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Latin American Forum VI

March 20-22, 2011 Cartagena, Colombia

Energy and Resource Frontiers

The University of Texas at Austin and

Agencia Nacional de Hidrocarburos

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Financial, logistical and administrative support for the Forum

A salute and thank you to our generous sponsors

  Opening Recep on and Dinner Sunday, March 20 Poolside and Chivas Restaurant  

SPONSORED BY SHELL 

  Lunch and Breaks  Monday, March 21  Chivas Restaurant   

SPONSORED BY CHEVRON 

  First Day Recep on and Dinner Monday, March 21  Poolside and Tinajero Restaurant   

SPONSORED BY EXXONMOBIL 

  Lunch and Breaks Tuesday, March 22  Chivas Restaurant   

SPONSORED BY BP 

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Welcome to beautiful Cartagena, Colombia and the Sixth Annual Latin American Forum on Energy and the Environment hosted by Agencia Nacional de Hidrocarburos and the University of Texas at Austin’s Jackson School of Geosciences. Our meeting this year will focus on four areas that our membership has identified for discussion:

Recent developments in environmental policy and regulation

Current and future outlook for petroleum in Latin

America Opportunities for alternative energy resources Approaches to managing resource development

conflicts

The Jackson School is very proud of its interactions with our Latin American colleagues, including our former students and our partners in government, universities, and industry. The strategy of the Forum remains the same, which is to encourage open and frank discussion of issues and opportunities both in the present and predicted for the future. Our group has the potential to impact the decision makers in our countries and make a difference for our economic and environmental futures. Please contribute to the discussions and enjoy the company of so many distinguished and capable friends.

Chip Groat

Director Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy

Index Welcome 3 Executive Committee 4 Forum Agenda 5 For More Information 8 Members and Participants 9 UT’s Latin American Initiative 18 Photos from 2010 Forum 19 Jackson School Leadership Sharon Mosher, Dean Steve Grand, Chairman Department of Geological Sciences Terry Quinn, Director Institute for Geophysics Scott Tinker, Director Bureau of Economic Geology Address Jackson School of Geosciences The University of Texas at Austin 1 University Station, C1160 Austin, Texas 78712-0254 Phone: 512-471-6048 Email: LatinAmericanForum@jsg.utexas.edu www.jsg.utexas.edu

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Acting upon recommendations from the membership, an executive committee was created to provide advice and consultation to the dean of the Jackson School of Geosciences on matters relating to the Latin American Forum. The committee recommends policy, goals, objectives, and membership, and coordinates decision making for the Forum. Responsibilities

Clarifying the purpose of the Forum and aligning it with the needs of the membership

Representing the interests of the membership Establishing the definition of membership in the Forum Sharpening the focus of future meetings Revising the format of the meetings to foster more participation

and effective use of the time Determining the location and venue of future meetings and

establishing local organizing committees to assist with logistics Committee Members Chip Groat, Chairman Director, Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy Juan Mario Dary President, Mesoamerica Committee, Guatemala John Briceño House of Representatives, Belize Eugenio Figueroa Professor, University of Chile Sylvia M. Couto Anjos General Manager of Geology, Petrobras, Brazil Alfredo Guzman Petroleum Consultant, Mexico

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Sunday, March 20Reception at Cartagena Hilton 9:30 a.m.Poolside and Chivas Restaurant Latin America Oil and Gas Development 6:00 p.m. SnapshotsDinner7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Leasing and Development Activities in

ColombiaOpening and Introductions Armando Zamora, Director GeneralChip Groat, Director Agencia Nacional de Hidrocarburos (ANH) Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy, Jackson School 10:00 a.m.

Oil and Gas Upstream Situation in MexicoWelcome Alfredo Guzman, ConsultantScott Tinker, Associate Dean for Research Jackson School 10:30 a.m.

BreakWelcome and RemarksArmando Zamora, Director General 11:00 a.m. Agencia Nacional de Hidrocarburos (ANH) Cuba Today and Tomorrow

Jorge Pinon, Research Fellow Florida International University

11:30 a.m7:00-8:00 a.m. Current Activities in Latin AmericaBreakfast (Chivas Restaurant ) Petrobras

Shell Oil Company 8:30 a.m. ChevronWelcome and Introductions ExxonMobilChip Groat, Director BP Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy, Jackson School 12:15 p.m.

