Eric Bosworth
Principal Consultant, Thermal Energy Insights
Eric holds a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. With 15 years of energy industry experience, he provides technical consulting services to utilities, municipalities, government agencies, and private companies on a wide range of energy topics. His primary areas of focus include utility-scale geothermal, thermal energy networks, energy transition, energy policy, and decarbonized gas technologies.
Lawrence M. Cathles III
Professor Emeritus, Cornell University
Cathles received a Ph.D. in geophysics from Princeton University in 1971 and has investigated a variety of topics including the viscosity of the earth’s mantle, heap and in situ leaching, ore genesis, CO2 generation and titration, hydrocarbon systems, gas hydrates, capillary seals, nanoparticle tracers, climate change, sea level change, hydrofracturing, earth source heat and metal supply. He worked at the Kennecott Copper Corporation (1971 to 1978), the Pennsylvania State University (1978 to 1982), Chevron Oil Field Research Laboratory (1982 to 1986), and Cornell (1986-2018). He is past director of the Cornell Institute for the Study of the Continents, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the 2011 Distinguished Lecturer of the Society of Economic Geologists, and their 2021 Penrose Gold Medal recipient. He has over 150 peer-reviewed publications, a book “The Viscosity of the Earth’s Mantle,” and a co-edited volume “Future Advances in Basin Modeling.”
Dustin Crandall
Lead Research Engineer for the Geoscience Division, the DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory
Dustin Crandall is a research engineer and group lead of internal research associated with carbon storage at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). He graduated from Clarkson University in 2007 with a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering. Following graduation, he has worked at NETL in various capacities, and his primary research activities have focused on understanding multiphase transport in geologic media using computed tomography. He has over 15 years of experience using X-ray CT to study transport of gasses and fluids in geological porous media with expertise spanning from CO2 storage to fracture flow and geothermal systems.
Laura E. Dalton
Assistant Professor, Duke University
Professor Dalton joined Duke University in August 2022 after obtaining her Ph.D. from North Carolina State University, M.S. and B.S. from West Virginia University. Dr. Dalton is an experimentalist, and her research interests include studying and understanding reactive, multiphase transport in porous media in support of more sustainable energy and improving materials for the built environment. She is particularly interested in understanding and manipulating chemical, thermal, and physical processes that occur during reactive, multiphase transport in both engineered (cementitious) and natural (geological) porous materials.
Jeffrey Eppink
President & Founder, Enigis
Eppink offers over 40 years of experience in international and domestic energy including oil, gas, carbon capture, utilization and storage, geothermal, biomass, wind, solar, and technology. Complementing his technical and analytical skills, Jeffrey has a strong reputation for insightful, unbiased analysis and assessment, often in support of energy policy for public and private clients. He is registered as a geologist and a geophysicist in California and as a geologist is Wyoming. Jeffrey worked for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Chevron Overseas Petroleum and has been an American Association for the Advancement of Science Diplomacy Fellow before establishing Enegis, LLC. He has a B.S. in geology from California Polytechnic, an M.S. in applied geophysics from the University of Southern California, and an M.B.A. from Virginia Tech. He has been presented with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who’s Who and is a member of the Explorers Club.
Frank Horowitz
Horowitz received a Ph.D. in Geological Sciences from Cornell in 1989. Most of his career was spent as a research geophysicist at the Australian national research organization the CSIRO — on research topics supporting the mineral exploration industry. For 15 years, he worked closely with a brilliant, applied mathematician at the CSIRO, which strongly influenced the way he approaches research topics in the geosciences. (His favorite quote: “the math is the same.”) After leaving CSIRO in 2008, he held appointments as research faculty at the University of Western Australia, and visiting faculty at Cornell. He was one of three co-founders of the Western Australia Geothermal Centre of Excellence — which focused on the direct use of geothermal heat in the Perth basin. At Cornell, he participated in the Appalachian Basin Geothermal Play Fairway Analysis, as well as performed analyses and surveys in support of Cornell’s proposed campus geothermal heating project. He now owns a consultancy, mostly focusing on applications of applied mathematical geophysics to geothermal topics.
Peter Malin
Professor Emeritus, Duke University
Peter Eric Malin has nearly 40 years of experience in crustal seismology and geophysical research in both academic and industry settings. After 17 years as a professor of geophysics at Duke, he became the founding director of the Institute for Earth Sciences and Engineering at the University of Auckland, a follow-on for the UN Geothermal Institute of New Zealand. Malin has notably served as principal investigator for seismology for the Helsinki and Basel Engineered Geothermal Systems, for Puna Geothermal Ventures Hawaii, Krafla Iceland, and the US Navy’s Coso Geothermal development.
Malin’s current research focuses on the seismic imaging and the physical interaction of fractures with subsurface fluids with an eye toward permeability mapping and stimulation and more effective control of induced earthquakes. For his contributions to geothermal sciences and technology transfer, Malin was awarded a US DoD Commendation and the University of Auckland President’s Gold Metal.
