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Email: rtj3@psu.edu Phone: (814) 865-0531 Office Address: Title: Professor Website: https://www.eme.psu.edu/directory/russell-t-johns Research Areas: Education Background: |
About:Russell T. Johns is the George E. Trimble Chair of Energy and Mineral Sciences at the Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. He recently served as Chair of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering Program from 2015 to 2018, Distinguished SPE Lecturer for 2019 – 2020, and Editor-In-Chief for SPE technical journals from 2018 - 2020.Prior to his current position, he served on the petroleum engineering faculty at The University of Texas at Austin from 1995 to 2010. He also has nine years of industrial experience as a petrophysical engineer with Shell Oil and as a hydrogeologist for Colenco Power Consulting in Baden, Switzerland. He holds a BS degree in electrical engineering from Northwestern University and MS and PhD degrees in petroleum engineering and water resources from Stanford University. He has over 250 publications in enhanced oil recovery, thermodynamics and phase behavior, unconventional gas engineering, multiphase flow in porous media, and well testing. Dr. Johns received the SPE Ferguson medal in 1993, the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Distinguished Member award in 2009, the SPE Faculty Pipeline award in 2013, the 2016 SPE international award in Reservoir Description and Dynamics, and the Wilson Excellence in Research award from the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences in 2018. He is currently director of the Enhanced Oil Recovery consortium in the EMS Energy Institute at Penn State University. Research Interests:• Enhanced oil recovery for conventional and unconventional reservoirs• Microemulsion phase behavior • Miscible gas flooding • Well testing • Geothermal energy Memberships & Committees:MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL AND HONORARY SOCIETIES:• Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) • American Geophysical Union (AGU) • American Chemical Society (ACS) • Tau Beta Pi national engineering honor society • Eta Kappa Nu electrical engineering honor society • Pi Epsilon Tau petroleum engineering honor society UNIVERSITY/COLLEGE COMMITTEE OR OTHER ASSIGNMENTS: • Member, Faculty Activity Committee (2014 for year 2013) • Member, Institute of Natural Gas Research at Penn State (INGAR) (2012 – present) • Member, Penn State’s Global Engagement Network (GEN), Petrobras partnership (2012 – present) • Member, EMS College Advisory Search Committee for EME Head (2012 - 2013) • Member, EMS College FT&R Faculty Promotion Committee (2012 – present) • Member, EMS Faculty Representative for PSIEE Dean’s Advisory Council (2011 – 2012) • Member, EME Representative for NSF PIRE Committee (2011 – 2012) • Member, EME Representative for College Committee on Faculty Nominations (2010 – present) • Member, Accreditation and Assessment Committee (2008 – 2010) • Member, Tenure Review (2008 – 2010) • College Selection Committee for the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company Award for Excellence in Engineering Teaching and the Outstanding Engineering Teaching by an Assistant Professor Award (Spring 2008) • University’s Graduate School's Outstanding Dissertation Award (Spring 2007) • PGE Chairman Search (2007 – 2008) • PGE Chairman Search (2006) • Nuclear Reactor (1997 - 2004) • Scholastic Appeals (1995 - 2001) • College Strategic Planning (1997 - 1998) • EOE Faculty Advisory (1997 - 1998) • PGE Chairman Search (1997) • Honors Colloquium Faculty Mentor (1996) DEPARMENTAL COMMITTEE OR OTHER ASSIGNMENTS: • Member, Faculty Activity Analysis Committee (2014) • Member, ABET committee (2013 – present) • Chair, Leone chair committee (2013 – 2014) • Member, Deitke chair committee (2013 – 2014) • Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee (2011 – present) • Undergraduate advisor for 1/6th of students, PNG program (2010 – present) • SPE Faculty Representative for Field Trip to Drilling Well (2012) • SPE Faculty Representative for Field Trip to Drake’s Well (2011) • Chairman, Graduate Studies, The University of Texas at Austin (2001 – 2010) • Program Manager, Fundamental Processes Research Program, UT Austin (2006 – 2010) • Program Manager, Subsurface Environmental Engineering Research Program, UT Austin (1997 - 2010) • Assistant Graduate Advisor, UT Austin (2005 – 2010) • Member, Geosystems Engineering and Hydrogeology, UT Austin (1996 - 2010) • Member, Faculty Awards, UT Austin (2008 – 2010) • Member, ABET/SACS Faculty Liaison, UT Austin (2008 – 2010) • Member, Faculty Evaluations Committee, UT Austin (2009 – 2010) • Member, Ad Hoc Faculty Recruiting Committee, UT Austin (2006 – 2008) • Member, Graduate Recruiting & Admissions, UT Austin (1996 - 2003) • Member, Remote Program, UT Austin (2001 – 2002) • Member, Minority Liaison, UT Austin (2000 – 2002) • Chairman, Ph.D. Qualifying Exam, UT Austin (1997 - Petrophysics, 1998 -Transport, 2000 – Petrophysics, 2001 – Petrophysics, 2002 - Mathematics) • Member, Ad Hoc Faculty Recruiting Committee, UT Austin (2001 – 2002) • Member, Laboratory & Computer Subcommittee, UT Austin (1998 - 2001) • Member, Laboratory, Safety and Space, UT Austin (1997 - 2000) • Chairman, Ad hoc PGE 310 Committee, UT Austin (1999) • SPE Student Faculty Advisor, UT Austin (1995 - 1998) • Member, ABET Committees- Laboratory and Space, Course Requirements, UT Austin (1997 - 1998) • Member, Safety, UT Austin (1996 - 1997) • Faculty Meetings Recorder, UT Austin (1995) PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY AND MAJOR GOVERNMENTAL COMMITTEES: • PetroWiki Moderator for SPE (2013 – present) • Associate Editor, SPEJ journal (2011 – present) • Member, Editorial Board for Journal of Unconventional Oil and Gas Resources (2012 – present) • Reviews of Faculty Tenure Promotions at Other Universities (2011 and 2012) • Subcommittee Member, ATCE Recovery Mechanisms and Flow in Porous Media (2011 - 2014) • Member, Reservoir Description & Dynamics Advisory (2002 – present) • Member, SPE Editorial Review Committee (1996 - present) • Transport in Porous Media Technical Editor (2005 - present) • Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering Technical Editor (2008 - present) • ITB Journal (2012) • Journal of Hydrology Technical Editor (2006) • Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control Technical Editor (2006) • Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology Technical Editor (2005) • Executive Editor, SPEREE journal (2002 – 2005) • Member, 2004 SPEDOE IOR Program Committee and Session Chairman (2003-2004). • Review Chairman, SPE Editorial Review Committee (2001 – 2002), two-year term • Member, SPE Monograph Committee (1999 – 2002), three-year term • Editor, SPE CO2 Flooding Monograph (1999 – 2001) • Water Resources Research Technical Editor (1997 - 2001) • Environmental & Engineering Geoscience Technical Editor (2001 – 2002) • ASME Journal of Energy Resources Technology Technical Editor (2001) • ASCE Technical Editor (1997 - 1999) COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES: • Boy scouts assistant (2006 – 2009) • Bible study fellowship (BSF) leadership (2005 – 2010) • Church choir (2005 – 2007) • Sunday school teacher (1999 – 2002) • Church elder (Zurich, Switzerland 1993-1995) Honors & Awards:• SPE Faculty Pipeline Award (2013)• Victor and Anna Mae Beghini Faculty Fellowship in PNGE (2010 to present) • SPE Distinguished Membership (awarded in 2009). • B.J. Lancaster Professorship in Petroleum Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin (2008 to 2010) • BSF Leadership (2006 to 2010) • “A Peer Apart”, SPE honors for reviewing more than 100 technical papers, JPT, December 2007. • 25 year club, Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) • 2004 SPE Outstanding Technical Editor Award • Dean’s Fellow, The University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2004. • 2003-2004 Departmental Teaching Award, The University of Texas at Austin • Appointed by the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) to serve a two-year term as Executive Editor for SPEREE journal • Appointed by the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) to serve a two-year term as a Review Chairman for the Editorial Review Committee (2001) • 2000 Engineering Foundation Young Faculty Award for overall program development, teaching excellence, research leadership, and graduate student program development, The University of Texas at Austin • Selected by the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) to be editor of SPE CO2 Flooding monograph (1999) • 1998 SPE Best Technical Editor • 1997 SPE Best Technical Editor • 1997 Halliburton Engineering Foundation Faculty Excellence Award • Pioneer Corporation Faculty Fellowship in Petroleum Engineering, UT Austin (1997 - 2008) • 1994 Cedric K. Ferguson SPE Award for best technical paper by a young investigator under the age of 33 • Church elder in Switzerland (1993 – 1995) • Selected as the top student in Shell’s Advanced Petrophysical Engineering class (1984) • Elected to Tau Beta Pi (1981) Teaching:• Professor, Dept. of Energy and Minerals Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 2010 – present.• Professor, Dept. of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 2008 – 2010. • Associate Professor, Dept. of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 2001 - 2008. • Assistant Professor, Dept. of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 1995 - 2001. • Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Petroleum Engineering, Stanford University, Fall, 1990. • Graduate Research Assistant, Dept. of Petroleum Engineering, Stanford University, 1987-1992. Publications:Elsevier: https://pennstate.pure.elsevier.com/en/persons/russell-taylor-johns/publications/ Google: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=wprDK68AAAAJ
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