Contact:

Tel:  801 585 9626

Email: resser@egi.utah.edu

Mr. Richard Esser is a member of the Instructional Research Staff at The University of Utah’s Energy and Geoscience Institute.  His research interests and expertise includes: lab scale CO₂ flow in porous media, GIS, field services, argon geochronology, isotope geochemistry, illustration and web design, and volcanology.

Education:

MS, Geochemistry, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (1996)

BS, Geology, Northland College (1992)

Selected Publications:

Esser, R., Levey, R., McPherson, B., O’Dowd, W., Litynski, J., Plasynski, S., 2010, Preparing for a Carbon Constrained World; Overview of the United States Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships Programme and its Southwest Regional Partnership.  Petroleum Geology: From Mature Basins to New Frontiers.  Proceedings of the 7^th Petroleum Geology Conferene. London, Vining and Pickering, eds.

Scholle, P.A., Esser, R., 2010, Carbon Sequestration in the Context of Climate Change, Earth Matters, New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, Summer 2010.

McPherson, B.J., Han, W.S., Lee, S.Y., Lu, C., Esser, R.P., 2009, Mitigation planning for large-scale storage projects: multiple injection zones and reservoir pressure reduction engineering design. Energy Procedia, Volume 1, Issue 1. p. 2595-2597.

Han, W.S., Lee, S.Y., Lu, C., McPherson, B.J., Esser, R.P., 2009, Role of correlation structures of permeability field on residual trapping mechanisms and buoyancy-driven CO2 migration. Energy Procedia, Volume 1, Issue 1. p. 3493-3498.

Panter, K.S., Esser, R., McIntosh, W.C., Blusztajn, J., Hart, S.R., and Kyle, P.R., 2006, The origin of HIMU in the SW Pacific: Evidence from intraplate volcanism in Southern New Zealand and Subantarctic Islands: Journal of Petrology, v. 47, no.9, p. 1673-1704.

Smellie, J.L., Fretwell, P., McIntosh, W.C., and Esser, R., 2006, The Cape Purvis volcano, Dundee Island (northern Antarctic Peninsula): Late Pleistocene age, eruptive processes and implications for a glacial palaeoenvironment: Antarctic Science, v. 18, no.3, p. 399-408.

Smellie, J.L., McIntosh, W.C., and Esser, R., 2006, Eruptive environment of volcanism on Brabant Island: Evidence for thin wet-based ice in northern Antarctic Peninsula during the Late Quaternary, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Volume 231, p. 233-252.

Boullion, A., Amato, J. M., Gehrels, .G., Heizler, M.T. and Esser, R.P., 2005, Constraints on timing of magmatism and deformation in Proterozoic plutons of the Burro Mountains, southwestern New Mexico, in Anonymous, ed., New Mexico Geological Society spring meeting, Volume 27, New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, p. 51.

Jánsson, L.K., Esser, R., Gudmundsson, M.T., Smellie, J.L., and McIntosh, W.C., 2005, Palaeomagnetic, ⁴⁰Ar/ ³⁹Ar, and stratigraphical correlation of Miocene-Pliocene basalts in the Brandy Bay area, James Ross Island, Antarctica: Antarctic Science, v. 17, no.3, p. 409-417.

Kristjansson, L., Gudmundsson, M.T., Smellie, J.L., and McIntosh, W.C., Esser .R., 2005, Palaeomagnetic, ⁴⁰Ar/ ³⁹Ar, and stratigraphical correlation of Miocene-Pliocene basalts in the Brandy Bay area, James Ross Island, Antarctica: Antarctic Science, v. 17, p. 409-417.

Siddoway, C.S., Sass, I.L.C., and Esser, R.P., 2005, Kinematic history of western Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica: Direct evidence from Cretaceous mafic dykes: Geological Society Special Publication, v. no.246, p. 417-438.

Harpel, C.J., Caldwell, D.A., Kyle, P.R., Esser, R.P., and McIntosh, W.C., 2004, ⁴⁰Ar/ ³⁹Ar dating of the eruptive history of Mount Erebus, Antarctica: Summit flows, tephra, and caldera collapse: Bulletin of Volcanology, v. 66, no.8, p. 687-702.

Esser, R.P., Kyle, P.R., and McIntosh, W.C., 2004, ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dating of the eruptive history of Mount Erebus, Antarctica: Volcano evolution: Bulletin of Volcanology, v. 66, no.8, p. 671-686.

Aster, R., Kyle, P., McIntosh, W., Dunbar, N., Esser. R., and Ruiz, M.R.M., 2003, Interdisciplinary real-time geophysical instrumentation of Mount Erebus, Antarctica, in Anonymous, ed., 73rd annual meeting of the Seismological Society of America, Volume 74, Seismological Society of America, p. 228.

Ruiz, M., Aster, R., Kyle, P., Wilson, D., McIntosh .W., and Dunbar, N., Esser, R., 2003, Tremor at Mount Erebus, Antarctica, in Anonymous, ed., 73rd annual meeting of the Seismological Society of America, Volume 74, Seismological Society of America, p. 199.

Esser, R.P., Kyle, P.R., McIntosh, W.C., and Heizler, M.T., 1997, Excess argon in melt inclusions in zero-age anorthoclase feldspar from Mt. Erebus, Antarctica, as revealed by the ⁴⁰Ar/ ³⁹Ar method: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 61, no.18, p. 3789-3801.