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Appendix A
Committee and Staff Biographies
COMMITTEE BIOGRAPHIES
Murray W. Hitzman (Chair) has been with Colorado School of Mines since 1996 as the
Fogarty Professor of Economic Geology. In 2002 he was named Head of the Department of
Geology and Geological Engineering. Prior to coming to academia he spent 11 years in the
minerals industry. In addition to discovering the carbonate-hosted Lisheen Zn-Pb-Ag deposit in
Ireland, he worked on porphyry copper and other intrusive-related deposits, precious metal
systems, volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits, sediment-hosted Zn-Pb and Cu deposits, and
iron oxide Cu-U-Au-LREE deposits throughout the world. He spent two and a half years in
Washington, D.C., working first in the U.S. Senate and later in the White House Office of
Science and Technology Policy on environmental and natural resource issues. He has received
numerous awards and has published approximately 100 papers. His current interest focuses on
deposit- and district-scale studies of metallic ore systems and on social license issues in mining.
Dr. Hitzman was a member of the National Research Council's Panel on Technologies for the
Mining Industries, and he was a member of Committee on Earth Resources for two three-year
terms prior to becoming chair for a three-year term in 2004. He received his Ph.D. in Geology
from Stanford University in 1983.
Donald D. Clarke has worked for the past six years as a geological consultant for a variety of
private firms and city governments in southern California, focusing on geological evaluations of
oil fields. Part of his current portfolio also includes a CO2 sequestration project. Prior to
establishing his consultancy, he worked for more than two decades with the Department of Oil
Properties of the City of Long Beach, California, retiring from his position as Division Engineer
and Chief Geologist in 2004. During his time with the City of Long Beach, he worked
extensively on the giant Wilmington oil field and the California offshore. Mr. Clarke began his
career in 1974 as an energy and mineral resources engineer with the California State Lands
Commission. His strong interests in community outreach and education have been demonstrated
over the years through teaching geology at Compton Community College, serving on the Board
of Directors for the Petroleum Technology Transfer Council, and serving on and chairing
numerous advisory councils and committees of the American Association of Petroleum
Geologists (AAPG). A member of AAPG since 1986, he served as Pacific Section AAPG
President, was elected to be Chairman of the AAPG House of Delegates, and has received
numerous AAPG awards including the Distinguished Service Award in 2002. He also served on
the National Research Council committee that produced the 2002 report, Geoscience Data and
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Collections: National Resources in Peril. In the last year he appeared and served as an advisor for
the Swiss movie, A Crude Awakening, The National Geographic show, Gallon of Gas, (part of
the Man Made Series), and the VBS.TV show LA's Hidden Wells. This past summer he was
interviewed by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Spiegel Television (Germany) about
oil development in the Los Angeles area. Mr. Clarke has published or presented more than 50
technical papers on topics that include computer mapping, sequence stratigraphy, horizontal
drilling, structural geology, and reservoir evaluation, and he has been recognized by the Institute
for the Advancement of Engineering as a fellow. He received his B.S. in geology from California
State University–Northridge, with additional graduate study at California State University–
Northridge, –Los Angeles, and –Long Beach.
Emmanuel Detournay is a professor of geomechanics in the Department of Civil Engineering at
the University of Minnesota. He also holds a joint appointment with Commonwealth Scientific
and Industrial Research Organisation Earth Science and Resource Engineering, where he leads
the Drilling Mechanics Group. Prior to his current positions, he was senior research scientist at
Schlumberger Cambridge Research in England. His expertise is in petroleum geomechanics with
two current areas of focus: mechanics of hydraulic fractures and drilling mechanics. He has
authored about 160 papers. He also has been awarded six U.S. patents and has received several
scientific awards for his work. Dr. Detournay received his M.S. and Ph.D. in geo-engineering
from the University of Minnesota.
James H. Dieterich (NAS) is a distinguished professor of geophysics at the University of
California, Riverside. His research has led to a new understanding of Earth's crust. He is an
internationally renowned authority in rock mechanics, seismology, and volcanology. His
pioneering studies in the theory, measurement, and application of frictional processes in rocks
have had major implications for predicting fault instability and earthquake nucleation. His
previous work on the rate- and state-dependent representation of fault constitutive properties is
now being applied in modeling of seismicity, including aftershocks and triggering of
earthquakes; and in inverse models that use earthquake rates to map stress changes in space and
time. Dr. Dieterich recently launched a new effort to investigate fault slip and earthquake
processes in geometrically complex fault systems, which includes development of large-scale
quasi-dynamic simulations of seismicity in fault systems, and investigation of the physical
interactions and stressing conditions that control system-level phenomena. Dr. Dieterich received
his Ph.D. in geology and geophysics from Yale University.
