carizzo Arroyo, Lucero Uplift, New Mexico, in Prep.

Petronis, M.S., Hacker, D.B., Holm, D.K., Geissman, J.W., Harlen, S.S., 2004, Magmatic Flow Paths and Paleomagnetism of the Miocene Stoddard Mountain Laccolith, Iron Axis region, southwest Utah, USA, in Press, Geological Society of London Special Paper.

Petronis, M.S., Geissman, J.W., and Mcintosh, W.C, 2003, Transitional Field Clusters from Uppermost Oligocene Volcanic Rocks in the Central Walker Lane, Western Nevada, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interior, v. 141, n.3,p. 207 - 238.

Petronis, M.S., Geissman, J.W., and Oldow, J.S., 2002, Paleomagnetic and ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar Geochronoloic Data Bearing on the Structural Evolution of the Silver Peak Extensional Complex, West-Central Nevada, Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 114, p. 1108-1130.

Petronis, M.S., Geissman, J.W., Holm, D.K., Wernicke, B. and Schauble, E., 2002, Assessing vertical-axis rotation in large-magnitude extensional regimes: A transect across the Death Valley extended terrane, California, Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 107, B1, no. 1, 21 pp.

Petronis, M.S., 1998, A reconnaissance paleomagnetic investigation bearing on vertical-axis rotation associated with a simple-shear transfer system in the Silver Peak Range, west-central Nevada: University of New Mexico, [M.S. thesis], p. 273.

Elected Positions

UNM Geology Graduate Student Association (President) 2001 - 2003

UNM Geology Graduate Student Association (President) 1997 - 1998

Kent State Geological Society (Vice President) 1992 - 1994

Affiliations

Geological Society of America New Mexico Water Resource Div

American Geophysical Union Nation Center for Science Education Standards

Society of Exploration Geophysics Golden Key National Honor Society

Sigma Gamma Epsilon

References

Dr. John W. Geissman Dr. Daniel K. Holm Dr.Richard R. Gottshalk

Dept. of E&PS Dept. of Geology ExxonMobil Exploration

Univ. of New Mexico Kent State University 233 Benmar Place

Albuquerque, NM 87131 Kent, OH 44242 Houston, TX 77060

505-277-3433 330-672-4094 281-423-7970

jgeiss@unm.edu dholm@kent.edu richard.r.gottshalk@exxon.sprint.com