Jack Pashin, Ph.D.

Dr. Jack C. Pashin is Director of the Energy Investigations Program at the Geological Survey of Alabama, where he has worked since 1988. He received a B.S. in Geology from Bradley University in 1982, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Geology from the University of Kentucky in 1985 and 1990, respectively. Jack has published numerous papers and books on the geology of geologic carbon sinks and unconventnional hydrocarbon reservoirs and has been active in geological carbon sequestration research since 1999. He and his colleagues have performed and continue to develop a series of carbon sequestration field tests in coal, saline formations, and mature oil reservoirs in the southeastern United States. Jack has won numerous awards for his research, has served as an AAPG Haas-Pratt Distinguished Lecturer, and is active in several geological societies and committees. He is Past Chair of the GSA Coal Geology Division and has chaired the AAPG-EMD Coal and Coalbed Methane Committees, as well as the Antoinette Lierman Medlin Scholarship Committee of the GSA Coal Geology Division. He is an Associate Editor of the AAPG Bulletin and serves on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Coal Geology.