Interim Director of the Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin
Mark Shuster is Interim Director of the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas at Austin overseeing the Bureau’s Energy Research Division. Mark also leads the GeoH2 Industrial Affiliate Program (consortium) at the University of Texas at Austin. The GeoH2 consortium conducts research on geological storage of hydrogen, hydrogen value chains, and novel subsurface concepts applied to hydrogen. In addition to leading GeoH2, Mark co-authored the U.S. National Petroleum Council’s study on the deployment of low carbon intensity hydrogen. Mark joined the Bureau in 2016 after retiring from Shell. In Mark’s 30 year career at Shell, he worked in upstream research and exploration as a Geologist, Manager, Vice President, and Executive Vice President in the US, The Netherlands, Australia, Oman, and the U.A.E. on projects around the globe. Mark is a member of Society of Petroleum Engineers, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, and the Geological Society of America. He is past president of the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies, former Vice-Chair of the American Geosciences Institute Foundation, and Trustee of the AAPG Foundation. Mark has a PhD in Geology from the University of Wyoming and a B.S. from the University of the Pacific.