Faculty 

Dr. Stefan Bachu is the Principal Scientist on CO2 Geological Storage at the Alberta Research Council (ARC). He has spent over a decade researching carbon storage, and over 20 years researching the subsurface flow of fluids and heat in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. Dr. Bachu holds advanced degrees in water resources, hydrogeology and transport processes. Additionally, Dr. Bachu is associate editor (for CO2 geological storage) of the International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, and has been an adjunct professor at both the University of Calgary and the University of Alberta. Dr. Bachu has published more than 150 papers in journals and conference proceedings, and made more than 230 presentations at various conferences and symposia, of which almost half are on the subject of CO2 geological storage. For 15 years, Dr. Bachu was head of the energy section of the Alberta Geological Survey, which was part of ARC before it was transferred in 1996 to ERCB. Dr. Bachu received his doctorate in civil engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta (APEGGA), Professional engineers Ontario (PEO) and the American Geophysical Union.

Dr. Sally M. Benson is the Executive Director of the Global Climate Change and Energy Project (GCEP) at Stanford University, where she is also a Professor of Research in the Department of Energy Resources Engineering (ERE) in the School of Earth Sciences. Her research group in ERE investigates fundamental characteristics of carbon dioxide storage in geologic formations as a means of climate change mitigation. She teaches courses on carbon dioxide capture and storage and greenhouse gas mitigation technologies. Prior to joining GCEP, Dr. Benson worked at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), serving in a number of capacities, including Division Director for Earth Sciences, Associate Laboratory Director for Energy Sciences, and Deputy Director for Operations. A ground water hydrologist and reservoir engineer, Dr. Benson has conducted research to address a range of issues related to energy and the environment. For the past 10 years, she has studied how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by capturing carbon dioxide from power plants and pumping it into deep underground formations for permanent sequestration. Dr. Benson was a coordinating lead author on the influential 2005 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage. Her research interests also include technologies and energy systems for a low-carbon future, groundwater quality and remediation, biogeochemistry of selenium, and geotechnical instrumentation for subsurface characterization and monitoring. Dr. Benson graduated from Barnard College at Columbia University in 1977 with a bachelor’s degree in geology. She completed her graduate education in 1988 at the University of California, Berkeley, after receiving master’s and doctoral degrees, both in materials science and mineral engineering. She is the author or co-author of over 160 scientific publications, a member of the American Geophysical Union, the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

Dr. Kathryn Berchtold is a Technical Staff Member and Project Leader for CO2 separation and capture technologies at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).  She specializes in development of polybenzimidazole (PBI)-based polymeric-metallic composite materials and structures for utilization as advanced high temperature separation membranes for hydrogen purification and carbon capture.  Dr. Berchtold received her PhD from the University of Colorado.

Mr. Jeff Bielicki (RECS alumni mentor and faculty) is a research fellow with the Energy Technology Innovation Policy Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where he is also a PhD student in public policy.  Jeff researches technological innovation and deployment at the nexus of engineering, environmental, and social systems.  He is currently focusing on a number of issues pertaining to the scale and implications of the deployment of CCS as it couples the organization of CO2 -emitting sources with the organization of amenable CO2 storage geology.  His recent work includes the impact of CCS on the location of electric power generation, the viability of permanent CO2 storage in deep-sea sediment, and the returns to scale for CCS.  Before Harvard, Jeff was a mechanical engineer at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (outside Chicago, Ill.) and the University of Rochester University for Laser Energetics (Rochester, N.Y.).  He has published pieces on solar energy and antiproton production.  Through his participation in the Young Scientists Summer Program, Jeff was a member of the Transitions to New Technologies program at the International Institute for Systems Analysis (IIASA).  He was also a Santa Fe Institute research scholar at the complex systems summer school, and a Crump Fellow.  He holds a BSME (Valparaiso University), an MBA (University of Chicago), and an MPA (Harvard University).  He is a member of Tau Beta Pi (engineering honor society), Sigma Xi (scientific research society), the American Society for Mechanical Engineers, the American Economic Association, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.  Jeff is an improvisational comedian, a baseball player, and a student of Tae Kwon Do.

