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• Main Author: Anna Marie Bélanger
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Acknowledgements; Arctic; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.495.3985; http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-11122007-025400/unrestricted/Belanger_thesis.pdf

wisdom in serving as my Major Advisors. I would also like to thank Dr. Phil Bart for serving as my committee member. I am grateful to Steve Davies and Howard Oakland from the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission for assisting me in collecting my data set. I would like to thank Paul Decker for his time and discussion on my well selections. I was honored to interact with Dave Houseknecht and Ken Bird from the United States Geological Survey; their expertise and regional understanding of northern Alaskan geology was a very valuable resource. I would also like to thank Dallam Masterson with ConocoPhillips and Robert Hunter with the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation for meeting with me to discuss Alaskan geology and my research. I