Research Interests

M.S. Geology, 2006, University of Arkansas- Fayetteville

B.S. Geology, 2004, Mississippi State University

My topic of greatest interest in sedimentology is the study of ancient sedimentary deposits in order to establish their depositional environments. For my Master's I studied the "middle Bloyd sandstone," Morrowan (Pennsylvanian) of northwest Arkansas , which contains evidence of fluvio-estuarine depositional environments. More recently, I have started applying ichnology (the study of trace fossils) in order to more accurately describe the depositional facies of the Dakota Formation in the subsurface of northwestern Nebraska and in outcrops around the Henry Mountains, southern Utah. I am also very interested in hydrocarbon reservoir characterization and basin analysis from a sedimentologic perspective.

Antia, J ., Fielding, C., and Joeckel, R. M. (ongoing) Low Accommodation Depositional Systems and Reservoir Bodies in the Lower Cretaceous Dakota Formation, Subsurface of Northwestern Nebraska . Doctoral Dissertation (unpub).

 Antia, J. and Zachry, D. (2006) Stratigraphic Correlation and Facies Interpretation of the “Middle Bloyd Sandstone” on Outcrop, Johnson and Pope Counties , Arkansas . Masters Thesis (unpub) .

Culpepper, J.D., Paul, K.A., Antia, J. , Lynch, F.L., and Schmitz, D.W. Glauconite, Fractured Grains, and Hematite: Shallow Burial Diagenesis in Mississippi . Paper No. 75-27 (Poster). National Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America , Seattle , WA 2003.