Hardie Seay Nance

Hardie Seay Nance

Professional Summary

July 8, 2008

Business address: The University of Texas at Austin

Bureau of Economic Geology

University Station, Box X

Austin, Texas 78713-8924

(512) 471-6285

E-mail address:

Academic Background

Ph.D., in progress, Hydrogeology, The University of Texas at Austin,

B.S. Geology, The University of Texas at Austin, 1978

M.A. Geology, The University of Texas at Austin, 1988

Areas of Expertise

1. Sedimentology.
2. Stratigraphy.
3. Structural geology.
4. Hydrogeology.

Professional Work Experience

A. Present Position: Research Scientist Associate, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin (September 2001 - Present).

Assisted in development of guidebook for 2004 Decision Makers Field Conference (supervisor: Clift)

Assisted in sample collection and data analysis for TCEQ Seymour Aquifer Nitrate Contamination Project (supervisor: Scanlon)

Assisted with field operations for DOE CO2 Aquifers Project (supervisor: Hovorka).

B. Consulting Geologist, Leander, Texas (September 1996 - August 2001).

Provided geologic analyses for San Juan Basin coalbed-methane interests (Burlington Resources, Farmington, NM), Gulf of Mexico Deep-Frio hydrocarbon interests (Enron, Houston, TX) pre-development environmental geological surveys (Charles Woodruff Consulting, Austin, TX), Texas Panhandle hydrocarbon interests (Glickenhaus Energy, Houston), exploration and production drilling fluid disposal facilities (Bureau of Economic Geology, UT-Austin), and Gulf Coast subsidence investigations (Bureau of Economic Geology, UT-Austin, and USGS).

C. Present Position: Research Scientist Associate, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin (June 1978 - September 1996).

Assisting with Coalbed Methane project (May 1994–present). Assisting in Superconducting Super Collider project (September 1991–May 1994). Assisting Dr. Jerry Wermund in the National Guard training site environmental assessment (March–June 1993). Assisting with Grayburg Memorandum of Understanding (DOE) project (1989–September 1991). Assisting with research on San Andres Reservoir Characterization Laboratory (September 1988–September 1991). Assisting with research on West Texas Waste Isolation project (September 1983–August 1988). Supervisor of Thin Section Services, Sedimentology Laboratory (June 1982–August 1983). Manager of the Sedimentology Laboratory (June 1978–June 1982).

D. Laboratory Research Assistant, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin (June 1977 - June 1978).

Assisting in operations at the Bureau’s Well Sample Library, including core handling, warehousing, and minor construction.

E. Student Assistant, Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin (September 1976 - June 1977).

Grading papers and taking roll for introductory geology course.

Professional Societies

American Association of Petroleum Geologists

Austin Geological Society

Geological Society of America

Publications

Reports, Monographs, Brochures, Pamphlets, Bulletins

White, W. A., Calnan, T. R., Morton, R. A., Kimble, R. S., Littleton, T. G., McGowen, J. H., and Nance, H. S., 1989, Submerged lands of Texas, Kingsville area: sediments, geochemistry, benthic macroinvertebrates, and associated wetlands: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Special Publication, 137 p.

White, W. A., Calnan, T. R., Morton, R. A., Kimble, R. S., Littleton, T. G., McGowen, J. H., and Nance, H. S., 1989, Submerged lands of Texas, Port Lavaca area: sediments, geochemistry, benthic macroinvertebrates, and associated wetlands: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Special Publication, 165 p.

White, W. A., Calnan, T. R., Morton, R. A., Kimble, R. S., Littleton, T. G., McGowen, J. H., and Nance, H. S., 1988, Submerged lands of Texas, Bay City–Freeport area: sediments, geochemistry, benthic macroinvertebrates, and associated wetlands: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Special Publication, 130 p.

White, W. A., Calnan, T. R., Morton, R. A., Kimble, R. S., Littleton, T. G., McGowen, J. H., and Nance, H. S., 1987, Submerged lands of Texas, Beaumont–Port Arthur area: sediments, geochemistry, benthic macroinvertebrates, and associated wetlands: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Special Publication, 110 p.