Lunch8:45 a.m.Overview of Unconventional Resources: Their 1:30 p.m. Defining Characteristics & Development Panel: Unconventional Hydrocarbons Challenges Scott Tinker, Panel Chair Richard M. Lowe Exploration Vice President US/Latin America Development Challenges ExxonMobil Exploration Company Scott Tinker, Director

Bureau of Economic Geology

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2:00 p.m.Coalbed Methane and Shale Gas in ColombiaMario Garcia Gonzalez, Professor 7:00-8:00 a.m. Industrial University of Santander Breakfast (Chivas Restaurant )

2:30 p.m. 8:30 a.m. Marine Gas Hydrate Characteristics, Opening Remarks Occurrence, and Their Prospects Chip Groat, Director as a Future Energy Resource C enter for International Energy andNathan Bangs, Senior Research Scientist E nvironmental Policy, Jackson School Institute for Geophyics, Jackson School

8:45 a.m.3:00 p.m. Panel: Deepwater Opportunities and Environmental Issues: Fracing, Water Quality ChallengesChip Groat, Director William Fisher, Panel Chair Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy, Jackson School

The Global Importance of Deepwater3:30 p.m. Oil and GasBreak William Fisher, Professor

Jackson School4:00 p.m.Oil and Gas Policy and Regulatory Challenges 9:15 a.m. in Brazil Advancing Global Deepwater CapabilitiesSilvio Jablonski, Member Felipe Bayon, Senior Vice President Environmental Division, National Agency for Special Projects, BP America Oi l, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANH)

10:00 a.m.4:30 p.m. BreakCentral America Research ConsortiumJuan Mario Dary, President 10:30 a.m. Mesoamerica Committee Recent Contributions in Marine Geology and

Geophysics at the Institute for Geophysics5:00 p.m. Terry Quinn, DirectorAdjourn Institute for Geophysics, Jackson School

6:00 p.m. 11:00 a.m.Reception (Hilton Poolside) Discussion7:00 p.m.Dinner (Tinajero Restaurant) 11:45 a.m.

Lunch

Tuesday, March 22

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1:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m.Water for Transportation Alternatives Discussion of Energy Development and for Sustainable Development of Research Priorities for Latin America Brazilian Sugar Cane EthanolCarey King, Research Associate, Jackson 4:30 p.m. School of Geosciences Concluding Remarks and AdjournManoal Leal, Laboratorio Nacional de Ciencia e Tecnologia do Bioetanol, Brazil 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Reception followed by Dinner2:00 p.m. Club de PescaNatural Resource Information Management for Bus leaves from Hilton lobby at 6 p.m. Science-Based Sustainable Development Policy and Project ImplementationSuzanne Pierce, Assistant Research Professor Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy, Jackson School Eugenio Figueroa, Professor, Universidad de Chile

3:00 p.m. Audience Discussion

3:30 p.m. Break

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For more information on the Forum

Visit the Latin American Forum Web Site:

http://www.jsg.utexas.edu/laforum/

(on the Jackson School Site)

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Participants

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a Guillermo Anibal Coco is currently the Secretary of Natural Resources and Public Services for the Province of Neuquén in Argentina. He is a civil engi-neer and also holds a master’s degree in Business Administration. During his career he has been General Manager of Instituto del Cemento Portland -Gerencia Macrosa del Plata S.A. - Gerencia Finning Argentina S.A. - Geren-cia Energía (Argentina, Bolivia) Power System/LEC Finning Sud América.

Silvio Jablonski is a member of the Environmental Division of Brazil’s Na-tional Agency for Oil, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP). He is also a professor on the faculty of Oceanography at the State University of Rio de Janeiro. He has also served as a consultant to Petrobras on environmental and fish-ery impacts due to exploration and production. He holds a bachelor’s de-gree in marine biology, a master’s degree in computer science, and a Ph.D. in energy and environmental planning from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

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Manoel Reis L.V. Leal is the Sustainability Program Director of the Brazilian Bioethanol Science and Technology Laboratory in Campinas, São Paulo. His experience is with sugarcane processing technologies for sugar, ethanol and electric power with special focus on energy and sustainability. He is a member and former chairman of the Co-Products Section of the In-ternational Society of Sugar Cane Technologists and the Brazilian repre-sentative in the Task 38 (Greenhouse Gas Balances of Biomass Systems).

