Appendix B
Biographies of the Workshop Planning Committee
Brian J. Anderson (Workshop Planning Committee Co-Chair) is the director of the West Virginia University (WVU) Energy Institute and the GE Plastics Materials Engineering Professor in Chemical Engineering at WVU. The WVU Energy Institute is the central university organization coordinating and facilitating collaborative research projects at WVU in fossil energy, sustainable energy, energy policy, and environmental stewardship related to energy. Dr. Anderson was awarded the 2012 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers, and a 2014 Kavli National Academy of Science Frontiers of Science Fellow. He has been a National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)-Regional University Alliance Faculty Fellow at the NETL since 2008, where he is the coordinator of the International Methane Hydrate Reservoir Simulator Code Comparison study. In 2011, he was awarded a Secretary Honor Achievement Award from the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy for his role in the Flow Rate Technical Group, a team spanning multiple National Laboratories that worked in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. After joining the faculty at WVU in January 2006, he co-authored the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) report, The Future of Geothermal Energy: Impact of Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) on the United States in the 21st Century, considered the seminal report on EGS and the future of geothermal energy. He serves on the technical advisory board of AltaRock Energy and in 2011, along with colleagues from Stanford, MIT, Cornell, University of Utah, Southern Methodist University, and the University of Nevada, he co-founded the National Geothermal Academy. His research interests include molecular, reservoir, and multiscale modeling applied to energy and biomedical systems. Dr. Anderson received his BS in chemical engineering at WVU and his MS and PhD in chemical engineering from MIT. WVU is a sponsor of the Roundtable.
Julia Hobson Haggerty (Workshop Planning Committee Co-Chair) is an assistant professor of geography in Montana State University’s Earth Science Department and holds a joint appointment with the Montana Institute on Ecosystems. Haggerty’s research focuses on in-
teractions between natural resource use and the social and economic wellbeing of rural communities. Her specific research interests include underserved and tribal communities, metrics and theories of community resilience, participatory research, and longitudinal impact assessment. Haggerty currently directs “Escaping the Resource Curse,” a multi-institutional research project funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to assess local costs and benefits of unconventional oil and gas development in the Bakken, Powder River Basin, and Marcellus shale regions. She is co-Director of energyimpacts.org, an NSF-funded Research Coordination Network focused on cross-disciplinary social science research on energy development. Prior to joining Montana State University in 2013, Haggerty worked for five years as a policy analyst for the regional non-profit research group Headwaters Economics. There she gained extensive experience working directly with decision-makers in local, state and regional contexts. Haggerty is a native of Boston and a graduate of Colorado College. She received her PhD in history from the University of Colorado-Boulder in 2004 and was a post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for the Study of Agriculture, Food and Environment at the University of Otago (New Zealand) from 2005-2007.
Susan L. Brantley (NAS) is Distinguished Professor of Geosciences in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at The Pennsylvania State University, where she is also the director of the Earth and Environmental Systems Institute. She has been on the faculty at Penn State since 1986. Dr. Brantley’s career as a geochemist focuses on the chemistry of natural waters both at the surface of Earth and deeper in the crust. Dr. Brantley and her research group investigate chemical, biological, and physical processes associated with the circulation of aqueous fluids in shallow hydrogeologic settings. She has published more than 160 refereed journal articles and 15 book chapters. Professor Brantley is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the Geological Society of America (GSA), the Geochemical Society, the European Association of Geochemistry, and the International Association for GeoChemistry. She was president of the Geochemical Society from 2006 to 2008. Professor Brantley was awarded the Arthur L. Day Medal from the GSA in 2011, the Presidential Award from the Soil Science Society of America in 2012, and an honorary doctorate from the Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse III, France) in 2012. Dr. Brantley was appointed to the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board on September 21, 2012, by President Barack Obama. Also in 2012, she was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Brantley received her AB in chemistry (1980) and her MA and PhD in geological and geophysical sciences in 1983 and 1987, respectively, all from Princeton University.
