Students from the 2011 National Geothermal Academy explore steaming fissures on the Ormat Steamboat Springs property just south of Reno. (Photo by Wendy Calvin, University of Nevada, Reno.) |
The academy runs from June 18 to Aug. 10, and features a wide variety of geothermal professionals and professors, including personnel from Cornell University, the University of Calgary, Southern Methodist University, the Oregon Institute of Technology, Stanford University, the University of Utah, and West Virginia University, as well as recognized industry leaders and consultants.