TDI-BROOKS INTERNATIONAL - Key Persons
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- Chemical Laboratory Technician
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- Chief Technology Officer
- Executive Vice President
- Vice President
- Executive Vice President / Chief Technology Officer / Party Chief
Dr. Bernard received a Ph.D. in chemical oceanography from Texas A&M University in 1978. For the next two years as an Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma School of Geology and Geophysics, Dr. Bernard taught graduate level courses in Organic Geochemistry and Isotope Geochemistry. In 1980, he accepted a position as Vice President of O.I. Analytical, Inc., a supplier of analytical instruments for the measurement of trace organics in water, soil, and air. While at OI, he was the director of R&D, designing and bringing to market instruments for the measurement of gases, volatiles, and petroleum hydrocarbons in the environment. In 1993 he was appointed Deputy Director of the Geochemical and Environmental Research Group of Texas A&M University, serving with his long-time friend and Director of GERG, Dr. James M. Brooks.
In 1996, Dr. Bernard partnered with Dr. Brooks in forming TDI-Brooks International, Inc., where he is a co-owner, Vice President, and Technology Director. TDI-Brooks is a Texas company that delivers high-quality field surveys, analytical services, and scientific interpretation, to the marine oil exploration, geotechnical, and environmental survey marketplace. Dr. Bernard has over 40 years of experience in natural gas geochemistry, including a career focus in the measurement and interpretation of molecular and isotopic compositions of the light hydrocarbon gases in the marine environment. His published models for the interpretation of the natural sources of light hydrocarbon gases have become commonly known in the scientific literature as "Bernard Plots" and are cited by investigators world wide in their research, papers, and presentations. The analytical methods he has developed for the measurement of the concentrations of interstitial gases in marine sediments are also in wide use, and have resulted in an accumulation of and data from over 30,000 cores taken in the continental shelves, slopes, and the deep water adjacent to continental margins worldwide. In addition, Dr. Bernard has led the development of several innovative seabed survey tools used in offshore geotechnical engineering surveys, including the TDI-Brooks CPT-Stinger, Gravity CPT tool, and an Auto-T-Bar instrument.
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- Member of the Geotechnical Team
- Technical Systems Manager / Party Chief
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- Member of the Program and Data Managers Team
- Senior Program Manager
- Senior Project Manager
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- Member of the Survey Team
- Field Party Chief
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- Member of the Survey Team
- Field Party Chief
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- Maritime Assistance / Marine Technician
- Maritime Assistant / Marine Technician
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- Member of the Environmental Team
- Member of the Survey Team
- Environmental Program Specialist
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- Member of the Geotechnical Team
- Cone Services Supervisor
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- Corporate Secretary
- Director of IT
- Member of the Governance and Risk Leaders Team
Chris King
Corporate Secretary and Director of IT
chrisking@tdi-bi.com
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- Marine Technician / Logistics Manager
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- Logistics Manager
- Technician
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- Member of the Environmental Team
- Professional Associate
- Environmental Scientist
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- Member of the Geotechnical Team
- Director of Technical Syetems / CPT Specialist
- Director of Technical Systems and CPT Specialist
- Geologist, CPT Specialist, Project Manager / Party Chief
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- IT Systems Engineer
- IT Systems Specialist / MBES Survey Specialist / Navigator
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- Geophysical Data Processor / Data Manager
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- Chief Executive Officer
- President
Dr. Brooks is President of TDI-Brooks Int'l , Inc. a company specializing in offshore research and survey studies for federal/state agencies as well as the oil industry. TDI-Brooks was founded in May 1996. The company owns and operates four (4) multi-use oceanographic research vessels.
Dr. Brooks was the founder and Director of GERG at TAMU until Sept. 1995. As Director between 1975 and 1996, he built an organization specializing in high quality analytical, oceanographic and environmental research and services with annual revenues between 1991 and 1995 of around $10 million/year. In August 1995, he directed a staff of 130 people, including 28 Ph.D. level senior personnel, 60 professional MS- and BS-level full-time research scientists and 40 other staff. He has been Project Director on many federal projects for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), Office of Naval Research (ONR), the Minerals Management Service (MMS), Bureau of Ocean Energy Mgt (BOEM) the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), and other state and federal agencies. He has extensive experience in the management of large environmental and oceanographic projects as well as the technical competency in environmental and geochemistry, surface geochemical exploration, oil spill assessment, gas hydrates, chemosynthetic ecosystems, stable isotope geochemistry, and oceanography. He has academic credentials consisting of 210+ peer-review publications including numerous publications in prestigious journals such as Science and Nature. He has served on many national committees, conferences and workshops. He has chaired 19 M.S. and Ph.D. committees at TAMU. He has won the Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award for Research awarded annually by the Association of Former Students of Texas A&M University. He previously held an appointment in the Faculty of Toxicology at Texas A&M University as well as an Advisory Council Member, Southeast Advisory Council for Undersea Research and Education (SEACURE) for NOAA's Undersea Research Center at UNCW (NURC).
Dr. Brooks at continues to manage federal projects such as the NOAA National Status and Trends (NS&T) Mussel Watch project, which is the premier, long standing coastal environmental monitoring program in the nation. He is in his 20+ year of management of this project. He is also involved in the commercial and/or technical management of generally over $30 million yearly of industry sponsored projects many of which are multidisciplinary. Dr. Brooks has been conducting research and oil industry-sponsored service projects in the Gulf of Mexico for the last 35+ years.