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Martin Alegría is the Chief Environmental Officer for the Department of the Environment of Belize.

Clovis Francisco Santos has worked for Petrobras since 1980 and is cur-rently the Director of Exploration and Production for Petrobras Colombia. His previous assignments included the Manager of Exploration for the Campos and Espirito Santo Basins. He received his geology degree from the Univer-sidade do Vale do Rio do Sinos in 1979, and his doctorate in 1998 from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul.

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Clemencia Gomez is the Technical Ad visor for hydrocarbon ex ploration for the National Hydrocarbons Agency ( ANH-Colombia). Her previous experi-ence includes six years on the faculty of the Geology Department of Caldas University (Colombia) and at the Palynology Laboratory at Alcala University (Spain). She has an undergraduate degree in geology from Caldas Universi-ty and a PhD in geology from Alcala University. C

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Eugenio Figueroa is a professor in the Department of Economics, and for-mer Director of the Center for Environmental and Natural Resource Eco-nomics (CENRE) at the University of Chile. He is a member of several inter-national research committees and organizations, and an economic adviser to international organizations such as the World Bank, Inter American Devel-opment Bank, USAID, SIDA, UNEP, FAO, etc., and governments in Africa, America, Asia and Europe.

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Carolynna Arce is the Subdirector Técnico of Colombia’s National Hydro-carbons Agency (ANH)

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Hardany Castillo González is a geologist, an advisor for the technical direc-tion of regional geology for Colombia’s National Hydrocarbons Agency (ANH). His specialty is Geographic Information Systems and he holds a master’s degree. C

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Mario García-Gonzalez is a professor in the Department of Geology at the Universidad Industrial de Santander. He is director of the Research Group on Hydrocarbon and Coal Geology. His current fields of research include coalbed methane and shale gas reservoirs in Colombia. He graduated as a geologist from the Universidad Nacional in Bogota, and obtained his Masters and Ph.D. in Geology at the University of Wyoming. He is currently as-sessing the hydrocarbon resources, for both conventional and unconvention-al reservoirs, in all 17 sedimentary basins of Colombia.

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Wilson Enario Naranjo is currently a professor at the Universidad Peda -gógica y Tecnológica de Colombia where he specializes in environmental management. He has fifteen years of prior experience in the petroleum in-dustry with research in mineralogy. He holds a master’s degree in geology.

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Geovany Bedoya Sanmiguel is a professor at the Department of Geology at the EAFIT University in Medellin, Colombia. He has developed different research projects in the areas of risk management for government agencies and hydrocarbons with the Agencia Nacional de Hidrocarburos (ANH).

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Héctor Fonseca Peralta is professor of Environmental Geology and Direc-tor of the School of Geological Engineering of the Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, UPTC, Office Sectional Sogamoso. He is a mem-ber of the Professional Council of Geology and of the Colombian Society of Geology. C

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Sandra Manosalva Sánchez is currently an assistant professor at the Uni-versidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia where she specializes in economic geology as well as petrography and petrology. She directs re-search projects with Colciencias and Ingeominas. She holds a master’s de-gree in geology. C

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Andrés Pardo Trujillo is a geologist at the Universidad de Caldas and has been a professor with the Department of Geological Sciences. He received his Master’s and Ph.D., with an emphasis on Micropaleontology Vegetation, from the University of Lieja (Belgium). Between 2006 – 2009 he was a consultant with the Agencia Nacional de Hidrocarburos – Colombia (ANH) and is currently the Director of the Stratigraphy Research Institute at the Universidad de Caldas. C

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Romel Alaric García is an advisor to the Ministry of Environment and Natu-ral Resources of Guatemala. In 2008, he was Vice Minister of Environ-ment. Since 1980, he has been a researcher in renewable and nonrenewa-ble energies and new technologies for bio-fuels and solar energy. He is a professor at the Center of Energy of the Faculty of Engineering at the Uni-versity of San Carlos De Guatemala. He holds a master's in Environmental Science and Technology and a PhD in Technical Sciences/Sustainable De-velopment for Bio-fuels Production. G

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Carlos A. Vargas is an Associate Professor in the Geosciences Department at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia at Bogota. He is Director of the Geophysics Research Group, as well as Advisor of the Earth Sciences Re-search Program of the Administrative Department for Researching - COL-CIENCIAS. He is the former Technical Deputy Director of the National Hydro-carbons Agency of Colombia and former advisor to the Transportation Minis-ter of Colombia.

