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Dr. Lee H. Spangler is the Director of the Big Sky Carbon Sequestration Partnership and Director of the Zero Emissions Research and Technology (ZERT) Center, a collaborative involving DOE labs (NETL, PNNL, LANL, LBNL, LLNL) and academic institutions (Montana State University and West Virginia University) focused on the basic science issues behind geologic carbon sequestration. In addition to directing the effort, Dr. Spangler is coordinating the development of a unique facility to test CO2 soil and surface detection technologies and is also involved in development of remote sensing technologies (LIDAR) for CO2. He also serves on the FutureGen Technical Experts Group, an advisory group to the FutureGen Alliance, a $1 billion public-private partnership to design, build, and operate the world's first commercial-scale, coal-fueled, "zero emissions" power plant targeted at producing low-cost electricity and hydrogen from coal while capturing and permanently storing carbon dioxide.
Dr. Spangler is currently the Associate Vice President for Research in the Research Office at Montana State University (MSU) where he is charged with increasing the number of multi-investigator research projects primarily in the physical sciences and engineering. In this role he coordinates several multi-investigator programs including fuel cell research activities at MSU which involves 48 faculty, students, and other research personnel. He earned his bachelors degree in Physics and Chemistry from Washington and Jefferson College, his Ph.D. from Pittsburgh in Physical Chemistry where his molecular spectroscopy work earned him the Proctor and Gamble award, and completed a Director’s Funded postdoctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He joined the chemistry faculty at Montana State in 1987 and was a founding member of the Optical Technology Center (OpTeC) which he later directed. OpTeC was established with the help of NSF EPSCoR funds and has been successful in promoting collaborations with the high tech optics industry in the state of Montana and contributing to economic development.
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