Biography

Dr. Odegard began to work in oil and gas exploration in 1983 at Sohio Petroleum Company where he was supervisor of the Seismic Analysis Group.  He joined Unocal in 1988 where he was supervisor of the Lito-Stratigraphic Workstation project, the Special Seismic Processing Group, and then developed the Exploration in Difficult Data Areas program.  Dr. Odegard was transferred to Sugar Land where he was supervisor of the potential fields group.  During this time he also did research on the emerging field of gravity gradiometry, sometimes called the “Full Tensor Gradient”.  He applied gradiometry to structural salt modeling in the Gulf of Mexico over the Flex-Trend.

After leaving Unocal, Dr. Odegard became Vice President and manger of GETECH, Inc., which was a subsidiary of GETECH, Ltd. in Leeds, UK.  He worked with Bill Dickson in the development of the SAMBA project over the South Atlantic basins, which has been licensed to over 14 oil companies.  He also worked on a large number of projects over many areas of the world, both for clients and as spec projects.  This work has carried over to his own consulting company, Grizzly Geosciences, Inc., after the reorganization of GETECH.

Dr. Odegard has also held positions as Assistant Researcher and Professor at the University of Hawaii, Director of the Geology and Geophysics Research Program for the U.S. Navy, Associate Professor of Physics and Geology at New Mexico State University, and Principal Scientist at the Basalt Waste Isolation Project at Richland, Washington.  He has over 150 scientific publications.

His education includes a Ph.D. from the University of Hawaii in Geology and Geophysics, a M.S. from Oregon State University in Physics with an Option in Geophysics, and joint B.A.’s is Physics and Mathematics from the University of Montana.