Courses Taught

GEOS 4350 - Sedimentology and Stratigraphy
GEOS 3220 - Ocean Systems
GEOS 3010 - Minerals and Rocks

Various other Graduate/Seminar Courses including:
Numerical and Spatial Data Analysis, Clastic Sedimentary Petrology, Clastic Depositional Systems

1. DOE/NETL, Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnershp program; Technical Contributor to Midwestern Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership, Michigan Geological Carbon Squestration Characterization, Michigan CO₂ Pilot Injection Project site assessment. Barnes, PI, with Harrison and Grammer Co-PI's
• Phase III Funding Awarded; May, 2008 to 2018.
  
2. NTH Consultants, Ltd.; Carbon Sequestration and CO₂/EOR feasibility studies in Michigan. Barnes, PI.
   
3. Burns and Rowe Consultants, Ltd.; Carbon Sequestration and CO₂/EOR  feasibility sudies in Michigan. Barnes, PI
   
4. NTH Consultants Ltd.; Development of multidimensional analysis capabilities for modeling
   subsurface flow and transport phenomena, especially dynamic reservoir simulation
   modeling for CO₂ injection. Barnes, PI with Tony Clark , Graduate Research Associate
   
   

1. DOE/NETL - Midwest Regional  Carbon Sequestration Partnership (MRCSP); Study of Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide in the Michigan Basin. Project www site , Michigan Basin Pilot Project, DOE Techline on Michigan basin Pilot Project
   
2. Establishing the Relationship Betwee Fracture-related Dolomite and Primary Rock Fabric on the Distribution of Reservoirs in the Michigan Basin . Diagenesis, Reservoir Characterization, and Technology Transfer relating to Dolomized Hydrocarbon Reseervoirs in the Michigan Basin. Project Summary
3. Stratigraphy and sedimentology of  Pennsylvanian fluvial deltaic deposits in the Michigan basin, Saginaw and Grand River fms; Bedrock aquifers in Central lower Michigan; recent AAPG Eastern Section Abstract.

1. Barnes, D. A., Harrison, W B.III, and Wahr, Amanda, (in press), Assessment of Regional Geological Carbon Sequestration Potential In Upper Silurian to Middle Devonian Strata of the Michigan Basin, USA, in: Grobe, M., et al., eds. Carbon Dioxide Sequestration in Geological Media - State of the Art, AAPG/EMD Special Publication.
2. Grammer, G.M., Barnes, D.A., Harrison, W.B. and Mannes, R.G., (in press), Economic synergies for increasing domestic oil production and geological sequestration of anthropogenic CO2: An example from the Michigan Basin, in Grobe, M., et al., eds. Carbon Dioxide Sequestration in Geological Media - State of the Art, AAPG/EMD Special Publication.
3. Barnes, D.A.,  Assessment of Geological Carbon Storage Capacity in Saline Reservoir Formations; Regional assessment to Site Characterization and Feasibility, and Example from the Michigan Basin. Invited Presentation, Joint SPE-AICHE Technical Workshop, Sonoma, CA, Feb. 25, 2008.
4. Barnes, David A., William B. Harrison, and Diana H. Bacon, Assessment of Geological Carbon Storage Capacity in Saline Reservoir Formations; Regional Assessment to Site Characterization and Feasibility, Examples from the Michigan Basin, 7^th Annual Carbon Capture & Sequestration Conference, May 5 – 8, 2008,  Pittsburgh, PA.
5. Barnes, David A., Thomas M. Parris, William B. Harrison, and G. Michael Grammer, Hydrothermal Mineralization in the Michigan Basin, USA (in Geological Society of America, 2007 annual meeting, Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America (October 2007), 39(6):607
6. Barnes, David, Our Energy Future: Alternatives and Consequences; Invited Public Lecture, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2007, WMU Fetzer Center's Putney Auditorium, Sponsored by the Kalamazoo Jaycees and WMU Department of Geosciences.
7. Barnes, D.A., Kovacich, M.A., and Limezs, Santis, (2007), Shore Protection and Coastal Change on the Eastern Lake Michigan Shore; Duck Lake, Orchard Beach State Park, and Onekama, MI, Journ. Am. Shore and Beach Preservation Assoc., V. 75, n.3, pp21-37.