Mr. Dave Bowen is an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at Montana State University. His research interests focus on both the surface and subsurface analysis of sedimentary basins and the stratigraphy of basin-fill deposits. The projects he is currently involved with include reservoir scale sequence stratigraphy of the Iles Formation - NW Colorado, stratigraphy and hydrocarbon potential of Cretaceous rocks in the Green River basin of Wyoming, and the study of Pennsylvanian Morrow incised valley-fill sequences of eastern Colorado and western Kansas. Under MSU’s Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership, Mr. Bowen is a researcher on a study of the potential for geologic carbon sequestration at Kevin Dome, located in northern Montana. He received his BS in Geosciences from Hobart College, an MS in Earth Sciences at Montana State University and is a Ph.D. Candidate in Geology at University of Colorado

Mr. Ron Broadhead received his B.S. in Geology from New Mexico Tech and his M.S. in Geology from the University of Cincinnati. He worked for Cities Service Oil Company in Tulsa and Oklahoma City and has been with the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources (a Division of New Mexico Tech) since 1981 where he is presently Principal Petroleum Geologist and teaches subsurface and petroleum geology at New Mexico Tech. At the Bureau, major research projects have included the gas-productive Abo redbeds; the New Mexico petroleum source rock project; subsurface and petroleum geology of the Tucumcari and Estancia Basins; CO2 accumulations in New Mexico; petroleum geology of the Sin Nombre and Chupadera Mesa areas; helium-rich natural gases of New Mexico and oil and gas resources at the WIPP site; and, in conjunction with the BEG, analyses of major oil reservoirs in the Permian Basin. Most recently, he has worked on the stratigraphy and petroleum geology of Mississippian strata in the Permian Basin, natural gas in north-central New Mexico, and the distribution of CO2-rich gases in New Mexico.

Dr. Grant Bromhal is currently the Research Group Leader for the Sequestration, Hydrocarbons and Related Programs Group of the U.S. Department of Energy at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) in Morgantown, WV.  He previously served as a National Research Council post-doc, also at NETL.  His current research focuses on risk assessment and modeling of environmental and energy systems, particularly related to carbon sequestration.  Dr. Bromhal received bachelors' degrees in Civil Engineering and Mathematics from West Virginia University, a Masters degree from Carnegie Mellon in Civil and Environmental Engineering and a PhD from

Dr. Bill Carey has been a staff member at Los Alamos National for 14 years and is currently Team Leader, Earth & Planetary Materials.  His expertise is in the thermodynamic and kinetics of mineral- and rock-fluid interactions. He has worked extensively with zeolites, clays, cements, and other materials in both theoretical and experimental studies of phase equilibria, thermodynamic properties, reaction kinetics, and crystal chemistry. For the last several years, his work has focused on carbon sequestration through mineralization and geologic storage with particular emphasis on the problem of wellbore integrity.  Dr. Carey received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in experimental geochemistry and thermodynamics, an MS in Geology at the University of Oregon, and a BS in Geology at the University of Wisconsin.

Dr. Michael Celia is chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University.  He received a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Lafayette College in 1978, and an M.S. (1979) and PhD (1983) in Civil Engineering from Princeton University.  In 1985 he joined the faculty of M.I.T., and returned to Princeton to join the Civil Engineering faculty in 1989.    Professor Celia's areas of research include groundwater hydrology, ecohydrology, numerical modeling, contaminant transport simulation, and multiphase flow physics.  Ongoing projects include pore-scale network models to study interface dynamics, reactive transport, and scaling in porous media systems; computational studies of plant responses to variations in soil moisture in water-stressed ecosystems, with a focus on applications in sub-Saharan Africa; and studies associated with large-scale injection of CO₂ into deep brine formations as a possible mitigation strategy for the atmospheric carbon problem.  The carbon work is part of a large multi-disciplinary effort at Princeton known as the Carbon Mitigation Initiative.  Professor Celia served for 10 years as editor of the journal Advances in Water Resources.  He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, recipient of the 2005 AGU Hydrologic Sciences Award, and has been named the 2008 Darcy Lecturer by the National Ground Water Association

Dr. Timothy Carr is West Virginia University’s Marshall S. Miller Energy Professor in the Department of Geography and Geology and the Director of NATCARB, a U.S. Department of Energy supported project to explore geological sequestration of carbon through linking geological and emission databases from several regional centers into a single interactive mapping system. Dr. Carr received a B.A. in economics from the University of Wisconsin, an M.S. in Geology from Texas Tech University, and a Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Wisconsin. He joined Atlantic Richfield (ARCO) in 1980 where he worked in several research, operations, and management positions, and was involved in exploration and development projects in Alaska, the North Sea, East Greenland, California, and Kansas. In 1992, Dr. Carr became Chief of the Energy Research Section and Senior Scientist for the Kansas Geological Survey at the University of Kansas, where he was co-director of the Energy Research Center and courtesy professor in the Department of Geology. He joined WVU in 2008 and his current projects include research and public service efforts in the areas of subsurface petroleum geology and geophysics, energy systems, green house gas sequestration, environmental geology, and developing on-line information systems to improve public access to petroleum information and technology.