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a Armando Zamora has been the Director of Colombia’s National Hydrocar-bons Agency (ANH) since the agency’s creation in 2003. Before joining the ANH, he was Director for Spain and Portugal with ILEX Energy Consulting in Oxford, UK, and in Scotland as Deputy Director of the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy. He has a Bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering from Los Andes University in Bogotá, a Master's in Nuclear Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and an MBA from Intl. Management Institute (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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Juan Mario Dary is the president of the Mesoamerica Committee and for-mer minister of the environment for Guatemala. Prior to this he was general manager of Laboratorios Labind, the first industrial biological laboratory in Guatemala; general manager of Services and Subministries for Water; lab chief of the environmental watch on Lake Izabal; and professor of biology at the University of San Carlos.

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Francisco Rojas Esquivel is the Manager of Distribution and Sales of RE-COPE S.A. (Refinadora Costarricense de Petróleo S.A.) the oil company of Costa Rica. He was previously the Director of Petroleum Exploration (1985-90), Assistant Manager in Project Development Management (1991-96) and Assistant Manager of Distribution and Sales Management. He has a degree in Geology from the University of Costa Rica. He has also taken specialized courses in groundwater certified by the Barcelona Tech. Univer-sity and oil and gas exploration certified by University of Alberta, Canada. C

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Felipe Bayon, Senior Vice President, Special Projects, BP America, has 20 years of experience in the oil and gas industry in business leadership and technical managerial roles within Exploration and Production (E&P). Previously, he was Regional President Southern Cone for BP and Chief Executive Officer of Pan American Energy (a JV 60% owned by BP), and Head of the BP E&P Executive Office and BP Colombia Operations Vice President. From 2006 to 2010, he was Chairman to the Argentine chapter of the Latin American Drilling Safety (LADS) organization.

Yuri Melara is a lawyer and a public notary professor of law at the Univer-sidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras (UNAH). He has a master’s in law with specialties in business and international issues. He is a former judge, attorney general, and former president of the Honduran Lawyers associa-tion. H

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Alfredo Guzmán is currently an independent international consultant in oil and gas exploration and Vice President of the American Association of Pe-troleum Geologists. He is the former commissioner on Mexico’s Comisión Nacional de Hidrocarburos. Previously he was exploration vice president of PEMEX from 1999-01 and PEMEX’s North Region vice president in 2002-07. He holds both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Geology from Texas Tech University.

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Henry A. C. Jenkins earned a degree in Industrial Engineering from the Universidad Tecnológica de Panama, an MBA and a Master’s degree in In-ternational Trade and Logistics from La Universidad Latina de Panama. He coordinates the area of energy in the Central American region for GDF Suez Energy C.A. and is currently a hydrocarbon analyst with the Department of Energy of Panama. P

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David E. Muñoz is supervisor of the Office of Hydrocarbons with the Depart-ment of Energy of Panama. He has more than 20 years’ experience with exploration and supply and is a collaborator on the Latin American Organi-zation on Energy (OLADE), Economic Commission for Latin America (CEPAL), and Hydrocarbon Cooperative Committee of Latin America (CCHAC).

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Richard (Rick) Lowe is the Vice President, US/Latin America, for ExxonMobil Exploration Company with responsibility for new exploration in both North and South America. Rick graduated in 1977 from Queen’s University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada with a Bachelor of Science degree in Geological Engineering, specializing in Applied Geophysics. His career has focused on new play development, oil sands development geoscience, and land administration. Rick’s experience has included unconventional resource areas such as oil sands, tight gas and shale gas. U

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il Milton E. Chaves is currently Director-Americas, International Government Relations at Exxon Mobil Corporation. He has held managerial positions in corporate and upstream public affairs in the US and Venezuela and tempo-rary assignments in Angola and Equatorial Guinea. He was the senior com-mercial advisor for the US Foreign Commercial Service in Caracas. He holds a BA in Business from Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA and an MBA from Universidad Central de Venezuela.