David K. Dillon is the principal of David K. Dillon PE, LLC, a petroleum engineering
consulting firm located in Centennial, CO. He holds a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the
University of Colorado at Boulder (1974). He is a licensed professional engineer in Colorado
(#19171) and Wyoming (#12530) and has been a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers
for over 35 years. Before starting his career as a consulting engineer, Mr. Dillon worked in the
private oil and gas industry for 20 years as a drilling engineer, a production engineer, and a
reservoir engineer. He has extensive experience in optimizing production from existing oil and
gas fields, secondary recovery operations, and the calculation of oil and gas reserves. Mr. Dillon
was also an Engineering Supervisor and the Engineering Manager for the Colorado Oil and Gas
Conservation Commission for over 15 years. The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation
Commission is the regulating body for oil and gas drilling and production in the State of
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Colorado. As the Engineering Manager he was instrumental in the drafting and adoption of new
rules by the Commission and the review and approval of underground injection permits for the
State of Colorado. Mr. Dillon has offered expert testimony before the oil and gas commissions of
several states.
Sidney J. Green (NAE) is Research Professor at the University of Utah, where he holds a dual
appointment in mechanical engineering and civil and environmental engineering. He is also a
Schlumberger Senior Advisor and was one of the founders and former President and Chief
Executive Officer of TerraTek, a geomechanics engineering firm, which was acquired by
Schlumberger in 2006. Mr. Green has worked in the area of geomechanics for nearly five
decades. He has published numerous papers and reports, holds a number of patents, has given
many presentations on geomechanics, and has received a number of rock mechanics and
geomechanics recognitions. He has served on government committees and on many university
and national laboratory advisory boards, and he has testified at a number of Congressional
hearings. He has served as member of the board of directors for a number of businesses. He
received the Outstanding Engineer award and the Entrepreneur of the Year award from Utah, and
the Distinguished Alumni Award (1976) and the Professional Degree recognition (1998) from
the former Missouri School of Mines. He received the 1989 Honorary Alumni Award and the
2009 Engineering Achievement Award from the University of Utah. He is a past member of the
Greater Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce Board of Governors and was recently elected a Fellow
of the American Rock Mechanics Association. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of
Engineering. He most recently served as a member of the NRC Committee on Assessment of the
Department of Energy’s Methane Hydrate Research and Development Program: Evaluating
Methane Hydrate as a Future Energy Resource. Mr. Green has a B.S. from the former Missouri
School of Mines and an M.S. from the University of Pittsburgh, both in Mechanical Engineering.
He attended one year at Pennsylvania State University graduate school and two years at Stanford
University, where he received the Degree of Engineer in engineering mechanics.
Robert M. Habiger worked for ConocoPhillips for over 28 years in various scientific and
management capacities in the disciplines of petrophysics and geophysics. While there, he held
various positions in research and development and in international exploration, including
Manager for Seismic Technology in the Houston corporate offices. He joined Spectraseis as
Chief Technology Officer in February 2007 where he is responsible for all technical aspects of
the company’s research and commercial offerings in passive seismic technology. These
programs and products include both hydrocarbon reservoir fluids monitoring from low frequency
passive seismic and microseismic monitoring associated with hydrofracing and fluid
injection/removal. Rob is the Director of the Low Frequency Seismic Partnership, an industrial
research consortium studying the application of low frequency passive seismic methods to
hydrocarbon fluid mapping. He holds bachelors, masters, and Ph.D. degrees in Physics.
Robin K. McGuire (NAE) is a consulting engineer specializing in earthquake engineering, risk
analysis, and decision analysis. His experience includes directing projects to determine
earthquake design requirements for new nuclear power plants in the central and eastern United
States; making recommendations to the Electric Power Research Institute and the U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission on seismic design requirements; consulting for the National Committee
on Property Insurance on earthquake matters and making recommendations to the California
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Department of Insurance; serving as lead consultant on probabilistic performance assessment of
the Yucca Mountain site as a possible high-level waste repository; and consulting on numerous
U.S. and overseas studies of seismic and environmental risk for utilities, insurance groups, and
commercial clients. Dr. McGuire was president of the Seismological Society of America (SSA)
in 1991-1992, authored the book Seismic Hazard and Risk Analysis in 2004, and was the Joyner
Lecturer in 2009 for the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute and the SSA. Dr. McGuire
received his S.B. in civil engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, M.S. in
structural engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. in structural
engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
James K. Mitchell (NAS/NAE) is currently University Distinguished Professor Emeritus at
Virginia Tech and Consulting Geotechnical Engineer. Prior to joining Virginia Tech in 1994, he
served on the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley since 1958, holding the Edward G.
