Dr. Tip Meckel is a research scientist investigating geologic carbon sequestration research for the Bureau of Economic Geology at The University of Texas at Austin. 

He joined the Gulf Coast Carbon Center at the Bureau in 2006, focusing on geologic characterization, structural geology, monitoring design, and pressure evolution for CO2 injections.  Tip has been involved with several large-scale field demonstration projects funded through DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory. After early exposure during the FRIO tests east of Houston in 2006, he directed the research program for the SECARB demonstration project in Cranfield Mississippi, and currently leads the research initiative to identify offshore sequestration potential in the Gulf of Mexico with focus on capacity assessment and seismic monitoring technologies.

Dr. Meckel earned his Master’s degree in geology from the University of Montana in Missoula in 1998 and his doctorate in geology and geophysics from The University of Texas at Austin in 2003. He subsequently taught undergraduate geology at Colby College in Maine followed by a two year position with the U.S. Geological Survey as a Mendenhall Postdoctoral Fellow in Woods Hole, MA.