Professional Service

• Journal of Verification, Validation and Uncertainty Quantification. Role: Reviewer. Review paper that uses Bayesian framework to determine model parameters for an equation of state. 11/13/2023 - 11/14/2023
• Physics of Fluiids. Role: Reviewer. Review response by authors (Erratum) for a paper on modeling of heat and mass transfer in multicomponent systems. 04/20/2022 - 04/20/2022
• American Flame Research Committee. Role: Organizer, session co-chair. Organized special session on flares for annual meeting at the AFRC 2022 Industrial Combustion Symposium. 04/01/2022 - 09/14/2022
• Physics of Fluids. Role: Reviewer. Review of paper on modeling of large-scale pool fire dynamics . 06/30/2021 - 07/02/2021
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Role: Reviewer. Review of report entitled "Graham's Beardtongue (Penstemon Grahamii) and White River Beardtongue (P. Scariosus var. Albifluvis) - Biological Status Report of Future Condition. Review related to my previous work in oil shale. 12/10/2020 - 12/22/2020
• Energy & Fuels. Role: Reviewer. Second review of paper on NOx reduction. 02/27/2020 - 02/27/2020
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Answered oil shale questions for Tara Hubner, a scientist at the U.S. EPA . 03/25/2018 - 03/27/2018
• Energy & Fuels. Review of paper on NOx formation in rotary kilns. Required original review plus response to authors revised paper. 10/12/2017 - 12/19/2017
• Grand Canyon Trust. Role: Reviewer. Reviewed report entitled “Greenhouse Gas & Water Footprints of Oil Shale & Tar Sands Resources & Projects in the Colorado River Basin” by EcoShift Consulting. 01/01/2017 - 02/10/2017
• Fuel. Review of paper on char nitrogen for the journal Fuel. 11/17/2014 - 12/08/2014
• U.S. FIsh and Wildlife Service. Role: Editor. Provided content and editorial comments to Industrial Economics, a consulting firm hired by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to evaluate the potential costs and benefits of designating critical habitat for two endangered plants found in Utah in areas identified as having oil shale and oil sands resources. 03/26/2014 - 04/23/2014
• Utah Office of Energy Development . Role: Participant. Invited to participate in the Office of Energy Development's Energy Round Table with Dr. Christian Burgsmueller of the European Union. 03/06/2014 - 03/06/2014
• BYU Environmental Science Club. Role: Invited panelist. BYU Environmental Science Club, Planet Earth Panel Series, “Energy in Utah – Part I, Shale, Sands, Hydraulic Fracturing." Invited panelist. 03/06/2014 - 03/06/2014
• Institute for Clean and Secure Energy, The University of Utah. Role: Conference Organizer. 2013 University of Utah Unconventional Fuels Conference. 02/01/2013 - 05/31/2013
• Journal of Fire Protection Engineering. Role: External reviewer. Review of article submitted to journal on heat transfer to object in a pool fire. 09/30/2012 - 10/15/2012
• Department of Energy. Role: External reviewer. Phase II research proposals submitted to the Department of Energy’s FY 2012 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program Funding Opportunity. 03/01/2012 - 05/15/2012
• Institute for Clean and Secure Energy. Role: Conference Organizer. 2012 University of Utah Unconventional Fuels Conference. 02/01/2012 - 05/31/2012
• North American Mixing Forum. Role: Treasurer. Serve on NAMF Executive Council and manage NAMF finances . 06/2010 - 03/2013

Internal Service

• Participated in two qualifying exams for graduate students. Faculty participant, 01/09/2023 - 05/11/2023. Department service.
• Department EDI committee. Member, 08/2021 - 12/2023. Department service.
• Virtual Graduate Symposium. Judge, 02/18/2021 - 02/18/2021. Department service.
• Participated in two qualifying exams for graduate students. Faculty participant, 05/05/2020 - 08/09/2020. Department service.
• Participated in qualifying exams for graduate students. Faculty participant, 05/08/2019 - 05/09/2019. Department service.
• RPT review of Dolly Chitta. Faculty reviewer, 04/17/2019 - 04/17/2019. Department service.
• Participated in three qualifying exams for graduate students. Faculty participant, 01/05/2018 - 08/16/2018. Department service.
• Participated in three qualifying exams for graduate students . Faculty participant, 01/06/2017 - 08/16/2017. Department service.
• Qualifying exam for graduate students. Faculty participant, 08/20/2015 - 08/20/2015. Department service.
• Qualifying exam for graduate students. Faculty participant, 05/14/2015 - 05/14/2015. Department service.
• Supervised the transition of the document repository of the Institute for Clean and Secure Energy to the USpace Institutional Repository. Project manager, 01/01/2015 - 07/15/2015. Other service.
• Qualifying exam for graduate students. Faculty participant, 08/19/2014 - 08/21/2014. Department service.
• Qualifying exam for graduate students. Faculty participant, 01/02/2014 - 01/03/2014. Department service.
• Qualifying exam. Faculty participant, 08/22/2013 - 08/22/2013. Department service.
• Qualifying exam. Faculty participant, 05/18/2012 - 05/18/2012. Department service.
• University of Utah Unconventional Fuels Conference, sponsored by the Institute for Clean & Secure Energy. Conference organizer, 01/2011 - 05/2011. University service.
• University of Utah Uinta Basin Field Trip, sponsored by the Institute for Clean & Secure Energy. Field trip organizer, 01/2011 - 05/2011. University service.