Angel Curet is currently the Coordinator - Colombia Project for ExxonMobil Exploration Company. Previously, Angel worked as Mexico Project Coordinator. His work experience includes a wide range of managerial and international assignments in United Kingdom, Bolivia, and Venezuela and as Government Relations Manager for Latin America. He has a degree in Geological Sciences from the University of California at Santa Barbara. U

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Richard Parrish is the team leader for Latin America exploration and new ventures for Chevron. He has been involved in the evaluation of exploration opportunities in several countries across Latin America for Chevron and pre-viously Texaco for over 18 years. He had earlier served as geologist on vari-ous US and international oil and gas exploration projects.

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Andres Zuzek is principal exploration adviser to BP, where he has worked for the past 27 years. His work has mainly been related to generating and opening new potential frontier plays and country entry opportunities in oil and gas. Most of his career has been devoted to the exploration of deep water basins in the Gulf of Mexico, Angola, Nigeria, and Brazil. He recently led the team that assessed the exploration potential of Russia. At present he is ac-tively involved in the Latin American exploratory activities.

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Jorge R. Piñón is a visiting research fellow with Florida International Univer-sity Latin American and Caribbean Center's Cuban Research Institute. He is the former president of Amoco Oil Latin America; with 32 years of interna-tional experience in emerging markets making him an independent and ob-jective analyst in the politics and economics of oil and natural gas in Latin America. He is also recognized as an expert on Cuba’s energy sector and an advisor and a member of the Cuba task force at The Brookings Institution and The Council of the Americas. U

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Jorge Calvache specializes in opportunity evaluation and prospect matura-tion and currently manages Shell’s exploration activities for their Bogota of-fice. His previous 23 years with Shell included assignments as an opera-tions geophysicist, seismic interpreter, regional geologist, opportunity evalu-ator and project exploration leader. From 2003 to 2010 he worked as Prin-cipal Exploration Geoscientist, leading several tight gas exploration projects in the Rocky Mountains region.

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Nathan Bangs is a Senior Research Scientist at the University of Texas, Institute for Geophysics in Austin, Texas. He is an expert on 2-D and 3-D marine seismic reflection imaging and has conducted over 20 sea-going ex-peditions. He has coauthored over 50 papers on convergent margin struc-tures and processes, fault zone properties and earthquakes, and marine gas hydrates.

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Luciano L. Correa is a Research Scientist Associate at the Jackson School of Geosciences where he manages the royalty assets of the Geology Foun-dation. He is also a professor of the Faculty of Business Economics at the University of Chile. He holds a Master of Arts in Energy and Mineral Re-sources and a Master of Science in Operation Research at the University of Texas at Austin, and currently he is working on his PhD research in Energy and Environmental Policy in Latin America.

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William Fisher is a professor and former dean of the Jackson School of Ge-osciences. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and Na-tional Petroleum Council. He was assistant secretary of interior for energy and minerals under President Gerald Ford and on the White House Science Council under President Ronald Reagan. His research has focused on stra-tigraphy, sedimentology, and oil and gas assessment.

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Chip Groat is a professor and Director of The University of Texas at Austin’s Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy and the Energy and Mineral Resources graduate program. He previously served as Interim Dean of the Jackson School and from 1998-2005 was Director of the U.S. Geological Survey. He also served as Acting Director of the Bureau of Eco-nomic Geology and Director of the Louisiana Geological Survey. Among many leadership positions, he is past president of the Association of Ameri-can State Geologists.

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Edgar Garza is the conference coordinator for the Latin American Forum. He has previously organized the Transboundary Resources Symposium in Cuernavaca, Mexico and several GeoFORCE events for the Jackson School. He has a Bachelor’s degree in computer science from Texas State University. U

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Carey King is a Research Associate for the Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy in the Jackson School of Geosciences. He studies energy systems, how they work together, how they impact the environment, and how and why humans as a society consume energy resources. Carey has worked on projects for sponsors including the Department of Ener-gy, The World Bank, Texas Water Development Board, and Environmental Defense Fund.

