Carey W King

Carey W King
Research Scientist, Energy Institute
Research Scientist, Jackson School of Geosciences
Lecturer, Department of Business, Government and Society, Red McCombs School of Business


Email: careyking@mail.utexas.edu
Work: +1 512 471 5468
Office: FAC 428, FAC
Mailcode: C2400

Dr. Carey W King performs interdisciplinary research related to how energy systems interact within the economy and environment as well as how our policy and social systems can make decisions and tradeoffs among these often competing factors. Carey’s research goals center on rigorous interpretations of the past to determine the most probable future energy pathways. He reaches these goals by bridging the gaps between economic and biophysical (or ecological) worldviews of economic growth and structural change.

Please visit Dr. King's webpages:

http://careyking.com (Personal Research Page)

http://www.jsg.utexas.edu/careyking/ (Jackson School Research Page:)

Areas of Expertise

Macroeconomics; Energy and renewable energy generation, usage, conservation, policy, and education; energy systems approaches; energy return on energy invested (EROI), 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)

Graduate Students

Daniel Greer, M.S., 2022 (Supervisor)
Energy and Earth Resources


See Dr King's personal research website
This is Dr. King's personal research website with convenient links to his papers and research.

See Dr King's Jackson School research website