Professional Geologist in California with over 45 years' experience and expertise in applied geoscience; data and information integration; project management; business development; technology development, demonstration and commercialization; business, regulatory and stakeholder interface. Technical expertise and experience in geothermal energy, environmental investigations and in-situ remediation, water resources, innovative earth science technologies. Held patents on application of acoustic energy to enhance matrix permeability and fluid mobility which has application in environmental remediation and oil/gas production and the use of wastewater for enhanced geothermal systems.
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Led geological multiple exploration and development geosentific investigations on geothermal projects throughout the western U.S. with a focus on north-central Nevada
Northern California Geological Society Board of Directors
Invited speaker at the World Geothermal Congress in Melbourne, Australia
Invited speaker at the 4th International Geothermal Workshop at the Institute of Technology at Bandung Indonesia
Invited paper for the Geothermics Special Issue on Enhanced Geothermal Systems
Invited speaker for the Geothermal exploration workshop at the annual Geothermal Resources Council meeting
Co-investigator on US Department of Energy (DOE) grant for the Development of a low cost method to estimate the seismic signature of a geothermal field from ambient seismic noise analysis
Invited geothermal exploration panel member and presenter for Geothermal Energy Association
U.S. DOE grant recipient for the Calibration of enhanced geothermal system exploration methodologies using the Dixie Valley Geothermal Wellfield as a laboratory test site
Elected to Board of Directors of the Pacific Business and Industrial Association
Invited speaker to the U.S. DOE meeting Commercializing Electro-Kinetic Remediation—A Contractor's Perspective” to the National Research Council Committee to evaluate DNAPL (dense, non-aqueous phase liquid) cleanup in the DOE Complex
Invited speaker to a U.S. DOE Blue Ribbon Panel on the Introduction of Innovative Technologies into the DOE Complex
Elected to the Geothermal resources Council Board of Directors
Member of the Geothermal Resource Advisory Group to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
U.S. DOE grant recipient for the “Cascade Geothermal Drilling Clackamas 4800-foot thermal gradient hole”