Franklin M. (“Lynn”) Orr served as Under Secretary for Science and Energy at the US Department of Energy from December 2014 to January 2017 under President Barack Obama and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz.

He has been a member of the Stanford faculty since 1985 and holds the Keleen and Carlton Beal Chair in the Department of Energy Resources Engineering (ERE).

Lynn was the Chester Naramore Dean of the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford University from 1994 to 2002 before serving as Director of the Global Climate and Energy Project from 2002 to 2008. A Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, he was also a Director of the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford from its establishment in 2009 to 2013.

Professor Orr’s research activities focus on how complex fluid mixtures flow in the porous rocks in the Earth’s crust, the design of gas injection processes for enhanced oil recovery, and CO2 storage in subsurface formations.

Lynn is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He served as Vice Chair of the board of directors of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute until 2014 and rejoined that board in 2017.

He also chaired the Advisory Panel of the Science and Engineering Fellowships for the Packard Foundation until 2014, rejoining that panel in 2017, and was a foundation board member from 1999-2008. He is a member of the ClimateWorks Foundation Board of Directors.

About the Department of Energy Resources Engineering (ERE)

The ERE Department is renowned for theoretical, experimental, and computational research on multiphase flow and transport processes in porous media. Activities span reservoir characterization and engineering applications, including resource management of conventional, unconventional, and geothermal reservoirs. Long-term storage of carbon dioxide in subsurface formations is also an important area of interest.

More recently, the ERE faculty and students have been addressing the modelling and optimisation of complex energy systems in the presence of uncertainty. Energy storage technologies, including battery design and control, are emerging areas of research. Analysis of the evolving energy system – globally, nationally and regionally – is also part of ERE’s mission applying formal life-cycle analysis techniques to understand the full impacts of existing and proposed energy technologies.

We are extremely grateful for the generous funding provided by Pinsent Masons LLP, RBC Capital Markets and Gneiss Energy which allows the Scottish Energy Forum to not charge a fee to attendees.

Due to the COVID-19 outbreak this event will now be delivered by webinar using the ‘Zoom’ Video Conferencing facility.

If using a workplace computer to connect, please ensure your organisation allows access to the ‘Zoom’ software or alternatively use your private email address to subscribe. Zoom is FREE and you can register here

Delegates should register for the event using this page. Once your application is approved you will receive log-in details to join the webinar. We send these some 24hours beforehand to enable you to check the functionality. We strongly recommend you check the ‘Zoom’ connection before the broadcast.

Questions of our speaker will be handled by our Chair Nicola Gordon through the ‘Q&A’ facility on ‘Zoom’.

We ask all delegates to ‘mute’ their microphones to avoid background noise and disruptions to our speaker.

4.50PM – Delegates join the webinar and wait for the host to activate the session.

5PM – Update from SEF Exec Sec.

5.05PM – Introduction of our speaker by Chair Nicola Gordon.

5.10PM – Lynn Orr presentation.

5.45PM – Q&A through Zoom ‘Group Chat’ functionality. Managed by SEF Chair Nicola Gordon.

6.25PM – Vote of Thanks.

6.30PM – Webinar finishes

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