Jeffrey J. Daniels is a geophysicist and professor in the School of Earth Sciences (SES) at The Ohio State University, Director of the Utica Shale Energy and Environment Laboratory, and associate director of the Subsurface Energy Materials Research Laboratory within SES. After his graduate studies, he worked for a brief time for Chevron Oil Company in Denver, and subsequently worked for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) developing borehole geophysical methods for resource assessment, and later working on issues related to subsurface evaluation of sites for nuclear waste isolation. He joined the faculty at Ohio State in 1985 where his research has included the development of subsurface geophysical evaluation tools for hazardous waste, primarily through the Environmental Protection Agency Superfund Program, and the development and application of geophysical techniques for interpreting subsurface geology. His current research focus includes studies of the physical properties of sedimentary rocks, focusing on Ohio’s subsurface with primary application to carbon sequestration and shale gas. He was the Founding President of the Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society (EEGS), served eight years on the Science Advisory
Board for the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP, the environmental science and development program for the Department of Defense), and helped form and establish the Institute for Energy and Environment (IEE) at Ohio State and the University Clean Energy Alliance of Ohio (UCEAO). He is currently a member of the Ohio Oil and Gas Commission and a member of the Health Effects Institute Special Committee on Unconventional Oil and Gas Development. He is also currently the lead PI on a $7.2 million Department of Energy-funded project entitled “Utica Shale Energy and Environment Laboratory”—a drilling project that is a consortium of academic institutions, non-governmental organizations, and industry conducting field research to advance engineering and scientific field practices, and to understand the environmental and community effects of unconventional oil and gas development. He has a BSc and MSc from Michigan State University and a PhD in Geophysics from the Colorado School of Mines.
Paul Doucette is a Global Public Policy leader for GE’s O&G business. He is responsible for the development and execution of growth strategies with regard to monitoring, influencing, and responding to government policy and for establishing collaborative research relationships with governments, universities and customers. Prior to joining GE in 2007, his career includes roles with Cornell Companies, Inc. as Vice President of Public Affairs and Business Development; serving as Vice President of Ward Creative Communications; Director of Public and Government Affairs with Star Enterprise; and with Texaco in roles ranging from Sales to Director of Public and Government Affairs. Paul served with the 2nd Bomb Wing, 2nd Air Force of the Strategic Air Command. He holds a MBA from Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, Louisiana and a BA from Louisiana Tech University. He is a graduate of the Advanced Executive Development Program of the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University.
David Glatt is the section chief for the environmental health section of the North Dakota Department of Health. Over a career spanning more than 30 years with the Department, he has worked within the Division of Water Quality, and as division director for the Division of Chemistry and Division of Waste Management. His extensive experience includes regulatory compliance issues for the Safe Drinking Water Act, groundwater protection, and the North Dakota Arsenic Trioxide Superfund Project. He is the state representative for North Dakota in the Environmental Council of the States (ECOS), a national non-profit, non-partisan association of state and territorial environmental agency leaders. The purpose of ECOS is to improve the capability of state environmental agencies and their leaders to protect and improve human health and the environment. He is also a board member of the North Dakota Water Well Contractors Board and the Red River Basin Commission, and serves as the state representative for the International Souris River Basin Commission. He received his BS in biology and his MS in environmental engineering from North Dakota State University.
Steven P. Hamburg is chief scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). In this role, he works to ensure that EDF’s advocacy is based on the best available science. He is currently coordinating 16 studies on methane emissions from along the natural gas supply chain. Prior to joining EDF he spent 25 years on the faculty of Brown University and the University of Kansas, published extensively on biogeochemistry, climate change impacts on forests, and carbon accounting, and served as a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He currently co-chairs the Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative (joint project of The Royal Society, the World Academy of Sciences, and EDF) and serves
on the Hubbard Brook Research Foundation, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Board on Environmental Science and Toxicology, as well as many university and government advisory bodies. EDF is a sponsor of the Roundtable.
