Peter P. Flaig is a Research Associate Professor at the Bureau of Economic Geology, UT-Austin. His Master’s and Postdoctoral work took him to the Central Transantarctic Mountains of Antarctica where he examined sedimentation across the Permian-Triassic boundary. Peter collaborated with paleontologists during his PhD research on the North Slope of Alaska identifying ancient depositional systems and ecosystems of the dinosaur-bearing Prince Creek Formation. He joined the Bureau of Economic Geology in 2009 for a postdoctoral fellowship, and then spent 7 years as lead scientist on fluvial, deltaic, and shallow marine research at the Quantitative Clastics Laboratory Industrial Associates Consortium. Peter now works for the State of Texas Advanced Resource Recovery program, specifically on the Strawn, Wilcox, and Woodbine.

Peter’s research focuses on deposits of clastic and mixed carbonate clastic systems,  typically integrating sedimentology, ichnology, paleopedology, high-resolution image capture and analysis, reservoir characterization, and petroleum geology. He has worked extensively on…