Governor keeps Mark Myers

Kay Cashman, PNA publisher & managing editor

Gov. Frank Murkowski has appointed Mark Myers as the director of the Division of Oil and Gas, an agency within the Alaska Department of Natural Resources.

A carry-over from the former administration, Myers has served as director since Jan. 8, 2001.

He worked as an exploration and development geologist for ARCO Alaska Inc. in the mid-1980s, and then earned a Ph.D. in geology from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. While working on his degree, Myers was an intern in the division.

Later, from 1990 to 1998, he worked for the division as a petroleum geologist.

In 1998, he returned to ARCO as an exploration geologist.

A certified and licensed professional petroleum geologist, Myers earned bachelors and masters degrees in geology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He worked for oil companies in Louisiana before coming to Alaska in 1983 as an exploration geologist for ARCO.