Derek Elsworth

G. Albert Shoemaker Chair

Distinguished Professor

Energy and Mineral Engineering and Geosciences

Pennsylvania State University

Derek Elsworth is G. Albert Shoemaker Chair and Professor of Energy and Mineral Engineering and Geosciences at Penn State. He is co-founder of the Center for Geomechanics, Geofluids, and Geohazards. His interests are in the areas of computational mechanics, rock mechanics, and in the mechanical and transport characteristics of fractured rocks, with application to geothermal energy, the deep geological sequestration of radioactive wastes and of CO2, unconventional hydrocarbons including coal-gas, tight-gas-shales and hydrates, and instability and eruption dynamics of volcanoes.

Eckart Meiburg

Distinguished Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Fluids

University of California at Santa Barbara

Eckart Meiburg is a distinguished professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Fluids at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Professor Meiburg's research interests lie in the general area of fluid dynamics and transport phenomena.