Abstract:

Casper College offers an A.S. in Geology as well as degrees in GIS. The department currently has about approximately 20 declared majors and offers 27 different courses . Casper College is one of few 2-year colleges offering an A.S. in geology. There are two full-time and one part-time instructors providing a range of topics including physical geology, sedimentology and stratigraphy, hydrogeology, petroleum geology, and paleontology.  Even though we are a 2-year college, we offer a wide variety of opportunities including field work, research, museum studies (being connected to the Tate Museum), and internships. Since the two full-time instructors are fairly new, we are still getting settled in but it is our intention to bring some new ideas to the department while still maintaining the prior grandeur.

Biography:

Marron is a geology instructor at Casper College and a geologist with Sunshine Valley Petroleum Corporation in Casper, Wyoming. She is originally from White Lake, Michigan and received her B.S. in geological sciences from Michigan State University in 2002. She received her M.S. and Ph.D., in 2005 and 2012, respectively, at the University of North Dakota focusing on Upper Cretaceous and Paleogene continental mollusks of North America and India. She has been with Sunshine Valley Petroleum since 2011 and Casper College since 2022. Besides working and teaching, she likes to spend time with her husband, Mike (also a geologist), and her two kids, Alice and Everett, hiking and going to the movies.

President/Member, Red Peak Resources

Registered/Licensed Professional Geologist, Wyoming PG-919

Tim McCutcheon brings 39 years of varied experience in the natural resources industry.  His scientific and technical areas of expertise include regional exploration, prospect generation and development, surface and subsurface geologic mapping, property assessment, resource and reserve evaluations, project management and economic analysis, reservoir characterization for IOR & EOR, petrography/petrology, petrophysics and general seismic data interpretation.  Principle geographic areas of experience include the greater Rocky Mountain Region, Alaska, Basin & Range, and northern Great Plains of the United States, onshore Africa (mostly Algeria and Tunisia) and the central Asian Republic of Kazakhstan.

Tim has a Bachelor of Science degree in geology from the University of Minnesota – Duluth and a Masters of Science degree in geology/geophysics from the University of Texas – El Paso.  Post-graduated studies include industry sponsored training courses and field seminars through the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, the University of Texas, and numerous other institutions.  Tim is a Geological Society of America Fellow, active member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, and Society of Economic Geologists.  He is a member and past president of the Wyoming Geological Association.  From 1995 to 2005 he served as a member of the Potential Gas Committee, Colorado School of Mines.  Tim has authored or coauthored a number of scientific papers and abstracts relating to petroleum geology, igneous petrology, and economic geology.