Franklin M Orr Jr

Franklin M. ("Lynn") Orr, Jr. served as director of the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford from its establishment in 2009 to 2013. He served as director of the Global Climate and Energy Project from 2002 to 2008. Orr was the Chester Naramore Dean of the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford University from 1994 to 2002. He has been a member of the Stanford faculty since 1985 and holds the Keleen and Carlton Beal Chair of Petroleum Engineering in the Department of Energy Resources Engineering, and is a Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and the Precourt Institute for Energy. His research activities focus on how complex fluid mixtures flow in the porous rocks in the Earth's crust, the design of gas injection processes for enhanced oil recovery, and CO2 storage in subsurface formations. Orr is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He serves as vice chair of the board of directors of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, and he chairs the Science Advisory Committee for the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and was a foundation board member from 1999-2008. Senior Fellow, Precourt Institute for Energy (2009 - Present) Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University (2005 - Present) Professor (by Courtesy), Chemical Engineering, Stanford University (1994 - 2011) Professor of Petroleum Engineering, Stanford University (1987 - Present) Associate Professor (Research) of Petroleum Engineering, Stanford University (1985 - 1987) Head, Miscible Flooding and Gas Injection, New Mexico Petroleum Recovery Research Center, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (1978 - 1984) Research Engineer, Shell Development Company, Bellaire Research Center (1976 - 1977) Assistant to the Director, Office of Federal Activities, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1970 - 1972) Ph.D, University of Minnesota, Chemical Engineering (1976) B.Sc., Stanford University, Chemical Engineering (1969)