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Past Issues:
Remembering Dr. Philip Wannamaker and Richard Esser
Dr. Philip Ein Wannamaker | 1954 - 2022 EGI lost a friend and a brilliant scientist. On August 22nd, Phil Wannamaker suffered heart failure while presenting his scientific findings on UtahFORGE while on a Zoom call and died at EGI. Rather than paraphrase his Obituary,...
U.S. Secretary of Energy visits UTAH FORGE TEAM
University of Utah civil and environmental engineering research professor Joseph Moore (left to right), U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm and Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson visit the campus Feb. 8 to discuss progress on the FORGE geothermal laboratory. (Photos credit: Eric Larson, FlashPoint SLC.)
Recent publications and active funded projects as of Sept. 2023
Ahmed, W., Bhat, G. M., Hafiz,M., Hakhoo, N., Kanungo, S., McLennan, J., Richards, B., Thusu, B., Tran, T. (2023). Geomechanical characterization of the Barren Measure Formation in the Raniganj subbasin of Damodar Basin, India, GSI-D-23-00349R3 Billings, B., Powell,...
BRIEF NEWS FROM EGI
EGI visits included representatives from the Kyrgyz Republic.
C/2022 E3 (ZTF): A VISITOR FROM THE LAST ICE AGE
Photo: Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) passing close to NGC2591, December 27th, 2022. BY BRYONY RICHARDS, Ph.D. During the Upper Paleolithic, some 50,000 years ago, the Earth was still in a glacial period; megafauna (think Dire wolves, Smilodon, and Megatherium) roamed the...
EGI’s Carbon Management team update
Above photo: The Carbon Science and Research Initiative on a field trip in the northern sector of the Paradox Basin, near Moab, Utah. EGI’s Carbon Management team led by Dr. Brian McPherson was recently awarded over $8 million dollars of US Department of Energy (DOE)...