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							                                           Ian O. Norton
                                       Professional Summary
                                             July 8, 2008

Business address:              The University of Texas at Austin
                               Bureau of Economic Geology
                               University Station, Box X
                               Austin, Texas 78713-8924
                               (512) 471-0423
E-mail address:                norton@ig.utexas.edu

Academic Background
   B.Sc (Honors) Geology, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 1969
   Ph.D. Geology, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, 1978

Areas of Expertise
   A. Play mapping and analysis.
   B. Global plate tectonic modeling.
   C. Programming in Fortran, C, and additional graphics languages; Geoframe; Schlumberger seismic
      interpretation packages; ArcGIS mapping system.

Professional Work Experience
   A. Present Position: Senior Research Fellow, Bureau of Economic Geology and Institute for
      Geophysics, The University of Texas at Austin (2007 - Present).



   B. Exploration Researcher, ExxonMobil Upstream Research or ExxonMobil Exploration (1981 -
      2007).

       Retired August 2007.

   C. Researcher, University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, Galveston (1980 - 1981).



   D. Exploration Geophysicist, SOEKOR Exploration Company, South Africa (1978 - 1980).



   E. Visiting Scholar and Ph.D. Student, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, and John G.
      Sclater, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1972 - 1978).



   F. Employee, Meteorological Bureau, South Africa (1970 - 1971).



Professional Societies
   American Association of Petroleum Geologists
   American Geophysical Union

Publications

Articles
      Peer Reviewed
      Summa, L. L., Goodman, E. D., Richardson, M., Norton, Ian, and Green, A. R., 2003, Hydrocarbon
        systems of northeastern Venezuela: plate through molecular scale analysis of the genesis and
        evolution of the eastern Venezuela Basin, in Golonka, Jan, Paleogeographic reconstruction and
        hydrocarbon basins: Atlantic, Caribbean, South America, Middle East, Russian Far East, Arctic:
        Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 20, no. 3-4, p. 323–349.
      Norton, Ian, 2000, Global hotspot reference frames and plate motion, in Richards, M. A., Gordon,
        R. G., and Van der Hilst, R. D., eds., The history and dynamics of global plate motions: AGU
        Geophysical Monograph 121, p. 339–357.
      Norton, Ian, 1995, Plate motions in the North Pacific: the 43 Ma nonevent: Tectonics, v. 14, no. 5,
        p. 1080–1094.
      Gombos, A. M., Jr., Powell, W. G., and Norton, Ian, 1995, The tectonic evo-lution of western India
        and its impact on hydrocarbon occurrences; an overview, in Davies, T. A., Coffin, M. F., and
        Wise, S. W., eds., Selected topics relating to the Indian Ocean basins and margins:
        Sedimentary Geology, v. 96, no. 1-2, p. 119–129.

   Abstracts

   Buhl, P., Diebold, J. B., Gutierrez, C., Mithal, R., Stoffa, P. L., Denham, C., Ewing, J., O'Brien, T.,
      Stephen, R. A., Van Shouten, H., Griffiths, D., McCowan, D. W., Norton, Ian, Phillips, J., Stark, T.,
      Heffler, D., Keen, C., and Nichols, B., 1981, A large aperture seismic experiment (abs.),
      Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, v. 62, p. 957.

Graduate Student Committee Participation
   Member, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Christian Heine, University of Sydney, Australia, 2007
   Member, Ph.D. Dissertation Committee, Bryan Richter, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1998




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