Ms. Casie Davidson is a Research Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).  Ms. Davidson’s research interests focus on analysis at the interface between natural, economic, and policy systems. Since joining PNNL in 2003, her research has focused on understanding the role that carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) systems may play as part of the larger effort to stabilize concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Ms. Davidson was a major contributor on the CO2 Storage Supply Curve for North America, a first-of-its-kind study conducted for the International Energy Agency's Greenhouse Gas Programme.  She is currently working toward completion of a similar assessment of potential geologic CO2 storage resources and demand in China, culminating in development of a CO2 storage supply curve. Her other work includes modeling of the deployment of CCS under various CO2 stabilization pathways and its temporal and spatial impacts on the fossil-fired power sector; development of a project-level costing model designed to facilitate analyses of the impacts of project- and site-specific characteristics on overall project and per-ton mitigation costs; the development of a methodology to quantify costs associated with the impacts of natural seismicity on CCS operations; and other work through the Global Energy Technology Strategy Program, the Joint Global Change Research Institute and PNNL's Carbon Management Initiative.  Casie has a B.S. in Geology and an M.S. in Resource and Applied Economics.

Dr. Julianna Fessenden-Rahn is the Technical Co-Director of the 2007 RECS program and a Staff Scientist in the Hydrology, Geochemistry and Geology Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Her research focus is on CO2 measurement, monitoring and verification technologies and methods, stable isotopes, forest ecology, plant physiology, paleoclimate reconstructions, enviornmental restoration, forensics, and carbon sequestration.  As a postdoctoral research fellow at LANL, California Institute of Technology, and University of Utah, Dr. Fessenden researched land-use change on carbon storage, paleo-drought cycles in the Southwest, and waste decomposition in wetlands. She also researched the carbon cycling in Alaska’s boreal forest and determined the nutrient acquisition and carbon turnover in Pacific Northwest forests of varying ages.  Dr. Fessenden received a Ph.D. in Earth Science from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California (UC), San Diego as well as a B.A. in Environmental Chemistry, and a B.S. in Biochemistry/Cell Biology from UC San Diego.

Ms. Lauren Fleishman (RECS 2008) is a PhD candidate in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses on public perceptions of CCS and other low-carbon electricity options. Since receiving a B.S. in Mathematics and Environmental Policy from American University, Lauren has been involved in a number of risk-related fields. She first worked as an Actuary for GEICO, analyzing automobile accident risk. After receiving an M.S. in Environmental Risk Assessment from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Lauren became a consultant for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, assessing nuclear accident risk. Her broad research interests include risk perception and communication, risk-informed decision-making, environmental risk assessment and applications of these to global climate change, low-carbon energy alternatives and low-probability, high-consequence events.

Dr. J. Stephen Fries (RECS 2008) is an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow with the Global Change and Drinking Water Research Program in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). His focus is on evaluating research with respect to water implications of climate and energy policies and has been involved in the EPA’s geologic sequestration regulatory development. Previously, Dr. Fries held postdoctoral positions at Rutgers University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a dual-degree B.S. in Civil Engineering and Engineering Public Policy, followed by a Ph.D. from the Joint Program between Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Civil and Environmental and Oceanographic Engineering.

