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Dr. Tip Meckel is a research scientist investigating geologic carbon sequestration topics for the Bureau of Economic Geology at The University of Texas at Austin. He joined the Gulf Coast Carbon Center at the Bureau in 2006, focusing on geologic characterization, structural geology, monitoring design, and pressure evolution for CO2 injections. Tip has been involved with several large-scale field demonstration projects funded through DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory. After early exposure during the FRIO tests east of Houston in 2006, he co-directed the research program for the SECARB demonstration project in Cranfield Mississippi, and currently leads the research initiative to identify offshore sequestration potential in the Gulf of Mexico with focus on capacity assessment and seismic monitoring technologies.

Yangkang Chen is a seismologist at TexNet at the Bureau of Economic Geology. He received a B.S. degree in exploration geophysics from China University of Petroleum in Beijing, China, in 2012 and a Ph.D. degree in geophysics from The University of Texas at Austin in 2015. From 2016 to 2018, he was a distinguished postdoctoral research associate with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. His research interests include seismic signal analysis, seismic modeling and inversion, deep learning, and high-performance computing.

Dr. Shuvajit Bhattacharya is a petrophysicist and geophysicist at the Bureau of Economic Geology. Currently, Shuvajit is involved in multiple research projects on unconventional resources, geothermal energy, carbon, and hydrogen storage in the subsurface. He has a Ph.D. in geology focused on machine learning and petrophysics from West Virginia University (2016) and an M.Sc. in applied geophysics from the Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai (2010). Shuvajit is the recipient of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists J. Clarence Karcher Award (2022) for “significant contribution to science and technology of exploration geophysics by a young geophysicist of outstanding abilities.”

Dr. Lucy Tingwei Ko is a research associate at the Bureau of Economic Geology. She received her B.Sc. and M.S. degree in Geosciences (with a specialization in organic geochemistry) from the National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan. She then received her second M.S. degree (with a specialization in organic and isotope geochemistry) in Geology from the Colorado School of Mines and her Ph.D. in Geological Sciences from The University of Texas at Austin. Before moving to Texas, she worked as a geologist at a basin modeling company.

Robin Dommisse is a Research Scientist Associate at the Bureau of Economic Geology. He received a B.Sc. in Petroleum Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and a Propaedeuse in Geology from the Free University of Amsterdam. He developed an interest in geomodeling while working as a student in the RCRL group during his first tour of duty at the Bureau from 1989 to 1993.

Katie Smye is using subsurface geologic characterization methods to study unconventional tight oil and shale gas formations and formations that receive saltwater disposal from hydraulic fracturing flowback and produced water.

STARR Principal Investigator Bill Ambrose discusses his work providing new insights on the paleogeography of ancient terrains and characterizing reservoirs in oil and gas plays.

Bureau researcher and Lidar specialist Kutalmis Saylam discusses his career in the exciting and rapidly advancing world of remote sensing.

From Alaska to Antarctica—Bureau sedimentologist and stratigrapher Peter Flaig discusses his wide-reaching, highly interdisciplinary work.

Alexander Sun discusses his research in applying data tools to hydrogeoscience.

Tip Meckel discusses his research in Carbon Capture and Storage.

Inessa Yurchenko discusses her work in basin and petroleum systems modeling, and her thoughts on future research

After 27 years with the Bureau of Economic Geology, preeminent geophysicist and Senior Research Scientist Bob Hardage retired at the end of January 2018.

Bridget Scanlon discusses her wide-ranging research in water resources.

Dr. Maria A. Nikolinakou discusses her work at the interface of geotechnical engineering, geology, and exploration sciences

Dr. Brent Elliott discusses his work in mineral resources and economic geology as part of the Economic Mineral Resources Program at the Bureau, as well as his work on state and federally funded mapping initiatives.

Bureau Research Associate András Fall discusses his current research in fracture analysis and the interaction of geochemical and mechanical processes in sedimentary rocks

Bureau Research Scientist Seyyed Hosseini discusses his development of monitoring plans for CO2 injection fields and efforts to better understand the subsurface behavior of fluids in relation to CO2 injection and hydrocarbon production.

Bob Hardage discusses EGL and his current efforts to develop technologies to acquire full-elastic seismic data with simple, low-cost, P-wave seismic sources

Dr. Katherine Romanak talks about the key challenges of her research in geologic CO2 storage.