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Managing Director of SCCS
Sarah Dawn Saltzer
Managing Director of SCCS, Energy Science & Engineering
Dr. Sarah Saltzer is the Managing Director of the Stanford Center for Carbon Storage (SCCS), the Smart Fields Consortium (SFC) and the Stanford University Energy Transition Research Institute B (SUETRI-B) Reservoir Simulation program. She was also recently named to the Biden-Harris Administration’s Carbon Dioxide Capture, Utilization and Sequestration (CCUS) Non-Federal Lands Task Force.
Sarah spent 25 years in the oil and gas industry where she held a series of scientific, managerial, and executive roles. She has a diversity of experience in positions of increasing responsibility, including geology research and teaching, petroleum engineering, leading exploration teams, competitor analysis and business planning and strategy. Dr. Saltzer holds a M.S. and B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from Stanford University.
The Stanford Center for Carbon Storage (SCCS) uses a multidisciplinary approach to address critical questions related to flow physics, monitoring, geochemistry, and simulation of the transport and fate of CO2 stored in geologic media. The Smart Fields Consortium is a multidisciplinary program that performs state-of-the-art research in computational optimization, history matching (data assimilation), uncertainty quantification, and data interpretation for storage of CO2. SUETRI-B reservoir simulation program is dedicated to research and development of advanced numerical techniques that enhance the value of reservoir simulation technology for geologic storage of CO2.
Sarah spent 25 years in the oil and gas industry where she held a series of scientific, managerial, and executive roles. She has a diversity of experience in positions of increasing responsibility, including geology research and teaching, petroleum engineering, leading exploration teams, competitor analysis and business planning and strategy. Dr. Saltzer holds a M.S. and B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from Stanford University.
The Stanford Center for Carbon Storage (SCCS) uses a multidisciplinary approach to address critical questions related to flow physics, monitoring, geochemistry, and simulation of the transport and fate of CO2 stored in geologic media. The Smart Fields Consortium is a multidisciplinary program that performs state-of-the-art research in computational optimization, history matching (data assimilation), uncertainty quantification, and data interpretation for storage of CO2. SUETRI-B reservoir simulation program is dedicated to research and development of advanced numerical techniques that enhance the value of reservoir simulation technology for geologic storage of CO2.
Education
MS & BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Geology (1986)
PhD, Stanford University, Geology (1992)