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USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 72: Avnos CEO & Founder Will Kain

August 29th, 2024
In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, Avnos CEO and Founder Will Kain answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the need for direct air capture of carbon dioxide, its current status, and its future potential and challenges, and how the Avnos hybrid direct air capture technology offers an alternative that also captures water.

Hiring Announcement: Specialist for European Energy Markets

August 27th, 2024

Organization: United States Energy Association
Position: Specialist for European Energy Markets
Location: Europe-based with convenient travel access to the Europe and Eurasia region

USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 71: ClearPath Senior Program Director for Carbon Management & Science Hillary O’Brien

August 27th, 2024
In today’s USEA Power Sector Podcast, ClearPath Senior Program Director for Carbon Management and Science Hillary O’Brien answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the need for direct air capture of carbon dioxide, its potential, its costs, and its future challenges.

Dr. Andrea Foster

Job Title: 
Research Geologist
Organization: 
U.S. Geological Survey

Dr. Brent Elliott

Job Title: 
Research Associate Professor
Organization: 
UT-Austin BEG, Bureau of Economic Geology

Dr. Robert Mellors

Job Title: 
Program Director
Organization: 
Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy

Dr. Robert Mellors currently serves as a Program Director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) at the U.S. Department of Energy. As a geophysicist, his areas of interests include geothermal energy, seismological monitoring, distributed acoustic sensing, and satellite radar.

Prior to joining ARPA-E, Dr. Mellors served on the faculty at San Diego State University, where he taught reflection seismic interpretation and computational geoscience, and then on the staff at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as an Associate Program Lead for Renewables and Deputy Group Leader for Seismology. Subsequently, he became a researcher at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, and served as the director for a global seismic network.

Dr. Mellors is an author on over 60 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, numerous abstracts, an open-source InSAR processing package, and has worked on or led multiple projects for the U.S. Department of Energy. In addition, he is a member of the Society of Exploration Geophysics and the Seismological Society of America.

Dr. Mellors earned his Ph. D in Seismology from Indiana University, M.S. in Geophysics from Cornell University, and undergraduate degree from Ohio State University.

Morgan Summers

Job Title: 
Engineer
Organization: 
U.S. DOE - Office of Fossil Energy & Carbon Management

Dr. Juan Picolotti

Job Title: 
Executive Director
Organization: 
CEDHA

Karr McCurdy

Job Title: 
COO/CFO and Co-Founder
Organization: 
VectOres

Karr McCurdy has over 35 years of expertise in geology and project development, executive management, finance, and technical advisory. He is a Founding Partner of Rock Elm Capital, a financial advisory firm bringing alternative capital investment to the natural resources sector and he is the COO and CFO of VectOres, a mineral exploration technology firm. Previously, Karr was CEO at Behre Dolbear, a minerals industry advisor, and served as the global head of mining and metals at Standard Chartered Bank and Citigroup. Throughout his career, he has completed over 200 transactions valued at more than $100 billion and personally visited numerous development projects and operating sites worldwide.

As a geologist, Karr played a crucial role in discovering and developing the world-class Pueblo Viejo gold mine in the Dominican Republic. He holds an MBA from Thunderbird and a BSc in geology from the University of Michigan. In addition to his professional commitments, Karr actively serves on the boards of Bacchus Capital, a London-based investment banking boutique; Pivot Industries, a Denver-based technology start-up providing a collaborative SaaS platform for subject-matter experts in capital-intensive industries; HonestDig, a technology start-up offering IoT and DLT technology solutions to stakeholders in the extractive industries; Sulfide Remediation Inc., a mineral processing technology and production firm; and the Alumni Advisory Board of the University of Michigan's Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. He is also involved with Nomadic Venture Partners, a climate tech venture capital fund, and various non-profit community organizations in Denver, Colorado.

Karr is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Denver, where he contributes to the Daniels College of Business MBA program by teaching a core offering called "Creating Sustainable Enterprise." He is also a lecturer at the University of Colorado Denver's JPMorgan Center for Commodities, focusing on sustainable commodities production, markets, and supply chain. Furthermore, he is a Senior Advisor to Martello Risk, a leading provider of independent, third-party supply chain audits based in the U.K.

Profile Type: 
Speaker
Credentials: 
MBA
Secondary Job Title: 
COO & CFO
Secondary Organization: 
VectOres

USEA Power Sector Podcast Episode 70: IEEFA Director of Resource Planning Analysis David Schlissel

August 22nd, 2024
In this episode of the USEA Power Sector Podcast series on carbon, veteran independent power sector consultant David Schlissel, the director of resource planning analysis with the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, answered questions by journalist Herman K. Trabish about the potential and the limits of carbon capture, utilization, and storage.

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