Craig Bethke
Craig M. Bethke (born June 6, 1957 in Rolla , Missouri ) is an American hydrogeologist and geochemist .
Craig Bethke graduated from Dartmouth College with a bachelor's degree in geology in 1979 and Pennsylvania State University, and received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1985. In between he worked as a petroleum geologist for Arco Oil and Exxon . From 1985 he taught at the University of Illinois, where he is now Professor Emeritus. He was visiting professor at the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines in Paris .
He is known for the computer modeling of water, oil and natural gas flows underground, sometimes with supercomputers. In particular, he follows the migration of liquids and their chemical composition in the development of sedimentary basins. He also deals with the geochemistry of microbes in rock.
Bethke received the Meinzer Award from the Geological Society of America , the Presidential Young Investigator Award, and the Lindgren Award from the Society of Economic Geologists . In 2003 he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .
literature
- Alexander E. Gates: Earth Scientists from A to Z, Facts on File, 2003
Web links
- Homepage , accessed on July 14, 2016.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fellows of the AAAS: Craig Bethke. (No longer available online.) American Association for the Advancement of Science, archived from the original on February 10, 2018 ; accessed on February 10, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Bethke, Craig |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bethke, Craig M. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 6, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rolla , Missouri |