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Suzanne A. Pierce is a research assistant professor in the Jackson School’s Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy. Her work to date has garnered recognition at the local, regional, national, and interna-tional levels. Her research integrates resource management problems with decision support systems using simulation, optimization, and participatory modeling. Her focus on science-based management solutions is motivated by early professional experience as the Environmental Manager for the El Abra Copper Mine in Chile.

Terrence M. Quinn is Director of the Institute for Geophysics, Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences, and Fellow holding the Weeks Cen-tennial Professorship in the Jackson School of Geosciences at the Universi-ty of Texas at Austin. Terry has long been involved in ocean drilling as a shipboard scientist, distinguished lecturer, and in the science advisory struc-ture. Terry presently is a member of the Science Advisory Executive Coun-cil of IODP and the Consortium for Ocean Leadership.

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Michael Young is Associate Director for Environmental Systems at the Bu-reau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin. He directs research in water resource evaluation, ground-water recharge processes, energy economics, coastal processes, and geo-logical mapping. He has a Ph.D. in Soil and Water Science from the Univer-sity of Arizona and has held senior research scientist positions at Georgia Institute of Technology and the Desert Research Institute.

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Scott Tinker is State Geologist of Texas and Director of the Bureau of Eco-nomic Geology at the Jackson School of Geosciences. Before coming to the university, Tinker spent 18 years in the oil and gas industry, most recently at Marathon Oil Company’s Petroleum Technology Center. Recipient of best paper awards in two major journals, he is a former AAPG Distinguished Lec-turer, SPE Distinguished Lecturer, and AAPG President. He is also current-ly serving as the Associate Dean for Research for the Jackson School.

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Luis Sánchez-Barreda is the Program Coordinator for Latin American pro-jects at the Jackson School of Geosciences. He is responsible for develop-ing new projects in Latin America and acting as a liaison between the school and foreign companies and countries. His technical experience includes numerous geological studies based on field work and stratigraphic and geo-physical data from the Gulf Coast, southern Mexico, and Central and South America.

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In 1998, the University of Texas at Austin made Latin America a strategic priority based on the university’s existing strengths and the importance of the region to Texas and the nation. Under the Latin American Initiative, the university seeks to be the country’s leading source of expertise regarding the arts, history, business, technology, and cultural studies of Latin America. The University of Texas at Austin has a vast array of Latin American programs. It is home to the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, widely regarded as the premier Latin American Institute in the U.S. with more than 100 affiliated faculty members. In Latin American subjects, the university graduates more students at the bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral levels than any other U.S. university. The vast Benson Latin American Collection contains more than 700,000 volumes and is exceeded only by the Library of Congress. The university’s Latin American art collection includes works by more than 250 Latin American artists, and a large part of the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art is dedicated to Latin Amer-ican works. The University of Texas Press is the leading publisher of Latin American subjects in the U.S., with more than one-third of its book list pertaining to Latin America. Finally, UT-LANIC, the Latin American Network Information Center, is the world’s premier electronic gateway to Latin American subjects on the web. The university is proud of its reputation as a leader in the field. Looking ahead, the university hopes to strengthen and expand its Latin American faculty and student exchange programs, endowed professorships, student support, academic conferences, and publishing. This effort is also creating more opportunities for Texas students to discover and engage the region.

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN The Latin American Initiative

Select Latin American Programs & Research at UT Austin

Latin American Programs at the Jackson School

Petrobras Cooperative Agreement

Texas-Mexico Border Area

Environmental Studies in Belize

LIDAR mapping in Honduras

Environmental Studies in Venezuela

Gulf of Mexico Basin Depositional Synthesis

Gulf Intraslope Basin Project

Latin American Centers at UT-Austin

Argentine Studies Center

Brazil Center

Center for Environmental Studies in Latin America

Center for Indigenous Languages of Latin America

Center for Latin American Social Policy

Latin American Network Information Center

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Photos from the Fifth Annual Latin American Forum Panama City, Panama

March 21-23, 2010