Steve Larter

Canada Research Chair in Petroleum Geology, Associate Vice-President (Research - Innovation), Fellow of the Royal Society

Contact via Susan Dooley: +1 (403) 220-7484
slarter@ucalgary.ca 

The Royal Society
The Royal Society of Canada
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters

Steve Larter

Research Interests

  • Biogeochemistry

  • New and renewable energy from petroleum reservoirs
  • Carbon management
  • Petroleum biodegradation as a portal into the deep biosphere

  • Novel analytical methods for the characterisation of complex geochemical fractions

  • Accelerated deployment of climate change mitigation technologies 

Background

  • 2004-present: University of Calgary, Canada Research Chair in Petroleum Geology

  • 2015: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, Emeritus Professor of Geology

  • 1989-2015: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, J B Simpson Professor of Geology

  • 1987-1989: University of Oslo, Norway. Position held: Visiting Professor of Petroleum Geochemistry

  • 1979-1986: Unocal Corporation, USA, Positions held: Basin Modelling Group, Research Associate, Senior Research Geochemist, Research Geochemist

  • 1978: PhD Petroleum Geochemistry, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

  • 1975: MSc Organic geochemistry and organic petrology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

  • 1974: BA University of Cambridge; Natural Sciences

Awards & Accolades

  • 2014 Awarded Treibs Medal-Geochemical Society
  • 2014: Elected Geochemical Fellow-Geochemical Society
  • 2014 & 2012: Awarded CSPG Medal of Merit
  • 2012: Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
  • 2009: Elected Fellow of the Royal Society
  • 2004: Elected foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters
  • 2000: Awarded The Friendship Medal of The Peoples Republic of China
  • 1998: Awarded The William Smith Medal of the Geological Society