Liz McDade is a geoscientist with a career focus on south Louisiana and the Gulf of Mexico basin. She is a licensed geologist (PG, LA), has a BS from Newcomb College, Tulane University, as well as an MS and Ph.D. from LSU. Her education focused on south Louisiana organic geochemistry - source rocks and depositional environments. She has gained valuable professional experience at LSU’s Basin Research Institute, Texaco Exploration & Production Company, McMoRan Oil & Gas, and as a consultant. She was a speaker at State of the Coast 2018, 2021, and at Louisiana Coastal Geology Forums 2018, 2019. Liz has authored or co-authored a number of papers, including: 

Kemp, et al, Recovery and Restoration of Biloxi Marsh in the Mississippi River Delta (Water 2021, 13, 2179)

Culpepper et al. 2019, Synthesis of Fault Traces in SE Louisiana Relative to Infrastructure (2019)

For a complete list of her publications, visit https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/transet_pubs/30 

At McMoRan, Liz operated record-setting wells, including Blackbeard deepening, Davy Jones, and Highlander in St. Martin Parish producing from the Tuscaloosa a mile deeper than any other producing sand in Louisiana (28,480’-29,150’). She also managed Texaco’s large database of Deepwater cores used to evaluate petroleum system effectiveness in the early days of exploration in that province and used this data to make the high-grade decision to recommend the lease of Buckskin in southern Keathley Canyon. Liz was also a participant in submersible dives to study chemosynthetic communities at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.