Cahill and John R. Cahill Chair in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering there
at the time of his retirement in 1993. Concurrent to his tenure at UC Berkeley, he was Chairman
of Civil Engineering from 1979-84. His primary research activities have focused on experimental
and analytical studies of soil behavior related to geotechnical problems, admixture stabilization
of soils, soil improvement and ground reinforcement, physico-chemical phenomena in soils,
environmental geotechnics, time-dependent behavior of soils, in-situ measurement of soil
properties, and mitigation of ground failure risk during earthquakes. He has authored more than
375 publications, including the graduate level text and geotechnical reference, Fundamentals of
Soil Behavior. A licensed civil engineer and geotechnical engineer in California and professional
engineer in Virginia, Dr. Mitchell has served as chairman or officer for numerous national and
international organizations. He has chaired the NRC Geotechnical Board, three National
Research Council (NRC) study committees, and served as a member of several other NRC study
committees. He has received numerous awards including the Norman Medal and the Outstanding
Projects and Leaders Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the NASA
Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement. He was elected to the National Academy of
Engineering in 1976 and to the National Academy of Sciences in 1998. Dr. Mitchell received a
Bachelor of Civil Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and M.S. and Doctor of
Science degrees in civil engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Julie E. Shemeta is the president and founder of MEQ Geo Inc., a microseismic consulting and
services company based in Denver, Colorado. She has worked on microseismic projects in North
America, Australia, and India, including hydraulic fracture monitoring in tight gas, shale gas and
oil, steam-assisted gravity drainage, and coalbed methane projects. Her background includes
deep-water oil and gas exploration in the Gulf of Mexico, working in the geothermal industry for
developments in Indonesia and the Philippines, and working for a microseismic vendor
providing data processing and consulting on hydraulic fracture monitoring. Ms. Shemeta has
been actively involved with the development of software for both processing and visualization of
microseismic throughout her 20 year career. She has served on numerous meeting committees
for the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, the Society of Petroleum Engineers, and the
American Association of Petroleum Geologists. She co-chaired the DGS/RMAG (Denver
Geophysical Society and Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists) 3-D Seismic Symposium
from 2009-2011 and still active on the committee. She served as the Denver Geophysical
Society Treasurer in 2008-2009. She obtained her B.S. in geology at the University of
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Washington and M.S. degree in geophysics with a specialty in earthquake seismology at the
University of Utah.
John L. Bill Smith is presently a geothermal consultant having recently retired as a senior
geologist at the Northern California Power Agency (NCPA). He has 46 years of diversified
geologic, geophysical, and geochemical experience in the geothermal and oil and gas industry,
including numerous geothermal exploration and development projects in the western United
States and Japan. For the past 25 years he has worked at The Geysers, first designing, permitting,
and evaluating steam production and water injection wells to initially supply a 220 MW power
project, and then for more than the past decade monitoring the induced seismicity that occurs
both within the NCPA area of operations and throughout the entire Geysers field. Prior to joining
The Geysers, Dr. Smith worked for 10 years as an oil and gas exploration geologist and
geophysicist (seismologist) for Standard Oil of California (Chevron), then 11 years as Vice
President of Exploration for Republic Geothermal that included geothermal exploration and
development projects throughout California, Nevada, Utah, and Japan. Dr. Smith received his
A.B. in geology from Middlebury College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in geological sciences from
Indiana University.
STAFF BIOGRAPHIES
Elizabeth A. Eide is director of the Board on Earth Sciences and Resources at the National
Research Council (NRC). Prior to joining the NRC as a staff officer in 2005, she served as a
researcher, team leader, and laboratory manager for 12 years at the Geological Survey of Norway
in Trondheim. While in Norway her research included basic and applied projects related to
isotope geochronology, mineralogy and petrology, and crustal processes. Her publications
include more than 40 journal articles and book chapters, and 10 Geological Survey reports. She
has overseen 10 NRC studies. She completed a Ph.D. in geology at Stanford University and
received a B.A. in geology from Franklin and Marshall College.
Courtney R. Gibbs is a Program Associate with the NRC Board on Earth Sciences and
Resources. She received her degree in graphic design from the Pittsburgh Technical Institute in
2000 and began working for the National Academies in 2004. Prior to her work with the board,
Ms. Gibbs supported the Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board and the former Board on
Radiation Effects Research.
Jason R. Ortego is a research associate with the Board on Earth Sciences and Resources at the
National Academies. He received a B.A. in English from Louisiana State University in 2004 and
an M.A. in international affairs from George Washington University in 2008. He began working
for the National Academies in 2008 with the Board on Energy and Environmental Systems, and
in 2009 he joined the Board on Earth Sciences and Resources.
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