How an Oilman’s Daughter Helped Establish the United States’ First Offshore Wind Farm
“The silence was profound,” Barbara MacMullan recalls of the day Block Island switched from diesel generators to the first commercial offshore wind farm in the...
July-August 2021
It’s Time to Fix the Broken Rung
I did not have many female role models when I started my career working as a field engineer on offshore oil rigs. So, I did...
Energy in Motion: Untapped Hydrokinetic Energy in the Water Around Us
The earth is perfect, and energy is always at our fingertips; that is the lesson to be learned from hydrokinetic energy. The motion found in...
Back to My Roots
In the past year, the energy geoscience community has experienced a proliferating trend of career transformations that are coincident with the evolving markets and global...
Letter from the Editor-in-Chief (July-August 2021)
In addition to a long career as a journalist, I became a petroleum landman (emphasis on “land” – feet firmly on the ground) 10 years...
Energy Trend – Solar & Wind
Photos courtesy of Marc Morrison ©2021 – www.marcmorrison.com...
Marni Zabarsky, First Female Saturation Diver, Gulf of Mexico
When she first started diving commercially [in 1996], one of the supervisors at the company she was diving for told her she was too pretty...
Why Women Are Key for Empowering Other Women
I was a child raised in a country ravaged by war. In instances when the world was bleak, I saw color in the skies, not...
Starlee Sykes: Riding the Waves of Success
When bp CEO Bernard Looney streamlined the corporate leadership structure in May 2020, it enabled Starlee Sykes, bp’s president of the Gulf of Mexico and...
