The University of Texas at Austin

Chip Groat holds the John A. and Katherine G. Jackson Chair in Energy and Mineral Resources in the UT Department of Geological Sciences and is Director of the Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy and the Energy and Mineral Resources Graduate Program. He joined the Department of Geological Sciences in June 2005 after serving for six-and-a-half years as Director of the U.S. Geological Survey, appointed by President Clinton and retained by President Bush. He also has faculty appointments in the LBJ School of Public Affairs and the Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering. At the U.S. Geological Survey he emphasized integrated scientific approaches to understanding complex natural systems and the use of these understandings in management decisions regarding these systems, an interest that continues at the university.

Education

Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, 1970

Current Positions

Joint appointments, LBJ School of Public Affairs and the Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering; director, Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy; director, Energy and Mineral Resources Graduate Program

Previous Positions

Director, U.S. Geological Survey (1998-2005); executive director, American Geological Institute (1990-1992); research scientist and acting director, Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin (1968-76); director and state geologist, Louisiana Geological Survey (1978-90)

Author, From Source Water to Drinking Water (Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, 2004); Author, Requirement for an advanced National Seismic System: An Assessment of Seismic Monitoring in the US (Diane Publishing Company, 1999)

Energy Policy
Natural Hazards
Natural Resource Management
Science Use in Policy Formulation