About Us
Dr Edith Newton Wilson
Dr Edith Newton Wilson
Dr Edith Newton Wilson
Dr Wilson is the owner of Rock Whisperer LLC, where she works to engage emerging professionals in energy solutions for a changing world and consults on renewable energy and climate mitigation projects. Edith is a Fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists and the Geological Society of London, a member of the American Geophysical Union,
Dr Wilson is the owner of Rock Whisperer LLC, where she works to engage emerging professionals in energy solutions for a changing world and consults on renewable energy and climate mitigation projects. Edith is a Fellow of the Society of Economic Geologists and the Geological Society of London, a member of the American Geophysical Union, and a founding member of the Geosciences Advisory Board at the University of Arkansas. In 2018-2019, she chaired the ad hoc Committee on Climate Change for the AAPG. She received her BA in Geology from Dartmouth College in 1982, and her MA and PHD in Carbonate Sedimentology from Johns Hopkins University in 1988. Her career in the energy industry began in Houston where she was an international explorer, negotiator and manager with Amoco and bp. In Oklahoma, Edith worked with Phillips Petroleum on global new ventures, ConocoPhillips on leadership development, Samson Resources on domestic shale gas projects, and in 2008 co-founded TallGrass Energy. Edith has traveled throughout the Americas, Europe and Africa - where she climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in 2004 - and is conversant in French, Italian and Portuguese.
Dr Rachelle Kernen
Dr Edith Newton Wilson
Dr Edith Newton Wilson
Dr Rachelle is an Honorary Research Fellow (postdoc) at the University of Adelaide Australian School of Petroleum and Energy Resources. She completed her PhD in Geological Sciences at the University of Texas at El Paso (December 2019) with a specialty in salt tectonics and energy exploration. During her MSc and PhD, she was a researcher
Dr Rachelle is an Honorary Research Fellow (postdoc) at the University of Adelaide Australian School of Petroleum and Energy Resources. She completed her PhD in Geological Sciences at the University of Texas at El Paso (December 2019) with a specialty in salt tectonics and energy exploration. During her MSc and PhD, she was a researcher for the Salt-Sediment Interaction Research Consortium (Institute of Tectonic Studies) and the Applied Geodynamics Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin. Rachelle has five years of professional experience working in the petroleum industry including internships with Samson Resources (2011) and BP Americas (2018). She also worked in exploration as a seismic interpreter in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean with Royal Dutch Shell (2011-2015) while completing the Shell Graduate Program. Rachelle Co-Chairs the AAPG’s Women’s Network and serves as Co-Chair and Co-Founder of AAPG’s Salt Basins Technical Interest Group. Rachelle is passionate about hosting workshops and designing courses in collaboration with industry, government, and non-profit geological societies in which she focuses on advancing the overall technical contribution and understanding of specific research questions.