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About the Author
Daniel J. Soeder spent 25 years with the federal government as a research scientist and geologist. His work
with the U.S.  Geological Survey (USGS) included
coordinating hydrologic and geologic fieldwork on the
Yucca Mountain Project in Nevada and researching
coastal hydrology, wetlands, water supply, and water
contamination in the Mid-Atlantic. He chaired the
Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC)
for the Delaware Estuary Program for 3 years. His
experience at the U.S.  Department of Energy (DOE)
National Energy Technology Laboratory in
Morgantown, West Virginia, included energy and environmental research on gas shale and other unconventional fossil energy resources. He also spent a decade
carrying out studies on the geology of unconventional
natural gas resources at the Institute of Gas Technology
(now GTI) in Chicago. He was director of the Energy
Resources Initiative at the South Dakota School of
Mines & Technology in Rapid City, South Dakota,
from 2017 to 2020, and holds an adjunct appointment
at West Virginia University. He has authored multiple
reports, scientific papers, and two previous books on
shale, and he has also investigated and written about the
impacts of shale gas development on the environment.
Raised in Cleveland, Ohio, he received a B.S. degree in
geology from Cleveland State University in 1976 and
an M.S. degree in geology from Bowling Green State
University (Ohio) in 1978. He has three children and a
grandchild who deserve a better world.