Dr. Tinker has given more than 40 invited talks and keynote lectures in the past year and more than 400 such presentations in the past decade. He attempts to reach a variety of stakeholders through presentations, short courses, seminars, workshops, editorial pages, media interviews, web interviews, and films. Audiences he has addressed include accountants, lawyers, insurers, bankers, young professionals, women’s leadership group members, staff from non-government organizations, industry staffers, energy regulators, senior education seminar attendees, K-12 students and teachers, and many more.

Dr. Tinker was featured in the award-winning “State of Tomorrow”, an energy-related television piece for the Public Broadcasting System that was co-produced by The University of Texas Foundation and Alpheus Media in 2008. He also appeared in “Unconventional,” an NBC production, in the summer of 2008.

Dr. Tinker is frequently sought by various media outlets for editorial-opinion pages on issues related to federal and state policy and how they impact society today. He was interviewed by Louise Durham with AAPG Explorer in February 2011 for an article called “Price Affecting Gas’ Present, Future.” In January 2011, he contributed to an article in the Austin American-Statesman, “Technology to Capture Carbon Put to UT Test.” Highlights from previous years include The New York Times Online (Tracing Oil Reserves to Their Tiny Origins), TulsaWorld Online (When did ‘oil’ become a dirty word), GeoExPro Magazine(Understanding our energy future), AAPG Explorer (Preparing for a job, but also a life), the Houston Chronicle (Here’s a bright alternative to dim-bulb stimulus idea and The choice is ours: big oil or Chavez?), and the Dallas Morning News (Of Peaks and valleys, Doomsday energy scenarios burn away under scrutiny).

Titles of some of his recent talks include:

• The Role of Shale Gas in the U.S. Energy Future: Global Implications
• A Few Things the World has Taught Me about Energy This Year
• Energy for Future Leaders
• The Global Energy Transition
• Global Energy Trends and Technologies
• Change is Good! Making the Most of Volatility
• Time, Technology and Transitions
• The Unconventional Frontier: Where Ideas and Technology Converge
• Electricity Fuel Options for the 21st Century
• Geologic Carbon Sequestration
• Micro- and Nano-Scale Sensors for Oil Exploration & Production
• Natural Gas Supply
• Global Energy - Building 21st Century Bridges
• The Three E Waltz: Energy, Economy, and the Environment
• The Role of Unconventional Gas in the Global Energy Future
• Global Energy-Building Bridges, Not Walls
• Developing Intellectual Resources in Geosciences
• Energy, Economy, and Environmental Policy: A Glimpse at the 21st Century
• Oil: Forgotten but not Gone
• The Fourth E
• Global Energy: Build Bridges Not Walls
• Systematic Variations in the Permian Capitan System: McKittrick Canyon, West Texas and New Mexico
• The Advanced Energy Consortium: A New Model for Funding and Conducting Precompetitive Research in Micro- and Nanotechnology for Improved Subsurface Understanding
• Energy Workforce: Understanding and Adapting to Cycles
• Energy Myths and a Few Realities
• The “I” in BusIness EthIcs
• Unconventional Gas and Global Energy
• The Coming Natural Gas Economy
• The Value of Upstream Technology and the Future of Energy Research
• Carbonate Sequence Stratigraphy and Reservoir Characterization
• Value of Applied Research and Natural Gas Supply

For a comprehensive list of Dr. Tinker’s presentations, please visit http://www.beg.utexas.edu/presentations.php.