Joe Lima is the Global Environmental Solutions Manager and Director of Environmental Sustainability for Schlumberger Services, Inc. Before this role, he served as the Unconventional Resources Theme Manager for North America, where he was responsible for directing technology development and application throughout the region specifically for shale and tight gas environments. From 2004 through 2008 he was the Oilfield Services Marketing Manager for the western United States, developing strategic growth plans for Schlumberger as well as managing the sales organization and executive-level client relationships. Previously, he was the Business Development Manager for Schlumberger’s multistage hydraulic fracturing technologies. Mr. Lima also served in various management roles for Well Services facilities throughout the U.S. hydraulic fracturing markets, including the San Juan, Anadarko, and Arkoma Basins. He spent four years as an in-house completions engineer for various Schlumberger clients and has served on the boards of the Colorado Oil and Gas Association, the Interstate Petroleum Association of Mountain States, and the California Independent Petroleum Association. He holds a BS in petroleum engineering from Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio. Schlumberger is a sponsor of the Roundtable.
Jan Mares is a senior policy advisor at Resources for the Future. He was previously a business liaison and deputy director at the Private Sector Office of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. During the Reagan Administration, Mr. Mares was an assistant secretary of commerce for import administration and a senior policy analyst at the White House, where he was involved with environment, energy, trade, and technology issues. He also served as assistant secretary of energy for international affairs and energy emergencies; assistant secretary of energy for policy, safety, and environment; and assistant secretary of energy for fossil energy. For six months, he was the acting under secretary of energy. Before entering federal service, Mr. Mares was with Union Carbide Corporation for 18 years, half in the Law Department, working on antitrust compliance and purchasing issues, and half in its chemical business, including leading an effort for three years to create a chemicals joint venture with a Middle East government company and being the operations/profit manager for several groups of industrial chemicals. Subsequent to his service in the Reagan administration, he worked with the Washington, DC, law firm Shaw Pittman, the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Association, and the EOP Group (a Washington, DC, environment, energy, and budget consulting firm). He received his BA in chemistry from Harvard College, his MS in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his LLB from Harvard Law School.
Kris J. Nygaard is Senior Stimulation Consultant, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Co. In his Senior Technical Professional role, Dr. Nygaard is the corporation’s recognized expert on hydraulic fracturing and related well construction technologies. Dr. Nygaard advises the research and development program at ExxonMobil’s Upstream Research Company and works with ExxonMobil’s business units on technology strategy, deployment, and applications. He began his career at Exxon Production Research in 1992 following a postdoctoral research and teaching assignment at the University of Arizona. During his 23 years with ExxonMobil, he has held technical and management positions in the areas of drilling, subsurface engineering, well completions, and unconventional resources. In 2010, he was assigned to lead the
Upstream Fracturing Center of Excellence, coordinating ExxonMobil’s worldwide hydraulic fracturing resources and fracturing related technical interfaces. During the past three years he has also led ExxonMobil’s efforts to address risks of induced seismicity, serves as chair of the American Petroleum Institute’s induced seismicity workgroup, and is currently a technical advisor to several oil and gas regulators in the United States (via the StatesFirst initiative). In addition, he has served as consultant to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency related to studies associated with hydraulic fracturing and underground injection. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Seismological Society of America. He holds a BS in mechanical engineering, a MS in aerospace engineering, and a PhD in mechanical engineering, all from the University of Arizona. ExxonMobil is a sponsor of the Roundtable.
Amy Pickle directs the State Policy Program at Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions. She focuses on state and local roles in developing energy resources; state energy planning; the interaction among federal, state, and local water management policies; the role of water utilities in green infrastructure implementation; and local governments’ efforts to adapt to climate change and improve urban sustainability. Her research interests include governance of unconventional oil and gas exploration and development; water resources management; state administrative law; energy law and climate adaptation law. Ms. Pickle has served on the North Carolina Ecological Flows Science Advisory Board, which was tasked with reviewing the current science on ecological impacts associated with reduction of surface water flows. She has also served on the North Carolina Environmental Management Commission, which is the state’s primary air and water resource regulatory commission, and the North Carolina Mining and Energy Commission (MEC). As vice-chair of the MEC and chair of the Rules Committee, Ms. Pickle played a critical role in developing North Carolina’s rules for unconventional oil and gas exploration and development. She holds a JD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a BA in English and chemistry from the University of Florida.
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