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Who Studies Gas Hydrate?
U.S. Government
USGS
Woods Hole
Deborah Hutchinson - dhutchinson@usgs.gov - (project chief)
Carolyn Ruppel - cruppel@usgs.gov
Bill Winters - bwinters@usgs.gov
Bill Waite - wwaite@usgs.gov
Dave Mason - dmason@usgs.gov
John Pohlman - jpohlman@usgs.gov
Bill Dillon - bdillon@usgs.gov - (emeritus)
Menlo Park
Keith Kvenvolden - kk@octopus.wr.usgs.gov - (emeritus)
Steve Kirby - skirby@usgs.gov - (sub-project chief)
Tom Lorenson (tlorenson@usgs.gov)
Laura Stern (lstern@usgs.gov)
Jim Hein (jhein@usgs.gov)
Denver
Tim Collett - tcollett@usgs.gov - (sub-project chief)
Department of Energy
Ray Boswell - Ray.Boswell@netl.doe.gov - (National Energy Technology Lab - principle)
Naval Research Lab
Joseph Gettrust - gettrust@nrlssc.navy.mil - (project chief)
Warren Wood - wwood@nrlssc.navy.mil
Rick Coffin - rcoffin@ccs.nrl.navy.mil
Minerals Management Service
Jesse Hunt - jesse.hunt@mms.gov
Bill Shedd - william.shedd@mms.gov
Non-Governmental-Organizations and Private Institutions
Oil Companies
Emrys Jones - emry@chevron.com - (Chevron)
Klass Bil - k.j.bil@siep.shell.com - (Shell International, Netherlands)
Renato Kowsmann - kowsmann@petrobras.com.br- (Petrobras, Brazil)
Martin Hovland - mhovland@statoil.com - (Statoil)
Universities
Ben Clennell - Clennell@cpgg.ufba.br - (University of Bahia, Brazil)
Bruce Buffett -buffett@geop.ubc.ca - (University of British Columbia)
Satish Singh - singh@esc.cam.ac.uk - (Cambridge University, United Kingdom)
James Kennett - kennett@magic.geol.ucsb.edu - (University of California. Santa Barbra)
Dendy Sloan -esloan@gashydrate.mines.edu - (Colorado School of Mines)
Wenyue Xu - xu@epr10.eas.gatech.edu - (Georgia Tech)
Harry Roberts - harry@antares.csi.lsu.edu - (Louisiana State University)
Tom McGee - tmm@mmri.olemiss.edu - (University of Mississippi)
Bob Collier - rcollier@oce.orst.edu - (Oregon State University)
Anne Trehu - trehu@oce.orst.edu - (Oregon State University)
Gerald Holder - holder@engrng.pitt.edu - (University Pittsburgh)
Miriam Kastner - mkastner@ucsd.edu - (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
Ian MacDonald - ian@gerg.tamu.edu - (Texas A@M University)
Roger Sassen - sassen@gerg.tamu.edu - (Texas A@M University)
Ryo Matsumoto - ryo@tsunami.geol.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp - (University of Tokyo)
Karin Andreassen - Karin.Andreassen@ibg.uit.no - (University of Tromso, Norway)
Ross Chapman - chapman@uvic.ca - (University of Victoria)
W. Steven Holbrook - steveh@uwyo.edu - (University of Wyoming)
Private Research Institutions
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Charles Paull - paull@mbari.org - (MBARI)
Peter Brewer - brpe@mbari.org - (
MBARI
)
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Jean Whelan - jwhelan@whoi.edu - (
WHOI
)
Marine Desalination Systems, L.L.C.
Michael Max - mmax@mdswater.com
John Osegovic - josegovic@mdswater.com
Shelli Tatro - statro@mdswater.com
Hydrate Energy International
Michael Max - xeres@erols.com - (
HEI
, Washington D.C.)
Bill Dillon - dillon@cape.com - (
HEI
, Woods Hole, Massachusetts)
Arthur Johnson - artjohnson51@hotmail.com - (
HEI
, New Orleans)
Other Nations
Canada
Geological Survey of Canada
Roy Hyndman - hyndman@pgc.emr.ca - (
GSC
, Pacific Geoscience Center)
Scott Dallimore - SDallimo@NRCan.gc.ca - (Geological Survey of Canada)
National Research Council
John Ripmeester - John.Ripmeester@nrc.ca - (
NRC
)
University of Victoria
Michael Whiticar - whiticar@uvic.ca - (School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria)
France
Laboratoire de Genie Chimique de Toulouse
Jean-Pierre Monfort - jeanpierre.monfort@ensigct.fr
Germany
GEOMAR
Erwin Suess - esuess@geomar.de - (GEOMAR)
Nina Kukowski - nkukowski@geomar.de - (GEOMAR)
GFZ
(GeoForschungsZentrum)
Michael Weber - mhw@gfz-potsdam.de
Italy
Institute of Geophysics, Trieste (in Italian)
Emanuele Lodolo -elodolo@ogs.trieste.it - (Institute of Geophysics, Trieste)
Umberta Tinivella - utinivella@ogs.trieste.it - (Institute of Geophysics, Trieste)
Japan
Geological Survey of Japan
Yoshihisa Okuda - okuda@gsj.go.jp - (Geological Survey of Japan)
New Zealand
Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences
Stuart Henrys - s.henrys@gns.cri.nz - (Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences)
Ingo Pecher - i.pecher@gns.cri.nz - (Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences)
People's Republic of China
Ministry of Land and Resources
Liu Shou-Quan - ygzhou@qingdao.cngb.com - (Director-General of QIMG)
Russia
Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation Institute for Geology and Mineral Resources of the Ocean
Valery A. Soloviev - soloviev@gashyd.spb.ru - (Head of Gas Hydrate Laboratory)
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