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John W. LundFormer Director of the Geo-Heat Center at the Oregon Institute of TechnologyJohn W. Lund recently worked for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado in their Low Temperature Geothermal Program. He is the former Director of the Geo-Heat Center at the Oregon Institute of Technology (OIT) and has worked in the direct utilization of geothermal energy for over 36 years. He has a B.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Colorado, and a M.E. from the University of California, Berkeley, all in Civil Engineering. He is an emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering at OIT where he taught for 32 years. He is also the emeritus director of the Geo-Heat Center, and was one of the founders of the Center. He has also taught at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks and at Oregon State University. He was in the U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers, in Alaska as a 2nd and 1st Lieutenant. While at Oregon Institute of Technology he was a Professor of Civil Engineering, Department Chair of Civil Engineering Technology, and Dean of Engineering and Industrial Technologies. He taught courses and wrote professional paper in transportation engineering, engineering geology, and geotechnical engineering. He has performed research for the US Forest Service, Region 6 in the use of volcanic cinders and pumice for low volume road construction, wrote a slope stability guide, and provided training in geotechnical engineering to employees from all of the U.S. Forests. He also wrote a correspondence course in Highway Materials. He worked part time for the Oregon Department of Transportation and performed research in pavement design and soil testing. He has presented numerous papers on transportation and geotechnical engineering at the Transportation Research Board and the Northwest Engineering Geology and Soil Engineering conferences. He was a member of the Oregon State Board of Engineering Examiners and served as chair of the Fundamentals Examination Committee for the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying. His recent interest is in geothermal energy related to direct utilization, geothermal heat pumps and small-scale and low-temperature power generations. He has written several hundred papers on the utilization of geothermal energy, and has participated in numerous workshops, seminars, conferences and training session in 36 countries. He has been responsible for collecting, editing, and summarizing the country update papers for the World Geothermal Conferences in 2000, 2005 and 2010. He was the editor of the Geo-Heat Center Quarterly Bulletin, which presents papers and case studies on the direct utilization of geothermal energy. He lives in a geothermally heated home and works on a geothermally heated campus. He was also involved with the installation of a 280 kW geothermal binary power plant on the Oregon Institute of Technology campus, and the drilling of a 5,300-ft (1,600-M) deep geothermal well for a one MW geothermal power plant, the first campus in the world to receive both heat and electrical energy needs from geothermal energy. |
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Douglas HollettDirector for the Geothermal Technologies Office at the Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable EnergyMr. Hollett is the Director for the Geothermal Technologies Office at the Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. In this role he is responsible for program oversight and new technologies designed to advance the growth of geothermal in the U.S. energy portfolio. Through research, development, and demonstration efforts that emphasize the advancement of hydrothermal and enhanced geothermal systems (EGS), Geothermal Technologies is working to provide the nation with an abundant, clean, renewable base-load energy source. Prior to joining DOE in September 2011, Mr. Hollett had over 30 years in the oil and gas industry, most recently with Marathon Oil with positions as Manager and Director, Unconventional New Ventures; Manager International New Ventures; and General Manager and VP, Atlantic Canada. Mr. Hollett has held other upstream roles including business development, international and domestic exploration, production operations, and as senior staff for North America Exploration. In addition to extensive project experience throughout North America, his international experience includes Africa, Latin America, Europe and the Southeast Asia Region. Mr. Hollett has a MS in Geology from the University of Utah, a BA in Geology from Williams College, and a Masters Certificate in Project Management from York University. |
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Brian CareyGNS, New Zealand
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Noriyoshi TsuchiyaTohoku University, Japan
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Shoung OuyangITRI GEL, TPEDr. Shoung Ouyang is a senior researcher in the Green Energy and Environment Laboratories of Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan. Mr. Ouyang is a Project Leader in the Division of Applied Resources Technologies and a Principal Investigator in Carbon Capture and Storage Program. Mr. Ouyang graduated from National Cheng-Kung University with a B.S. degree in Earth Sciences. After two-year voluntary military service in the army, he worked as an engineering geologist in a geotechnical consulting firm for another two years. Afterwards, he went abroad for graduate studies. Mr. Ouyang obtained his M.S. degree in Geology and Geological Engineering from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in 1983, and then received PhD in Mining and Geological Engineering from University of Arizona in 1990. Mr. Ouyang joined Industrial Technology Research Institute in 1991 and had served as project manager, deputy division director, division director, and chief project leader. The research area includes land subsidence monitoring and mitigating measures, geologic disposal of nuclear wastes and rockmass sealing, enhanced geothermal system, and carbon capture and storage technologies. Currently, he is the principal investigator of the CCS Project sponsored by Bureau of Energy, Ministry of Economic Affairs. |
