Dr Graham John Banks

Personal profile

I am a multi-disciplined geologist with 6 years experience in petroleum and structural geology, igneous petrology and geochemistry. I possess excellent analytical, teamwork, communication, integration and self-management skills, and have an eye for detail. I am seeking an opportunity to apply and advance my skills in a structural, exploration and project management environment.

Academic qualifications

2000 - 2004 Geology and geochemistry PhD thesis: Cardiff University, Wales

‘Accretion of the lower oceanic crust in the Troodos ophiolite: structural, textural and geochemical constraints from drill core CY-4, Cyprus’

· A petrological, structural, textural, geochemical evaluation of a 2.2km long drill core of lower oceanic crust (cm- to km-scale), re-interpreting core & log data and mid-ocean ridge axioms

· 5 months igneous-structural fieldwork of an oceanic rift valley and transform fault

· Proposed a new model for oceanic magma chamber internal structure and magma migration

· Operated high-tech (SEM, ICP-MS, ICP-OES) geochemical analysis instruments

2004 Teach English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) and grammar awareness certificate (93%)

1996 – 2000 1^st class Geology degree (BSc. Hons) University of St. Andrews, Scotland

1989 - 1996 A levels Geology, Chemistry, Physics 10 GCSEs incl. Geology and 3 sciences

Relevant work experience

2006 - Structural and petroleum geologist Fugro Robertson Ltd

oil and gas consultancy

All self-taught in limited timeframes:

Areas of expertise

· Satellite imagery mapping: processing and manipulation of LANDSAT, SPOT and DEM data to create detailed geological and structural maps, and tectonic evolution models

· Fracture analysis: outcrops, wells, satellite images: analyse fault and fracture distribution, frequency and geometry, model stress fields, shearing and strain

· Teaching: made syllabus then taught Structural Geology and Tectonics (4-week course); coaching Geoscience staff in structural analysis methods and tools

· Seismic interpretation: (2D digital) basin inversion and salt tectonism; (vintage, on paper) shale diapirism, deepwater fold and fault belt, deepwater slumps, basin inversion

Key Responsibilities

· Rapid understanding of new geological and petroleum systems

· Advise clients / company directors / government ministers: present structure, fracture and seismic results; highlight prospective areas; recommend areas for data acquisition/study

· Promote Department’s credentials: at conferences and to potential / current clients

· Assist in writing proposals (£six figure projects)

· Project management: writing proposals, start-up meetings with clients, project start-up, organising workflow and staff

Key skills

· Self-motivated, enthusiastic, demonstrated ability to lead projects

· Work characterised by high pace and technically rigorous evaluations and research

· Ability to think quickly and identify opportunities

· Team-worker: integrate and share ideas with team members of other disciplines

· Excellent interpersonal, communication and negotiating skills; tact and diplomacy across different levels

· Desire to solve problems and try to convince others of my views

· Prospect identification and evaluation, volumetric calculations, risking and ranking

· Software: ENVI, ArcGIS, Seisworks 2D (basic), Rockworks, Office, Corel Draw

· Report writing

· Understand economic and geopolitical issues from hydrocarbon exploration to exporting

Regional studies

· Burgan fault model, Kuwait: discussed proposal, deliverables, timing and costing with client

· Basalt geochemistry Sirte Basin, Libya: tectonic setting from trace elements

· 3 structure and tectonic evolution studies of Kurdistan, Iraq: (national, block and outcrop scale) fold-thrust belt, fault and fracture studies, tectonic evolution, integrated outcrops-wells fracturation, stress field determination, license block structural and stratigraphic evaluations

· Fractured basement reservoir evaluation, Yemen: satellite imagery fractures and lithologies

· East African rifts: tectonic evolution and palaeogeography reconstructions

· Gulf of Suez: asset evaluation

· Black Sea hinterland: tectonic evolution and sediment supply from East Europe / Asia Minor

· Ukrainian Black Sea prospectivity: seismic and structural interpretation of shale diapirs, prospect evaluation

2005 – 2006 Science, English and Grammar teacher Youngdo academy, South Korea

· Taught adults and children, from university to elementary levels

· Advanced my: communication, leadership, teamwork, quick-thinking, empathy skills

2000 – 2004 Researcher and teacher Cardiff University

· Mid-Atlantic Ridge shipboard scientist. Assisted: selecting ocean floor drilling sites, dredging navigation, ‘cleaning’ multi-beam bathymetry data, researched the effect of sun-spot activity on the ship’s satellite positioning system:

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· Fieldwork leader and orator: to undergraduates, in Cyprus and England. Taught fieldwork and mapping skills, igneous, structural, metamorphic and sedimentary geology

· Teaching assistant: of igneous, metamorphic, structural geology and geochemistry

· Laboratory geochemist: conducted, and taught postgraduates, acid digestion of rocks and the set-up, calibration, and data interpretation of SEM, Laser and Solution ICP-MS instruments

1999 – 2000 Fieldwork leader and orator University of St Andrews

3 weeks in Iceland, Arran, and the 3^rd year undergraduate mapping project, Skye (Scotland)

Field-based Structural Mapping Studies

· Complex deformation and metamorphism of an accretionary wedge and igneous olistoliths, Anglesey (Wales)