White, W. A., Calnan, T. R., Morton, R. A., Kimble, R. S., Littleton, T. G., McGowen, J. H., Nance, H. S., and Schmedes, K. E., 1986, Submerged lands of Texas, Brownsville–Harlingen area: sediments, geochemistry, benthic macroinvertebrates, and associated wetlands: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Special Publication, 138 p.

White, W. A., Calnan, T. R., Morton, R. A., Kimble, R. S., Littleton, T. G., McGowen, J. H., Nance, H. S., and Schmedes, K. E., 1985, Submerged lands of Texas, Galveston–Houston area: sediments, geochemistry, benthic macroinvertebrates, and associated wetlands: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Special Publication, 145 p.

White, W. A., Calnan, T. R., Morton, R. A., Kimble, R. S., Littleton, T. G., McGowen, J. H., Nance, H. S., and Schmedes, K. E., 1983, Submerged lands of Texas, Corpus Christi area: sediments, geochemistry, benthic macroinvertebrates, and associated wetlands: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology Special Publication, 154 p.

Chapters/Sections

Nance, H. S., 2004, Chapter 3. Hydrochemical variability in the Edwards-Trinity aquifer system, Edwards Plateau, Texas, in Mace, R. E., Angle, E. S., and Mullican, W. F, III, eds., Aquifers of the Edwards Plateau: Texas Water Development Board, Report 360, p. 63–90.

Hovorka, S. D., Nance, H. S., and Kerans, Charles, 1994, Chapter 19, Parasequence geometry as a control on permeability evolution: examples from the San Andres and Grayburg Formations in the Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico, in Loucks, R. G., and Sarg, J. F., eds., Carbonate sequence stratigraphy: recent developments and applications: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Memoir 57, p. 493–514.

Kerans, Charles, and Nance, H. S., 1991, High frequency cyclicity and regional depositional patterns of the Grayburg Formation, Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico, in Meader-Roberts, Sally, Candelaria, M. P., and Moore, G. E., eds., Sequence stratigraphy, facies, and reservoir geometries of the San Andres, Grayburg, and Queen Formations, Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico and Texas: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Permian Basin Section, and Society of Sedimentary Geology, Publication 91-32, p. 53–70.

Kerans, Charles, and Nance, H. S., 1991, Road log: third day, Grayburg Formation on the Shattuck Valley wall, in Meader-Roberts, Sally, Candelaria, M. P., and Moore, G. E., eds., Sequence stratigraphy, facies, and reservoir geometries of the San Andres, Grayburg, and Queen Formations, Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico and Texas: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Permian Basin Section, and Society of Sedimentary Geology, Publication 91-32, p. 91–96.

Weber, L. J., Jr., Kerans, Charles, and Nance, H. S., 1991, Road log: second day, Carlsbad, New Mexico, to Algerita Escarpment via Dark Canyon, in Meader-Roberts, Sally, Candelaria, M. P., and Moore, G. E., eds., Sequence stratigraphy, facies, and reservoir geometries of the San Andres, Grayburg, and Queen Formations, Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico and Texas: Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Permian Basin Section, and Society of Sedimentary Geology, Publication 91-32, p. 71–90.

Articles

Peer Reviewed

Paine, J. G., Nance, H. S., Collins, E. W., and Niemann, K. L., 2007, Quantifying contributions to stream salinity using electromagnetic induction and hydrochemistry in a small Texas coastal-plain basin: Applied Geochemistry, v. 22, p. 2207–2224.

Hovorka, S. D., Doughty, Christine, Benson, S. M., Freifeld, B. M., Sakurai, Shinichi, Daley, T. M., Kharaka, Y. K., Holtz, M. H., Trautz, R. C., Nance, H. S., Myer, L. R., and Knauss, K. G., 2006, Measuring permanence of CO2 storage in saline formations: the Frio experiment: Environmental Geosciences, v. 13, no. 2, p. 105–121.

