 On April 17, Michelle Foss testified before the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology at its hearing on “Tapping America’s Unconventional Oil Resources for Job Creation and Affordable Domestic Energy.” To view a detailed summary of her talk, click here, or to view video of her testimony before the committee, click here. Foss also presented at the Argus North American Gas Conference on March 22 in Houston and at the CWC Group Conference on LNG in San Antonio on April 26. On March 21, Dr. Gürcan Gülen taught a course  titled “Energy Economics” to a group of 22 midlevel upstream executives from Sinopec (China), who are preparing to lead company operations around the world. The program is a 21-week-long Sinopec Upstream Executive Education Leadership program developed by UT’s McCombs School of Business Executive Education. On March 26, Dr. Gülen presented “Moving Energy to Markets: Regional Electric Power Grids” at the Latin American Forum VII organized by the Jackson School of Geosciences in collaboration with the Energy Institute at UT-Austin, Greater Houston Partnership and Council of the Americas.
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Michael Young, Bureau Associate Director of Environmental Systems, will moderate a panel at the upcoming 2012 Texas Water Summit being convened by The Academy of Medicine, Engineering, and Science of Texas, May 20 - 21. The session, titled "Technological, Economic, and Legal Challenges to Realizing the Potential of New Water Sources," will feature a panel of experts who will discuss the challenges of resource development and management in the coming decades. Panel members include Jorge Arroyo, Director, Innovation Water Technologies, Texas Water Development Board; Stacey A. Steinbach, J.D., Executive Director, Texas Alliance of Groundwater Districts; Michael Webber, Ph.D., Associate Director of the Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy; and Kent Zammit, Senior Program Manager, Environment, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). The event is being co-sponsored by the Bureau and hosted by The University of Texas at Austin at the AT&T Conference Center. To learn more, or to register for the conference, 
