Dr. Robert Balch is Director of the Petroleum Recovery Research Center and Emeritus member of the Reservoir Evaluation and Advanced Computational Technologies (REACT) group. He has been PI or Co-PI on a range of federally funded projects and has a track record for management and integration of multidisciplinary team research efforts; his recent work includes involvement with the BLM Pecos District Reasonable Foreseeable Development Plan, web-ware for New Mexico Pit Rule compliance, and the Southwest Partnerships Gordon Creek Saline CO2 sequestration project, where he is responsible for the design and implementation of seismic monitoring verification and accounting. His past research has focused on developing and applying solutions to a variety of problems at many scales using geological, geophysical, and engineering data, including single well studies, field-scale analyses, and, most recently, regional exploration, simulation, drilling risk evaluation, and regulatory issues. Dr. Balch was recently appointed as an Oil Conservation Commissioner for the State of New Mexico.