Dr Graeme Beardsmore - Technical Director  A trained geologist and geophysicist, Graeme has been measuring and modelling crustal temperatures and the thermal properties of crustal materials since 1990. He has published numerous journal and conference papers and is co-author of the monograph "Crustal heat flow: a guide to measurement and modelling" (2001; Cambridge University Press). He is a part time Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, and an Adjunct Research Fellow at Monash University. He supervises students undertaking geothermal energy projects at postgraduate level.
Graeme is a Board member of the International Geothermal Association (IGA), and a member of the Forum of the Western Pacific Regional Branch (WPRB) of the IGA; he is a member of the Geothermal Resources Council (GRC), Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA), Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists (ASEG), Geological Society of Australia (GSA), and the American Geophysical Union (AGU). He has visited and investigated many geothermal fields and operations around the world, presented papers at many geothermal meetings, and maintains an extensive network of contacts with geothermal researchers and consultants around the world. Graeme oversees the technical and business development of Hot Dry Rocks.
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Dr Roy Baria - Senior Specialist Consultant  Roy has over 30 years experience in the development and management of hot dry rock (HDR) projects. He became involved in the early stages of HDR research at the Camborne School of Mines (Cornwall) in 1976, where he remained until 1990, rising to the position of Deputy Project Director. In this position he supervised all geophysical activities at the site, including HDR resource assessment, micro-seismic monitoring of hydraulic stimulations, cross-hole and vertical seismic profile surveys, and a surface seismic reflection survey. Under his management, the program developed an HDR reservoir which circulated for five years at a depth of 2500 m.
During this period, Roy also organised and edited an international HDR conference and proceedings volume, and the first international meeting on borehole seismic.Roy joined the European HDR geothermal programme (at Soultz, France) as Chief Scientist in 1990, a role he held until 2004. Over that period, the project drilled and hydraulically stimulated a number of deep (5,000 m), hot (200°C) wells, and established underground circulation.
Roy was responsible for planning, developing and implementing the microseismic monitoring system and interpretation of the data; planning and implementing high pressure, high temperature, logging programs; submitting project proposals and reports to the European Commission; representing the European Commission at meetings of the International Energy Agency’s Geothermal Implementing Agreement (IEA/GIA); organising the 4th International HDR conference and editing the proceedings volume; representing the European HDR Project on a research program into advanced processing and interpretation of microseismic data.
Since leaving Soultz in 2005, Roy has organised a number of international workshops on HDR/EGS and co-produced the IEA/GIA protocol on managing the risk of induced seismic events.
Roy is currently Task Leader for the “Enhanced Geothermal Systems” Annex of the IEA/GIA.
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Dr Gareth Cooper - Senior Consultant  A structural/petroleum geologist with a background in basin analysis, seismic interpretation, tectonics and time-temperature histories. He has specialised in the interpretation of organic and inorganic geological temperature indicators (bore-hole and surface) and their integration into the reconstruction of the thermal and structural histories of sedimentary basins. He has published widely on this topic.
Gareth has worked as a Senior Geologist with Santos Ltd on exploration programs in the North West Shelf of Australia and has lectured Earth Science at La Trobe University, The Australian Maritime College and the University of Tasmania.
He has also worked as a Development Engineer and Business Analyst for Comalco-Riotinto (aluminium smelting) and has a detailed knowledge of large-scale industrial electrolytic processes. He also has a diverse interest and experience in data analysis, quality systems, project management and the use of statistical tools such as Six Sigma for continuous/business improvement.
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Luke Mortimer - Senior Consultant Luke is a structural geologist with a background in fractured rock hydrogeology, geomechanics and borehole geophysics. He specialises in the structural and hydraulic characterisation of fractured rock masses and their coupled hydro-mechanical modelling under the influence of in-situ stress fields. Luke has previously worked as a Senior Geologist for WMC Resources for over 12 years. During this period, he has gained valuable mining, exploration and project management experience in a variety of geological settings across Australia, North America, South America, Africa and China. He is currently completing his PhD on stress-dependent permeability within fractured rock aquifers and its influence on groundwater flow. Luke is also a member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists (AIG), International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH) and the Geological Society of Australia (GSA).