Kharaka, Yousif, Cole, D. R., Thordsen, J. J., Kakouros, Evangelos, and Nance, H. S., 2006, Gas–water–rock interactions in sedimentary basins: CO2 sequestration in the Frio Formation, Texas, USA:Journal of Geochemical Exploration, v. 89, p. 183–186.

Laubach, S. E., Mace, R. E., and Nance, H. S., 1995, Fault and joint swarms in a normal fault zone, in Rossmanith, H.-P., ed., Mechanics of jointed and faulted rock: Rotterdam, Balkema, p. 305–309.

Hovorka, S. D., Nance, H. S., and Kerans, Charles, 1993, Parasequence geometry as a control on permeability evolution: examples from the San Andres and Grayburg Formations in the Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico, in Loucks, R. G., and Sarg, J. F., eds., Carbonate sequence stratigraphy: recent developments and applications: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Memoir 53, p. 493–514.

Nance, H. S., 1988, Interfingering of evaporites and red beds: an example from the Queen/Grayburg Formation, Texas: Sedimentary Geology, v. 56, p. 357–381.

Morton, R. A., White, W. A., McGowen, J. H., and Nance, H. S., 1983, Sediments and geochemistry, in White, W. A., and others, Submerged lands of Texas, Corpus Christi area: sediments, geochemistry, benthic macroinvertebrates, and associated wetlands: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Special Publication, p. 13–33.

Non-Peer-Reviewed

Kharaka, Y. K., Thordsen, J. J., Hovorka, S. D., Nance, H. S., Cole, D. R., Phelps, T. J., and Knauss, G. K., 2007, Subsurface monitoring of anthropogenic CO2 injected in sedimentary basins: results from the Frio-I brine test, Texas, in Bullen, T. D., and Wang, Y., Proceedings, 12th International Symposium on Water-Rock Interaction (WRI-12), v. 1, p. 597–601.

Nance, H. S., 2006, Tracking salinity sources to Texas streams: examples from West Texas and the Texas Gulf Coastal Plain: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 56, p. 675–693.

Paine, J. G., Collins, E. W., Nance, H. S., and Niemann, K. L., 2006, Streambed induction logs: an airborne approach to identifying salinity sources and quantifying salinity loads, in Proceedings, Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems: Environmental and Engineering Society, p. 96–104, CD-ROM.

Nance, H. S., Rauch, Henry, Strazisar, Brian, Bromhal, Grant, Wells, Art, Diehl, Rod, Klusman, Ron, Lewicki, Jennifer, Oldenburg, Curt, Kharaka, Yousif, and Kakouros, Evangelos, 2005, Surface environmental monitoring at the Frio CO2 Sequestration Test Site, Texas, in Proceedings, Fourth Annual Conference on Carbon Capture and Sequestration: DOE/NETL, Alexandria, Virginia, May 2–5, 16 p., CD-ROM.

Kharaka, Yousif, Cole, David, Gunter, William, Knauss, Kevin, and Nance, Seay, 2005, Geochemistry of water and gases in the Frio Brine Pilot Text: baseline data and changes during and post CO2 injection, in Proceedings, Fourth Annual Conference on Carbon Capture and Sequestration: DOE/NETL, Alexandria, Virginia, May 2–5, 22 p., CD-ROM.

Nance, H. S., and Sharp, J. M., Jr., 2005, Dealing with non-precipitation chloride contributions in the chloride–mass balance approach to recharge calculations in the plateau aquifer system Texas: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 55, p. 580–592.

Nance, H. S., and Dutton, A. R., 2002, E & P drilling fluid disposal facilities in Texas and Louisiana: analogs for environmental assessments of abandoned sites: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 52, p. 779–788.

Wang, F. P., and Nance, H. S., 2002, Effect of hydrocarbon production and reservoir depressurization on subsidence: Port Neches field area, southeast Texas: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 52, p. 975–984.

