Senior Research Scientist, The University of Texas at Austin
Susan Hovorka is a sedimentologist who works on fluid flow in diverse applications, including water resource protection, oil production, and waste storage. She has led a team working geologic storage of CO 2 since 1998, with a focus on field studies, monitoring, and capacity estimation. Projects include saline injection at the Frio Test site and Cranfield Field and EOR studies at SACROC oil field, Cranfield, Hastings and West Ranch industrial CO 2 utilization projects and GoMCARB offshore characterization study. She specializes in monitoring to document retention. The Gulf Coast Carbon Center is leading efforts to develop offshore storage capacity in the the US and globally. She has a long-term commitment to public and educational outreach. She has a BA from Earlham College and a PhD in Geology from The University of Texas at Austin.