Dr. Peter Warwick is the project chief of the USGS Carbon Sequestration – Geologic Research and Assessments Project. His scientific and technical specialties include sedimentology, stratigraphy, the geology of fossil fuels, and geologic carbon storage.  He has authored or co-authored more than 180 scientific research publications.  In addition, he has served as the President of the Energy Minerals Division of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, President of The Society for Organic Petrology, and Chair of the Coal Geology Division of Geological Society of America (GSA). He is a GSA Fellow and serves on several scientific journal editorial review boards.