Appendix D

Biographies of Workshop Moderators and Presenters

Diana Bauer is the director of energy systems integration analysis within the Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis at the Department of Energy (DOE). She led the DOE team that published The Water-Energy Nexus: Challenges and Opportunities in 2014. She currently co-chairs DOE’s Water-Energy Tech Team. Earlier, she led the team that drafted DOE’s 2010 and 2011 Critical Materials Strategy reports. Prior to joining DOE, she directed extramural sustainability research at the Environmental Protection Agency. Dr. Bauer has a PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BSE in mechanical engineering from Princeton University.

Linda A. Capuano is the fellow in energy technology at the Rice University’s Baker Institute Center for Energy Studies. Her research interests focus on the energy–water–food stress nexus. She is also an instructor in Operations Strategy at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business. Ms. Capuano’s career has centered on commercializing technology innovation through her network and experience in high-tech companies, where she has navigated new technologies from design to successful commercialization. She previously served as company officer and vice president of technology at Marathon Oil Corporation; senior vice president of engineering design at Solectron Flextronics; executive vice president and chief technology officer at Advanced Energy Industries; corporate vice president of technology strategy at Honeywell; general manager of wide body aircraft auxiliary product units at AlliedSignal Aerospace; and manager in computer memory product development at IBM. She was co-founder and served as chief financial officer of Conductus, a Silicon Valley startup that commercialized ceramic superconductor technology discovered in the 1980s. She currently serves on the board of directors of Peak Reliability, providing bulk electricity system oversight within the Western Electricity Coordinating Council’s footprint. She is also a technical advisor to Green Earth Greens Ecopia Farms, dedicated to urban food sustainability, and an associate member of the National Academy of Sciences, an elected lifetime position. Ms. Capuano was awarded the Technical Excellence Award by the Society of Women Engineers and the IBM Outstanding Achievement Award, recognizing contributions to computer memory storage. She received her PhD in materials science and engineering and an MS in engineering management from

Stanford University; an MS in chemistry and a BS in chemical engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder; and a BS in chemistry from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Kenneth Carlson is professor of civil and environmental engineering at Colorado State University with more than 25 years of experience addressing water- and wastewater-related issues. He is director of the Center for Energy Water Sustainability (CEWS) and in this role directs research related to optimizing the synergies between water and energy. Current projects include reducing the cost of produced water recycle treatment technologies, real-time groundwater monitoring in oil and gas fields, and geographic information system (GIS)-based decision support tool development for managing water and wastewater in spatially diverse oil and gas operations. In addition, the CEWS is conducting research on using treated produced water for agricultural irrigation, a project that is using five different produced water qualities (different levels of treatment) to grow biofuel crops in a greenhouse and analyzing impacts on soil, crop productivity, and plant tissue chemical uptake. Additional CEWS research projects include wastewater deammonification, sewage heat recovery, and wastewater nutrient recovery. He has a BS in chemical engineering from the University of Wisconsin, an MS in civil engineering from Colorado State University, and a PhD in environmental engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder.

Tzahi Cath is a professor of environmental engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. His main field of research is membrane processes for wastewater treatment, desalination of saline and hyper-saline brines, reclamation of impaired water for potable reuse, and energy from water and wastewater. Dr. Cath is a principal investigator on many research projects focusing on the integration of membrane contactor processes in seawater and brackish water desalination, in domestic and industrial wastewater treatment (including oil and gas wastewater), and in life support systems. He is currently the director of the Advanced Water Technology Center at the Colorado School of Mines and until recently he led the Efficient Engineered Systems projects of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center ReNUWIt.

Jill Cooper is a corporate HSE manager of reporting and advocacy for Anadarko Petroleum Corporation and works on global health, safety, and environmental matters for the company. She received her MBA in international business at Thunderbird School of Global Management and continued on to receive her JD in environmental law at the University of Colorado Law School (1996). She has since held several positions including the senior advisor to the executive director on environmental matters, director of the Sustainability Division, and legal administrator for the Air Pollution Control Division at the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment. She also practiced environmental, natural resource, and sustainability law as an attorney with Faegre & Benson LLP. Ms. Cooper was the group lead in the divisional environmental program for Encana Oil & Gas Inc., which included air, water, waste, land, wildlife, and sustainability. She specializes in sustainability, environmental and regulatory legal, management, as well as oil and natural gas.

Tanya J. Gallegos is a research engineer with the Eastern Energy Resources Science Center at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in Reston, Virginia. She joined the USGS in 2007 as a Mendenhall Research Fellow after receiving a PhD in environmental and water resources engineering from the University of Michigan. Dr. Gallegos is a registered professional engineer in the state of New Mexico, where she was formerly employed by CH2M Hill. Her research encompasses field and lab studies to understand environmental implications of energy development on natural resources throughout the hydraulic fracturing and uranium mining and milling life cycles. Research topics include geochemistry, solid-phase characterization, geochemical and isotopic signatures of tight oil- and uranium-related waters, development of novel methods for groundwater remediation of trace

elements and inorganics, identification of metrics for integrated assessments for energy resource development, and assessing water use in energy resource development.

