Pat Dobson is a Research Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He joined Berkeley Lab in 2000 and has been involved in a variety of geologic and geochemical research projects related to geothermal systems and geologic high-level nuclear waste disposal. He was the lead of Berkeley Lab’s Geothermal Systems Program from 2016 until his retirement from full-time employment at the Lab in 2023, but he is still active as a rehired retiree. Prior to joining Berkeley Lab, he worked as a geologist for Unocal Corporation in their research laboratory and geothermal division. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Caltech and UC Santa Barbara, and received his Ph.D in geology from Stanford University. He was the lead scientist for the recently completed collaborative study “Characterizing the Geothermal Lithium Resource at the Salton Sea”.