PA43B:
Geoscience and Sustainable Energy Solutions Posters


Submit an Abstract to this Session


Session ID#: 52747

Session Description:
Geoscientists have a key role in understanding and communicating the critical elements of affordable, available, reliable, and sustainable energy for modern society. Geoscientists from diverse backgrounds will present their research and perspectives on resources, technology, environmental impact, ethics, and policies for energy solutions.

  • Earth Resources – rare earth elements for alternative and emerging energy technologies; energy minerals; geothermal systems; conventional and unconventional petroleum.
  • Technology – surface and subsurface imaging; maximizing recovery of mineral resource/reserves; carbon capture including CO2 injection; carbon conversion.
  • Environmental Impact– surface footprint and ecosystems, fugitive gas emissions, surface and subsurface water management.
  • Ethics – professional and societal responsibilities associated with accessibility, extraction, production, and consumption of energy resources.
  • Energy Policy – energy poverty and access to energy; implicit and unconscious bias in energy solutions; cooperative energy development.
Primary Convener:  Denise Mruk Cox, American Association Petroleum Geologists - Energy Minerals Division, Division of Environmental Geosciences, Division of Professional Affairs, Tulsa, OK, United States
Convener:  John Kaldi, University of Adelaide, Australian School of Petroleum, Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CO2CRC), Adelaide, Australia
Primary Liaison:  Denise Mruk Cox, American Association Petroleum Geologists - Energy Minerals Division, Division of Environmental Geosciences, Division of Professional Affairs, Tulsa, OK, United States
Chairs:  Denise Mruk Cox, Storm Energy, Panama City, FL, United States and Timothy A Meckel, Univ. Texas at Austin, Austin, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Timothy A Meckel, University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0215 Economic geology [GEOHEALTH]
4329 Sustainable development [NATURAL HAZARDS]
6314 Demand estimation [POLICY SCIENCES]
6630 Workforce [PUBLIC ISSUES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Assessing CO2 storage potential in unconventional gas reservoirs is key to proactive policy making for CO2 storage in India (456392)
Naushita Sharma and Klaus S. Lackner, Arizona State University, Tempe, United States
Geological storage of CO2 in sub-seafloor basalt offshore Washington State and British Columbia (CarbonSAFE Cascadia project) (363006)
David Goldberg1, Lara Aston2, Alain Bonneville2, Inci Demirkanli2, Curtis Evans3, Andrew T Fisher4, Michael B Gerrard5, Daniel Giammar6, Martin Heesemann7, Ken Hnottavange-Telleen8, Emily Hsu9, Cristina Broglia1, Kate Moran3, Ah-Hyung Alissa Park9, Martin Scherwath7, Philip A Skemer6, Angela L Slagle1, Martin Stute10, Tess S Weathers11, Romany Webb12, Rachel K Wells13, Mark D White2, Signe K. White2 and the CarbonSAFE Cascadia Project Team, (1)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (3)Ocean Networks Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada, (4)University of California Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (5)Columbia University, School of Law, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, New York, NY, United States, (6)Washington University in St Louis, St. Louis, MO, United States, (7)University of Victoria, Ocean Networks Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada, (8)GHG Underground, Brunswick, United States, (9)Columbia University, Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, NY, United States, (10)Barnard College, New York, NY, United States, (11)University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (12)Columbia University, School of Law, New York, United States, (13)University of Akron, Geosciences, Akron, OH, United States
The Geothermal Heating Resource for Cornell University, Tompkins County, New York: Exploiting and Analyzing Available Geological and Geophysical Data Sets for Pre-Drill Site Characterization (405823)
Teresa E Jordan1, Jared David Smith2, Jood Ahmad Al Aswad3, J. Olaf Gustafson4, Jefferson W Tester5 and Stephen M Beyers4, (1)Cornell University, Ithaca, United States, (2)US Geological Survey, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Reston, United States, (3)Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States, (4)Cornell University, Facilities Engineering, Ithaca, NY, United States, (5)Cornell University, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Ithaca, NY, United States
Research Status and Trend on Energy Consumption: A Bibliometric Analysis (433241)
Yifu Yin, Like Ning and Yong Luo, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

See more of: Public Affairs