Affiliated Consultants:

Gordon Kaufman is the Morris Adelman Professor of Management at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  He has 40 years experience in the development and application of statistical methodology to oil and gas resource estimation.  His seminal work has been the development of a probabilistic discovery process model based upon sampling proportional to size.  Kaufman has developed and applied Bayesian methods to solve problems in economics, sampling, and time series analysis.  He has served as a consultant to numerous government agencies and private industry, including the U.S. Department of Interior, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the U.S. Energy Information Administration.  He has served on National Academy of Sciences panels.  Kaufman is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.  He received a D.B.A from the Harvard Business School and holds an M.B.A from Harvard University and an undergraduate degree from Yale University.

Jon Callender is an earth scientist and former vice-president of resource development for Kennecott Land Company. Prior to that, he was manager of strategic resources for Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation.  He has a broad range of experience in academic, consulting and business environments including director of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and professor of geology at the University of New Mexico. His interests include solving problems related to land and water planning, the environment and sustainable resources. His strengths include strategic thinking, project management and problem solving.  Callender is a fellow of the Geological Society of America and winner of numerous awards for professional and public service.  He holds Ph.D. and AM degrees in geology from Harvard University and a B.S. in geology from the California Institute of Technology.

Tim Coburn is a professional statistician with extensive experience in the analysis and modeling of energy, transportation, environmental, and natural resources data, as well as data from the related health sciences.  He has worked in various management and scientific positions in industry and government, and he is a seasoned educator and consultant.  In his management and technical advisory roles, Coburn has participated in project planning and implementation; scientific investigations leading to the development of new products, technologies, or problem-solving strategies; policy analysis and development; risk and performance assessment; and litigation support.  In addition, he is well versed in the physical, natural, engineering, and biological sciences, and he has strong computing and information management skills.  Coburn holds a Ph.D and an M.S. degree in statistics from Okalahoma State University and bachelors’ degrees in mathematics and physics from Abilene Christian University.

Eric Janes is a hydrologist with over thirty years of professional experience in project and program execution for water management, water quality improvement, and watershed restoration in many areas of the western U.S., particularly within the seven Colorado River Basin States, and also in Alaska.  During his recent seven year Washington D.C. service with the Bureau of Land Management, Janes was the program leader for all BLM water resources projects and policy, including air and water quality monitoring, and soil mapping.  He has collaborated extensively with every Bureau of the U.S Department of the Interior, major U.S. Department of Agriculture agencies, including the Forest Service and Natural Resources Conservation Service, Congressional and State legislative staff, numerous western state water agencies, tribal officials, universities and associations.   His graduate work was done at Colorado State University and UC Berkeley, and undergraduate work was at Berkeley and UC Davis.

Other Consultants:

Earth Science Associates (ESA) is a consulting and software development company. In our consulting practice, we specialize in oil and gas resource assessment and supply analysis. Our software development is focused on GOM3, a 2-D and 3-D geographic information systems (GIS), providing petroleum data management and analytic tools covering the US Gulf of Mexico. Since 1991, we have provided advice, studies and analytic support for major, independent and state oil companies, US government agencies, international organizations and foreign governments. Our software is the leading GIS solution for upstream operations in the Gulf of Mexico. ESA has defined the forefront of 3-D GIS technology applied to subsurface problems since the advent of the technology.

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