Energy Frontier: The Wyoming Landscape
Energy Frontier highlights the University of Wyoming's School of Energy Resources' role in advancing energy-driven economic development in Wyoming. Content covers energy innovation, Wyoming's energy sector and leadership.
The show is hosted by Dr. Holly Krutka, Executive Director of the School of Energy Resources at the University of Wyoming.
To learn more about the UW School of Energy Resources, visit our website at https://www.uwyo.edu/ser/index.html or follow us on social media. To learn more about supporting the School of Energy Resources please contact Teddi Freedman at teddi.freedman@uwyo.edu or give online at: https://www.givecampus.com/campaigns/28601/donations/new
Episodes
49 episodes
Episode 49: Landmen at the Crossroads: Bridging Energy, Land, and Law with AAPL President Nancy McCaskell
In this episode of Energy Frontier: The Wyoming Landscape, we welcome Nancy McCaskell, president of the American Association of Professional Landmen (AAPL), to discuss the evolving role of landmen in today’s energy sector. McCaskell shares insi...
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Episode 48: Rare Earths, Rare Opportunity: Unlocking Wyoming’s Hidden Potential
In this episode, we talk with Mr. Davin Bagdonas and Dr. Tyler Brown about the growing potential of rare earth elements (REEs) in Wyoming—particularly from unconventional sources like coal byproducts. Davin and Tyler share their expertise on ho...
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Episode 47: Energy, Education, and Wyoming’s Future with Megan Degenfelder
There's few places where education and energy are more closely linked than in Wyoming. The state's Superintendent of Public Instruction, Megan Degenfelder, joins us to discuss how Wyoming's schools are preparing students for careers in both tra...
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Episode 46: Policy, Innovation, and the Future of Wyoming Energy with Matt Fry
Wyoming's energy sector faces unique challenges and opportunities. Matt Fry, Director of the Center for Energy Regulation and Policy Analysis at the University of Wyoming School of Energy Resources, joins us to discuss the regulatory and policy...
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Episode 45: Computational Solutions & Academic Leadership with Dr. Dimitrios Papavassiliou
Join us as we explore the intersection of cutting-edge technology and academic leadership with Dr. Dimitrios Papavassiliou from the University of Oklahoma. In this episode of Energy Frontier: The Wyoming Landscape, we unpack the role of computa...
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Episode 44: Federal Lands, Energy, and NEPA: Finding the Balance with Professor Temple Stoellinger
How does federal environmental policy shape energy projects in Wyoming? Join us as we speak with Temple Stoellinger, an expert in NEPA from the University of Wyoming, about the intricacies of the National Environmental Policy Act. Learn how NEP...
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Episode 43: Beyond the Blades: Innovation in Wyoming Wind
Wyoming's wind energy potential is unsurpassed. How much of that potential will ultimately be developed remains to be seen. On this episode, we sit down with UW Mechanical Engineering professors Jonathan Naughton and Michael Stoellinger, co-dir...
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Episode 42: Energy & Leadership: Rita Meyer's Wyoming Story
From coal mines to rare earths to a cutting-edge nuclear reactor, Wyoming has a rich energy history (and future). On this episode of Energy Frontier: The Wyoming Landscape, Dr. Holly Krutka sits down with Rita Meyer, a long-time Wyoming residen...
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Episode 41: Paving the Road of Innovation with Coal-Derived Asphalt
This episode explores the cutting-edge world of coal-derived asphalt with experts Trina Pfeiffer, Director of the UW School of Energy Resources, Center for Carbon Capture and Conversion, and Dr. Jeramie Adams, Vice President at Western Research...
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Episode 40: Regulating Power and the Wyoming Public Service Commission with Chairman Mary Throne
Despite some recent increases, Wyoming continues to have low cost electricity compared to national averages – even as the state weighs different energy sources and innovative options like nuclear energy and carbon capture and storage. The curre...
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Episode 39: Revolutionizing Subsurface Energy with Digital Innovation
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, and other forms of digital innovation have become buzzwords, but these increasingly common terms underly powerful technologies that can be applied to the energy sector. In this episode, Dr....
