Ken Peters

Personal bio
Ken has 42 years of experience with Chevron, Mobil, ExxonMobil, USGS, UC Berkeley, Stanford University, and Schlumberger and published ~200 peer-reviewed geology, geochemistry, and basin modeling books and papers. After 11 years as Geochemistry Advisor where he used geochemistry and numerical modeling to study petroleum systems, Ken retired from Schlumberger December 31, 2019. He was co-founder of the Basin and Petroleum System Modeling Industrial Affiliates Program at Stanford University ( https://bpsm.stanford.edu/) where he continues as Adjunct Professor. He received the 2009 Alfred Treibs Medal presented on behalf of the Geochemical Society for major achievements over a period of years in the field of organic geochemistry (2012 Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 89, 323-325). He received the 2013 AAPG Honorary Member Award for service and devotion to the science and profession of petroleum geology and the 2016 EAGE Alfred Wegener Medal for outstanding contributions to the scientific and technical advancement of petroleum geoscience ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxWei5Da2mI). In 2017, he was one of 100 âHeritage of the Petroleum Geologistâ honorees selected by the Division of Professional Affairs of AAPG to celebrate the 100-year anniversary of AAPG. In 2019, Ken received AAPGâs highest honor, the Sidney Powers Memorial Award, at the AAPG ACE in San Antonio ( https://www.aapg.org/videos/award/articleid/53126/ken-peters-receives-the-2019-sidney-powers-award). Ken has B.A. and M.A. degrees in geology from UCSB and a Ph.D. in geochemistry from UCLA. See also MIT BIOmarkers podcast [ https://summons.mit.edu/biomarkerspodcast/] and Google Scholar [ https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&;user=QvmmOJYAAAAJ].