Robert Howell Goldstein

- Associate Dean for Natural Sciences and Mathematics
- Haas Distinguished Professor
- Natural Sciences and Mathematics
- Geology
- College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
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Strong Hall, room #200
Lindley Hall, room #313
University of Kansas
1475 Jayhawk Boulevard
Lawrence, KS 66045-4974
Research —
Goldstein's research specialties include sequence stratigraphy of carbonates, diagenesis, and fluid-inclusion research. Current research focuses on the following: (1) sea-level, paleotopographic, oceanographic, and climate controls on depositional sequence architecture of the Spanish Miocene; (2) modeling reservoir-analog architecture in deep-water and shallow water carbonates; (3) predicting porosity in reservoirs from new conceptual models of carbonate diagenesis; (4) effect of hydrothermal fluids on carbonate and sandstone reservoir rocks; (5) origin and distribution of early and late dolomite; (6) new fluid inclusion techniques for constraining thermal evolution of sedimentary systems; and (7) new fluid inclusion techniques for evaluating history of fluid composition. Currently, he and his students are working on a variety of projects dealing with upstream fossil fuel energy supply including both conventional and unconventional oil and gas resources.
Research interests:
- fluid inclusions
- diagenesis
- sequence stratigraphy
- Sea-level, paleotopographic, oceanographic
- Modeling reservoir-analog architecture in deep-water and shallow water carbonates
- Predicting porosity in reservoirs from new conceptual models of carbonate diagenesis
- Effect of hydrothermal fluids on carbonate and sandstone reservoir rocks
- Origin and distribution of early and late dolomite
- New fluid inclusion techniques for evaluating history of fluid composition
- upstream fossil fuel energy supply
Teaching —
Teaching interests:
- stratigraphy
- carbonate sedimentology
- geology
- oil