Scott W. Tinker
Past President
Earth Science, Oil and gas
AGI
Egypt
Biography
Dr. Scott Tinker was the 2013 AGI Awardee for Outstanding Contributions to the Understanding for Geoscience, namely for his work on the documentary Switch, co-produced with Harry Lynch as part of the Switch Energy Project. Tinker is actively engaged in building bridges between academia, industry, and government. In 2000, after 17 years in the oil and gas industry, Tinker joined the University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the Allday Endowed Chair in the Jackson School of Geosciences. He has given more than 500 invited and keynote lectures and visited nearly 50 countries. Dr. Tinker is the Director of the Bureau of Economic Geology and the State Geologist of Texas, and a past President of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and the Association of American State Geologists.
Research Interest
Earth Science, Oil and gas
