Gas Hydrate at the USGS, Who studies Gas Hydrates?

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)

Who Studies Gas Hydrate?

U.S. Government

Non-Governmental-Organizations and Private Institutions

Other Nations