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Glassley, William
Research Coordinator

William Glassley is a Research Coordinator at CIEE.  He has more than 30 years of experience in earth sciences research and R&D management. He served for 10 years on the faculty of Middlebury College before joining Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1986. At Livermore he acted as project manager for several research projects involved with predicting the long-term behavior of geological systems. While in that capacity, he provided technical comments and reviews to National Academy of Science review boards and panels and European Union Scientific Research Committees.  He also  established collaborative programs with European, Japanese, Australian and New Zealand research groups. In 2005 he began working on geothermal energy for the California Energy Commission. His research interests center on geothermal energy sources, as well the role of geochemical processes in establishing and stabilizing continents and early life. Dr. Glassley has more than sixty publications in international scientific journals. He is an Emeritus Visiting Professor at the University of Århus, Denmark. He has a BA from the UC San Diego, and a MSc and PhD from the University of Washington in geochemistry.