Research Professor, Colorado School of Mines and the Director of the Geology Center of Research Excellence (CoRE).
Prior to Mines, Zane spent 6 years in the Clastics Research Team at Shell Oil Company.
His research interests aim to better understand the stratigraphic architecture, scaling relationships, and sediment budgets for clastic depositional systems, with an emphasis on submarine environments. Zane also manages the “Earth Resource Data Science” program at Mines which focuses on applied data science and machine-learning using python and subsurface datasets. Zane also enjoys cycling in the summer and driveway snow removal in the winter.
PhD in geology, Stanford University, awarded 2010
BS in geology, University of Texas at Arlington, awarded 2004