DR. DOUGLAS PATCHEN, RLO Appalachian Director, is Director of the Resource Extraction Division of the National Research Center for Coal and Energy (NRCCE) at West Virginia University (WVU). One of his prime responsibilities at NRCCE is to manage the activities of the Appalachian Oil and Natural Gas Research Consortium (AONGRC), a partnership among the geological surveys of West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio and Pennsylvania, and the departments of Geology & Geography and Petroleum & Natural Gas Engineering at WVU. Since the formation of AONGRC in 1989, Dr. Patchen has directed research programs in reservoir characterization and heterogeneity, secondary gas recovery, coal-mine methane and coal-bed methane; has managed projects to create an Appalachian basin gas atlas and a Trenton-Black River Play Book; and directed projects to enhance DOE’s Total Oil Recovery Information System (TORIS) data base for the basin and to create an on-line data-delivery system for log and core data and other information on Upper Devonian tight sandstone reservoirs. Dr. Patchen is an active member of AAPG, and served six years on the Advisory Council for that international group, as well as serving four years as an officer in the Eastern Section of AAPG. He also served in the House of Delegates and as Eastern Section Councilor for the Energy Minerals Division before serving EMD as President-elect and President. He was the General Chairman of the 1996 Eastern Section Technical meeting, and served in that same capacity for the 2003 and 2008 meetings in Pittsburgh, which were combined meeting with the Eastern Region of the Society of Petroleum Engineers. He also is a member of the Potential Gas Committee, and has served on various task forces and committees for agencies such as DOE, the Federal Power Commission and the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission, dealing with enhanced recovery, coal-bed methane, Devonian shale and tight formations.

JOAN CROCKETT is the PTTC Coordinator serving the Illinois Basin Area, Eastern Region.  She is a geologist at the Illinois State Geological Survey (ISGS.)  Joan has been part of a team setting up and running PTTC programs in the Illinois Basin since the PTTC program was established in the 1990s. She has been involved in several DOE-supported geology and GIS research projects awarded to the ISGS, including reservoir characterization for improved and enhanced oil recovery and research on Lower Paleozoic reservoirs, and she was part of the team that developed the popular interactive web-based mapping service (“ILOIL.”)  Other work focuses on hydrocarbon source rocks in the Illinois Basin, and providing information services related to oil and gas in Illinois. She is active in education and outreach programs at the ISGS and serves on the AAPG Youth Education Activities committee, as well as serving multiple terms as delegate or alternate delegate to AAPG. She has twice served the Illinois Geological Society as President.  Joan received Bachelor degrees in Geology and Scientific Writing from the University of Illinois. 
DR. WILLIAM B. HARRISON III is the RLO Michigan Basin Director at Western Michigan University (WMU) since 1997. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati, was a teaching and research professor at WMU for 35 years, and is one the foremost experts on oil and gas geology in Michigan, having published more than 45 articles and book chapters. He is currently the Curator of the Michigan Geological Repository for Research and Education, which he founded at WMU 27 years ago. It has grown to the largest repository of subsurface geological data in the Midwest. He continues to be active in carbonate reservoir research.
LINDA K. HARRISON, Michigan Outreach, has assisted William B. Harrison, RLO Michigan Basin Director, since 1997. She received her B.S and M.S. degrees in Geology from the University of Cincinnati and taught geology at Western Michigan University (WMU) before going into the business world. Having run a successful business for 19 years, Ms. Harrison's organization and marketing skills are put to good use at PTTC. Ms. Harrison organized the capital campaign for the new building for the Michigan Geological Repository for Research and Education, part of the Department of Geosciences at Western Michigan University, where she serves as manager.