Joseph A East
Joseph East is a Geologist with the USGS Geology, Energy & Minerals (GEM) Science Center in Reston, VA.
Biography
Work Experience:
- National Coal Resources Data System (NCRDS) Project Chief
- National Helium Assessment, Assessment Geologist
- National CO2 Sequestration Assessment, Assessment Geologist
- Illinois Basin Undiscovered Oil and Gas Assessment, Assessment Geologist and GIS Analyst
- Michigan Basin Undiscovered Oil and Gas Assessment, Assessment Geologist and GIS Analyst
- Gulf Coast Deep Down Dip Tertiary Assessment, GIS Analyst
Science and Products
World Coal Quality Inventory Data
Currently Available WoCQI Data Downloads:
World Coal Quality Inventory
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Energy Resources Program, in cooperation with many agencies and scientists from the world’s coal producing countries, undertook a project, called the World Coal Quality Inventory (WoCQI), to obtain samples of coal from the world’s producing coal mines during a limited period of time (roughly 1995-2006).
National Coal Resources Data System (NCRDS)
The National Coal Resources Data System (NCRDS) began as a cooperative venture between the USGS and State geological agencies in 1975 and focused on the stratigraphy and chemistry of coal.
Funding for State Cooperatives
The National Coal Resources Data System (NCRDS) State Cooperatives project supports a publicly available database of coal knowledge that encompasses the entire United States. State-level partnering for coal resource assessment and fundamental research of energy-bearing strata improves the ability of Federal, State...
Gas emissions, tars, and secondary minerals at the Ruth Mullins and Tiptop coal mine fires
Both the Tiptop and Ruth Mullins coal fires, Kentucky, were reinvestigated in 2009 and 2010. The Tiptop fire was not as active in 2009 and may have been on the path to burning out at the time of the 2009 visit. The Ruth Mullins coal mine fire, Perry County, Kentucky, has been the subject of several field...
O'Keefe, Jennifer M. K.; Neace, Erika R.; Hammond, Maxwell L.; Hower, James C.; Engle, Mark A.; East, Joseph A.; Geboy, Nicholas J.; Olea, Ricardo A.; Henke, Kevin R.; Copley, Gregory C.; Lemley, Edward W.; Hatch Nally, Rachel S.; Hansen, Antonia E.; Richardson, Allison R.; Satterwhite, Anne B.; Stracher, Glenn B.; Radke, Larry F.; Smeltzer, Charles; Romanek, Christopher; Blake, Donald R.; Schroeder, Paul A.; Emsbo-Mattingly, Stephen D.; Stout, Scott A.
Geologic framework for the national assessment of carbon dioxide storage resources—Southern Rocky Mountain Basins: Chapter M in Geologic framework for the national assessment of carbon dioxide storage resources
The U.S. Geological Survey has completed an assessment of the potential geologic carbon dioxide storage resources in the onshore areas of the United States. To provide geological context and input data sources for the resources numbers, framework documents are being prepared for all areas that were investigated as part of the national assessment....
Warwick, Peter D.; Corum, M.D.; Merrill, Matthew D.; Drake, Ronald M.; Buursink, Marc L.; Craddock, William H.; East, Joseph A.; Slucher, Ernie R.; Warwick, Peter D.; Brennan, Sean T.; Blondes, Madalyn S.; Freeman, Philip A.; Cahan, Steven M.; DeVera, Christina A.; Lohr, Celeste D.
Geologic assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources of the U.S. portion of the Michigan Basin
In 2004, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) completed an assessment of the undiscovered oil and gas potential of the U.S. portion of the Michigan Basin. For this assessment, the Michigan Basin includes most of the State of Michigan, as well as parts of Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. The assessment was based on the geologic...
Swezey, Christopher S.; Hatch, Joseph R.; Hayba, Daniel O.; Repetski, John E.; Charpentier, Ronald R.; Cook, Troy A.; Klett, Timothy R.; Pollastro, Richard M.; Anderson, Christopher P.; Schenk, Christopher J.; East, Joseph A.; Klett, Timothy R.; Le, Phuong A.
Coal fields of the conterminous United States - National Coal Resource Assessment updated version
This map sheet with accompanying Geographic Information System (GIS) project is an update of the existing U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Conterminous U.S. Coal Fields map. This update was compiled using data primarily from the USGS National Coal Resource Assessment (NCRA) and information from other published maps. The five regions examined by NCRA...
East, Joseph A.
Thermal maturity map of Devonian shale in the Illinois, Michigan, and Appalachian basins of North America
Much of the oil and gas in the Illinois, Michigan, and Appalachian basins of eastern North America is thought to be derived from Devonian shale that is within these basins (for example, Milici and others, 2003; Swezey, 2002, 2008, 2009; Swezey and others, 2005, 2007). As the Devonian strata were buried by younger sediments, the Devonian shale was...
East, Joseph A.; Swezey, Christopher S.; Repetski, John E.; Hayba, Daniel O.
Geologic map of upper cretaceous and tertiary strata and coal stratigraphy of the Paleocene Fort Union Formation, Rawlins-Little Snake River area, south-central Wyoming
This report provides a map and detailed descriptions of geologic formations for a 1,250 square mile region in the Rawlins-Little Snake River coal field in the eastern part of the Washakie and Great Divide Basins of south-central Wyoming. Mapping of geologic formations and coal beds was conducted at a scale of 1:24,000 and compiled at a scale of 1:...
Hettinger, R.D.; Honey, J.G.; Ellis, M.S.; Barclay, C.S.V.; East, J.A. Summary of mercury and trace element results in precipitation from the Culpeper, Virginia, Mercury Deposition Network Site (VA-08), 2002-2006
The VA-08 Mercury Deposition Network (MDN) site, southwest of Culpeper, Virginia, was established in autumn of 2002. This site, along with nearby VA-28 (~31 km west) at Big Meadows in Shenandoah National Park, fills a spatial gap in the Mid-Atlantic region of the MDN network and provides Hg deposition data immediately west of the Washington, D.C...
Engle, Mark A.; Kolker, Allan; Mose, Douglas E.; East, Joseph A.; McCord, Jamey D.
Expanding the mercury deposition network in Virginia and the U.S. mid-Atlantic region
No abstract available.
Kolker, Allan; Mose, Douglas G.; Spitzer, Shane; East, Joseph A.