John L. Berry, P.G., C.P.G. Biography

AIPG Texas Section Advisory Board

Councilor-at-Large

John L. Berry, P.G., C.P.G.
Austin, Texas
Principal, John Berry and Associates, LLC
Email: jlbassoc@gmail.com
Office: (512) 452-8068

John Berry was born in Liverpool, England and moved to the U.S. becoming U.S. Citizenship in 1978. He is a of graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (BA, Geology, 1963), and of Columbia University (MS, Geology/Geophysics/Oceanography, 1966). He also conducted post-graduate work at the Royal School of Mines, London, 1971-1973. In 1963, he worked for Arctic Research Lab, Summer 1963: Ice Station T-3 (Navigation, Gravity, Magnetic and weather observations, and at the Arctic Section, Lamont-Doherty, 1963-1966 as well as having part-time work on gravity and magnetic maps of the Canada Basin and Alpha Rise. During 1965-1966, Mr. Berry worked for Prof. R.W. Fairbridge, and translated and abstracted articles in several European languages for the “Bibliography of Quaternary Shorelines”.

From 1966 to 1972, he was employed by the Anglo-American Corporation, Kitwe, Zambia, conducting exploration for stratabound copper deposits, limestone and groundwater. During 1973 through 1975, Mr. Berry was employed by Southwestern Technical Institute, Sylva, NC, where he initiated, developed and taught Associated Degree program in Environmental Science. As an independent geological consultant, based in Sylva, NC, from 1975 to 1977, he conducted evaluations of phosphate lands in SE Idaho for a Federal-State land swap; also an environmental study of Bear lake, ID-UT; a study of weathering rates on instrumented watersheds at the Coweeta Forest research establishment, Franklin, NC. He also contributed to a mine plan for ruby-bearing corundum mine at Chunky Gal Mountain, NC for Appalachian Resources, Inc.

During 1977 through 1982 Mr. Berry was employed by the Earth Satellite Corporation, Bethesda, as Director of Mineral Exploration. Assignments included helping set up a GIS system for Chilean mineral resources, lead-zinc exploration in Minas Gerais, Brazil, and a major study of the Tarim Basin, performed in the client offices in Tokyo, Japan. In 1982 he joined Shell Mining Co through 1986 in gold exploration in Nevada and South Dakota. For the Shell Oil Company, he set up remote sensing group at research center, and worked on hydrocarbon charge oil determination in the GoM, and deepwater offshore Angola, Brazil, China, Indonesia, etc. to 1999.

From 1999 to the present, Mr. has been serving as an independent remote sensing consultant, Austin, Texas with major assignments in Korea, India, Libya, Australia, Canada, Burkina Faso, Mexico, Honduras, etc. Br. Berry is also serving the AIPG as the Editor of the journal, The Professional Geologist

He served as President of the Austin Geological Society in 207 and is a member of the Geological Society of London, the Geological Society of America, AAPG, and SIPES.

He is a Certified Professional Geologist (CPG-04032). Mr. Berry is reasonably fluent in Spanish, German, French, some Portuguese, Italian, Swedish, Japanese.