Nance, H. S., 2001, Relief distribution in the Blanco River Basin: Hill Country stream piracy revisited, in Woodruff, C. M., Jr., and Collins, E. W., field trip leaders, Austin, Texas, and beyond—geology and environment: a field excursion in memory of L. Edwin Garner: Austin Geological Society Guidebook 21, p. 93–100.

Dutton, A. R., Smyth, R. C., Nance, H. S., Mullican, J. W., and Gu, Yaguang, 2000, History, regulation, and closure of abandoned centralized and commercial drilling-fluid disposal sites in Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas, in Proceedings, Ground Water Protection Council Annual Forum, p. 133–138.

Nance, H. S., and Kaiser, W. R., 1995, Geologic characterization and gas production: Cameo Coal Group, Grand Valley/Rulison area, Garfield County, Colorado, in Tyler, Roger, Kaiser, W. R., McMurry, R. G., Nance, H. S., Scott, A. R., and Zhou, Naijiang, eds., Geologic characterization and coalbed methane occurrence: Williams Fork Formation, Piceance Basin, northwest Colorado: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, annual report prepared for Gas Research Institute under contract no. 5091-214-2261, GRI-94/0456, p. 133–160.

Tyler, Roger, Kaiser, W. R., Tremain, C. M., Scott, A. R., Nance, H. S., McMurry, R. G., and Zhou, Naijiang, 1995, Tectonic evolution and stratigraphic setting of the Piceance Basin, Colorado: a review, in Tyler, Roger, Kaiser, W. R., McMurry, R. G., Nance, H. S., Scott, A. R., and Zhou, Naijiang, eds., Geologic characterization and coalbed methane occurrence: Williams Fork Formation, Piceance Basin, northwest Colorado: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, annual report prepared for Gas Research Institute under contract no. 5091-214-2261, GRI-94/0456, p. 192–197.

Hovorka, S. D., and Nance, H. S., 1994, Dynamic depositional and early diagenetic processes in a deep-water shelf setting, Upper Cretaceous Austin Chalk, North Texas: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 44, p. 269–276.

Mace, R. E., Dutton, A. R., and Nance, H. S., 1994, Simulation of regional ground-water flow on a flowline in Cretaceous-bedrock aquifers of North-Central Texas, in Factors affecting water resources: Proceedings, American Water Resources Association, Texas Section, p. 97–106.

Mace, R. E., Dutton, A. R., and Nance, H. S., 1994, Water-level declines in the Woodbine, Paluxy, and Trinity aquifers of North-Central Texas: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 44, p. 413–420.

Nance, H. S., Laubach, S. E., and Dutton, A. R., 1994, Fault and joint measurements in Austin Chalk, Superconducting Super Collider site, Texas: Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, v. 44, p. 521–532.

Nance, H. S., 1992, Chapter III: Facies architecture and internal geometry of a mixed siliciclastic-carbonate depositional sequence: Grayburg Formation, Stone Canyon, New Mexico, in Tyler, Noel, Barton, M. D., Bebout, D. G., Fisher, R. S., Grigsby, J. D., Guevara, E. H., Holtz, M. H., Kerans, Charles, Nance, H. S., and Levey, R. A., eds., Characterization of oil and gas reservoir heterogeneity: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, final report prepared for the U.S. Department of Energy under contract no. DE-FG22-89BC-14403, p. 40–88.

Nance, H. S., 1991, Outcrop/subsurface correlations: Algerita Escarpment study area, Otero County, New Mexico, in Kerans, Charles, Lucia, F. J., Senger, R. K., Fogg, G. E., Nance, H. S., Kasap, Ekrem, and Hovorka, S. D., Characterization of reservoir heterogeneity in carbonate-ramp systems, San Andres/Grayburg, Permian Basin: The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Reservoir Characterization Research Laboratory, final contract report, p. 47–90.

Abstracts

Paine, J. G., Collins, E. W., and Nance, H. S., 2007, Stream-axis EM from a helicopter: identifying salinity sources in a large river basin (ext. abs.), in EAGE 69th Conference & Exhibition—London, UK, 11–14 June, 5 p.