Anthony W. Gorody, Ph.D., P.G.

President & CEO

Anthony W. Gorody, Ph.D., P.G.,  is a geoscientist with more than 30 years of diverse international and domestic experience related to the exploration and development of fossil fuels. He provides clients with consulting and training services which rely on a multidisciplinary approach to collect, analyze, and interpret environmental data.  Applying basic principles behind the disciplines of geology, hydrology, geochemistry, geophysics, and petroleum engineering are all together a necessary prerequisite for addressing and solving problems related to soil and water resource contamination in oil and gas basins. Dr. Gorody’s educational and work experience allows him to effectively communicate with and direct project teams comprised of multidisciplinary team members with dedicated expertise in these disciplines. He also directly contributes to such teams through his expertise in state-of-the-art forensic geochemistry techniques useful for fingerprinting and characterizing surface and groundwater resources, stray gas, and other hydrocarbon pollutants. In addition, he is experienced in all aspects of litigation.

Dr. Gorody’s work experience is based on domestic projects in the Appalachian, Black Warrior, Uinta, San Juan, Piceance, Denver-Julesberg, Washakie, Wind River, Green River, Fort Worth, East Texas Salt, Texas Gulf Coast, Louisiana Gulf Coast, and Rio Grande Basins.  He has also worked in and conducted international projects in the North Sea, Baltic, Telkwa (BC), Comox (BC), and Hat Creek (BC) Basins. 

Dr. Gorody received both his Master’s and Doctoral degrees from Rice University where he was a Weiss Fellow.  He is fluent in Spanish, and speaks conversational French, German, Russian and Hungarian. He stays current and up to date by both conducting and attending training workshops, and taking credit-approved courses throughout the year. He also actively maintains a unique and comprehensive virtual library. 

 For a complete Curriculum Vitae, please contact:  agorody@universalgeoscience.com

Adele C. Gorody

Vice President, Operations

Mrs. Gorody  has managed business development, sales, leadership ,and training projects in association with numerous energy companies since 1981. Having received her initial experience from Houston-based Texas Eastern Gas Pipeline, in 1989 she founded Alliance Gas Marketing, Inc., in Chicago, serving over 150 governmental, commercial and industrial clients under newly legislated natural gas deregulation opportunities. Mrs. Gorody was one of the first women to independently function in this arena, and her company was registered as a Women's Business Enterprise. She has  served on the Statistics and Related Economics Committee for the American Gas Association, the Economic Advisory Board for the Gas Research Institute, and the Task Force for Deregulation of Electricity for the Illinois Commerce Commission.  She has received numerous top sales achievement awards throughout her career.

She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administraion, is fluent in Spanish, and speaks conversational French and Italian.

Dr. and Mrs. Gorody have worked side by side since 1975 when they were both Curatorial Representatives for the National Science Foundation, working under the auspices of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography's Deep Sea Drilling Project.  Together they developed sampling techniques and classification systems for deep sea oceanographic core materials retrieved aboard the D/V Glomar Challenger.  They have collaborated in the work envronment ever since.