Dr. Gary Gianniny is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geosciences at Fort Lewis College. He earned his B.A. in Geology from Colorado College, M.S. and Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Dr. Gianniny's doctoral research focused on the facies and sequence stratigraphic evolution of the mixed carbonate-siliciclastic strata from the Lower Desmoinesian of the southwestern Paradox basin, Utah. After his graduate work he joined the Wisconsin Geologic and Natural History Survey as a carbonate sedimentologist and worked with a team of scientists investigating the stratigraphic control on dissolution in the karst aquifer of Silurian carbonates of Door County Wisconsin. Dr. Gianniny then taught at Beloit College as a visiting assistant professor for a semester before moving to a postdoctoral research and teaching position at Idaho State University. His collaborative research on the Snake River Plain has combined sedimentological characterization of the aquifer with a fascinating record of Pleistocene climate change from lacustrine sediments. He also served as an assistant Professor of Geology at Bucknell University. Dr. Gianniny is a member of Geological Society of America, the Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM), National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT), Sigma Xi, and the Four Corners Geological Society.

Dr. Reid Grigg is a Principal Investigator with the Southwest Partnership on Carbon Sequestration (SWP) and heads the Gas Flooding Processes and Flow Heterogeneities Group at the Petroleum Recovery Research Center and is an Adjunct Professor in the Petroleum and Chemical Engineering Department at New Mexico Tech. His research interests include high-pressure gas flooding processes; phase behavior; and studies of the fluid properties of high-pressure injection gas and reservoir fluid for improved oil recovery, and their effect on flow in porous media. The group's research is focused on improving and understanding mechanisms for improved mobility control in oil reservoirs. Dr. Grigg worked for Conoco for over 10 years as a research scientist and chemist, and he spent a year with Core Laboratories before joining the PRRC. He obtained his PhD in physical chemistry from Brigham Young University and has authored over 30 publications. He is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the American Chemical Society, and Sigma Xi.

Dr. George Guthrie is a mineralogist/geochemist and leads the geological and environmental sciences focus area for the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). Dr. Guthrie received his AB in geology (Harvard, 1984) and PhD in mineralogy/crystallography (Johns Hopkins, 1989). He joined Los Alamos National Laboratory as a Director's-funded postdoctoral fellow in 1989 and became a staff member in 1992 before joining NETL in 2008. His research interests include the geochemistry of mineral-fluid interactions using techniques such as electron microscopy, diffraction methods, and computer modeling. He is particularly interested in environmental challenges, including geochemical evolution of cement-based composite, health effects of inhaled minerals, and CO2 sequestration. Dr. Guthrie is a fellow in the Mineralogical Society of America and received an R&D100 Award for work on the geochemistry of concrete. He is author or co-author on more than 40 peer-reviewed publications, editor of one book, and co-author on 2 patents.

Mr. Lee Harris is a Research Scientist at the Petroleum Recovery Research Center at New Mexico Tech in Socorro, New Mexico. He is currently working on monitoring CO2 injection at several injection sites via soil flux and produced CO2 measurements, including the Pump Canyon Test Project under the Southwest Partnership on Carbon Sequestration. Lee is completing a Masters degree in Engineering Management at New Mexico Tech, and has a B.S. in Mathematics with a minor in Physics, a B.S. in General Sciences and an A.A.S. degree in Instrumentation and Controls.

Dr. Douglas P. Harrison, Voorhies Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering, retired in 2005 after 36 years of teaching and research at Louisiana State University (LSU). He worked in private industry prior to joining LSU, and served as a consultant to government agencies and private industries during his career. He remains professionally active by teaching short courses, consulting, and writing for professional journals. He is currently serving on the organizing committee for a meeting on “High Temperature Solid Looping Cycles for CO2 Capture” sponsored by the International Energy Agency (IEA) to be held in Spain in September 2009. Dr. Harrison’s research centered on the application of noncatalytic gas-solid reactions to high temperature gas treatment. Most recently before retirement, his research group studied the addition of CaO as a CO2 acceptor to the Ni-based reforming catalyst in the steam-methane reforming reaction for H2 production with CO2 capture. Dr. Harrison spent 2004 on sabbatical with the IEA Greenhouse Gas Programme to broaden his background from strictly CO2 capture to include other aspects of CCS.

