Angela Seligman

About

Angela Seligman is CATF’s Senior Geoscientist on the Superhot Rock team, where she acts as the team’s subsurface technical expert. In this role, she collaborates with team members to further the technology innovation and market initiatives needed to deploy superhot rock energy at the scale necessary to provide zero-carbon energy globally using best practices, minimizing environmental risks, and in a manner consistent with subsurface science.

Angela comes to the Superhot Rock team from CATF’s Carbon Capture team where she was the Senior Carbon Capture Policy Manager. In this role, she designed and advocated for policies to promote the commercialization of carbon capture and storage technologies.

Prior to her time with CATF, Angela worked for the North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality, where she was the project lead for Governor Burgum’s low-carbon future initiative. In this role, she worked with the oil and gas industry, utilities, and power plants across North Dakota to plan for North Dakota to reach carbon neutrality by 2030.

Angela held a postdoctoral research position with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency where she researched water-rock interactions and isotope geochemistry to study remediation methods for water contaminated by uranium mining.

She received her doctorate degree in Geology from the University of Oregon and her master’s degree in Geology from the University of Utah, where she studied isotope geochemistry and volcanology. Her research focused on water-rock interactions, geochemical diffusion, and the development of some of the earliest eruptive centers of the Yellowstone hotspot. She also received a bachelor’s degree in Geology from Northern Arizona University where she studied the formation of the cinder cones of the San Francisco Volcanic Field.

Few things make her happier than the earthy smell produced when rain falls on dry soil, the site of an erupting volcano, the smell of desert sagebrush, or watching the sun set over the North Dakota badlands.