| Biography | Managing Editor, Oklahoma Bar Mineral Law Newsletter. Note Editor and Assisting Managing Editor, American Indian Law Review. Research Assistant for Owen L. Anderson, Eugene Kuntz Chair of Oil and Gas Law, 2002-2005. Member of the CAIL Institute for Energy Law. Previously worked for the United States Geological Survey as a Geophysicist on projects related to the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPRA) and the Alaskan National Wildlife Preserve (ANWR), and as a Field Geologist and Seismic Interpreter on oil, gas and coal assessment projects in the Appalachians. Recent Publications: "American Law and Jurisprudence on Fracing," with Thomas Kurth, Michael Mazzone and Mary Mendoza, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Journal, Vol. 47, No. 2, 2010; "Gas Shale and Hydraulic Fracturing Work for Our Nation, Environmental Leader, October 25, 2010; "Shale wells are well-regulated: Pennsylvania has all the tools it needs to extract gas safely," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 16, 2010; "Feds haven't made case for oversight of fracking," The Houston Chronicle, April 22, 1010; "The Arctic: Past the Last Frontier," (with Sergei Lomako), The Northern Mariner/Le marin du nord, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Spring 2010); "Revisiting the Executive Right to Lease Oil & Gas Interests," Texas Tech Law Review, V. 42, No. 1, 2009; "Surface Use and Access for Oil and Gas Exploration in Frontier Areas," Landman, V. 54, No. 3, May/June 2009; "The New Petroleum Categories and Valuation Requirements of the SEC," (with Bill Nelson), Oklahoma Mineral Law Section Newsletter, Vol. XXVI, No. 5, May 2009; "Operator Removal Under Form Joint Operating Agreements in Texas," Permian Basin Landmen's Association Newsletter, May 2009; "Wagner & Brown, Ltd. v. Sheppard - the Supreme Court Releases Opinion Affecting Texas Landmen," Houston Association of Professional Landmen Newsletter, May, 2009. "Surface Damages, Site-Remediation and Well Bonding in Wyoming - Results and Analysis of Recent Regulations," University of Wyoming Law Review, V. 9, No. 2, 2009; "Additional Provisions to Form Joint Operating Agreements," (with Mark Mathews), Oil, Gas & Energy Resources Law Section Report, State Bar of Texas, V. 33, No. 2, December 2008; "Federal and State Regulation of Oil and Gas in the United States" (talk) University of St. Gallen/University of Texas School of Law joint executive session, Nov. 3, 2008; "Practitioner's Pathfinder for Approaching Foreign Investment in Oil & Gas Real Property in Texas and New Mexico," Texas Transnational Law Quarterly, V. 21, No. 3 (June, 2008); "A Flock of Trouble: Liability Under Oil and Gas Joint Operating Agreements After Seagull v. Eland," (with David W. Lauritzen), Texas Wesleyan Law Review, V. 14, No. 2, 2008. |