Director
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Dr. Scott W. Tinker is Director of the Bureau of Economic Geology, the State Geologist of Texas, and a Professor holding the Allday Endowed Chair in the Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin. Scott has been a Distinguished Lecturer for the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), as well as Distinguished Ethics Lecturer for the AAPG, and he is incoming President of AAPG beginning July 2008. Scott is past-President of the Association of American State Geologists and holds appointments on the National Petroleum Council, National Research Council Board of Energy and Environmental Systems, and the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission. He also serves on several private, professional, and academic boards. Scott's professional focus is on building bridges between academe, industry, and government. |
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Associate Director of Administration
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Associate Director for
Earth and Environmental Systems
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Associate Director for Energy
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| As director of administrative functions at the Bureau, Jay Kipper manages personnel, fiscal reporting, budget management, and contract negotiation. Jay also supervises the Bureau's Core Research Centers, the Houston Research Center, the Geophysical Log Library, the Information Technology Group, and Administrative and Support Staffs. Jay was instrumental in the formation of the Advanced Energy Consortium to explore nanotechnologies for the energy industry, and he played a lead role in the FutureGen Texas clean energy initiative. |
Ian Duncan leads the Earth and Environmental Systems group at the Bureau. For the last 4 years Ian has been working on policy, legal and technical aspects of carbon management in the context of CO2 enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and sequestration in brine reservoirs. Ian is the Co-PI of a $38-million DOE-funded initiative to study a 1-million-tons/year CO2 injection EOR project, and he was the geologic sequestration lead of the FutureGen Texas Team, as well as the NEPA review for the two Texas sites. Ian currently has research interests in CO2 EOR as a mechanism for sequestration, performance-standard-based regulatory frameworks for CO2 sequestration, risk assessment of CO2, and consumption of water in production of electric power and biofuels.
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Eric Potter is responsible for managing the Bureau's energy-related research. Prior to joining the Bureau in 2001, he had worked 25 years in exploration and technology positions at Marathon Oil Company, mainly on projects in the Rocky Mountains, Gulf of Mexico, and the Permian Basin. During Eric's time at the Bureau, the energy research group has conducted significant research in Mexico, including several major basin and reservoir-characterization studies. The group is now developing research programs in unconventional hydrocarbon resources and working with Petrobras on a major research and training initiative. |
