Jeff Packard has generously provided petrographic images of limestones and dolostones, mainly Devonian-Carboniferous, from the Alberta Basin, Canada
Retired since 2011; last position Senior Advisor Sedimentology, Talisman Energy, Calgary
1976 B.Sc. Geology, Concordia Univ., Montreal; 1985 Ph.D. Carbonate Sedimentology, Univ. Ottawa.
Areas of interest and failing expertise: carbonate sedimentology and stratigraphy, particularly the Upper Silurian and Cambro-Ordovician of the High Arctic, Devono-Mississppian of the WCSB, and the Cretaceous-Tertiary of the Zagros foothills. During his career, out of interest and/or necessity, Jeff dabbled in tempestites (flat-pebble conglomerates), reflux and hydrothermal dolomitization, reservoir characterization, seismic facies, and Pridolian, Givetian-Frasnian, and Miocene buildups.
Jeff Packard commenced and terminated his professional career as a field geologist. He began his career working in Canada as a uranium exploration geologist for an international company (Urangesellschaft), and finished his career working internationally for a Canadian Company (Talisman Energy). In between, Jeff’s inability to focus had him teach at the university level, have a stint as a public sector geologist (Geological Survey of Canada), work for large multinationals and small private E&D companies, and work as an independent consultant. He worked long enough in the petroleum sector to be elected president of the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists (2005), and was fortunate to be a recipient of many of that society’s honours.
