Dr. Carolina Muñoz-Saez wrote a feature in Spotlight about Nevada’s Fly Geyser. This ever-changing geyser was created by accident almost 60 years ago.
GBCGE was featured in Geothermal Rising’s Bulletin this month.
Maria Richards, Interim Director, contributed to the Geothermal Rising Bulletin, Volume 50, Issue 1. Check out “Opportunity to Deep Dive into the Great Basin” to view the Center’s latest research projects and activities.
Job opportunity in the GBCGE: Geothermal Data Coordinator
We have just posted the job opportunity for Geothermal Data Coordinator for the Great Basin Center for Geothermal Energy (GBCGE). GBCGE is located within the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology (NBMG) at the University of Nevada, Reno. This position will be responsible for collecting, compiling, cataloging, maintaining, and publicly-disseminating information related to Nevada’s geothermal […]
Job opportunity in the GBCGE: Associate Professor/Director
We have just posted the job opportunity for Director of the Great Basin Center for Geothermal Energy (GBCGE). The position is within Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology as a tenure-track Associate Professor in the College of Sciences. The primary responsibilities will be to develop broad programs in research and education in the field of […]
GBCGE Booth at the 2023 Geothermal Rising Conference
The Great Basin Center for Geothermal Energy will have a booth at this year’s Geothermal Rising Conference (GRC) on October 1-4 , 2023 at the Peppermill Resort Spa and Casino in Reno, Nevada. We have a great location at space number 102. We are excited to promote our new geothermal database and discuss ongoing projects […]
INGENIOUS Team Participation at the 2022 Geothermal Rising Conference
The INGENIOUS project (INnovative Geothermal Exploration through Novel Investigations Of Undiscovered Systems) team includes over 35 collaborators, and are led by GBCGE researchers! Many members of the INGENIOUS team participated at the 2022 Geothermal Rising Conference (GRC), which was held in person from August 28-31, 2022 in Reno, NV. After more than a year of […]
World Geothermal Congress presence: 2021+1
The GBCGE team participated in the World Geothermal Congress 2020+1 event, which was held over several virtual sessions between April and October in 2021, culminating in a hybrid in-person and virtual event in late October. GBCGE team members contributed to nine separate papers with presentations for the conference, spanning the breadth of our research and […]
Recent peer-reviewed publications from the GBCGE team
The GBCGE team contributed to several peer-reviewed publications in 2021 related to our current research projects. The first paper to be released presents research led by Kurt Kraal, a PhD student in the Center, and evaluates the relationship between hydrothermal alteration, fractures and permeability at the Fallon FORGE EGS site in Churchill County. His paper […]
20 years old and still going strong!
The Great Basin Center for Geothermal Energy was recently featured in UNR’s alumni magazine ‘Silver and Blue’, with a nice overview of some of our recent activities and project involvements. This year, the GBCGE celebrates its 20th birthday and we are continuing to conduct impactful research to understand geothermal resources in the western USA and […]
GBCGE student Connor Smith presents new research at the Stanford Geothermal Workshop
GBCGE graduate student Connor Smith attended this years’ Stanford Geothermal Workshop (virtual this year) and presented recent efforts in support of the NV geothermal machine learning project. In his paper, Connor and co-authors discuss how supervised and unsupervised learning methods are being used to improve our exploration workflow for hidden geothermal systems in the Great […]