The Energy Center and Water Community are proud to welcome Michael Hightower, Distinguished Member Technical Staff, Energy Security Center, Sandia National Laboratories to campus on April 19, 2011. He will give a lecture entitled. "Water Resource Implications of the Coming Energy Revolution." We invite you to attend the lecture and enjoy an informative evening.

Mr. Hightower is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in the Energy Security Center at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is a civil and environmental engineer and has over 30 years experience in research and development projects. His current efforts include research and evaluation of innovative environmental and energy technologies and security and protection of critical water and energy infrastructures. One of his current activities is as project leader for development of a Science and Technology Roadmap for DOE for Energy-Water research and development. With scientists from Los Alamos, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Electric Power Research Institute, and Sandia he also helped write a Report to Congress on current and emerging energy and water interdependencies and challenges.