Mr. Mark Holtz is a reservoir engineer and geologist with over 25 years of oil and gas research and industry experience as a scientist at The University of Texas at Austin and currently as Director of International Business Development, Enhanced Oil Recovery for Praxair. His expertise focuses on integration of geologic concepts and engineering methods in both carbonate and sandstone oil and gas reservoirs to improve oil and gas recovery. Mark's engineering skills have been broadly applied in oil and gas projects throughout Texas, as well as siliciclastic sequences in the Australian Cooper and Eromanga Basins, Venezuela, Argentina, Mexico, India, China, and Vienna Basin. His enhanced oil recovery experience has focused on CO2 and N2 gas displacement recovery. He received the West Texas Geological Society Distinguished Service award in 2002 and has published extensively as an authored or co-authored in the form of University of Texas Monographs and reports, technical papers, and abstracts on reservoir characterization and enhanced/improved oil and gas recovery topics. He has taught numerous short courses in the form of DOE technology transfer courses, public continuing education, University classes, and in-house oil company courses, in Australia, Argentina, US, Mexico, Columbia, China, and Venezuela. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Geology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and Bachelor's and Masters Degrees in Petroleum Engineering from The University of Texas, Austin. He serves as a reservoir engineering technical editor for the Society of Petroleum.

Dr. Kurt Zenz House (RECS 2005) studies and develops methods for large-scale capture and storage of anthropogenic carbon dioxide. He is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a research associate with the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, and the President & Chief Scientist of a venture-capital-backed CCS company. Kurt has patented and licensed electrochemical weathering, a novel process that expedites the ocean's natural ability to absorb carbon dioxide. Additionally, he co-founded the Harvard Energy Journal Club to facilitate cross-disciplinary discussions about energy technology; in 2007, Esquire magazine featured him among its "Best and Brightest." He holds a bachelor's degree in physics from the Claremont Colleges and a Ph.D. in geoscience from Harvard University.

Mr. Revis James has over 25 years of experience in the electric power industry, of which the past 14 have been the Electric Power Research Institute developing R&D strategy for the electricity industry. Currently, Mr. James is Director of the EPRI Energy Technology Assessment Center, as well as the Program Manager of the EPRI/Electricité de France (EdF) Strategic Partnership. The Energy Technology Assessment Center performs interdisciplinary studies of key strategic issues facing the electricity industry, such as the effect of prospective CO2 emissions allowance prices on electricity generation technology or the strategic importance of efficiency and demand response measures in long-range utility planning. Mr. James has been responsible for developing and managing EPRI’s strategic partnership with EdF, who has the largest international R&D program focused on electric power. Mr. James spent 2 ½ years in France as part of this assignment. Prior to his assignment to EdF, Mr. James was Program Manager of EPRI’s Strategic Science & Technology Program (now known as the EPRI Technology Innovation program). In this role, Mr. James was responsible for strategic planning, project management, and delivery of SS&T research results. This program’s mission is to anticipate and focus on the electricity industry’s most important technological needs and to remove technological barriers to significant advances in the way electricity is produced, delivered, and utilized. In this capacity, Mr. James has been intimately involved in the development of the Electricity Technology Roadmap and underlying strategic research objectives forming the basis of the EPRI R&D portfolio. Prior to managing the SS&T Program, Mr. James spent 5 years managing the instrumentation & diagnostics and maintenance optimization research programs in EPRI’s Nuclear Power research program. During this period, he led the technical resolution of several sensitive industry issues with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Prior to joining EPRI, Mr. James spent 11 years in engineering design and construction serving electric power utility companies. His technical activities included radiation transport, shielding and dose assessment, plant configuration and data architecture management, engineering and database software development, and process instrumentation performance & calibration analysis. Mr. James holds an M.S. degree in Nuclear Engineering, and B.S. degrees in Nuclear Engineering and Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California at Berkeley. Mr. James is a member of the American Nuclear Society

Mr. Jordan Kislear is a program analyst for the Office of Clean Coal at the U.S. Department of Energy. He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University in 2002. He began his career with the Department in 2000 through the Technical Career Internship Program, examining novel concepts in Carbon Sequestration. In 2001, he conducted and published research at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) on hybrid gas turbine / fuel cell systems, continuing on as a program analyst with the Office of Fossil Energy's Office of Clean Coal after graduation in 2002. Jordan's current responsibilities include water regulations for power plants related to water intake and discharge, and regulations regarding coal ash and other solid wastes from coal fired power plants..

Mr. George Koperna is a Vice President with Advanced Resources International, Inc. and has nearly 15 years of experience conducting and supervising projects within the energy sector, with emphasis on the reservoir and operational aspects of unconventional resources and the use of carbon dioxide for both enhanced recovery and sequestration. He is the co-technical lead for a Mississippi saline reservoir sequestration experiment and is a co-author of Advanced Resources’ Basin-Oriented Carbon Dioxide Enhanced Oil Recovery studies. Mr. Koperna holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science Degrees in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering awarded from West Virginia University and currently represents the Northeastern United States on the Board of Directors for the Society of Petroleum Engineers.

