President, Nehring Associates
"The Myth of 100 Years of Gas Supply"
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Richard Nehring has been President of Nehring Associates since he founded the company in 1983. During this period, he designed the Significant Oil and Gas Fields of the United States Database and its subsequent expansions and directed the initial development and subsequent updates, upgrades, and expansions of the database. Since the initial release of the database in 1985, Mr. Nehring has written more than 20 papers and presentations using the database.

Since 1980, Mr. Nehring has served on numerous professional and scientific committees dealing with oil and gas resource and supply issues, including three National Petroleum Council task groups and four National Research Council Committees. He has been a member of AAPG’s Committee on Resource Evaluation since its founding in 1993 and is chairman of this committee from 2011 to 2014. He was also Chairman and organizer of the AAPG Hedberg Research Conference on Understanding World Oil Resources in November, 2006. Prior to founding Nehring Associates, Mr. Nehring was project director of fossil fuel supply issues for the Energy Policy Program of the Rand Corporation for ten years. His major studies during the period covered giant oil fields and world oil resources, the discovery history and size distribution of U.S. oil and gas fields and their implications for ultimate resources, the heavy oil resources of the United States, and Mexico’s petroleum and U.S. policy.

Senior Research Scientist, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin
"Seeing Reservoir Quality at the Appropriate Scale:  A Look at Tools for High-resolution Imaging and Our Evolving Understanding of Pore-Scale Processes in Fine-grained Systems"
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Kitty Milliken is a Senior Research Scientist at the Bureau of Economic Geology in the Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin. She received degrees from Vanderbilt University (BA) and the University of Texas at Austin (MA, PhD). Her research concerns the integration of petrographic and analytical methods to decipher the chemical and mechanical histories of sedimentary rocks. Her current focus is on the fine grained sedimentary rocks that host unconventional reservoirs for oil and gas.

James A. Baker III and Susan G. Baker Fellow in Energy and Resource Economics, and Senior Director, Center for Energy Studies, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University
"Natural Gas Demand:  Outlooks and Implications"
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Kenneth B. Medlock III, Ph.D., is the James A. Baker, III, and Susan G. Baker Fellow in Energy and Resource Economics at the Rice University’s Baker Institute and the senior director of the Center for Energy Studies, as well as an adjunct professor and lecturer in the Department of Economics at Rice University. He is a principal in the development of the Rice World Natural Gas Trade Model, aimed at assessing the future of international natural gas trade. He has published numerous scholarly articles in his primary areas of interest: natural gas markets, energy commodity price relationships, gasoline markets, transportation, national oil company behavior, economic development and energy demand, and energy use and the environment.

Founder and Executive Director, Investor Environmental Health Network
Moderator, Session 3: Environmental, health, and safety issues

Dr. Richard Liroff is founder and Executive Director of the Investor Environmental Health Network (www.iehn.org). He earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University and a B.A. in Politics from Brandeis University.

Since 2009 Dr. Liroff has led investor efforts to promote increased disclosure by energy companies on risks from horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing operations in “shale plays”. He is principal author of Extracting the Facts: An Investor Guide to Disclosing Risks From Hydraulic Fracturing Operations. It identifies twelve core management goals, practices to implement them, and indicators for reporting progress. He is also lead author of Disclosing the Facts, a disclosure scorecard based on Extracting the Facts.

Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering, University of Minnesota
"Futures of Energy for Transportation" 
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David Matthew Levinson is an American civil engineer and transportation analyst, currently a professor at the University of Minnesota, where he holds the RP Braun/CTS Chair in Transportation. He has authored or co-authored 4 books, edited 3 collected volumes, and authored or co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed articles on various aspects of transportation He is a founder of the World Society for Transport and Land Use Research. In 1995 he was awarded the Charles Tiebout prize in Regional Science by the Western Regional Science Association, and in 2004, the CUTC-ARTBA New Faculty Award. His travel behavior research was featured in the book Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt.

Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Energy Economics and Policy, Resources for the Future
"The health and environmental impacts of shale gas development:  What we know and don't" 
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Alan Krupnick is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Energy Economics and Policy (CEEP) at Resources for the Future.  Krupnick’s research focuses on analyzing environmental and energy issues, in particular, the benefits, costs and design of pollution and energy policies, both in the United States and in developing countries, with an emphasis on China. As head of CEEP, he leads RFF’s research on the risks, regulation and economics associated with shale gas development and has developed a portfolio of research on issues surrounding this newly plentiful fuel.

Director, HS&E Corporate Environmental Programs, V+ Development Solutions Division, Southwestern Energy Company
"Health, Safety, and Environmental - Building Collaboration and Culture"
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Doug Jordan is currently the Director of HS&E Corporate Environmental Programs, V+ Development Solutions Division, a division of Southwestern Energy Company. The mission of V+ Development Solutions is to identify, develop, and implement solutions to the challenges of unconventional resource development that strike an appropriate balance among the environmental, social, and economic impacts of the Company’s activities. He has been with Southwestern Energy since 2009.

Mr. Jordan has over 28 years of HSE experience, including experience as a regulatory agent, consultant, and industry professional. His industry experience is predominately oil and gas-oriented in the production, gathering and processing, and transmission and storage sectors in over 30 states. He is actively engaged in industry trade associations and currently serves as Chair of the Environmental Committee for the Gas Processor Association. He is also currently engaged in the Technical Work Groups associated with several methane measurement and monitoring initiatives. Mr. Jordan graduated from Oklahoma State University in 1985

Professor of Geology and Geological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
Moderator, Session 1: Outlook for natural gas supply

Wendy J. Harrison is a tenured Professor of Geology and Geological Engineering at Colorado School of Mines.  Her fields of scholarly expertise are in geochemistry and hydrology as well as geoscience education and she has published papers in topics that range from impact shock metamorphism in lunar materials, the formation of gas hydrates and their role in CO₂ sequestration, metals uptake by trees in mined lands, and mitigating respiratory quartz dust hazard.  

During her career in academia at Colorado School of Mines, she has served as Director of the McBride Honors Program in Public Affairs for Engineers, and Associate Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Faculty.  Dr. Harrison recently completed an appointment at the National Science Foundation as Division Director for Earth Sciences in the Geosciences Directorate. She currently serves as an advisor to the Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi and Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan, in the foundation of in-country research and education programs in earth resources.  Educated at the University of Manchester, UK, she held a pre-doctoral fellowship at The Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and a National Research Council research fellowship at NASA-Johnson Space Center. Her work experience includes 8 years as a senior research geologist for Exxon Production Research Company in Houston, Texas.

Professor Emeritus of Geology and Geological Engineering, Director, Potential Gas Agency, Colorado School of Mines
"U.S. Natural Gas Supply:  A View from the Potential Gas Committee"
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John B. Curtis is Professor Emeritus of Geology and Geological Engineering and Director, Potential Gas Agency at the Colorado School of Mines. Dr. Curtis has been at the Colorado School of Mines since July 1990. He had 15 years prior experience in the petroleum industry with Texaco, Inc., SAIC, Columbia Gas, and Brown & Ruth Laboratories/Baker-Hughes. He serves on and has chaired several professional society and natural gas industry committees, which previously included the Supply Panel, Research Coordination Council, and the Science and Technology Committee of the Gas Technology Institute (Gas Research Institute). He co-chaired the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Committee on Unconventional Petroleum Systems from 1999-2004 and is an invited member of the AAPG Committee on Resource Evaluation. He was a Counselor to the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists from 2002-2004.

Associate Vice President & Chief Counsel, US Climate & Energy Program, Environmental Defense Fund
"Natural Gas in a Low Carbon Future:  Environmental Opportunities & Challenges"
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Mark Brownstein is Associate Vice President and Chief Counsel of the U.S. Climate and Energy Program at Environmental Defense Fund. Mark leads EDF’s team on natural gas development and delivery. In addition, he specializes in a variety of utility-related issues including electric grid development and wholesale and retail market design.

Prior to joining EDF, Mark held a variety of business strategy and environmental management positions within Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG), one of the largest electric and gas utility holding companies in the United States.

Mark’s career includes time as an attorney in private environmental practice, an air quality regulator with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, and an aide to a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Mark is a member of the Electric Power Research Institute’s Public Advisory Committee.

Mark holds a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, and a B.A. from Vassar College.