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Denis Walsh - Consulting Geoscientist  Denis brings to the team a broad range of geological experience in gold, nickel and precious metal exploration, groundwater evaluation and environmental site assessments in a variety of geological terrains. His exploration experience has spanned from grass roots conceptual targeting through to more advanced stage resource style projects in various states of Australia (east and west coast). Working with a number of mining and exploration companies Denis has gained valuable experience in a variety of areas including: targeting using geophysics, geochemistry, structural mapping and historical information; extensive drill supervision of shallow drilling methods and deeper RC and diamond drilling; tenement acquisition; landholder liaison; and government reporting requirements. In addition to exploration Denis has worked in groundwater evaluation in a limestone terrain on the west coast of Ireland and more recently in a consulting role conducting environmental site assessments in Victoria and Tasmania involving assessment and remediation of contaminated soil and groundwater. This broad range of experience has provided Denis with good hands-on field exploration and environmental consulting knowledge and skills that are immediately transferable to the geothermal sector.
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Ben Waining - Consulting Geoscientist  Ben is a geologist with a background in mineral exploration, predominantly in Australia but also in Argentina. He also brings experience in the regulatory environment, including work with the South Australian Government on environmental management issues pertaining to geothermal exploration and development. Ben’s extensive experience includes initial project identification; planning and carrying out exploration programs; planning and supervision of geochemical and drilling programs; resource definition. Ben also has well developed skills with GIS mapping tools, experience in liaison with landholders, and a good working knowledge of the requirements and processes involved in regulatory compliance and reporting.
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Jim Driscoll - Consulting Geoscientist Jim graduated with a joint BSc Honours degree in Geology and Oceanography from the University of Plymouth (UK) in 1993; he went on to receive an MSc in Sedimentology from Birkbeck College, University of London. He spent two years working for a reservoir engineering consultancy in London before joining GeoScience Victoria in 2001. As a geologist, he was involved in regional geological work, hydrocarbon and geothermal prospectivity assessments, and the promotion of State exploration acreage. He is also currently studying basin evolution of a Cambrian-Ordovician siliciclastic sequence in northern Tasmania as part of his PhD at Monash University. He is a member of the IAS, GSA, PESGB, PESA and a Fellow of the Geological Society.
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Anson Antriasian - Geoscientist  Anson’s background stems from Berkeley CA, where he gained his university training in Earth Science, and intermittently pursued a career in education as an Earth Science teacher where he sought to educate and inspire the youth of Richmond High School. His subsequent geo-science experience has been in Australia, where he implemented grass-roots exploration programs and supervised exploratory drilling programs for the gold mining industry. He also was responsible for project coordination and engineering for a Brisbane based geotechnical/geo-environmental consultancy. His efforts have thereafter been with the geothermal energy industry, having since worked with GeothermEx in California and with Hot Dry Rocks now in Victoria. With his deep interest in scientific study, and more particularly, his interest in the role that science is now playing to develop an understanding of how human-kind will fit into the pages of Earth History, Anson has made a home at Hot Dry Rocks and is putting his eclectic skill set into action to invigorate the prospect and practice of sustainable geo-energies.
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Nicky Pollington - Geoscientist  Nicky completed a BSc Honours degree at the University of Tasmania in 1995. She has a background in exploration, mining and processing of various resources including gold, copper, lead, zinc and cobalt. Her work experience includes planning and carrying out regional and near mine exploration programs, mine geology, resource definition, process plant monitoring and maintenance, environmental and structural monitoring/ mapping in complex geological terrains in Australia, Fiji, Cyprus, Uganda and Zambia. She is currently completing a PhD on the sedimentology, mineral paragenesis and geochemistry of the Konkola North copper deposit, Zambia. Nicky has also developed skills with GIS mapping tools and database management for geological and metallurgical datasets.
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