Dr. Klaus S. Lackner is the Ewing-Worzel Professor of Geophysics in the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Heidelberg, Germany. After postdoctoral positions at Caltech and Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, he joined Los Alamos National Laboratory where he held various positions including Acting Associate Director of Strategic and Supporting Research. Presently, he is developing innovative approaches to energy issues of the future focusing on environmentally acceptable technologies for the use of fossil fuels.

Dr. Dave Lageson is a Professor of Geology, Department of Earth Sciences and Montana State University (MSU).  His research program focuses on the structural geology and tectonic evolution of the Rocky Mountains, from Montana to Colorado.  Under MSU’s Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership, Dr. Lageson is a researcher on a study of the potential for geologic carbon sequestration at Kevin Dome, located in northern Montana.  Dr. Lageson received his BA from Western State College of Colorado, and an MS and PhD from the University of Wyoming.

Mr. Ned Leonard is the Associate Vice President of Policy for the Center for Energy and Economic Development (CEED).

Ms. Xinxin Li (RECS 2008) is a PhD student in the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering at Columbia University. Her research focus is in developing computational models to optimize power plants integrated with CCS systems. Ms. Li has applied her industry experience to her research. In summer 2005, she worked with the Babcock and Wilcox Company where she conducted a techno- economic analysis of different carbon capture options for coal-fired power plants. In summer 2006, she worked in China with the desulphurization group of Datang Environmental Technology and Engineering Company. Xinxin is also interested in the energy policies and economics, in summer 2007, worked with the Chinese academy of social science on a project to understand the non-regret choice for China's energy future under uncertainties.

Mr. Rod Madsen is a Senior Product Specialist at LI-COR Biosciences in Lincoln, Nebraska. He has been involved with soil CO2 flux research and instrument design for the past 6 years. As a Product Specialist, Rod is involved with technical training, sales and marketing, research and development, and product management of various environmental instrumentation including the LI-8100 Automated Soil CO2 Flux System. Rod received his B.S. in Biology at the University of Nebraska-Kearney and his M.S. in Entomology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Dr. Juerg M. Matter is a Doherty Associate Research Scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. He is currently working on finding ways to reduce the impact of anthropogenic CO2 emissions on global warming by geologic carbon sequestration. He has a M.S. in geology and a Ph.D. in  hydrogeology from the Swiss Federal  Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland.  Dr. Matter started his scientific career in the field of Water Resources Research, where he focused on regional groundwater flow systems in semiarid to arid basins in the Sultanate of Oman. After joining Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory his research focus shifted from the problem of water scarcity problem to climate change. He is leading research activities in several geologic sequestration projects in the U.S., Iceland, and Oman.

Dr. Sean T. McCoy is a Research Engineer and Project Manager in Carnegie Mellon University’s (CMU) Department of Engineering and Public Policy for CCSReg, a collaborative project to design a regulatory framework for CCS in the U.S. His major research focus has been developing a set of engineering and economic models to analyze CCS economics under different circumstances and configurations. Dr. McCoy received his Ph.D. in Engineering and Public Policy from CMU and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Waterloo in the Environmental Engineering (Chemical Specialization) program. As part of his co-op engineering program at the University of Waterloo, he gained engineering experience with several different companies including Honeywell, Imperial Oil, Hitachi and Shell Canada.

Mr. Travis McLing is a Staff Scientist in the Geoscience Research Group at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL).  He has more than 15 years experience in earth science related fields including groundwater geochemistry and field-related geology and is the the primary hydrochemical modeler for the INEEL.  His duties include determining the relative contribution of various host rocks to the overall chemical budget of the aquifer in order to understand the fate and transport of contaminants generated by waste disposal activities.  Additionally, he is a member of INEEL groundwater committee, which advises DOE-ID on issues relating to management of the groundwater resource at the Site.  Mr. McLing's current interests lie in the fields of geomicrobiology and groundwater geochemistry.  He is currently working on the development of an isotope and water temperature based geochemical model to predict contaminant transport groundwater flow in the Snake River Plain Aquifer.  He received his BS in Geology and MS in Geochemistry from Idaho State University where he is currently a PhD candidate.