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Episode 38: Wyoming Wildlife and Energy with Bob Budd
As the least populated state in the nation, and a place where outdoor recreation is a way of life, Wyomingites deeply value wild lands and wildlife. Balancing energy production with Wyoming’s respect for the natural world requires diverse stake...
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Episode 37: Communicating the Future of Nuclear Energy in Wyoming and Beyond
It is often said that nuclear energy is experiencing a renaissance and Wyoming has the opportunity to play a significant role in several different areas of this dynamic industry. The Equality State’s first nuclear energy power plant is TerraPow...
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Episode 36: Producing Renewable Gas with Cowboy Clean Fuels
Like most energy states, Wyoming has stranded infrastructure due to the boom and busts associated with energy production, including in the Powder River Basin where a coal bed methane industry has been decimated by a decade of low natural gas pr...
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Episode 35: A Wyoming Native Helps Reinvent Coal
Eli Ellis is a researcher at the Center for Carbon Capture and Conversion at the School of Energy Resources. In this episode, Dr. Krutka and Mr. Ellis discuss his time as a student studying mechanical engineering at the University of Wyoming, w...
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Episode 34: Delivering Power in the West with PacifiCorp CEO Cindy Crane
Cindy Crane is the CEO of PacifiCorp and the Chairwoman of SER’s governance board, the Energy Resources Council. In this episode, Dr. Krutka and Ms. Crane discuss her long and distinguished career in the electricity sector, the future of the ut...
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Episode 33: A Primer on Electricity Markets with EPSA's Todd Snitchler
Like other energy sources, Wyoming exports most of the electricity it produces into complicated electricity markets. Todd Snitchler is a nationally recognized expert on electricity issues, especially wholesale electricity markets, and joins the...
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Episode 32: From Submarines to National Labs, Nuclear Energy with Todd Allen
Professor Todd Allen is the Chair of Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences at the University of Michigan. After serving in the Navy, he earned a PhD in nuclear engineering and has spent his career working on issues related to the nucl...
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Episode 31: Talking Strategy with the Wyoming Energy Authority
Rob Creager is the Executive Director of the Wyoming Energy Authority, an entitiy with a mission is to advocate, facilitate, and advance Wyoming's energy economy. In an all-of-the above state, WEA covers the entire energy spectrum, including al...
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Episode 30: The Future of Nuclear Energy with Jeff Merrifield
Jeff Merrifield is an attorney and partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, a law firm focusing on the technology and life sciences, energy, financial, real estate, and construction sectors. Jeff is a former Commissioner of the US Nuclea...
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Episode 29: Giving Back to Wyoming with Representative Don Burkhart
Representative Don Burkhart represented Wyoming House District 15 from 2011 through 2024. He has also served the state in various capacities, including serving as a member of the Energy Resources Council. His career included several different r...
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Episode 28: What Does an Energy and Environmental Systems Graduate Do: A Conversation with Austin Moon and Randall Violett
This episode features Austin Moon, a recent graduate of the School of Energy Resources, and Randall Violett, the inaugural director over the Energy and Environmental Systems concentration in SER's Energy Resource Management and Development unde...
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Episode 27: Enhanced Oil Recovery with Reza Barati
Wyoming is an oil and gas producing state with a significant proportion of Wyoming’s oil coming from enhanced oil recovery using injection of carbon dioxide and other improvement techniques. Dr. Reza Barati is an expert on techniques for enhanc...
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Episode 26: From UW to Yucca Mountain with Christi Barry
Christi Barry is a University of Wyoming alum who studied geology for her undergraduate degree and then continued her graduate studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where she studied volcanic and tectonic activity in the region. Ms. Ba...
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Episode 25: Air Quality Shane Murphy
As a top natural gas producing state, Wyoming has led in collaboration between academia, industry, and government to identify new ways to detect and curb methane emissions. Success in reducing methane emissions has changed Wyoming's natural gas...
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