ABOUT
Ursula Hammes, Ph.D.
Dr. Ursula Hammes obtained her Diploma in Geology from the University of Erlangen in Germany in 1987 and her PhD from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1992. She spent ten years working as a consultant, performing postdoctoral research at the Bureau of Economic Geology, and as exploration geologist in industry. Dr. Hammes worked at the Bureau of Economic Geology and the University of Potsdam, Germany as a Research Scientist and currently teaches at Texas A&M University as Halbouty Visiting Chair. Her main research focus is in shale-gas/oil systems specializing in basin to nano-scale characterization of shale basins. Other research interests and specialities include clastic and carbonate sequence stratigraphy, analyses of depositional systems, and carbonate and clastic diagenesis. She has published more than 200 papers, 400 abstracts, and served as AAPG Bulleting Editor, AAPG session chair, GCSSEPM President, and lecturer. Please find list of publications and links to pdf below:
