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Appendix A Biographical Sketches of Committee Members Scott W. Tinker, Chair, is director of the Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin, a major international energy and environ- mental research organization. He is the state geologist of Texas, holds the Edwin Allday Chair of Subsurface Geology at the University of Texas Department of Geological Sciences, and is a member of the Executive Committee of the new John A. and Katherine G. Jackson School of Geo- sciences. Before joining the bureau in 2000, Dr. Tinker spent 18 years work- ing in the oil and gas industry, most recently at Marathon Oil's Petroleum Technology Center in Littleton, Colorado, where he designed and imple- mented studies of large oil and gas fields. Dr. Tinker has experience man- aging energy and environmental research and expertise in energy re- source issues, sequence stratigraphy, and reservoir characterization. He is a recipient of "best paper" awards in two major journals and is a former Association of American Petroleum Geologists Distinguished Lecturer and a Society of Petroleum Engineers Distinguished Lecturer. He serves as a member of many professional and honor societies, committees, boards, and foundations. Dr. Tinker holds a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, an M.S. from the University of Michigan, and a B.S. from Trin- ity University and is a certified professional geologist and a certified pe- troleum geologist. John B. Curtis, is director of the Petroleum Exploration and Production Center/Potential Gas Agency and associate professor with the Depart- ment of Geology and Geological Engineering at the Colorado School of 89

So APPENDIX A Mines. He has 15 years of experience in the petroleum industry with Texaco, Inc., SAIC, Columbia Gas, and Exlog/Baker-Hughes. He has served on and chaired several professional society and natural gas indus- try committees, which include the Supply Panel, Research Coordination Council, and the Science and Technology Committee of the Gas Technol- ogy Institute (Gas Research Institute). He currently cochairs the Ameri- can Association of Petroleum Geologists Committee on Unconventional Petroleum Systems and is an invited member of the AAPG Committee on Resource Evaluation and the Committee on Research. He has organized multiple technical sessions on natural gas resource assessment for the AAPG, and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He is an asso- ciate editor of the AAPG Bulletin and The Mountain Geologist and has pub- lished and given numerous invited talks on studies concerning the size and distribution of U.S., Canadian, and Mexican natural gas resources and comparisons of resource assessment methodologies. As director of the Potential Gas Agency, he directs a team of 145 geologists, geophysi- cists, and petroleum engineers in their biennial assessment of remaining U.S. natural gas resources. Dr. Curtis teaches petroleum geology, petro- leum geochemistry, petroleum design, and stratigraphy at the Colorado School of Mines, where he also supervises graduate student research. He holds a Ph.D. in geology from Ohio State University, and an M.S. and a B.A. in geology from Miami University. lames l. Emme, vice president of Exploration at the Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, oversees all of the company's exploration activities through- out North America, the Gulf of Mexico, and more than a dozen other inter- national areas. Mr. Emme joined Anadarko in 1981 and was named man- ager of geology for Anadarko Algeria Corporation in 1990. In 1998 he was named manager of the offshore Gulf of Mexico and Alaska exploitation effort in Houston and was promoted to manager, domestic exploitation in 1999. In 2000, Mr. Emme was named vice president, Canada, and was based in Calgary, where he oversaw the exploration and development operations throughout the company's holdings in the western provinces of Canada and in the Beaufort Sea/MacKenzie Delta region. Prior to joining Anadarko, Mr. Emme was employed as a geologist with the Arco Oil and Gas Com- pany. He is a graduate of the Colorado School of Mines, where he earned an M.S. in geology in 1981, and the University of California at Davis, where he earned a B.S. in geology in 1978. Mr. Emme is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, the Houston Geological Society, and the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists. Vello A. Kuuskraa, president of Advanced Resources, is internationally recognized for his work in energy economics, supply modeling, and new

APPENDIX A 91 oil and gas recovery technologies. He served on the Secretary of Energy's Natural Gas Supply Task Force, was a member of the National Academy of Sciences Study Committee for Defining the National Energy Modeling System, and recently testified before the Federal Energy Regulatory Com- mission on the outlook for natural gas supplies. Mr. Kuuskraa is a recog- nized expert on the technologies of coalbed methane recovery and en- hanced oil recovery and their adaptation for CO2 sequestration. He served as the lead expert on coalbed methane for the Secretary of Energy's Trade and Development Missions to China, India, and South Africa and is work- ing with numerous public and private entities to address greenhouse gas emissions using carbon sequestration. He currently serves as chairman of the Technical Advisory Board of the Department of Energy/European Union/Klimatek and industry consortium led by BP called the Carbon Capture Project. He has published over 100 technical papers, reports, and presentations on energy resources and future natural gas supplies. He received the 2001 Ellis Island Medal of Honor, which recognizes individu- als for exceptional professional and patriotic contributions by America's diverse cultural ancestry and was a 1986-1987 Society of Petroleum Engi- neers Distinguished Lecturer. Mr. Kuuskraa holds an M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in applied mathematics from North Carolina State University. Dianne R. Nielson is executive director of the Utah Department of En- vironmental Quality, which safeguards public health and quality of life by protecting and improving environmental quality. Prior to this ap- pointment in 1993, Dr. Nielson worked as an exploration geologist, served as senior manager for economic geology with the Utah Geologi- cal and Mineral Survey, and later directed the Utah Division of Oil, Gas, and Mining. She has worked closely with mining and oil and gas opera- tors to minimize the environmental impacts of resource development and to ensure viable postproduction land use. She is a member of the National Academies Executive Committee of the Board on Earth Sci- ences and Resources and is a past member of the Committee on Earth Resources. Previously she served on the Committee on Future Roles, Challenges, and Opportunities for the U.S. Geological Survey and on a panel under the auspices of the Committee on Earth Resources, which wrote Mineral Resources and Society: A Review of the U.S. Geological Survey's Mineral Resources Plan (National Academy Press, 1996~. She also worked on the report of the Committee on Onshore Oil and Gas Leas- ing. She is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geolo- gists and a fellow of the Geological Society of America. Dr. Nielson holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in geology from Dartmouth College and a B.A. from Beloit College.

92 NRC Staff APPENDIX A Tamara L. Dickinson, Study Director, is a senior program officer with the National Research Council's Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, re- sponsible for managing the Earth Resources activities of the Board. She was awarded the National Academies 2002 Distinguished Service Award. She has served as program director for the Petrology and Geochemistry Program, Division of Earth Sciences, National Science Foundation. She has also served as discipline scientist for the Planetary Materials and Geochemistry Program at National Aeronautics and Space Administra- tion headquarters. As a postdoctoral fellow at the NASA Johnson Space Center, she conducted experiments on the origin and evolution of lunar rocks and highly reduced igneous meteorites. She holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. in geology from the University of New Mexico and a B.A. in geology from the University of Northern Iowa. Monica R. Lipscomb is a research assistant for the National Academies Board on Earth Sciences and Resources. She earned a master of urban and regional planning degree at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, with a concen- tration in environmental planning. Previously, she served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Cole d'Ivoire and has worked as a biologist at the National Cancer Institute. She holds a B.S. in environmental and forest biology from the State University of New York, Syracuse. Karen L. Imhof is a senior project assistant for the Board on Earth Sci- ences and Resources of the National Academies. She previously worked for the Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources. Earlier she worked as a staff and administrative assistant in diverse organizations, including the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the National Wild- life Federation, and the Three Mile Island nuclear facility.

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The workshop examined the following three questions: (1) What projections have been made by government agencies for the U.S. supply of and demand for natural gas over the next 10 to 20 years? (2) Where are the current natural gas reserves and resources? (3) By what means and by how much can future reserves, resources, and production be increased?

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