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Robert C. BurrussRobert C. Burruss is a senior research geologist with the U. S. Geological Survey. He received a B.S. in Chemistry from Juniata College (1971) and a Ph.D. in geology from Princeton University (1977). After a short post-doc at Princeton he worked for Gulf Oil until 1984 where he became Chief Scientist for Geochemistry. Since 1984 he has been at the U. S. Geological Survey, initially in Denver, CO, and now, Reston, VA, where he works on oil and gas resource issues. He has published on topics ranging from the analysis of fluid inclusions in minerals to Raman spectroscopy of gas hydrates to the thermochronology of natural gas migration in the North Slope of Alaska. During his career he has advised a number of graduate students and post-doctoral scientists. He is a past officer of the Geological Society of Washington and a current member of the American Geophysical Union and the Geochemical Society. Bob currently serves as an associate editor of the international journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. From 2000 to 2005 he was chief of the project “Assessment of Geologic Reservoirs for Carbon Dioxide Sequestration”. His expertise in the geology of carbon dioxide sequestration has led to service on the Storage Assessment Taskforce of the international Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum and on the US State Department delegation to the UN IPCC meeting to adopt the Special Report on Carbon Capture and Storage. He has served on a several strategic planning and review teams for the Department of Energy carbon sequestration program. In the last year he conducted briefings on geological carbon sequestration for Congressional staff, the Director of the USGS, and the Department of Interior. |