As part of his surface geochemical exploration (SGE) studies, which he developed for industry in the early 1980's, he has collected 10,000+ cores in the Gulf, mostly in the deep water. These SGE coring studies resulted and contributed to the discoveries of macro oil seepage, chemosynthetic communities, and gas hydrates in the Gulf of Mexico. He was a co-discoverer of oil seep and chemosynthetic communities in the deep water Gulf of Mexico in 1985. He made the first discoveries of thermogenic gas hydrates in the deep water Gulf of Mexico that was published in Science as well as participated in the initial discoveries of other oil-seep related phenomena including oil-stained cores on the continental slope, widespread occurrence of shallow and outcropping gas hydrates, brine seepage, and visible oil seepage to the sea surface. In the late 80's and early 90's he was awarded extensive NOAA National Undersea Research Program (NURP) JOHNSON SEA-LINK, ALVIN, and Navy NR-1 submersible dive time in the Gulf of Mexico.
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- Professional Associate
- Geotechnical Engineer
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- Member of the Program and Data Managers Team
- Professional Associate
- Senior Program Manager
- Geologist, Shallow Water Projects Director
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- Member of the Survey Team
- Navigator / Technician
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- Member of the Geotechnical Team
- Geotechnical Field Engineer
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- Controller
- Member of the Governance and Risk Leaders Team
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- Member of the Program and Data Managers Team
- Reports Data Manager
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- Member of the Survey Team
- Project Manager / Party Chief
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- Analytical Laboratory Supervisor
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- Member of the Governance and Risk Leaders Team
- HSE Director / Party Chief
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- Chief Executive Officer
- President
- President and CEO, TDI - Brooks International Inc
Since it's inception in 1996, Dr. Brooks has been the founder, President and CEO of TDI-Brooks International, Inc. a certified Engineering Firm in Texas specializing since 1996 in offshore research and survey studies for the oil industry as well as for federal and state agencies. TDI-Brooks performs scientific marine surveys and laboratory analysis of water, tissue, and soil. The company owns and operates three research vessels - R/V Brooks McCall, R/V Gyre, and R/V Proteus. Formerly, Dr. Brooks was founder and Director of the Geochemical and Environmental Research Group (GERG) at Texas A&M University. During his tenure as Director from 1975 he built an organization specializing in high quality analytical, oceanographic, and environmental research and services. There he ultimately directed a staff of 130 people, including 28 Ph.D. level senior personnel, 60 professional MS-and BS-level full-time research associates, research assistants, technicians, graduate research assistants, and 40 other staff.
Dr. Brooks has served as Project Director on many federal projects for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), and the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). He has extensive experience in the management of large environmental and oceanographic projects as well as the technical competency in environmental chemistry, organic geochemistry, geochemical exploration, oil spill assessment, gas hydrates, chemosynthetic ecosystems, stable isotope geochemistry, and oceanography. He acquired academic credentials consisting of 200+ peer-reviewed publications, including numerous publications in prestigious journals such as Science and Nature. He has served on many national committees, conferences, and workshops as well as chairing 19 M.S. and Ph.D. committees at Texas A&M University and has won the Faculty Distinguished Achievement Award for Research awarded annually by the Association of Former Students of Texas A&M University. His research has yielded many early discoveries of gas hydrates, oil seepage, and chemosynthetic mussels, clams and tube worms.
Dr. Brooks has been conducting scientific research and oil industry-sponsored service projects for the last 40+ years. As part of his seabed geochemical exploration studies, which he developed for industry in the early 1980s, his teams have collected approximately 13,000 cores in the Gulf of Mexico, and more than 30,000 worldwide. These coring surveys resulted and contributed to the discoveries of macro oil seepage, chemosynthetic communities, and gas hydrates in the Gulf of Mexico. He was a co-discoverer of oil seep and chemosynthetic communities in the deep water Gulf of Mexico in 1985. He made the first discoveries of thermogenic gas hydrates in the deep water Gulf of Mexico that was published in Science, as well as participated in the initial discoveries of other oil-seep related phenomena including oil-stained cores on the continental slope, widespread occurrence of shallow and outcropping gas hydrates, brine seepage, and visible oil seepage to the sea surface. He has also made the first discovery of chemosynthetic ecosystems offshore West Africa north of the equator.
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- Senior Engineer Specialist
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- IT System Integration / Program Manager
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- Member of the Survey Team
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- Member of the Survey Team
- Geoscientist / Survey Manager
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- Member of the Geotechnical Team
- Senior Engineering Specialist
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- Director of Business Development, Sales and Marketing
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- GIS & Geophysical Project Manager
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- Geotechnical Manager
- Geotechnical Services Manager
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- Director of Laboratory Operations
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- Authorized Representative
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- Director of Marine Operations
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- Member of the Survey Team
- Senior Marine Surveyor
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- Authorized Officer
- Authorized Representative
- Managing Director - Latin America
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- Authorized Representative
- Cone Services Manager
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- Port Captain / DPA / Compliance Manager
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- Member of the Geotechnical Team
- Member of the Program and Data Managers Team
- Project Manager
- Senior Program Manager
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- Coring / Marine Technician
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- Member of the Survey Team
- IT Systems Engineer
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- Member of the Program and Data Managers Team
- Senior Data Manager