Kevin Hill
2023
Dr. Kevin Hill is the GSAV 2023 Selwyn Awardee. Kevin Hill is a structural geologist who has over 35 years’ experience in industry and academia. He is an Oxford graduate who worked for BP in Canada and London in their structural specialists group and completed a PhD on the PNG fold belt at the University of Melbourne. He lectured at La Trobe University and The University of Melbourne and consulted with many companies in Australia and SE Asia, working on seismic interpretation, balanced and restored cross-sections, 3D structural models for gold and gas exploration.
Kevin has made an exceptional contribution to geoscience teaching and research in Victoria. Kevin is an outstanding geoscientist, with many years of experience within industry, consulting and academia. Much of his work integrates new technology and techniques to study the evolution of sedimentary basins and fold belts in Australia and elsewhere. He uses structural geology, seismic interpretation, tectonic modelling, geochemistry, stratigraphy, 3D modelling and a broad range of other geological techniques to interpret sedimentary basins and their resource potential. Kevin’s career spans several continents, and he has held prominent positions at a range of companies and consultancies including BP and Oil Search.
Kevin’s work in southern Victoria’s sedimentary basins, together with his supervision of some outstanding PhD students, has led to a more rigorous understanding of how they evolved through several complex events. In the Otway, Bass and Gippsland Basins, he examined the transition from rifting to seafloor spreading. Kevin has made important contributions on the complex geology of Papua New Guinea. In some brief examples of his contributions to geological knowledge, his work has added to our understanding of: the Mesozoic to recent tectonic history of the southern margin of Australia; the importance of integrating thermochronology and thermal maturation work into basin perspectivity; the complex and active tectonic history of PNG; the role of basement and structural inheritance in basin evolution; and many studies using regional seismic and structural modelling to unravel the complex depositional and inversion history of the Victorian basins.
Kevin's approach to teaching is typified in two VIEPS courses that he has taught for many years: Sedimentary Basins and Resource Analysis and Basin Structure and Stratigraphy. Kevin has led a variety of industry short courses and fieldtrips, including recently for the AAPG. In other Victorian roles, he has been a committee member at the Victorian branch of PESA, and a Distinguished Lecturer for PESA Australia. He established a 3D seismic-structural workstation laboratory, conducted research in the modelling of tectonics and complex structures and introduced numerous students to the use of advanced technology in working in sedimentary basins. This also involved the application of apatite fission track and U-Th-He thermochronology. Kevin’s courses are enthusiastically received by the graduate students. Kevin is dedicated to helping Victorian students become fully fledged geoscientists. Kevin now teaches courses in structure and basin resources, including CO2 and hydrogen storage, geothermal energy, water and hydrocarbons. He continues with fold-belt and basin margin research at the University of Melbourne.
In addition to teaching, Kevin has supervised students at all levels, including PhD research. Kevin is an exemplary graduate supervisor: he is deeply expert in his specialism of structural geology, yet curious and enthusiastic about every other aspect of geoscience; he pushes students to become capable independent researchers, yet is sensitive to the challenges that they may face.
Kevin has made an exceptional contribution to geoscience teaching and research in Victoria. Kevin is an outstanding geoscientist, with many years of experience within industry, consulting and academia. Much of his work integrates new technology and techniques to study the evolution of sedimentary basins and fold belts in Australia and elsewhere. He uses structural geology, seismic interpretation, tectonic modelling, geochemistry, stratigraphy, 3D modelling and a broad range of other geological techniques to interpret sedimentary basins and their resource potential. Kevin’s career spans several continents, and he has held prominent positions at a range of companies and consultancies including BP and Oil Search.
Kevin’s work in southern Victoria’s sedimentary basins, together with his supervision of some outstanding PhD students, has led to a more rigorous understanding of how they evolved through several complex events. In the Otway, Bass and Gippsland Basins, he examined the transition from rifting to seafloor spreading. Kevin has made important contributions on the complex geology of Papua New Guinea. In some brief examples of his contributions to geological knowledge, his work has added to our understanding of: the Mesozoic to recent tectonic history of the southern margin of Australia; the importance of integrating thermochronology and thermal maturation work into basin perspectivity; the complex and active tectonic history of PNG; the role of basement and structural inheritance in basin evolution; and many studies using regional seismic and structural modelling to unravel the complex depositional and inversion history of the Victorian basins.
Kevin's approach to teaching is typified in two VIEPS courses that he has taught for many years: Sedimentary Basins and Resource Analysis and Basin Structure and Stratigraphy. Kevin has led a variety of industry short courses and fieldtrips, including recently for the AAPG. In other Victorian roles, he has been a committee member at the Victorian branch of PESA, and a Distinguished Lecturer for PESA Australia. He established a 3D seismic-structural workstation laboratory, conducted research in the modelling of tectonics and complex structures and introduced numerous students to the use of advanced technology in working in sedimentary basins. This also involved the application of apatite fission track and U-Th-He thermochronology. Kevin’s courses are enthusiastically received by the graduate students. Kevin is dedicated to helping Victorian students become fully fledged geoscientists. Kevin now teaches courses in structure and basin resources, including CO2 and hydrogen storage, geothermal energy, water and hydrocarbons. He continues with fold-belt and basin margin research at the University of Melbourne.
In addition to teaching, Kevin has supervised students at all levels, including PhD research. Kevin is an exemplary graduate supervisor: he is deeply expert in his specialism of structural geology, yet curious and enthusiastic about every other aspect of geoscience; he pushes students to become capable independent researchers, yet is sensitive to the challenges that they may face.
