May 2013 - Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

Mountain GeologistWelcomes NewAssistant EditorThe dq1000 ® QuadrapoleMass SpectrometerThe dq1000 ® is a portable quadrapolemass analyzer used on drillingwells that analyzes a rangeof petroleum species andother organic and inorganiccompounds.The dq1000 ® delineatespetroleum type, water saturation,fluid contacts and seals to a muchgreater extent than with conventional instrumentation.Analysisgas ratiosadditivesApplicationscompletionsmonitoringFluid Inclusion Technologieswww.fittulsa.comThe Mountain Geologist's newAssistant Editor is Dr. William R. (Dick)Keefer, retired USGS geologist, editor,and exploration geologist. Dick has alot of experience with editing, and hewill be a great addition to the team.William R. (Dick) Keefer is a retiredgeologist from the U.S. GeologicalSurvey. He received his BA andgraduate degrees (MA, PhD) at theUniversity of Wyoming. Dick beganhis career with the USGS while stilla student in the late 1940s. Formore than 30 years he was involvedin geologic mapping and structuraland stratigraphic studies mainly inWyoming sedimentary basins. Alsoincluded were mapping projects inthe Little Belt Mountains in Montanaand Yellowstone National Park, aswell as administrative assignmentsin Washington, D.C,, and in Denverwhere he held the position of regionalgeologist of the USGS Central Regionfor a number of years. Results of hisfield investigations are publishedin some 100 papers and maps.Upon retiring from the USGS, Dickspent several years with MitchellEnergy Corporation as an explorationgeologist. He was then reemployedpart time by the USGS to participatein the Yucca Mountain, Nevada,radioactive waste project and in tightgas sand studies in the Wind Riverand Bighorn Basins and, for the past10 or more years, to serve as editorof reports prepared for publicationby scientists of the Central EnergyResources Science Center.»FIT_dq1000®Ad_4.875x9.25.indd 13/19/13 1:43 PMOUTCROP29www.rmag.org