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Candidate for Editor (2019-22)

Bradford E. Prather

Independent Consultant, Houston, Texas

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Bradford "Brad" Prather, Candidate for Editor

Meet the candidates: Bradford "Brad" Prather

Meet Bradford "Brad" Prather, 2019 Candidate for AAPG Editor

First and foremost, I accepted the nomination for AAPG Editor because I would like to make a contribution to continue the long tradition of excellence represented by the AAPG Bulletin.

I can bring the experience I have over the past few years as associate editor for the Bulletin, as well as my experience as chief editor for SEPM SP99, and technical reviewer for numerous others technical journals to maintain and expand the quality and reach of the Bulletin. Secondly, being editor for the Bulletin also gives me a chance to give back to an organization I have been a member of for 40 years, an organization that I have personally benefited from in no small part because I was able to publish in the Bulletin.

I would like to see others exposed to the same benefits that I have.

Career
AAPG Activity
Publications

Academic Degrees

1981 – M.S., Earth Sciences, University of New Orleans, New Orleans
1979 – B.S., Geology, University of Kansas, Houston

Experience

2009-14 – Regional Chief Geoscientist, Shell, Houston
2006-09 – Geological Advisor, Shell, Houston
2001-06 – Research Team Leader, Shell, Houston
1998-2001 – Research Team Leader, Shell, Rijswik, Netherlands
1995-98 – Special Studies Geologist, Shell, The Hague, Netherlands
1992-95 – Division Geologist, Shell Oil Co., New Orleans
1987-92 – Exploration Team Leader, Shell Oil., New Orleans
1981-87 – Exploration Geologist, Shell Oil Co., New Orleans

AAPG Activities

Joined AAPG 1979

2017 – Heritage Geologist
2011 – Judge for AAPG Imperial Barrel Award
2010 – Present – Associate Editor for the AAPG Bulletin
2010-15 – AAPG Research Committee
2006 – SEPM Vice Co-Chair for AAPG/SEPM Convention
2000-01 – AAPG Distinguished Lecturer
1993-2013 – Chair and Co-chair for numerous AAPG/SEPM Oral and Poster Sessions

AAPG Honors & Awards

2009 – Robert R. Berg Outstanding Research Award
2001 – Jules Braunstein Memorial Award
1993 & 1994 – J. C. "CAM" Sproule Memorial Award

2017 – Sediment Partitioning across Continental Slopes and Base-of-slope Systems: Basin Research, v. 29, p. 394-416, doi: 10.1111/bre.12190. Prather, B. E., O'Byrne, C. J., Pirmez, C., and Sylvester, Z.
2012 – Stratigraphy of linked intraslope basins: Brazos-Trinity system western Gulf of Mexico, Application of the Principles of Seismic Geomorphology to Continental-Slope and Base-of-Slope Systems: Case Studies from Seafloor and Near-Seafloor Analogues: SE. Prather, B. E., C. Pirmez, and C. D. Winker
2012 – Stratigraphic response to evolving geomorphology in a submarine apron perched on the upper Niger Delta slope, Application of the Principles of Seismic Geomorphology to Continental-Slope and Base-of-Slope Systems: Case Studies from Seafloor and Near-Seafloor Analogues: SEPM Special Publication No. 99, SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology), p. 145-161. Prather, B. E., C. Pirmez, Z. Sylvester, and D. S. Prather
2003 – Controls on reservoir distribution, architecture and stratigraphic trapping in slope settings: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 20, p. 529-545. Prather, B. E.
2000 – Calibration and visualization of depositional process models for above-grade slopes: a case study from the Gulf of Mexico: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 17, p. 619-638. Prather, B. E.
1999 – Stratigraphic traps in deep-water reservoir at the base of depositional slope (SPE 56894): Society of Petroleum Engineers, Offshore Europe Conference, p. 14. Straccia, J., and B. E. Prather
1998 – Classification, lithologic calibration and stratigraphic succession of seismic facies from intraslope basins, deep water Gulf of Mexico, U.S.A.: AAPG Bulletin, v. 82, p. 701-728. Prather, B. E., J. R. Booth, G. S. Steffens, and P. A. Craig
1992b – Origin of dolostone reservoir rocks, Smackover Formation (Oxfordian), northeastern Gulf Coast, U.S.A: AAPG Bulletin, v. 76, p. 131-163. Prather, B. E.
1992a – Evolution of a Late Jurassic carbonate/evaporite platform, Conecuh Embayment, northeastern Gulf Coast, U.S.A: AAPG Bulletin, v. 76, p. 164-190. Prather, B. E.
1991 – Petroleum geology of the Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous, Baltimore Canyon Trough, western North Atlantic Ocean: AAPG Bulletin, v. 75, p. 258-277. Prather, B. E.

Over 33 peer-reviewed publications and 65 presentations to national and international professional meetings on depositional systems, seismic stratigraphy and marine geology. Editor-in-Chief of SEPM Special Publication No. 99, and 57 proprietary scientific articles.

Other Candidate

Robert K. Merrill

General Info

Candidates for AAPG office have been given the opportunity to respond briefly to the subject: "Why I Accepted the Invitation to be a Candidate for an AAPG Office."

Their responses and biographical information were provided by each candidate and edited only for grammar, spelling and format.

This information will also be provided as hard-copy in an early issue of the EXPLORER and available on the AAPG website through the election period. Ballots will be mailed, online in the first quarter of each year. Results will be posted mid-May.

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