Message from the Director | February 2023

Message from the Director | February 2023

Greetings from the Energy & Geoscience Institute (EGI) for a safe and prosperous 2023! The world started getting back to ‘normal’ by late 2022. The energy business remained volatile due to the geopolitical events and due to challenges and bottlenecks created by...
Remembering Dr. Philip Wannamaker and Richard Esser

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...
U.S. Secretary of Energy visits UTAH FORGE TEAM

U.S. Secretary of Energy visits UTAH FORGE TEAM

On February 8th, the Utah FORGE team was honored to welcome U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm and Utah Lt. Governor Deidre Henderson to the University of Utah’s Carolyn and Kem Gardner Commons building. Joining the Secretary were officials from the Utah...
Recent publications and active funded projects

Recent publications and active funded projects

Alam, M., Manankandayalage, C., Mushfiq, M., Panja, P., Deo, M. (2022). Doping and Redoping Effects on Hybrid Polymer Membranes for Direct Air Capture of CO2, Carbon Management Project Review Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15-19 Aug. Ampomah, W., McPherson, B.,...
BRIEF NEWS FROM EGI

BRIEF NEWS FROM EGI

Visit from the Kyrgyz Republic In November, EGI had the honor and pleasure to meet and explain EGI’s programs and capabilities to representatives from the Kyrgyz Republic.  The international visitors were guests of the U.S. Department of State’s International Visitor...
C/2022 E3 (ZTF): A VISITOR FROM THE LAST ICE AGE

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...