Meor Hakif Bin Amir Hassan

Biography

Dr. Meor Hakif Amir Hassan (PhD, DIC, P.Geol.) is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Geology, UM. He teaches undergraduate courses in Stratigraphy and Sedimentology. He is also Programme Coordinator for the MSc Petroleum Geology Programme, in which he also teaches topics in Reservoir Sedimentology and Sequence Stratigraphy. He also leads sedimentology, stratigraphy and petroleum geology fieldtrips to the Palaeozoic strata of NW Peninsular Malaysia and the hydrocarbon-bearing, Neogene strata of Sarawak and Labuan. Dr. Meor is also the Faculty advisor for the AAPG Student Chapter of UM and is a Council Member and Life Member of the Geological Society of Malaysia. He has been an external assessor for research grants at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS and also for scholarship awards by the Perdana Leadership Foundation. Dr. Meor Hakif is a clastic sedimentologist by training, having done his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Howard Johnson at Imperial College London. His research interests in sedimentology mainly lies in the facies composition and stratal architecture of Neogene, hydrocarbon-bearing, coastal to marine facies of Borneo, with focus on their application in hydrocarbon reservoir characterization and management, and also their relation to the tectonic development of the region. His interests also include the facies analysis of deepwater deposits of Borneo. His research is mainly field-based, with field experience in Sarawak (Kuching, Sibu, Bintulu, Miri, Marudi, Limbang, Lawas), Labuan and Sabah. He also has experience demonstrating on two field seasons to the Book Cliffs, Utah. Dr. Meor's field-based work is frequently used as outcrop analogues for geological studies of onshore and offshore petroleum fields in Malaysia. He has worked for short periods in the petroleum industry as a consultant, and was previously an Executive Geoscientist with the Basin Studies Group, Petroleum Management Unit, PETRONAS before continuing his PhD. He worked on foram and nannoplankton-based sequence sratigraphy of the Sarawak Basin during his time at PETRONAS. His close ties with industry has resulted in him being the industrial liaison for data requests and the Industrial Training Coordinator for the undergraduate programme at the Department of Geology, UM. Dr. Meor Hakif has a MSc from UM in Palaeozoic stratigraphy and palaeontology, where he studied under Prof. Lee Chai Peng. He is an expert on the stratigraphy of the Palaeozoic succession of Perlis, and recently has identified the earliest record of glacial marine conditions in the region. Dr. Meor has specialised in the palaeontology and biostratigraphy of Devonian tentaculitoids and graptoloids, having been trained at the Technische Universitat Berlin by Prof. Bernd Erdtmann, under a Deutscher Academischer Austauchdienst (DAAD) scholarship. He is still very much interested in the stratigraphic development of the Palaeozoic basins of Peninsular Malaysia, and is currently searching for evidence of the Mid-Palaezoic extinction events in the geologic record of Perlis.

Research Interest

Palaeontology (Dacryoconarid tentaculitids, Devonian monograptids) Petroleum Geology (Reservoir Sedimentology and Facies Analysis) Sedimentology (Coastal shallow marine clastic sedimentology) Stratigraphy (Devonian-Carboniferous stratigraphy of NW Peninsular Malaysia)