George E. King is a registered professional engineer with 45 years of oil field experience since starting with Amoco Production Research in 1971. He is currently Apache Corporation’s distinguished engineering advisor. His technical background includes basic research on energized fracturing, workovers, chemicals, acidizing, well integrity, horizontal well completions, and unconventional formations and includes 75 presented and published papers and articles. His education includes a BS, majoring in chemistry from Oklahoma State (1972), and a BS in chemical engineering and an MS in petroleum engineering from the University of Tulsa (1982).

Rick McCurdy currently leads the team that oversees Chesapeake’s production and completion chemical usage. He is also one of the primary architects of Chesapeake’s industry-leading GreenFrac^® program that focuses on environmentally friendly hydraulic fracturing additives and Chesapeake’s initiative championing reuse of produced water: AquaRenew^®. During his career, Mr. McCurdy has worked with chemical and water issues from the North Slope of Alaska to the Gulf of Mexico and from offshore California to the northern Marcellus shale. Mr. McCurdy is an active member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), NACE International, and Mensa International, has served as a technical expert during the Environmental Protection Agency workshops on hydraulic fracturing, and has presented to the National Academy of Sciences, the Government Accountability Office, and the Department of Energy regarding water use in the energy sector. Mr. McCurdy has an AAS degree in petroleum technology.

Kyle Murray is a hydrogeologist for the Oklahoma Geological Survey (OGS) and adjunct faculty for the ConocoPhillips School of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Oklahoma. As the OGS hydrogeologist, he investigates physical and chemical properties of geologic materials that store and produce fluids, and conducts regional-scale studies of water, earth, and environmental resources. Water management in the energy industry is his current primary research area, which includes study of water use in exploration and production, co-production of petroleum and water, saltwater management, disposal, recycle, and reuse. Because of the recent increase in seismic activity in Oklahoma, Dr. Murray is partnering with other geoscientists to understand relationships between geologic factors, resource management, and seismicity. He earned a BA in geography/environmental from Shippensburg University in his home state of Pennsylvania, an MS in hydrogeology from Wright State University of Ohio, and a PhD in geological engineering from the Colorado School of Mines.

Pele Okullo is a chemical engineer with the Newfield Exploration Company. He is a subject-matter expert on oil, water, gas production, separation, and processing; flow assurance in oil and gas production; facility, pipeline, producing wells, integrity design, and monitoring; and recycled water processing for beneficial use. He received his MS degree in material science from Auburn University and his MS degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Houston.

Mike Paque has served as executive director of the Groundwater Protection Council (GWPC) for 30 years. The GWPC mission is to promote the protection and conservation of groundwater resources for all beneficial use, recognizing groundwater as a critical component of the ecosystem. Mr. Paque has overseen the implementation of the GWPC mission through a variety of initiatives, including “The Ground Water Report to the Nation,” presentations and issue resolution on oil and gas regulation and groundwater protection with U.S. federal government agencies and the U.S. Congress, while promoting the use of a sound science approach to issue resolution. Mr. Paque

has served on numerous federal government committees involving groundwater and oil- and gas-related topics and issues such as chemical fate and transport of injection waste, federal regulations related to the injection and disposal of oil- and gas-produced water, aquifer exemptions, and aquifer storage and recovery among others. Mr. Paque has overseen the implementation of a 27-state Risk Based Data Management System for state energy and water agencies to use in oil and gas production and water protection areas, the widely used chemical disclosure system, FracFocus. org, and an induced seismicity public website in Oklahoma. Mr. Paque has served as a member on public boards and commissions, including the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality’s Environmental Board, the Water Quality Monitoring Advisory Council, the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission, the U.S. Secretary of Interior Advisory Committee on Water Information, and the National Petroleum Council, among others. He holds a BS degree and an MS degree from the University of Wisconsin.

Danny Reible is the Donovan Maddox Distinguished Engineering Chair in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering and the Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas Tech University. He is also professor and director emeritus at Louisiana State University and adjunct professor at The University of Texas at Austin. He holds a BS in chemical engineering from Lamar University and an MS and a PhD in chemical engineering from the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Reible’s research career has been focused on understanding the fate and transport of contaminants in the environment, evaluating the risks posed by these contaminants, and devising effective management approaches. More recently he has been active in research to manage both water availability and quality at the food-energy-water nexus. Dr. Reible is a fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a board certified environmental engineer, a professional engineer (LA), and in 2005 was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for the “development of widely used approaches for the management of contaminated sediments.”

Bridget R. Scanlon. See Appendix C.

James (“Jim”) Silva received his BS and PhD degrees in chemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1971 and 1978, respectively. He joined General Electric’s (GE’s) Global Research Center in 1977 and retired on May 1, 2016. Dr. Silva spent the first 30 years at GE conducting chemical process research and development for GE Plastics, during which time he helped bring several processes and products from the idea stage through commercialization, including extensive work in polycarbonates (for optical-quality resin production) as well as brine purification (for chlor-alkali production). Since 2008, he has focused on water recovery from tough-to-treat brines, particularly shale gas–produced water. He served as the principal investigator (PI) for two Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America–funded projects. These projects helped define the importance of naturally occurring radioactive material in produced waters, particularly from the Marcellus, and identified cost-effective pretreatment processes. Recently, he served as co-PI on a Department of Energy project to desalinate brines extracted from deep saline formations in support of carbon sequestration. Dr. Silva holds 54 U.S. patents.

