Speakers
Evan Bargnesi
Associate Science Director for the Geology, Energy & Minerals Science Center (GEMSC) of U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
Websiteview moreEvan Bargnesi works for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) as an Associate Science Director for the Geology, Energy & Minerals Science Center (GEMSC) – a position that he has held for over 4 years. As part of the management team, Evan leads a multidisciplinary team of 40+ scientists and support staff, who conduct research on a broad spectrum of energy, minerals, and environmental health topics. These projects span the range from landscape-level science that underpins USGS assessments of domestic energy endowment to the impacts of developing those resources to submicroscopic processes that influence the formation and environmental effects of energy and mineral resources. Additionally, Evan has completed temporary assignments with the USGS National Minerals Information Center, where he worked on process improvement, and with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, where he was a member of the Director’s Office.
Before joining the USGS, Evan was employed by California Resources Corporation for almost 10 years, where he worked on geologically complex exploration and production projects in dozens of petroleum fields across the siliciclastic basins of California. He applied scientific approaches to drive business decisions by leveraging technical expertise in petroleum systems, prospect generation and risking, pore pressure, and portfolio management. Evan earned an MS in Geology from the University of Kansas, where he used geo- and thermochronology to understand sedimentation associated with core complex exhumation1, and proposed techniques to improve the accuracy of (U-Th)/He dating2. He has a BS in Geology from Union College, Schenectady, NY.
1 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2012.07.015
2 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2016.01.017