Mr. Michael E. Moore is Vice President of Business Development and External Affairs for Blue Source. He is focusing on the development of commercial CCS opportunities as well as advocacy work related to CCS legislation at Federal and state levels. He has 28 years of energy commodity and derivatives (oil, gas, power, carbon) experience in brokering, market development, business development and strategy. Moore is a founding board member of the Texas Carbon Capture and Storage Association, the Executive Director of The North American Carbon Capture Storage Association and was a founding board member for The Coalition for Commodity CO2, and recently an active member of the Strategic Planning Committee of the Florida Natural Gas Association and retained advisor to the Gulf Coast Carbon Center. He is a regular speaker and contributor in national and international CCS and energy related events.

Dr. Rajesh J. Pawar is a Staff Scientist in the Hydrology, Geochemistry and Geology Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory

Dr. Steve Running is trained as a terrestrial ecologist who received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Oregon State University, and a Ph.D. in Forest Ecology from Colorado State University. He has been with the University of Montana, Missoula, since 1979, where he is a Professor of Ecology. His primary research interest is the development of global and regional ecosystem biogeochemical models by integration of remote sensing with climatology and terrestrial ecology. He is a Team Member for the NASA Earth Observing System, Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer and is responsible for the EOS global terrestrial net primary production and evaporative index datasets. He has published over 240 scientific articles. He currently serves on the standing Committee for Earth Studies of the National Research Council, and on the federal Interagency Carbon Cycle Science Committee. He is a Co-Chair of the National Center for Atmospheric Research Community Climate System Model Land Working Group, a Member of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program Executive Committee, and the World Climate Research Program, Global Terrestrial Observing System. Dr. Running is a chapter Lead Author for the 4th Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Prof. Running is an elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and is designated a Highly Cited Researcher by the Institute for Scientific Information.

Mr. Robert J. Sansone is a recognized international and domestic risk management expert in the identification, assessment and modification of risk. His insurance experience includes heading up the global risk engineering organization of XL Insurance and the Energy Engineering operation for The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company. In 2008, Mr. Sansone founded The Power Gen and Construction Practice, LLC to specifically address the need for thorough and proper risk assessment in these industries. His experience on the operations side includes senior level positions within The Adolph Coors Co., Air Products and Chemicals, Inc, United Engineers and Constructors, Inc., and the American Ref-Fuel Co. (a firm that designed, built owned and operated waste to energy facilities). Mr. Sansone is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in National Security and Public Administration.

Louis Sonnois is the CO2 Market Manager for Alstom Power System based in Paris/Levallois where he supports the company's international development efforts for CO2 solutions. Prior to joining Alstom, Louis was a strategy consultant within LEK consulting and worked on market assessment, business development opportunities and strategy definition for large European corporations. His focus on energy and environmental markets enable him to build strong expertise in the power generation sector and CO2-related issues. Louis received a B.A. in History from University of La Sorbonne, Paris and a M.Sc in Management, with specialisation in Finance, from HEC Business school, Paris.

Dr. Lee Spangler is the Associate Vice President for Research in the Research Office at Montana State University (MSU) where he coordinates several multi-investigator programs. He is the Technical Co-Director of the 2007 RECS program, Director of the Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership and Director of the Zero Emissions Research and Technology (ZERT) Center, a collaborative of national laboratories and focused on the basic science issues behind geologic carbon sequestration. He earned his bachelors degree in Physics and Chemistry from Washington and Jefferson College, his Ph.D. from Pittsburgh in Physical Chemistry where his molecular spectroscopy work earned him the Proctor and Gamble award, and completed a Director’s Funded postdoctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory.  He joined the chemistry faculty at Montana State in 1987.

Dr. Brian Strazisar is a Physical Research Scientist for the U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology working primarily on carbon sequestration research. His earlier work focused on capture of CO2 from power plants using MEA as well as the chemical interaction between CO2, brine, and formation rock in geological reservoirs. Dr. Strazisar's most recent projects have focused on CO2 monitoring at geologic storage sites and degradation of oilwell cements under geologic CO2 storage conditions. His recent field experience includes the Pump Canyon Project at the San Juan Basin (Southwest Partnership on Carbon Sequestration), the Black Warrior Run Basin project (SECARB), the Montana State University injection test (ZERT). Dr. Strazisar received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Physical Chemistry from Cornell University and a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh.

