Committee and Staff Biographies - Induced Seismicity Potential in Energy Technologies - page 159

Committee and Staff
Biographies
COMMITTEE BIOGRAPHIES
Murray W. Hitzman (Chair) has been with Colorado School of Mines since 1996 as the
Fogarty Professor of Economic Geology. In 2002 he was named Head of the Department
of Geology and Geological Engineering. Prior to coming to academia he spent 11 years in
the minerals industry. In addition to discovering the carbonate-hosted Lisheen Zn-Pb-Ag
deposit in Ireland, he worked on porphyry copper and other intrusive-related deposits,
precious metal systems, volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits, sediment-hosted Zn-Pb and
Cu deposits, and iron oxide Cu-U-Au-LREE deposits throughout the world. He spent
2½ years in Washington, D.C., working first in the U.S. Senate and later in the White
House Office of Science and Technology Policy on environmental and natural resource
issues. He has received numerous awards and has published approximately 100 papers. His
current interest focuses on deposit- and district-scale studies of metallic ore systems and
on social license issues in mining. Dr. Hitzman was a member of the National Research
Council's Panel on Technologies for the Mining Industries, and he was a member of Com-
mittee on Earth Resources for two 3-year terms prior to becoming chair for a 3-year term
in 2004. He received his Ph.D. in geology from Stanford University in 1983.
Donald D. Clarke has worked for the past 6 years as a geological consultant for a variety
of private firms and city governments in Southern California, focusing on geological evalu-
ations of oil fields. Part of his current portfolio also includes a CO 2 sequestration project.
Prior to establishing his consultancy, he worked for more than 2 decades with the Depart-
ment of Oil Properties of the City of Long Beach, California, retiring from his position
as Division Engineer and Chief Geologist in 2004. During his time with the City of
Long Beach, he worked extensively on the giant Wilmington oil field and the California
offshore. Mr. Clarke began his career in 1974 as an energy and mineral resources engineer
with the California State Lands Commission. His strong interests in community outreach
and education have been demonstrated over the years through his teaching geology at
Compton Community College, serving on the board of directors for the Petroleum Tech-
nology Transfer Council, and serving on and chairing numerous advisory councils and
committees of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG). A member of
AAPG since 1986, he served as Pacific Section AAPG President, was elected to be Chair-