William T. Stringfellow is a professor and director of the Ecological Engineering Research Program at the School of Engineering & Computer Science at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. He also has a joint appointment with the Geochemistry Department, Earth & Environmental Sciences Area at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California. He received his BS in environmental health from the University of Georgia, his master’s degree in microbial physiology and aquatic ecology from Virginia Tech, and his PhD in environmental sci-

ences and engineering from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Stringfellow is an expert in water quality, water treatment, and the microbiology of engineered systems. He has more than 35 years research and consulting experience in wastewater treatment and management in both the United States and Europe. Dr. Stringfellow’s current projects include an extensive examination of water and chemical use during oil and gas development and the treatment and reuse of oil field wastewater. Dr. Stringfellow is currently a member of the Food Safety Advisory Panel examining the beneficial reuse of produced water for irrigation in California.

Secretary Michael J. Teague, Oklahoma Office of Energy and Environment. The Office of the Secretary of Energy and Environment helps develop and advance policies that encourage energy exploration and production as well as responsible environmental stewardship throughout Oklahoma. The Secretary of Energy and Environment serves as the governor’s chief advisor on energy and environmental policy and is the governor’s cabinet office with oversight over Oklahoma’s energy and environmental agencies. Prior to his appointment, Secretary Teague served in the U.S. Army for nearly 30 years before retiring with the rank of colonel. Teague served in many capacities during his time in the Army, including commander for the Tulsa District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, where he was responsible for a civil works program encompassing all of Oklahoma, a large portion of southern Kansas, and the panhandle of northern Texas. He oversaw more than 700 employees in engineering, construction, and operations, as well as an annual budget of $700 million. Throughout his career, Secretary Teague has dealt with power generation and distribution, water desalinization, and environmental impact studies. He has facilitated and negotiated numerous solutions regarding federal and state agencies, tribes, and local stakeholders and has acted as a liaison between the Tulsa District and the U.S. Congress. Secretary Teague also served in operational assignments in Egypt, Germany, Honduras, and Saudi Arabia, and numerous stateside duty stations. He deployed several times to the Middle East and central Asia, including commanding the 52nd Engineer Battalion in Mosul, Iraq, in support of the 101st Airborne Division as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. Secretary Teague received a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Norwich University. He also received master’s degrees in operations analysis from the Naval Postgraduate School and in national security and strategic studies from the Naval War College.

Becky L. Tomasek is the shale director and upstream water general manager at CH2M. Ms. Tomasek joined the firm in December 2013 and has spent much of her career focused on chemical and water use in the oil and gas industry. Prior to joining CH2M HILL Ms. Tomasek served as the vice president of strategy, research and development, and business development for Swire Oilfield Services, where she identified and analyzed produced water treatment technologies and led water reclamation field trials utilizing those technologies. Ms. Tomasek spent 20 years with The Dow Chemical Company, where she was a founding leadership team member of the Oil & Gas business group, serving first as the finance leader and then as the global strategic marketing director. In these roles she led the development of innovative chemicals to increase production, reduce costs, and minimize emissions for the oil and gas industry. Prior to these roles, Ms. Tomasek served in a variety of production engineering, finance, auditing, and strategy roles within The Dow Chemical Company. Ms. Tomasek has a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Texas A&M University and an MBA from the University of Houston.

John Veil founded Veil Environmental, LLC, a consulting practice specializing in water issues affecting the energy industries, upon his retirement from Argonne National Laboratory in January 2011. Mr. Veil spent more than 20 years as the manager of the Water Policy Program for Argonne National Laboratory in Washington, DC, where he was a senior scientist. He analyzed a variety of energy industry water and waste issues for the Department of Energy. Before joining Argonne,

Mr. Veil managed Maryland’s programs for industrial water pollution control permitting through the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System and Underground Injection Control. Mr. Veil also served as a faculty member of the University of Maryland, Department of Zoology, for several years. Mr. Veil has a BA in earth and planetary science from Johns Hopkins University and two MS degrees in zoology and civil engineering from the University of Maryland. Mr. Veil was recognized by the Society of Petroleum Engineers as a Distinguished Lecturer in 2008-2009, and as the recipient of the 2009 international award for Health, Safety, Security, Environment and Social Responsibility. Mr. Veil has published many articles and reports and is frequently invited to make presentations on environmental and energy issues.

Radisav Vidic is a professor of environmental engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. His areas of specialization include physical and chemical processes for water, wastewater, hazardous waste and air treatment; adsorption technologies for water treatment; molecular interactions on carbonaceous surfaces; development of activated carbon-based adsorbents for the control of vapor-phase mercury emissions; and application of novel disinfection technologies for the control of waterborne pathogens in water distribution systems. Past and present research projects include pretreatment of industrial wastewater and the Water Reuse project. He received his PhD in environmental engineering at the University of Cincinnati.