Ryan Weber is currently the Business Development Manager for North America for Petrostrat. Prior to Petrostrat, Ryan was President of Paleo-Data, Inc.; a biostratigraphic consulting firm serving the Oil & Gas sector for over 50 years. Ryan previously worked for BP as a Gulf of Mexico biostratigrapher. Ryan hails a BS and Education certificate from Minnesota State at Mankato, and an MS from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Ryan also served as the Earth Science Section Chair for the Nebraska Academy of Sciences. Ryan’s career has applied biostratigraphy from onshore to deepwater Gulf of Mexico, the interior USA, Egypt Nile Delta, Northwest Australian shelf, offshore Mozambique, Colombia, Alaska, and the Spanish Pyrenees. Ryan’s passions include Miocene and Wilcox stratigraphy, Mesozoic paleooceanography, the Minnesota Twins, nostalgic comedies, and fermentation.