Linda M. Bonnell

President/Scientific Advisor  tel: +1 512-331-0363

Linda Bonnell is deeply involved in Geocosm’s geoscience research efforts and leads many of the company’s reservoir quality prediction and risk assessment studies. She has been instrumental in the development of Geocosm’s Touchstone system for reservoir quality assessment and prediction as well as Geologica’s Exemplar® diagenetic model. She also has extensive basin modeling experience.

In Linda’s AAPG Distinguished Lecturer tour in 2003 and 2004 she discussed the state-of-the-art in reservoir quality prediction technology as well as research on the interaction of quartz cementation and fracturing that is being done in collaboration between Geocosm and Fracture Research and Application Consortium (FRAC) at The University of Texas at Austin.

Linda earned her Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Illinois in 1990 where she worked with Tom Anderson and subsequently held Research Associate positions at Washington University and Rice University where she worked with Lynn Walter and Rob Dunbar, respectively. She was a Senior Research Scientist with Rogaland Research in Stavanger, Norway from 1993 until 1997 when she joined Geologica AS, a spin off company. Linda co-founded Geocosm LLC in 2000 and holds the positions of Scientific Advisor and President. She also has an appointment as a Research Fellow at the John A. and Katherine G. Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin.

Robert H. Lander

Partner/Scientific Advisor  tel: +1 512-331-0363

Rob Lander works with diagenesis and petrophysical models for Geocosm. He co-invented Geocosm’s Prism2D and Touchstone models and Geologica’s Exemplar® model and has worked extensively with basin models and geochemical reaction-path models.  He also developed Geocosm's COAN code for quantitative image analysis of grain coating characteristics.

Rob gave a keynote talk on the state-of-the-art in sandstone diagenetic modeling at the SEPM Diamond Jubilee Symposium at the 2001 AAPG/SEPM meeting in Denver, was a co-convener of the AAPG Hedberg Conference Structural Diagenesis: Fundamental Advances and New Applications from a Holistic View of Mechanical and Chemical Processes, and co-chaired sessions on reservoir quality prediction at the 2006 AAPG meetings in Houston and Perth.

Rob obtained a Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Illinois in 1991 under the supervision of Dick Hay and was a Senior Research Geologist at Exxon Production Research from 1991 to 1993. He then joined Rogaland Research in Stavanger, Norway and was one of the founding staff members of a spin-off company (Geologica AS) in 1996 where he held the position of Scientific Advisor and later as Technical Director. Rob co-founded Geocosm LLC in 2000 where he is a Scientific Advisor and Partner. He also has an appointment as a Research Fellow at the John A. and Katherine G. Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin.

Richard E. Larese

Dick Larese is an independent consultant based in Durango, Colorado but works closely with Geocosm. Dick’s laboratory experiments of chemical and physical diagenesis are an integral part of Geocosm’s RQC research effort. He also has participated in a number of Geocosm reservoir quality prediction studies.

Dick received his Ph.D. in Geology from West Virginia University in 1974 under the supervision of diagenesis legend Milton Heald. He worked as a research scientist for Amoco Production Company from 1974 until he retired in 1999. While at Amoco he worked on clastic reservoir quality studies in support of the company’s worldwide exploration and production ventures and published several classic papers on sandstone diagenesis.

Dick was an AAPG Distinguished Lecturer in 1997-1998 and the topic of his lecture series concerned the primary controls on sandstone reservoir quality.

Anne S. Lyon

Annie Lyon spearheads the Touchstone software development for Geocosm with particular emphasis on the design and implementation of the user interface and database. 

After receiving her bachelor’s degree in computer science from Stratchclyde University in 1987, Annie worked as a consultant for Andersen Consulting and as a Software Engineer for Rogaland Research, a non-profit research institute in Stavanger, Norway. While at Rogaland Research, she headed the software engineering effort for Exemplar® versions 1.1 and 2.0. In 1997 Anne joined Oracle in Aberdeen, Scotland where she held the position of Senior Consultant. She left Oracle to found Codability Ltd. in 2000.