I am Director of the Center for Oil Shale Technology and Research (COSTAR) at the Colorado School of Mines, and serve as the Chair of the Oil Shale Symposia attended each year by ~300 people from twenty countries around the globe. COSTAR conducts research on geological, geophysical and geochemical properties of oil shale and is sponsored by Total, Shell, and ExxonMobil. As Project Manager for the Colorado Energy Research Institute at Mines, I led energy workforce development and energy outreach work funded by the State of Colorado. This work built industrial-governmental-academic collaborations to train skilled workers at all levels for energy industries.
