Alain Bonneville
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Alain Bonneville is a geophysicist and Laboratory Fellow at the US DOE Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Alain’s main research interests are in geological storage of CO2, geophysical monitoring techniques (gravity and muography) and geothermal energy. Between 2009 and 2013, he led the PNNL Carbon Sequestration Initiative. Prior to this role, he was a professor of geophysics and vice director of the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP). He has made contributions to various domains of Earth sciences, from the study of intra-plate volcanism to marine heat flow and geodesy. the 1990s, as a professor at the University of French Polynesia, he became a recognized specialist of the geodynamics of the South Pacific and founded the Geodetic Observatory of Tahiti. In 2003, Alain led the European Marie Curie Research Training Network on Greenhouse Gas Removal Apprenticeship and Student Program (GRASP: 14 academic and industrial institutions in 7 countries, 35 PhD students and post-docs).
Alain is a joint Professor at Oregon State University and a member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences. Alain received his M.S. in Petroleum Geophysics from IFP-School, France, and his Ph.D. in Geophysics from the University of Montpellier, France.
