Peter Muller

Peter Muller is a geologist with Alpha Geoscience in Ardmore, PA. Prior to his recent move to Alpha he was a professor of geology at the State University of New York at Oneonta for 27 years, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in structural geology and tectonics, engineering geology, map and field geology, mineral resources, physical geology, and waste management. Peter received his BS in geology from Bucknell University and his PhD from Binghamton University. He has extensive fi eld experience in a wide range of domestic geologic settings including the Pennsylvania and Maryland Piedmont, Mesozoic basins, and Valley and Ridge; the Appalachian Plateau and Adirondacks of New York; the Laramide ranges of southwest Montana and internationally, in the Betic Cordillera of southern Spain; Caribbean-North American plate boundary zone in Guatemala; and the western Zagros of Iran. He recently assisted in preparing a technical report for developing natural gas using horizontal drilling and high volume hydrofracturing in support of the NYSDEC Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (SGEIS). He also has conducted considerable research for, and participated in, a successful demonstration project to treat frac water from the Marcellus shale. Peter is a CPG and serves on the new AIPG Student Outreach Committee.