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Patrick DobsonStaff scientist for the Earth Sciences Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)Patrick Dobson is a geological staff scientist for the Earth Sciences Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), in Berkeley, CA, USA. He received a BA in Geology from Williams College, and obtained his MS and PhD in Geology from Stanford University. His master’s thesis project was on the Los Azufres geothermal field in Mexico, and he conducted a detailed petrologic study of boninite-series volcanic rocks at their type locality in the Bonin Islands of Japan for his doctoral dissertation. After serving as a postdoctoral fellow at Caltech and the University of California, Santa Barbara, he was hired by Unocal Corporation’s (now a part of Chevron) Hartley Research Center to run their stable isotope laboratory. He transferred to Unocal's Geothermal Division in 1994, where he led geoscience teams in the exploration of geothermal systems in Indonesia, Central America, and Chile. Dr. Dobson joined the Earth Sciences Division of LBNL in 2000, and has been involved in a variety of geologic and geochemical research projects. He led LBNL's efforts in the study of the Peña Blanca uranium deposit, a natural analogue for flow and transport processes at Yucca Mountain (the former proposed repository for high-level radioactive waste in the US). He is currently involved in field and coupled process modeling studies of The Geysers geothermal field in California and other geothermal systems. He is a member of the US Department of Energy Geothermal Technologies Program’s Technical Monitoring Teams for Innovative Exploration Technologies and Enhanced Geothermal Systems. He was a Fulbright Senior Specialist at the Universidad de Chile in 2012, and was awarded a Geothermal Special Achievement Award by the Geothermal Resources Council at its annual meeting in 2012. |
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Susan PettyPresident and founder of AltaRock Energy, IncSusan Petty is the CTO, president and founder of AltaRock Energy, Inc. She has over 34 years of experience in the geothermal industry in electrical and direct use project economics, optimizing of power plants to meet resource conditions, reservoir evaluation, reservoir modeling, well, plant and wellfield performance data analysis, well testing and test data analysis. She has also assisted in negotiation of geothermal lease agreements, power sales agreements, geothermal project financing agreements and geothermal property sales and purchases, and policy studies for state and federal agencies. Ms. Petty has done work on geothermal electrical generation projects in Nevada at Steamboat, Dixie Valley, Rye Patch, Soda Lake, Fallon, Desert Peak, Brady Hot springs and direct use projects at Brady, Elko and Moana. In California she has worked on the Coso, Salton Sea, East Mesa, Heber, Brawley, Wendell-Amedee, Mt. Lassen and Medicine Lake resources. She has worked on geothermal projects overseas in Indonesia, the Philippines and Central America. For a number of years, Ms. Petty assisted the Department of Energy in performing policy studies for geothermal energy research including economic modeling of geothermal pricing and the impact of technology improvement on the cost of geothermal power. She has been instrumental in developing information, planning and designing software for use in developing public policy in geothermal energy. Ms. Petty founded AltaRock Energy in 2007, following participation in the MIT study of "The Future of Geothermal Energy". AltaRock is focused on development and commercialization of innovative technology to improve geothermal economics and mitigate risk. Prior to founding AltaRock, Ms. Petty was the senior partner in Black Mountain Technology, a consulting firms specializing in providing expert assistance to the geothermal business particularly in reservoir economics and stimulation. Ms. Petty holds a BA from Princeton University in Geology and an MS in Groundwater Hydrology from the University of Hawaii. |
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Kevin WallaceSenior Project Manager, POWER Engineers, Inc.SKevin Wallace is a professional chemical/mechanical engineer, and the geothermal market lead for POWER Engineers, the world’s leading firm for large flash geothermal power generation plants. He has been a project director, project manager, project engineer and principal design and field engineer for more than 650 MW of new geothermal plant capacity in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the U.S. since 1995. Based in Idaho, he is now a Senior Project Manager for POWER and its Renewables Market Manager. He is a notable specialist in plant conceptual design and feasibility evaluation and has a formidable background in field support engineering for the construction of large plants in remote locations on many continents. As POWER’s geothermal project director, he has extensive experience in project definition, detailed engineering supervision, and consultation for geothermal flash, binary and dry steam projects. He is now leading POWER’s work in Turkey, the Geysers, Mexico, Kenya, Chile, and Nicaragua. Before joining POWER, he worked as a mechanical/chemical and controls engineer for PG&E in California. He holds the B.S. in Chemical/Nuclear Engineering (1984) from the University of California at Berkeley, and the M.S. in Chemical/Environmental Engineering (1994) from San Jose State University. |
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Greg BignallGNS, New Zealand
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Yasuhiro FujimitsuAssociate Professor, Kyushu University, JapanEducation: |
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Liu HaiSchlumbergerLiu Hai is currently Well Services General Manager for Schlumberger for North Asia GeoMarket covering China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. In his 18-year career, he has worked in China, Middle East and Texas, and focused on production optimization and stimulation, and moved to management role in early 2012. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Xi’an Petroleum College, China. His primary areas of expertise are in reservoir, production, and stimulation. He is recognized as Principal Engineer in Schlumberger Eureka Technical Careers (SETC) and received Bronze, silver and Chairman awards in Performed by Schlumberger recognition program for his technical contributions. Before joined Schlumberger, his earlier contributions include the career in Production Technology Research Institute of PetroChina, Xinjiang Oil Company from 1995 to 2000. |
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Ernest L. MajerStaff Scientist, Earth Sciences Division Deputy Director, 2002Dr. Majer’s recent and present work has been in the extension of high resolution seismic imaging work for geothermal, petroleum, and gas reservoir monitoring and characterization, integration of geophysical methods for nuclear waste disposal, and the application of geophysical methods for defining physical properties associated with subsurface rock fluid processes. The thrust of these activities has been to develop new and innovative applications of active and passive geophysical methods for a wide variety of earth science applications. Examples include Induced seismicity, Vertical Seismic Profiling (VSP,) single well seismic imaging, direct detection of microbial activity, seismic stimulation of fluid flow ( environmental as well as oil and gas applications) and fluid imaging. |