Community Partnership

• Presentation on energy demand to science students at Hillside Middle School with follow-up online interviews with several of the students. Presentation was background material for students preparing science videos for Earth Day 2012. 02/01/2012 - 04/30/2012

Outreach

• Judge, Salt Lake City School District Virtual Science and Engineering Fair, Elementary and Middle School. 01/31/2023 - 02/02/2023
• Judge, Secondary Division, University of Utah Science and Engineering Fair . 03/09/2022 - 03/10/2022
• Judge, Salt Lake City School District Virtual Science and Engineering Fair. 02/01/2022 - 02/01/2022
• Judge, Salt Lake City School District Virtual Science and Engineering Fair. 02/03/2021 - 02/03/2021
• Science fair judge, Salt Lake City School District Science and Engineering Fair. 01/30/2019 - 01/31/2019
• Participated as a panelist at the Women’s Career Conversations luncheon, BYU Hinckley Center. The event was attended by 150+ female students. 02/07/2017 - 02/07/2017
• Interviewed by high school student Nate DeVries about oil shale. Nate used footage from the interview with me together with other material to create a video documentary for the Utah Office of Energy Development scholarship competition. The video, "Oil Shale Utah," was released in December 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oguCXf2Qw8c. 11/10/2016 - 11/10/2016
• Speaker at Rocky Mountain Petroleum Accountants Society luncheon. Provided overview of research at the Institute for Clean and Secure Energy. 03/18/2015 - 03/18/2015
• Science fair judge at Hillside Intermediate School. 01/29/2015 - 01/29/2015
• Presentation on energy to 3 ELP classes at Hillside Intermediate School, Salt Lake City. 02/06/2014 - 02/06/2014
• Science fair judge at Hillside Intermediate School, Salt Lake City. 02/06/2014 - 02/06/2014

In the Media

• Interviewed by Clifford Kraus, New York Times reporter, via email and phone calls. I was not quoted in the final article, which appeared in the New York Times on Aug. 21, 2018. The article was entitled, "A plan to unlock billions of barrels of oil from Utah’s sands." . 08/2018.
• Interviewed by Brian Maffly, Salt Lake Tribune reporter. Quoted in Salt Lake Tribune article entitled “We’ve heard it before, but this Utah tar sands operation says it’s poised to produce oil and actually make money.” . 06/18/2018. https://www.sltrib.com/news/business/2018/06/16/we...
• Dakota pipeline greenlighted as fossil fuels move to fore. By Bobby Magill, Climate Central. Quoted in article. 02/08/2017. http://www.climatecentral.org/news/dakota-pipline-...
• Twenty arrested at June 19 protest at PR Spring mine. By Rose Egelhoff, The Times-Independent. Quoted in article. 06/20/2016. http://moabtimes.com/bookmark/27215701
• Oil sands mine construction slows to a crawl. By Rudy Herndon, Moab Sun News. Quoted in article. 02/11/2016. http://www.moabsunnews.com/news/article_70ae4512-d...
• Oil sands: Utah project, one of few in U.S., is put on ice. By Saqib Rahim, EnergyWire. Quoted in article. 02/09/2016. http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060032023
• Answered questions from Bobby Magill, reporter for Climate Central. Was not quoted in final article. 02/08/2016.
• Tar sands mining makes leap from Canada to Utah. By Bobby Magill, Climate Central. Quoted in article. 10/01/2015. http://www.climatecentral.org/news/tar-sands-minin...
• Tar sands mining moves to Utah- The type of oil sands that helped fuel the Keystone XL controversy have come to the U.S. By Bobby Magill, Climate Central, republished online in Scientific American. Quoted in article. 10/01/2015. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tar-sand...
• Utah tar sands: Promise of peril? By Dennis Webb, The Daily Sentinel, Grand Junction, CO. Quoted in article. 05/04/2014.
• Interview with WSJ reporter. Not quoted in final articles, which appeared on Dec. 11, 2013. 10/16/2013. http://blogs.wsj.com/corporate-intelligence/, http...
• Interview on KSTU-Fox13, Salt Lake City, UT as part of segment entitled "Tar sands protesters interrupt U of U fuel conference". 05/07/2013. http://fox13now.com/2013/05/07/tar-sands-protester...
• Protesters bring human perspective to tar sands conference. Examiner.com article about the University of Utah Unconventional Fuels Conference. 05/07/2013. http://www.examiner.com/article/protesters-bring-h...
• Maffly, Brian. Utah's oil shale, tar sands in for a bumpy ride. Salt Lake Tribune article about the University of Utah Unconventional Fuels Conference . 05/07/2013. http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/56275796-78/utah...
• Foy, Paul. Utah holds Unconventional Fuels conference. Associated Press article via the Provo Daily Herald about the University of Utah Unconventional Fuels Conference . 05/07/2013. http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/utah-holds-u...
• The 2012 University of Utah Unconventional Fuels Conference that I organized was critiqued in a column published in the Salt Lake Tribune entitled "Alternative Energy Missing at Fuels Conference," by Paul Rolly. 05/12/2012.
• Quoted in article published in online edition of Popular Mechanics. "U.S. Tar Sands? Canadian Company Seeks to Drill in Utah," by Bobby Magill. 12/09/2011. http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/coa...
• KCPW radio interview on Community Voices. 09/22/2011.
• Quoted in article published in E - The Environmental Magazine. "Digging a Deeper Hole - Pressure Is Building for the First U.S. Tar Sands Mine—Despite the Environmental Costs," by Nadja Popovich. August 26, 2011 | Nadja Popovich. 08/26/2011. http://www.emagazine.com/magazine/digging-a-deeper...
• Quoted in article published in The Daily Sentinel, Grand Junction, CO. "Shell: Oil shale blocked," by Gary Harmon. 08/24/2011. http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/articles/shell_oil_...