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2025

January 7 - Presentation for the Arizona Geological Society 2025 Speaker Series - Tucson, AZ

Title: Arizona's Deep Subsurface: Exploring Energy Resiliency through Gas Storage, Mineral-Sequestration, and Geothermal Resources

Speakers: Tawnya Wilson and Brian F. Gootee

Watch the recording here

 

June 24 - Panel at the Carbon Utilization and Storage Partnership (CUSP) West Annual Meeting - Salt Lake City, UT

Title: Primacy Efforts in the CUSP Region

Speaker: Tawnya C. Wilson

 

June 25 - Presentations at the Carbon Utilization and Storage Partnership (CUSP) West Annual Meeting - Salt Lake City, UT

Title: CCUS Research in Arizona

Speaker: Tawnya C. Wilson

Title: Distributed Mafic Rock Resources for CO2 Mineralization in Arizona

Speaker: Lisa A. Thompson

 

July 1 - Presentations at the Evolution of Subsurface Microbe-Rock-Fluid Systems 4th Annual Meeting – Tucson, AZ

Title: A pre-feasibility study for stacked saline CO2 storage in Harquahala basin (CO2HQ) 

Speaker: Brian F. Gootee (prepared by Tawnya C. Wilson)

Title: Geology, geochemistry, and potential origins of the Basin volcano-sedimentary lithium deposit, Kaiser Spring volcanic field, Northwestern Arizona

Speaker: Lisa A. Thompson

 

September 2 - Presentation for the Arizona Geological Society 2025 Speaker Series - Tucson, AZ

Title: Geology, Geochemistry, and Potential Origins of the Basin volcano-sedimentary lithium deposit, Kaiser Spring volcanic field, Arizona

Speakers: Lisa A. Thompson

2024

March 12 - Presentation for the Arizona Hydrological Society’s Tucson Chapter

Location: Montgomery & Associates, Tucson, AZ

Title: Southern Arizona CO2 storage: A pre-feasibility study in Harquahala basin (CO2HQ) 

Speaker: Tawnya C. Wilson

 

March 28 - Participation in the inaugural Carbon Dioxide Removal Innovation Forum at the University of Arizona

Location: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Title: CO2 sequestration resources and research in Arizona: an “ecosystem” of distributed energy and climate resiliency

Speakers: Brian F. Gootee and Tawnya C. Wilson

 

April 2 - Presentation for the Arizona Geological Society

Location: Hexagon Mining, Tucson, AZ

Title: Basin Evolution, Deformation, and Mineralization in Big Sandy Valley, Northwestern Arizona

Speakers: Brian F. Gootee and Carson Richardson

Watch the recording here

 

April 26-28 - Field trip to Big Sandy Valley, AZ for the Arizona Geological Society

Location: Big Sandy Valley, AZ

Led by: Brian F. Gootee, Lisa Thompson, Carson Richardson, Phil Pearthree, and Brad Johnson

 

May 9 - Participation in the Southwest Carbon Capture and Storage Hub Symposium

Location: Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ

Panelist: Brian F. Gootee

Attendees: Lisa Thompson and Tawnya C. Wilson

 

May 22 - Presentation for the Arizona Hydrological Society’s Phoenix Chapter

Location: Phoenix, AZ

Title: Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) Potential in Southern Arizona’s Harquahala Basin as Part of a Future Southwest-US CCUS Network

Speaker: Brian F. Gootee

 

August 5-9 - Presentation at the National Energy and Technology Laboratory (NETL) Annual Program Review Meeting

Location: Pittsburgh, PA

Attendees: Brian F. Gootee and Lisa A. Thompson

Title: Distributed Mafic Rock Resources for CO2 mineralization in Arizona

Speaker: Lisa A. Thompson

Thompson, L.A., 2024, Distributed Mafic Rock Resources for CO2 Mineralization in Arizona, 2024 FECM/NETL Carbon Management Research Project Review Meeting presentation, Carbon Transport and Storage

 

August - Presentation at Arizona Rock Products Association (ARPA) Board Meeting 

Location: Phoenix, AZ

Attendees: Brian F. Gootee, Lisa A. Thompson

Title: Distributed Mafic Rock Resources for CO2 mineralization in Arizona

Speaker: Lisa A. Thompson

 

September 11  - Presentation, Panel Moderation, and Participation at the Carbon Utilization and Storage Partnership (CUSP) West Annual Conference

Location: Santa Fe, NM

Attendees: Brian F. Gootee, Lisa A. Thompson, and Tawnya C. Wilson

Title: Status Update on CUSP Research In Arizona

Speaker: Brian F. Gootee

Panel: CO2 Mineralization in the Western U.S.

Moderator: Lisa A. Thompson

 

September 25 - Poster Presentation at the Geological Society of America’s 2024 Connects Annual Meeting

Location: Anaheim, CA

Title: Southern Arizona Geologic Carbon Dioxide Storage: A Pre-feasibility Study in Harquahala Basin

Speaker: Tawnya C. Wilson

 

2023

June 20-22 - Participation at the Carbon Utilization and Storage Partnership (CUSP) West Annual Conference

Location: The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

Presentation Title: CUSP – Arizona: Carbon Capture and Sequestration potential in Arizona

Speaker: Brian F. Gootee

Poster Title: Pre-feasibility study for CO2 sequestration in Harquahala basin, southwestern Arizona

Presenter: Tawnya C. Wilson

 

August 29 - Presentation at the National Energy and Technology Laboratory Annual Program Review Meeting

Location: Pittsburgh, PA

Title: Distributed rock resources for CO2 mineralization in Arizona

Speaker: Lisa Thompson

 

Sept 21 - Presentation for NAU School of Earth & Sustainability public seminar series

Location: Northern Arizona University (NAU), Flagstaff, AZ

Title: Perspectives on a carbon storage ecosystem from distributed CO2 sequestration resources in Arizona

Speaker: Lisa Thompson