Bringing over 30 years experience in exploration to the company, Dr. Mark Bustin has worked with Mobil Oil Canada, Gulf Canada Resources, ELF-Acquitaine (France), CSIRO (France) and CNRS (Australia). He has consulted and served as a director and technical advisor for a variety of small through large petroleum companies in Europe, Africa, North America and Asia, and was President of RMB Earth Science Consultants and Principal of CBM Solutions Ltd.. With over 150 published scientific articles on fossil fuels, he is an Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, was a Professor of petroleum and coal geology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of British Columbia, has been an Associate Editor with the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geology Bulletin, Sedimentary Geology, International Journal of Coal Geology and the Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. He is a member of the International Congress on the Carboniferous and Permian (ICCP), American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP) and Geological Society of America (GSA). He is also a past recipient of the A.L. Leverson memorial award from the AAPG, and received the Thiesson Medal from the International Committee for Coal Petrography in 2002 for his contributions to coal sciences/organic petrology. In 2003 he received the Sproule Award for contributions to the study of unconventional gas resources. Dr. Bustin has a PhD in geology from the University of British Columbia and is a registered Professional Geoscientist in BC.
