Patrick Dobson is a geological staff scientist and the lead for the Geothermal Systems program at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He received his MS and PhD in geology from Stanford University, followed by postdoctoral stints at Caltech and UC Santa Barbara. He worked for Unocal Corporation for ten years in their research laboratory and as a geologist in their geothermal division, participating in geothermal exploration projects in the US, Indonesia, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Chile. Dr. Dobson joined LBNL in 2000, where he currently works on a variety of geologic and geochemical research projects associated with geothermal energy and nuclear waste.