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Carey W King

Assistant Director, Energy Institute
Lecturer, Business, Government and Society, McCombs School of Business
Research Associate, Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy, Jackson School of Geosciences

For more information, visit Dr. King's webpage: http://careyking.com

Dr. Carey King researches energy systems and how they work together and within the environment.

Carey's research interests focus upon:

(i) relating measures of net energy to economics;
(ii) understanding how technology and policy can interact within the nexus between energy and water;
(iii) integration and transition to increased renewable energy production;
(iv) the economics and life cycle of system-wide/integrated carbon capture and storage infrastructure; and
(v) promoting objective analyses of energy tradeoffs for energy education, decision-making, and policy development for natural resources.

Dr. King is currently a Research Associate at the Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy at the Jackson School of Geosciences. He works as part of several other collaborative research groups at the University of Texas at Austin: The Webber Energy Group (www.webberenergygroup.com) and the Gulf Coast Carbon Center (www.gulfcoastcarbon.org) of the Bureau of Economic Geology.

Carey has both a B.S. with high honors and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Carey has published technical articles in the academic journals Environmental Science and Technology, Environmental Research Letters, Nature Geoscience, Energy Policy, Sustainability, and Ecology and Society. He has also written commentary for Earth magazine discussing energy, water, and economic interactions. Dr. King has three patents as former Director for Scientific Research of Uni-Pixel Displays, Inc.

Areas of Expertise

Energy and renewable energy generation, usage, conservation, policy, and education; energy systems approaches; energy return on energy invested, net energy; carbon capture and sequestration; nexus of water and energy; renewable energy and electricity integration

Research Locations

Rosenfeld Plaque --- link: http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/page/Rosenfeld plaque - Environmental Research Letters (Institute of Physics, Science) (2012 - 2012)

Best Paper, 2010 International Energy Sustainability Conference - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2011 - 2011)

National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Fellowship (2003 - 2003)

College of Engineering (CoE) Endowed Presidential Scholarship (2003 - 2003)

Bruton Fellowship (CoE) (2001 - 2001)

Thrust 2000 Fellowship (CoE) (2000 - 2000)

University Fellow (1998 - 1999)

Engineering Graduate Fellowship (CoE) (1998 - 1998)

Cooperative Education Work Program Engineering Scholar (1997 - 1997)

Ernest Cockrell Jr. Scholarship (1996 - 1996)

Engineering Scholar (1995 - 1997)