Ms. Pamela Tomski is the Founder and Director of RECS and Managing Partner of EnTech Strategies, LLC, a consulting firm that assists companies, organizations and governments develop energy technology research, development, and commercialization strategies.  Her major area of activity is advancing commercial deployment of CCS systems.  With over a decade experience in the CCS field, Ms. Tomski has worked on multiple facets of CCS technologies from the establishment of research and development (R&D) collaborations to education and capacity building, public outreach, policy development, regulatory framework assessments and carbon management plans.  Ms. Tomski is the Director of Education, Outreach and Regulatory Compliance for the Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership and Media Coordinator for Southwest Partnership on Carbon Sequestration.  Internationally, she has served as a consultant to the International Energy Agency (IEA) and a member of the U.S. delegation to provide recommendations to the Group of Eight (G8) on strategies to accelerate commercial CCS deployment.  Ms. Tomski has actively facilitated advancement of the U.S. – Norway Bilateral on Energy Technology Collaboration and assists the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy and DOE build CCS research collaborations.   Since 1996, she has also provided DOE with strategic planning support with a strong focus on the carbon sequestration program.  Ms. Tomski received a B.A. in International Affairs and Middle East History from The George Washington University.

Ms. Chiara Trabucchi’ is primary areas of expertise are finance, managerial cost accounting, and environmental economics.  As a Principal with Industrial Economics, Incorporated (IEc), Ms. Trabucchi has more than fifteen years experience providing consulting support to clients in the U.S., Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union.  Ms. Trabucchi regularly conducts training and seminars in corporate finance, financial incentives, and managerial cost accounting.  Ms. Trabucchi is a recognized expert in financial responsibility mechanisms and disclosure requirements under myriad federal statutes and is well-versed in evaluating the financial integrity of businesses and governmental organizations.  She has been engaged in examining issues associated with financial responsibility and CCS deployment. Ms. Trabucchi holds a B.A., cum laude, in Political Science and a B.A., cum laude, in Foreign Languages from Clark University, and an M.B.A., high honors, from the Simmons School of Management.

Dr. Michael J. Walsh is an Executive Vice President of Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), the world's first and North America's only active, voluntary, legally-binding integrated trading system to reduce emissions of all six greenhouse gases, with offset projects in North America and worldwide. Dr. Walsh has long experience in the field of emissions trading, and was a key member of the CCX design team, as well as the design team for the European Climate Exchange (ECX), and also serves on the Board of Directors of the Montreal Climate Exchange (MCeX), a joint venture with CCX. Dr. Walsh oversees the CCX offsets and auction programs as well. Dr. Walsh previously served as a Senior Economist with the Chicago Board of Trade, where he directed the CBOT annual auctions of sulfur dioxide emission allowances conducted on behalf of the U.S. EPA. At Environmental Financial Products LLC (predecessor to CCX), Dr. Walsh arranged several international carbon credit transactions and served as liaison and lead writer for five technical papers on international emissions trading prepared for the Government of Canada. Dr. Walsh holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Michigan State University.

Dr. Elizabeth Wilson is an Assistant Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy and Law at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. She holds a doctorate in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University and masters in Human Ecology from the Free University of Brussels in Belgium. Her research focuses on the development of carbon-managed energy systems. Recent work examines the regulatory and legal contexts for the deployment of carbon capture and sequestration technologies and evaluation of energy efficiency programs in consumer-owned utilities.  She was a contributing author to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change special report on carbon capture and sequestration and currently leads the World Resources Institute working group on liability for carbon capture and sequestration. Prior to joining the University of Minnesota, she worked with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Dr. Ruina Xu (RECS 2008) is an Assistant Professor and Postdoctoral Researcher in the Institute of Energy, Environment and Economy of Tsinghua University, focusing on CCS systems and climate change mitigation. She is in charge of the project “Potential Impact of CCS on China’s Energy System and Relevant Policy Studies” and involved in three CCS international collaborations, including EU GeoCapacity, COACH and NZEC. Ruina is also involved with China's key technologies R&D program of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan on Climate Change and Energy Strategy. She received her PhD degree from Tsinghua University in thermal engineering, fluid flow, heat and mass transfers in microporous media and has published 16 journal papers, with 6 papers indexed by SCI, 9 papers indexed by EI, 2 paper indexed by ISTP.