Roger G. Walker
Roger Geoffrey Walker (born March 26, 1939 in London ) is a Canadian geologist (sedimentology, petroleum geology).
Life
Walker graduated from Oxford University with a bachelor's degree in 1961 and received a doctorate in geology there in 1964. As a post-doctoral student he was at Johns Hopkins University and from 1966 he was Assistant Professor, 1969 Associate Professor and 1973 Professor at McMaster University . In 1998 he gave up his apprenticeship and was a consulting geologist in Calgary (as president of the engineering firm Roger Walker Consulting).
He was visiting professor at the University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil (from 1992) and several times visiting professor at the University of Ouro Preto in Brazil. He was also visiting scholar at the Australian National University and Amoco Canada.
In 1997 he received the Pettijohn Medal of the Society for Sedimentary Geology , the WW Hutchison Medal in 1975, the RJW Douglas Medal of the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists in 1990, the Logan Medal in 1999 and the Henry Clifton Sorby Medal in 2002. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada . 1979/80 he was Distinguished Lecturer of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
Fonts
- with Noel P. James (Editor): Facies Models: Response to Sea Level Change. Geological Association of Canada, 1979, 3rd edition 1992
- with Henry Posamentier (Editor): Facies models revisited. SEPM Special Publications 84, 2006
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ life data according to Pamela Kalte u. a. American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Walker, Roger G. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Walker, Roger Geoffrey |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 26, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |