Dixie Valley Research Introductory Comments and Overview

Abstract

Over the past two years a diversified research effort at the Dixie Valley geothermal field has gradually taken form and is now beginning to produce some preliminary results. This effort has included everyone from graduate
students to well known professionals working more or less independently on a wide variety of topics. The papers to be presented in this session to a large degree repment work which has only recently commenced and
the results are therefore still very preliminary. Not all research activities are presented in this session. The various institutions currently invoked in Dixie Valley geothermal research include the University of Nevada, Stanford University, Southern Methodist University, the U. S. Geological Survey, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, EGI, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and
William Lettis and Associates. Some of these entities are involved in more than one research topic. Perhaps 40 individuals will have their names on papers presenting the results of this research. Over the next couple of years
it WIN be very interesting to follow the completion of the individual projects and the ultimate melding of these works into an integrated study of a Basin and Range geothermal system. Much of the direct costs of this research have been borne by the Dept. of Energy and without their involvement this effort could never have been undertaken.