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Speaker Biographies and Photographs Speaker Biographies and Photographs Speaker Biographical Information – Alaska National Lab Day (30‐31 May 2018) 1 Carol Adkins Director, Energy, Earth, and Complex Systems Center, Sandia National Laboratories Carol provides leadership and management direction for Sandia’s applied energy, grid, and geoscience research and development programs. Previously, Carol was Director of the Energy Technologies and System Solutions Center, overseeing all of Sandia’s renewable‐energy and grid programs. Some of her past management roles include Director of Materials Science and Engineering; Deputy Director of the Nuclear Weapons Science and Technology Strategic Area with responsibility for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s science and infrastructure funding at Sandia; and Principal Program Director for the Defense Security Program, including all physical and cyber security at Sandia. Since joining Sandia in 1987, Carol has performed research in the areas of chemical vapor deposition of ceramics and tungsten, aerosol processing, cleaning with supercritical CO2, and semiconductor‐wafer contamination and cleaning. Carol led the wafer‐cleaning project under the Sandia/SEMATECH CRADA, which extended standard wet‐ clean techniques to the next generation of particle removal. She and her team were awarded the DOE Office of Industrial Technologies Commercialization Award for their supercritical CO2 cleaning work. Carol has served on the National Research Council’s Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design and as a member of the Panel on Manufacturing Engineering, assessing the Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. She currently chairs the University of New Mexico’s Chemical and Biological Engineering Department External Advisory Council and is a past member of the University of Texas‐Austin’s Chemical Engineering Department External Advisory Panel. Carol serves as Sandia’s Campus Executive for the University of New Mexico. She is passionate about supporting women at Sandia and has served as co‐chair of the Sandia Women’s Action Network. Carol has a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of New Mexico and was a National Science Foundation Fellow at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where she received a PhD in chemical engineering. She is also a Fellow of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Seminar XXI Program in International Security. In 2015, the University of New Mexico’s School of Engineering presented Carol with a Distinguished Alumni Award. Speaker Biographical Information – Alaska National Lab Day (30‐31 May 2018) 2 Nicholas C. Adkins Director of Operations and Chief UAS Pilot for the Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration Nick Adkins is the Director of Operations and Chief UAS Pilot for the Alaska Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration (ACUASI) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Nick supervises the ACUASI operations team to ensure safety and standards are met on all projects. As an ACUASI pilot, he has flown projects for research, testing, mapping, and search and rescue using multirotor, helicopter and fixed wing UAS’s. Nick joined the ACUASI team after a twenty‐two year career in United States Army aviation as a mechanic, pilot, instructor pilot, and aviation manager. Nick’s FAA certificates include commercial rotorcraft with instrument rating, private airplane with single engine land rating, and sUAS remote pilot. Speaker Biographical Information – Alaska National Lab Day (30‐31 May 2018) 3 Ken Alper Tax Division Director, State of Alaska Ken Alper is the Tax Division Director for the Alaska Department of Revenue, having been appointed to that position by Governor Bill Walker in 2014. In addition to administering the division and its 25 tax programs, he is part of the administration’s policy team for fiscal restructuring and the subject matter expert on oil and gas taxation. Prior to this he spent ten years at the Alaska State Legislature, mostly as the oil and gas aide to the House Minority. Originally from New Jersey, Ken has a BA in Regional Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Urban Planning from the University of Washington. He moved to Alaska permanently in 1997. Ken and his wife Jill Ramiel own and operate the Silverbow Inn in downtown Juneau where they live with their three children. Speaker Biographical Information – Alaska National Lab Day (30‐31 May 2018) 4 Scott Arko Technical staff, UAF Alaska Satellite Facility Scott Arko has been a member of the technical staff at the Alaska Satellite Facility at the University of Alaska Fairbanks for 18 years, including his current position as the facility’s Deputy Director. He holds a Masters degree in Physics from Colorado State University and has worked in the airborne and space industry for over 20 years. In addition to his current position as ASF’s Deputy Director, he also serves as an engineer for the ASF antenna systems and was the manager of the Americas ALOS Data Node during the life of the ALOS satellite. His interests include using low cost camera systems and UAVs for high‐resolution mapping, digital elevation model generation, and change detection using a variety of spaceborne and airborne sensing systems. Speaker Biographical Information – Alaska National Lab Day (30‐31 May 2018) 5 Steven Ashby Director, U.S. Department of Energy Pacific Northwest Laboratory Dr. Steven Ashby is the Director of the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), where he is responsible for setting PNNL’s strategic direction and overseeing its nearly $1 billion R&D budget. Under his leadership, PNNL’s 4,500 scientists, engineers and support professionals are advancing scientific discovery, improving energy resiliency, and enhancing national security. PNNL is recognized as the nation’s premier chemistry, earth sciences, and data analytics laboratory; it provides national leadership in grid modernization, energy storage, nuclear non‐proliferation and cyber security. A widely recognized leader in computational science, Dr. Ashby is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences; and serves on advisory committees for local and state organizations, including the Washington Roundtable. He received a doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Speaker Biographical Information – Alaska National Lab Day (30‐31 May 2018) 6 Patrick Balducci Chief Economist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Patrick Balducci has 20 years of professional experience as an economist and project manager. He is a Chief Economist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) where he has been employed since 2001. He is currently leading the industrial acceptance areas of the PNNL Energy Storage Program. He has extensive experience in modeling the benefits of energy infrastructure and in leading research and development efforts supporting the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the electric power industry. He has authored over 100 publications, including journal articles, conference proceedings, and technical reports. He is currently leading research efforts evaluating the benefits of microgrids and energy storage systems in California, Massachusetts (Northampton), Oregon and Washington. He is also leading efforts to enhance energy storage economic assessment tools for DOE. He serves as an Adjunct Professor of Business at Marylhurst University and as the President of the Pacific Northwest Regional Economics Conference’s Board of Directors. He holds a BS in Economics from Lewis and Clark College, where he graduated with honors, and an MSc in Applied Environmental Economics from the University of London, Imperial College of London. He will serve as the technical lead of the market feasibility assessment. Speaker Biographical Information – Alaska National Lab Day (30‐31 May 2018) 7 John Barnes Asset Team Lead, Hilcorp Alaska John Barnes has over 35 years in the upstream oil & gas business, with the majority of his experience in Alaska. In 2011, John joined Hilcorp Alaska as Senior Vice President of Exploration and Production and now serves as the Asset Team Lead for the Alaska North Slope. John’s other work experience includes assignments in West Texas, the North Sea and Houston as well as responsibility for CH2MHILL ‘s Operations & Maintenance businesses in Alaska and Russia. Barnes received a BS in Petroleum Engineering from Colorado School of Mines, and is a registered Professional Engineer in Alaska. Speaker Biographical Information – Alaska National Lab Day (30‐31 May 2018) 8 Christi Bell Executive Director, Business Enterprise Institute (BEI), University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) Through the BEI she leads the University’s economic development suite of programs including: the Alaska Small Business Development Center, University of Alaska Center for Economic Development, Alaska Minority Business Development Assistance Center, Alaska Procurement Technical Assistance Center, Technology Research and Development Center, Alaska Cooperative Development Center, UAA Center for Corporate and Professional Development, Business Innovation Zone, and the Applied Environmental Research Center. Ms. Bell has over the years provided leadership to technical assistance activities throughout Alaska including: Business Retention and Expansion, Cluster Development, Local Grown, as well as Tourism Planning and Marketing initiatives for
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