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Hydrothermal Peer Review Geology on the Last Frontier “Being a geologist in the Last Frontier requires flexibility, creativity, and a willingness to get your hands dirty,” says Cathy Hanks, a visiting geoscientist to GTO on sabbatical from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF). “And it helps if you aren’t afraid of bears or helicopters!” Cathy considers herself primarily a structural geologist, with an emphasis on O&G applications, but being in O&G requires knowing a bit about everything. So why did she choose to take a semester to visit GTO? “Geothermal is just another way of getting energy from the earth,” says Hanks. “The concepts and techniques of finding and extracting that energy are very similar to those used in oil and gas. I decided to visit GTO to get beyond the basics and find out what is happening at the cutting edge.” With degrees from Rice University and University of Washington, Cathy journeyed to Alaska to start work as an exploration geologist for ARCO Alaska in Anchorage. She was part of the team that evaluated the Bering Sea offshore basins for their petroleum potential, doing fieldwork in southwest Alaska and the Bering Sea islands from helicopters and boats and siting exploratory wells, drilled a hundred miles from land in 400 feet of water. “I was the first woman to spend a night on one offshore rig, and I think the rig hands were totally terrified. But it was exciting to me. You never knew what was going to happen next,” she says. Cathy eventually left ARCO to get her PhD at UAF, where she studied the structural geology of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) from helicopter spike camps (before the age of satellite or cell phones). The region was remote, she says, but the geology was great and the wildlife fantastic. “I’ve woken up to the Porcupine Caribou herd coming through my camp, to wolves howling... and once, to a mama grizzly with cubs.” Fortunately she kept right on going. Her papers on the geology of the rangefront of ANWR remain some of the few detailed published studies of the area. Following her PhD, Cathy stayed on at the university, where she became the go-to faculty for petroleum geology, with a specific task of teaching geology to the petroleum engineers. Cathy says she enjoys explaining geologic concepts to the engineers and watching the lights come on when they realize the importance of incorporating geologic uncertainty into their thinking. This interdisciplinary thinking has led her to a wide range of research efforts and collaborations. Most recently, Cathy served as lead principal investigator on a DOE-funded joint geology/petroleum engineering study aimed at extracting oil from a frozen reservoir on Alaska’s North Slope. She is currently involved in a study examining shale oil potential on the North Slope, funded by the State of Alaska. Her visit to the GTO is sponsored by the Alaska Center for Energy and Power, which anticipates incorporating petroleum exploration concepts into their geothermal resource development efforts. Cathy Hanks (above) has been a welcome addition to GTO’s Hydrothermal team. Below Project Officer Mark Ziegenbein on tour at The Geysers and between meetings. Dr. Kate Baker, Review Chair of the Annual Peer Review, stands at the podium with GTO Director Douglas Hollett and Dr. Bobi Garrett, Deputy Lab Director at NREL. GTO 2013 Peer Review (top) Industry guests at the Peer Review opening reception; (center) geothermal stakeholders attentive during a luncheon presentation; (bottom) Edward Eugeni and GTO team member Sara Gonnion, coordinators of the 2013 Peer Review, at the closing session. (Below) NREL’s Kate Young, who coordinated the Geothermal Regulatory Roadmap, takes a break between sessions with Brittany Segneri. In April, DOE-funded partners gathered in Denver, Colorado to share progress, successes and challenges at the Office’s annual Peer Review. The peer review event offers a platform for annual evaluation of geothermal projects against the Office’s stated objectives to recount new advances as well as barriers to progress. About 100 projects in GTO’s portfolio were presented by their Principal Investigators, and evaluated and scored by independent, expert reviewers. Each project is reviewed by a minimum of three experts who are asked to evaluate a 30-minute presentation by the funding partner. Presentations are scored by a panel of experts and followed with written comments that the Energy Department publishes. The event at the NGDS exhibit booth attended by over 200 participants—also provides researchers with an effective network for information sharing among geothermal stakeholders, which in turn enhances productivity of EERE investments. There were some notable changes made to this year’s meeting based on attendee feedback from 2012. These included an expanded scoring scale, the addition of project objectives supplied in advance to reviewers in their project information packets, and a new geophysics/ geochemistry technology area for review. The Office funds over 150 research, development and demonstration projects, leveraging nearly $500 million in total combined investment. Each project represents a growing technology sector in conventional hydrothermal, low temperature and coproduced, or EGS technologies, along with technical and non-technical research and systems analysis. Each year, a portion of these funded projects are selected for review based on the scoring outcome and project status of the previous year’s peer review. This year’s Peer Review presentations were posted in May for public review on the GTO website, and reviewer comments were factored into the full report, which will be available in early 2014. GEOThERmAl TEChNOlOGIES OffICE 8 9 2013 ANNuAl REpORTPDF Image | Geothermal Technologies Office Annual Report
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