· Oceanic rift valley, lower oceanic crust, magma chambers (km-mm scale), Cyprus

· Structure, stratigraphy, igneous intrusion, metamorphism, shear and nappe zones, Scotland

Other positions of responsibility

2001 - 2003 Cardiff University

· Postgraduate representative on Analytical Facilities Council

· A conference convenor at the British Association for the Advancement of Science conference

· Assistant organiser at the International Mantle Plumes conference

1999 – 2000 St. Andrews University

· Undergraduate representative on the Staff-Student Council

· Secretary of the Geological Society of St Andrews

Academic awards

2004 Best oral presentation: PRMES conference, University of St. Andrews

2000 – 2003 PhD scholarship: National Environment Research Council (NERC)

1999 British student of the year award: Mineralogical Society of Great Britain, for excellence in mineralogy and petrology

1999 Geological Mapping Prize: 3^rd Year undergraduate

1998 Geology Student of the Year: 2^nd year undergraduate

Additional skills

· PhD-based oral presentations: 4 international and national Geoscience conferences

· Languages: conversational French, Spanish, 7 Asian languages; read Greek and Korean

· Driving license: full, clean

Interests and hobbies

· Taekwondo: achieved black belt (1^st Dan) in 9 months, in South Korea

· Travelling: solo through SE Asia (8 months), South Korea, China, Jordan, Iceland, Tanzania, Brazil, much of Europe, and attended Mt. Etna’s big 2001 eruption

· Hill-walking: including huge Indonesian volcanoes and Mt. Kilimanjaro

· Football and cricket: play 5- and 11-a-side, and in N. Wales cricket League 3

Publications

Viete, D.R., Richards, S.W., Lister, G.S., Oliver, G.J.H. and Banks, G.J. In review. Grampian-age, lithosphere-scale extension in the Buchan-Barrovian transition, Scotland: observations from structural, metamorphic and magmatic studies. In R. Law (ed), Continental Tectonics and Mountain Building – the Legacy of Peach and Horne. Geological Society of London, p???-???

Banks, G.J, Coogan, L.A., MacLeod, C.J. and Pearce, J.A. 2003. Melt generation and melt segregation at oceanic spreading centres: constraints from the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus. Geophys. Res. Abstr. 5. EAE03-A-06344 ISSN 1029-7006.

Coogan, L.A., Banks, G.J., Gillis, K.M., MacLeod, C.J. and Pearce, J.A. 2003. Hidden melting signatures in the Troodos ophiolite plutonics: evidence for widespread boninitic melt generation and crustal level melt aggregation. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 144, p484-506. 484-506 ISSN 0010-7999.

MacLeod C.J., Escartín, J., Banks G.J., Lilly R.M., Niu, Y, Banerji, D., Gleeson, M., Irving, D.H.B, McCaig, A.M., Allerton, S. and Smith, D.K. 2003. Direct geological evidence for oceanic detachment faulting: the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, 15°45’N: Reply to Comment by J. Spencer, Geology 31. ISSN 0091-7613.

MacLeod C.J., Escartín, J., Banerji, D., Banks G.J., Gleeson, M., Irving, D.H.B, Lilly, R.M, McCaig, A.M., Niu, Y., Allerton, S. and Smith, D.K. 2002. Direct geological evidence for oceanic detachment faulting: The Mid-Atlantic Ridge, 15°45N. Geology 30 (10), p879882. 879882 ISSN 0091-7613.

Oliver, G.J.H., Martin, M.W. and Banks, G.J. 2002. Origin of the tectonised 470 Ma ‘Older Basic’ Complex, NE Scotland. Tectonic Studies Group Annual Meeting Abstracts (p.55). University of Leicester.

MacLeod C.J., Escartín, J., Banerji, D., Banks G.J., Gleeson, M., Irving, D.H.B, Lilly, R.M, McCaig, A.M., Niu, Y., Brett, C., Derrick, J., Smith, D., Wallis, D., Rouse, I., Fowler, L., Matthew, D. and Booth, D. RRS James Clark Ross cruise JR63 Cruise Report, Cardiff University, 2001, 59pp.

MacLeod C.J., Escartín, J., Banerji, D., Banks G.J., Gleeson, M., Irving, D.H.B, Lilly, R.M, McCaig, A.M., Niu, Y., Allerton, S. and Smith, D.K. 2001. Mechanisms and conditions of deformation along an oceanic detachment (Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Fifteen-Twenty Fracture Zone), EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 82 (47) F1101 ISSN 0096-3941

MacLeod C.J., Escartín, J., Banerji, D., Banks G.J., Gleeson, M., Irving, D.H.B, Lilly, R.M, McCaig, A.M., Niu, Y., Allerton, S. and Smith, D.K. 2001. Geological constraints on ocean-floor detachment faulting (Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Fifteen-Twenty Fracture Zone), EOS, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 82 (47) F1101 ISSN 0096-3941

Conference posters and recent presentations

Banks GJ and Watkins, C. 2008. Manipulation of remote imaging data using ENVI software for the geological and structural mapping of northern Iraq. Fold and Thrust Belt Exploration. London

Banks G.J. 2008. Ophiolite. Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Anglesey? NWGA, Conwy

Graham Banks geologist

Sunday 10 August 2008

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