Arizona Geological Society
2025 Speaker Series
Tuesday, 7 January 2025 | 5:30 - 8:00 PM
Location: Hexagon Mining Division Office
40 East Congress Street, Suite 150, Tucson, Arizona 85701
Parking: On the street or parking garage (Old Pueblo Parking)
Social Hour with Sandwiches from Beyond Bread (5:30-6:30 PM), Presentation (6:35 PM)
For those planning to attend the event, please register by 6:00 PM on Sunday, January 5, 2025
For those unable to attend, an URL will be provided later
The Arizona Geological Society thanks Hexagon
for generously providing the venue and drinks
Arizona's Deep Subsurface: Exploring Energy Resiliency through Gas Storage, Mineral-Sequestration, and Geothermal Resources
Tawnya Wilson and Brian Gootee
Arizona Geological Survey
Speaker Bio: Tawnya Wilson is a Research Geologist on the Basin Analysis Team at the Arizona Geological Survey (AZGS). She specializes in subsurface characterization studies in sedimentary basins to support carbon sequestration, gas storage, and geothermal development in the state. Prior to joining AZGS in 2022, she worked in the oil and gas industry as a senior development geologist where she did strategic horizontal well planning, performed regional reservoir characterization studies for water disposal, and worked as an operations geologist supporting the drilling phase. She received her M.S. degree in geology from Northern Arizona University and her B.S. degree in geology from California State University Long Beach. Her research interests include subsurface characterization, basin evolution, energy resources, sedimentology, paleoclimatology, and hydrogeology of the American Southwest.
Brian Gootee is a senior research geologist and tribal liaison with the Arizona Geological Survey at the University of Arizona. He has worked at the AZGS since 2007 and has over three decades of experience and over eighty publications in multiple fields: geologic mapping, sedimentology, stratigraphy, sequestration, geologic hazards, hydrogeology, and outreach. Since 2020, Brian has led the Basin Analysis Group at the Geological Survey specializing in research of the deep subsurface for carbon dioxide sequestration and mineralization, hydrogen gas storage, and energy-related ecosystems. He also completed several basin-scale hydrogeologic characterization of Arizona basins for APP’s and AAWS certificates while at AZGS, and previously as a hydrogeologist with Dames & Moore (now URS) and Clear Creek Associates. He received his BS and MS degree at Arizona State University. He is a native of Texas and enjoys spending time with his family, backpacking, silversmithing, and woodworking.
Hexagon Mining Division Office - 40 East Congress Street,
Suite 150, Tucson, Arizona 85701
