Gary M Hanson

While serving in the U.S. Navy, Gary Hanson conducted coastal surveys and oceanographic research in the Mediterranean Sea and classified acoustic research in the Pacific, Naval Facility Pt. Sur, CA. As acting Executive Officer of Oceanographic Unit Five, USNS Harkness he participated and assisted in planning for the first official post-WWII inport in Russia (Novorossiysk) by the U.S. Navy in 1974. He began his oil and gas career with Pennzoil in Shreveport as production geologist in 1976 and immediately began proposing locations and evaluating wells for hydraulic fracturing in the massive Carthage Field in East Texas. He later was transferred to the Houston, Texas office where he worked as exploration team leader for a large Mississippi Basin joint venture. He served with IMC Exploration as East Texas geologist and later was promoted to District Exploration Manager. He later participated as partner in two other Shreveport oil & gas companies (including Heritage Energy) until 1993. With Tetra Tech, Baton Rouge he served as hydrogeologist and environmental scientist and was ultimately promoted to Baton Rouge Office Manager. Working with the Louisiana Oil Spill Coordinators Office (LOSCO) he led teams throughout much of south Louisiana’s marshes and bays conducting the first Baseline Sampling and Analysis Project in order to help state be prepared for future major oil spills. He conducted groundwater modeling at the US Department of Energy Savannah River Site in South Carolina and worked many other hydrogeology projects coasts to coasts (Cape Canaveral, Florida to the U.S. Naval Air Weapons Station Pt. Mugu, California where he developed an innovative surface water monitoring & sampling system). Hanson joined LSU Shreveport as Assistant Professor in 2000 to teach geology, hydrogeology and environmental science courses. He was instrumental in the formation of the Red River Watershed Management Institute and the Red River Education & Research Park, a joint project with the City of Shreveport. LSU President Bill Jenkins asked him to form a working group of all LSU System Universities in 2004 to explore coordination of coastal and watershed science issues. He developed a long-term groundwater monitoring system for Caddo Parish in 2007 prior to the development of the Haynesville Shale Play. Professor Hanson is an entertaining sought after national and international speaker who brings an in-depth knowledge of adaptive management applications water resource management and energy issues to each presentation. He has been invited to speak and/or chair meetings at Cap itol Hill Washington DC, Long Beach, CA, San Francisco, CA, Portland, OR, Pittsburgh, PA, Atlanta, GA and Dallas, Ft. Worth and Houston, TX. Hanson recently returned from China where he was invited to serve as a symposium chair in the 1st Annual World Congress of EnergyWise- 2012.