Anna Wendt is the Program Manager for Resource Characterization & Technology Development in the Minerals Sustainability Division with the United States Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management. Anna was previous at the National Energy Technology Lab in Pittsburgh, PA, where she supported the Systems Engineering & Analysis Group as a Sr. Subsurface Energy Analyst. Anna earned her Ph.D. in Geosciences from The Pennsylvania State University where her research focused on the sedimentary geochemistry of the unconventional natural gas play, the Marcellus Formation. She earned her B.S. and M.S. in Geological Sciences from the University of Rochester, NY.