Professor Anthony Ingraffea, Dwight C. Baum Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Weiss Presidential Teaching Fellow at Cornell University speaks about the technology, development and impact of horizontal natural gas drilling and slick water hydrofracking in the Marcellus Shale.
Professor Ingraffea has been a principal investigator on R&D projects from the National Science Foundation, NASA, FAA, Kodak, IBM, Schlumberger, and the Gas Research Institute. His research concentrates on computer simulation and physical testing of complex fracturing processes.
(Recorded live 3/31/10 at Vestal Library in Vestal, NY)
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