Susan Smith Nash, Ph.D.
susan@beyondutopia.com

Curriculum Vitae

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Susan Nash, Ph.D.  is Director of Innovation, Emerging Science and Technology at AAPG. For the last several years, she has led teams in a number of settings and has built programs and solutions that enable companies, governments, and individuals to build, diversify, or enhance new energy production and to follow a decision-making strategy that leads to sustainable growth in a rapidly changing, diverse, global context. The approach is anchored in continuous learning, research, communication, and teamwork.

Susan Nash has more than 25 years of experience launching and managing successful programs to achieve financial and strategic growth objectives,  Her background combines science, economics, and operations, specifically focused on resource development (subsurface energy, oil and gas, mining) and economic development in U.S. and global contexts. Combined with her technical and communications experience and skills, Nash has 30 years of experience in developing and administering online programs, with certification in instructional design and technology. Her goals have been to facilitate knowledge and skills acquisition, both workforce development and degree programs.

Nash has managed grants and contracts, including the contractors and deliverables for government and privately-funded projects and programs.

An award-winning author of more than 200 articles and reviews, and 12 books, Nash is a widely published author.  She earned her Bachelor of Science, Master of Art, and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Oklahoma, with additional graduate work at Texas A&M, and certificate programs from the University of Florida, Cornell, and others.

More specifically, she has designed and administered programs to equip people with skills, capital, and technical expertise to succeed in energy, technology, and innovation. Managed technical programs for conferences and courses, developed and administered successful webinars series, Pivoting 2020; Pivoting 2021; AAPG Academy, and more) for online, hybrid, and face-to-face, long-running educational podcasts (E-Learn Chat, E-Biz Chat). Launched "New Technology Showcase" to connect new ventures with private capital. Leadership initiatives / strategic management programs; specialty initiatives in analytics (AI, LLMs, M/L), drones, UAVs. Development and evaluation of workforce development and competencies. Extreme emphasis on creativity, with a blending of science, technology, economics, and humanities.

Nash launched her career as a petroleum geologist, and has worked in U.S. and international settings (Azerbaijan, Paraguay, Mozambique, and other South American, Central Asia, African, and Asian countries) to develop prospects, manage operations, work with investor relations, manage compliance and regulatory filings, promote programs to optimize operations, and to develop critical paths for project and product development. Since the launch of her career, she has diversified in order to tackle the challenges of

Professional Positions

Director of Innovation and Emerging Science and Technology; Director of Education & Prof Development
AAPG / Nov 2008 – Present

Associate Dean / Graduate Program / Liberal Arts
Excelsior College / 2003 – 2007
Focus on graduate online programs and also undergraduate credit for prior learning program development, along with assessments and training.

University of Oklahoma
Online Curriculum Development Dir / Humanities / Human Relations Adj Professor
Director of Engineering & Geosciences Continuing Education
1997 – 2004

Director
Victoria Resources / 1997-2004

Faculty positions:
University of Oklahoma adjunct professor:  1998 – present
Troy University adjunct professor: 2005 – present

Consulting:  2004 - present
Multiple clients in the following areas:  geothermal energy resource assessments, energy minerals, instructional design and technology, curriculum evaluation, economic and business development for rural and underserved communities, carbon credit registry development, project design for environmental cleanup with orphan wells.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Ph.D.  (1996)              University of Oklahoma                      English (rhetoric and composition)
Dissertation: Apocalypse in Twentieth-Century Literature, Film, and Cultural Texts: The Persistence and Questioning of the Messianic Vision

M.A.   (1989)              University of Oklahoma                      English (emphasis on creative writing, culture, world history)
Thesis:  Active Fault: Translations and Convergences of Geology and Poetics

B.S.     (1981)             University of Oklahoma                       Geology (Petroleum Geology track)

Graduate work in Economics (University of Oklahoma) – emphasis on Developmental Economics, Energy Economics, Strategy
Graduate work in Geology (University of Oklahoma) – sedimentology, paleoecology, energy systems, and mass extinction events

Certificate Programs and Courses:  Online Instruction / Instructional Design Basics / CREOLE / Multimedia / Hybrid & Online Course Design - 2006 - 2010 (Florida State College, Troy University, University of Oklahoma Continuing Education); Personnel Management Series (Cornell University); Management and Supervising (University of Oklahoma), Unconventional Resources and Shale Plays, Alternative Energy (American Association of Petroleum Geologists), Canvas training (University of Oklahoma and Troy University, 2016-2017); additional training and courses in geothermal energy, brine mining for critical minerals, methane detection and monitoring, the carbon economy, carbon risk.

Certificates:
Certified Professional Geologist (2017): AAPG
Critical Mineral Supply Chain (2014-15):
Geothermal Energy certificates: AAPG / Geothermal Rising (2013-2024)
Analytics and Machine Learning in Subsurface Energy: AAPG (2018)
Energy Leadership Program (2012-2014):  AAPG / SPE

Languages:   Spanish (full professional proficiency); French (intermediate written); Russian (very basic conversational).


PUBLICATIONS

Articles:

Nash, S. S. (2025, May)  Review of Natalia Toledo’s Carapace Dancer. World Literature Today.  May, 2025.

Nash, S. S. (2025, April)  New Studies Boost Technically Recoverable Oil and Gas Via New Technologies.  AAPG Explorer. Pp. 66-67

Nash, S. S. (2025, March) A Closer Look at Future Natural Gas Demand: New Gas-fired Power Plants in Progress throughout the U.S.  NAPE Journal. pp 34-37.

Nash, S. S. (2025, March) Responding to Nezahuacoyotl: A Conversation with Ilan Stavans. World Literature Today.  https://worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/interviews/responding-nezahualcoyotl-conversation-ilan-stavans-susan-nash

Nash, S. S. (2025, March). Review of Guerilla Blooms by Daniela Catrileo. World Literature Today. https://worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/march/guerrilla-blooms-daniela-catrileo

Nash, S. S. (2025, March). Meeting the Growing Demand for Electricity: Revisiting Giant Legacy Fields and Natural Gas.  AAPG Explorer.  Pp. 66-67.

Nash, S. S. (2025, February). Offshore Successes Brighten the Outlook for the Future. AAPG Explorer. P. 66-67.

Nash, S. S. (2025, January) Tech Strategy: How much to spend, on what, and when. NAPE Journal (Spring 2025). p 43 – 45

Nash, S. S. (2025, February) Women Geologists: Working Outside the Frame. Mujeres en la Industria.  EnergyCommerce. February 2025, pp 68-69.

Nash. S. S. (2025, January) AAPG Explorer article.

Nash, S. S. (2024, November)  Review of The Brush by Eliana Hernandez-Pachon. Archipelago Books. World Literature, November. https://worldliteraturetoday.org/2024/november/brush-eliana-hernandez-pachon

Nash, S. S. (2024, December).  Derisking Deals with Geology and New Technology NAPE journal. (Winter
2024).

Nash, S. S. (2024, October). The New Path to Carbon Credits:  How Does It Work? NAPE Journal. (Fall) pp. 43-45.

Nash, S. S. (2024, June). Don’t Mind Me, I’m Just a Generative AI Hallucination!:  New Domain-Specific AI Models Aim to Help You See Reality.  NAPE journal. (Summer 2024).

Nash, S. S. (2024, May)  New Ways to Look at Direct Use Geothermal Energy. Proceedings of the Geothermal Transition Summit, Houston, TX. May 21-22, 2024.

Nash, S. S. (2024, May)  The importance of geology in geothermal reservoirs.  Offshore Technology Conference: Society of Petroleum Engineers OnePetro. Forthcoming.

Nash, S. S. (2024) Thermal Demand Study for the State of Oklahoma:  Direct-Use and Unique State Applications of Geothermal Energy. Project InnerSpace. Forthcoming.

Nash, S. S. (2024, March). The Poetry of Polycrisis. World Literature Today.
https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2024/march/poetry-polycrisis-susan-smith-nash

Nash, S. S. (2024, March) From Oil to Brine Mining For Lithium: The Smackover Limestone Has Roared Back to Life. The business of brine mining. NAPE Journal.

Nash, S. S. (2023, Nov)  The new path to carbon credits: How does it work?  NAPE Journal. 43-45. https://online.publicationprinters.com/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=&edid=0a714167-df79-48f1-b303-6f7dc4e93bbc
Nash, S. S. (2024). Review of Irma Pineda. Nostalgia Doesn’t Flow Away Like Riverwater.  Poems in Didxazá (Isthmus Zapotec) and Spanish. Transl. Wendy Call. Dallas, TX: Phoneme Media / Deep Vellum Publishing. 2024. World Literature Today.
Nash. S. S. (2024). Review of Eliana Hernández-Pachón. The Brush. Trans. Robin Myers. Afterword by Héctor Abad. Brooklyn, NY: Archipelago Books, 2024. World Literature Today.
Nash, S. S. (2023) Review of Delicates by Wendy Guerra. Trans. Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder. London: Seagull Press. World Literature Today. November 2023.
Nash, S. S. (2023, August) A Brief Look at Emerging New Technologies in Drilling and Completions.  Petroleum Drilling Techniques , Volume 51, Issue 4: 192 - 197 (2023) | Research Article https://www.sciengine.com/PDT/doi/10.11911/syztjs.2023032

Nash, S. S. (2023, July 31) Identifying sweet spots in reservoirs. Unconventional Hydrocarbon Resources: Predicting and Modeling Using Artificial Intelligence Approaches. Ch. 5. Ed. Sid-Ali Ouadfeul. John Wiley and Sons. PP 41 – 48.

Nash, S. S. (2023, July 31) Surfactants in shale reservoirs. Unconventional Hydrocarbon Resources: Predicting and Modeling Using Artificial Intelligence Approaches. Ch. 6. Ed. Sid-Ali Ouadfeul. John Wiley and Sons. PP 49-60.

Nash, S. S. (2023, Summer) AI-Empowered DealMaking? We’re Already There. NAPE Journal. pp. 50-52.

Nash, S. S. (2023, July). Taponamiento de pozos huérfanos y crédotps de carbono: Cómo funciona? Energy and Commerce. P. 66-69.

Nash, S. S. (2023, July) Review of “I Want to Tell You by Jesse Lee Kercheval” World Literature Today. https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2023/july/i-want-tell-you-jesse-lee-kercheval

Nash, S. S. (2023, June). Es una industria, no un experimento de laboratio; El CCUS alcanza la mayoría de edad. Energy and Commerce. P. 76-77.

Nash, S. S. (2023, Spring) Orphan wells usher in a wide range of new opportunities. NAPE Journal. NAPEexpo.com pp. 36-40.

Nash, S. S. (2023, May). La crisis energética mundial aporta lecciones y perspectivas: Como cortar apagones de 12 horas y una factura de electricidad de 9,500 euros para una pequeña panadería. Energy and Commerce. P. 50-55.

Nash, S. S.  (2023, June) "Orphan Well" and "The Mechanical Properties of Longing" Marsh Hawk Review, Spring 2023.   

Nash, S. S.  (2023, May) Review of Ruibal, Lara Dopazo. Claus and the Scorpion. Translated by Laura Cesarco Eglin. Normal, IL: Co-Im-Press. 2022. ISBN: 978-1-947918-07-8. World Literature Today. May 2023.

Nash, S. S. (2023, March). Energy Industry in SE Asia Transitions with an “all energy” strategy for growth. Energy Capital. Pp. 44-49.

Nash, S. S. (2023, February) How to build powerful mission statements: A core tool for success. Energy Capital: The Magazine. February 2023. pp 6-9.

Nash, S. S. (2022, December) ERG projects and the blockchain: A approach that incorporates validation and a simple, low-risk launch. Energy Capital, The Magazine. December 2022. pp. 2-7.

Nash. S. S. (November 2022) Review of In the Belly of the Night and Other Poems / En el vientre de la noche y otros poemas / Ndaani Gueela'ne xhupa diidxaguie' by Irma Peneda. Trans. Wendy Call and the author. Pluralia Ediciones e Impresiones. 2021. 160 pages. World Literature Today. 2022.

Nash, S. S. (2022, November) Overcoming water shortages: Desalination technology continues to evolve. Energy Capital: The Magazine. November 2022. pp. 2-7

Nash, S. S. (2022, November) Superando la escasez de agua: la tecnologia de desalinizacion sigue evolucionando. Energy & Commerce (bilingual). pp. 28-31.

Nash, S. S. (2022, October) The energy farm: Quickly achieving multiple sources of income and meeting carbon management goals. Energy Capital: The Magazine. pp. 6-11.

Nash, S. S. (2022, October) El legado de los yacimientos petrolíferos: El regalo que sigue dando. Energy and Commerce. October 2022. pp. 28-30. bilingual.  

Nash, Susan Smith (September 2022) Review of “The Invisible Borders of Time: Five Female Latin American Poets.” World Literature Today.  https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2022/september/invisible-borders-time-five-female-latin-american-poets

Nash, Susan (August 2022) A brief look at new techniques and technologies for drilling and completing oil and gas reservoirs in a time of energy transition and carbon management. Energy Capital. pages 6 – 13. https://energycapitalmedia.com/2022/08/30/august-2022-canada-and-u-s-power-indstrys-next-steps/

Nash, Susan (July 2022) Inflation and the green swans at the gate. Energy Capital. https://energycapitalmedia.com/2022/07/05/july-2022-exploration-and-production-achievments-in-the-oil-and-gas-u-s-market/ pages 8 – 11.

Nash, Susan (June, 2022) How to Solve Data Challenges without Breaking the System or the Bank. Energy Capital, vol 13. June 2022. https://energycapitalmedia.com/2022/06/05/june-2022-digitalization-for-optimization-and-cost-reduction-in-power-generation/

Nash, Susan. (June, 2022) Cómo resolver los desafíos de los datos sin romper el sistema o el presupuesto. Energy & Commerce magazine. June 2022.

Nash, Susan (May 2022) Roles and Stereotypes Are Constantly Evolving and Recycling Themselves: Interview with Susan Smith Nash, Ph.D.  Energy Capital, vol 12. May 2022.

Nash, Susan. (2022)  Fast-Tracking the Development and Deployment of Workflows and Data Lakes to Quickly Develop New Energy and ESG Operations. Paper presented at the Professional Petroleum Data Management association meeting, June 16, 2022, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Nash, Susan Smith; Friend, Patrick L.; and Marit Brommer. "A Fully Integrated and Updated Geothermal Gradient Atlas of the World." Paper presented at the Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, Texas, USA, May 2022. doi: https://doi-org.ezproxy.lib.ou.edu/10.4043/32035-MS

Nash, Susan Smith. "Offshore Co-Produced Critical Minerals and Geothermal Energy Generation." Paper presented at the Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, Texas, USA, May 2022. doi: https://doi-org.ezproxy.lib.ou.edu/10.4043/31981-MS

Nash, Susan, and Carlo Dietl. "Geothermal Energy Basics / Education for a Sustainable Future." Paper presented at the Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, Texas, USA, May 2022. doi: https://doi-org.ezproxy.lib.ou.edu/10.4043/31829-MS

Nash, S. S. (2022). Review of The New World Written: Selected Poems by Maria Baranda. World Literature Today. March 2022. https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2022/march/new-world-written-selected-poems-maria-baranda

Nash, S.S. (2021). Review of the book Another End of the World Is Possible: Living the Collapse (and Not Merely Surviving It), by Pablo Servigne Raphaël Stevens Gauthier Chapelle]. World Literature Today 95(4), 92-94. doi:10.1353/wlt.2021.0255.

Nash, S. S. (2021). Ontological Insecurity and Decision-Making during Black Swan and Dragon King Events, and COVID-19. Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science, 34(11), 187-195. https://doi.org/10.9734/jesbs/2021/v34i1130378 https://journaljesbs.com/index.php/JESBS/article/view/30378

Nash, S. S. . (2021). Indeterminacy, Freedom and an Acknowledgement of the Bronte Sisters in Emily Dickinson’s “All Overgrown by Cunning Moss”. New Visions in Science and Technology Vol. 10, 109–111. https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/nvst/v10/1616A https://stm.bookpi.org/NVST-V10/article/view/4894

Nash, S. S. . (2021). Text Representation and Cognitive Processes: How the Mind Makes Meaning in e-Learning . New Visions in Science and Technology Vol. 10, 104–108. https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/nvst/v10/1615A https://stm.bookpi.org/NVST-V10/article/view/4893

Nash, S. S. . (2021). Thou Art the Man by Mary Elizabeth Braddon [1]: Scoundrel Fathers, Fugue States, and the Problematized Real in Victorian Sensation Novels. Selected Topics in Humanities and Social Sciences Vol. 8, 37–40. https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/sthss/v8/14287D

Nash, Ph.D., S. S. (2021). F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald: Plagiarism, Destructive Ambition, and “Imposter Syndrome”?. IJRDO - Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research (ISSN: 2456-2971), 6(10), 27-30. Retrieved from https://ijrdo.org/index.php/sshr/article/view/4611

Nash, S. S. (2021). Introduction to O murmurar dos Buzios e as Miudezas da Alma by Rudencio Morais. http://elearnqueen.blogspot.com/2021/12/converging-earth-body-and-spirit-in.html

The Nature of Poetics (p 55)  Purple Grackle  (p 56)  Marsh Hawk Review Poetry Journal, Fall 2021, https://marshhawkpress.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Marsh-Hawk-Review-fall-2021.pdf

Nash, Susan Smith (2021). Sinkhole Hazards in the U.S.: Technologies and Techniques for Detection, Identification, and Intervention. Revista Maya de Geosciencias. August 2021. Pp. 53-58.

Review of Jakarta, by Rodrigo Marquez Tizano. World Literature Today. Winter 2020. pp. 84-85.

Introduction to The Aardvark Venus: New and Selected Poems (1961 – 2020) by Rochelle Owens. Norman, OK: Texture Press, 2020.

Strategically Leveraging Infrastructure and Financing Options for Sustainable Economic Growth in Resource-based Economies. Co-authors: Gary Stading and Larry R. Davis. (2019). Journal of Education, Society, and Behavioral Sciences. Vol 30: Issue 4. P. 1-12.

Jobs? Better Operations? Look Under a Different Rock.  GeoExpro.  October 2019. pp. 26-28. https://www.geoexpro.com/articles/2019/11/jobs-better-operations-look-under-a-different-rock

Featured Review: Carbon, by Kate Ervine. World Literature Today. Summer 2019. https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2019/summer/carbon-kate-ervine

The Role of Big Data and Machine Learning in the Integration and Implementation of Historical, Current, and Continuously Gathered Earth Data. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition), 2019.  93 (z1). http://www.geojournals.cn/dzxben/ch/index.aspx

Effective Learning Strategies in the Homes of Famous Artists and Writers Converted to Museums. 2019. Frontiers in Education Technology. Vol 2, No. 1: p. 1-16.  http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/fet.v2n1p1

Eros and Saudade: Languages of Love in the Poetry of Rudencio Morais.  WLT Weekly. June 4, 2019.  https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/book-reviews/eros-and-saudade-languages-love-poetry-rudencio-morais-susan-smith-nash

Daughters of Prometheus: A Latin American Frankenstein. WLT Weekly.  April 18, 2019. https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/book-reviews/daughters-prometheus-latin-american-frankenstein-susan-smith-nash

Avoiding the “Dutch Disease” and “Resource Curse” Maladies through Strategically Deployed Infrastructure and Business-to-Business Economic Development Projects (2019) Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Invention. Vol 1, No 1. p 21-23 http://jhssi.com/index.php/JHSSI/issue/view/1  http://jhssi.com/index.php/JHSSI/article/view/5/3

Review of A Dream Called Home by Reyna Grande. World Literature Today. Winter 2019. https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2019/winter/dream-called-home-reyna-grande

Revisiting Medieval Philosophers and their Writing: Lessons when Ideas Can Be Dangerous (2018) Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research. Vol 3, No. 12. p. 21-31 https://ijrdo.org/index.php/sshr/article/view/2589

Infrastructure Project Financing Options: Traditional and New Sources, Strategies for Avoiding Dutch Disease, China’s White Knight Interventions, and the U.S. BUILD Act (2018) for Sustainable Development (November 2018) IJRDO Journal. Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research (ISSN: 2456-2971) Vol. 3, No. 11. pp. 70-82. https://ijrdo.org/index.php/sshr/article/view/2550 https://ijrdo.org/index.php/sshr/article/view/2550/2158

"Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Thou Art the Man (1894): Scoundrel Fathers, Fugue States, and the Problematized Real in Victorian Sensation Novels," (June 2018) IJRDO Journal. Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research (ISSN: 2456-2971) Vol 3, No. 6, pp 13-15.  https://ijrdo.org/index.php/sshr/article/view/2101/1851

The Victorians' Opioid Epidemic. (June 2018) IJRDO Journal. Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research (ISSN: 2456-2971) Vol 3, No. 6, pp 9-12.  https://ijrdo.org/index.php/sshr/article/view/2100/1850

Review of  Hoy / Today by Juan Gelman. World Literature Today. November 2018. pp. 86-87.  https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2018/november/today-hoy-juan-gelman

Review of Everything I Kept / Todo lo que guarde by Ruth Behar. World Literature Today. September 2018.  https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2018/september/everything-i-kept-todo-lo-que-guarde-ruth-behar

Nash interviewed in Cortez, Meghan Bogardus. (30 March 2018) 5 Technology Tools in the Higher Education Classroom. EdTech. https://edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/2018/03/5-technology-tools-higher-education-classroom-perfcon

New Technologies in the Development of Unconventional Resources in the U.S., Susan Nash, #70359 (2018).dapted from oral presentation given at AAPG Latin America & Caribbean Region, Optimizing Exploration and Development in Thrust Belts and Foreland Basins, Santa
Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, June 6-8, 2018 http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/pdfz/documents/2018/70359nash/ndx_nash.pdf.html

Using Thermal/IR and Multispectral Sensors on Drones to Find the Origin of and Extent of Contamination from Saltwater Spills from Producing Wells, Susan Nash, #80650 (2018). Adapted from oral presentation given at 2018 AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, Salt Lake City, Utah, May 20-23, 2018 http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/pdfz/documents/2018/80650nash/ndx_nash.pdf.html

Basin Analysis: Overview and New Uses. PetroPulse. No. 5, July, 2017, p. 10-11.

Fracking Novels: Scrabble, Zombies, and the Problematized Real. World Literature Today. March 2017. https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2017/march/fracking-novels-scrabble-zombies-and-problematized-real-susan-smith-nash

Inhalaciones, o, la capacidad negativa. Periodico de Poesia. No. 96, Febrero 2017. Mexico City, Universidad Autonoma de Mexico. http://www.periodicodepoesia.unam.mx/index.php/4496

Drones and UAVs for Methane Emissions Detection, Monitoring, and Regulatory Compliancel Jan 2, 2017   IJRD-Journal of Biological Science http://www.ijrdo.org/International-Journal-of-Research-&-Development-Organisation-pdf/Biological%20Science/January-2017/Bio-2017-January-2.pdf

Sesiones Plenarias NOC e IOC: El “Escalofrio” del ICE.  Petroleum Revista (Caracas, VE), Octubre 2016, pp. 23-24.

Review.  Absolute Solitude by Dulce María Loynaz. World Literature Today. November 2016. http://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2016/november/absolute-solitude-dulce-maria-loynaz

“Blood-Soaked Feathers: Urban Farming Meets Urban Flood Control-Created Habitats”  International Journal of Research & Development Organisation  Volume 2, Issue 8, August 2016.

“The “Honor Killing” of Social Media Star Qandeel Baloch: Technological Change, the Changing Roles of Women, and Grassroots Backlash” International Journal of Research & Development Organisation  Volume 2, Issue 8, August 2016

“Unconventionals Update: Challenging the Assumptions” Search and Discovery Article. 41804. May 23, 2016. http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/pdfz/documents/2016/41804nash/ndx_nash.pdf.html

“Free and Almost Free Petroleum Information: Low-Cost and Open-Source Software” Search and Discovery Article. #70209. Posted February 15, 2016. http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/2016/70209nash/ndx_nash.pdf

“Effective Technology Strategy for Shale Plays,” Universal Journal of Engineering Science. Dec. 2015. Vol 3(4). PP. 79-87.

“An Apocalyptic yet Abject “Jubilee” Narrative in George Robert Gissing’s In the Year of Jubilee: Mobility, Restoration, and Materiality.” Journal of English Language and Literature. Vol 4 No. 2. 2015.

"La education y la innovación transformadora en condiciones turbulentas" Petroleum April 2015. http://www.petroleum.com.ve/

"Geologists as Successful Entrepreneurs in Times of Low Oil Prices: The Importance of Innovation and Education" WTGS Bulletin. Vol 54, No. 4 (March/April 2015), pp 8-14.

"El desarrollo económico y los jóvenes emprendadores en el sector energético: La importancia de la innovación y la capacitación" AAPG Search and Discovery Open Journal.

Optimization in U.S. Shale Plays: Emerging New Techniques and Technologies. Midland Playmaker Forum, Midland, TX. January 14, 2015. Search and Discovery #80442, http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/2015/80442nash/ndx_nash.pdf

"La Caída del Precio del Petróleo y La Enfermedad Holandesa 2014-2015” (The Fall in the Price of Petroleum and the Dutch Disease, 2014-2015") Petroleum January 2015. http://www.petroleum.com.ve/

"Stranded Pay Between the Laterals: New Technologies to Identify and Recover Stranded and Bypassed Oil and Gas" AAPG Unconventionals Update Geosciences Technology Workshop, November 4-5, 2014, Austin, TX. AAPG Search and Discovery Open Journal.

"Responding to New Discoveries: Workflow and Strategies for Conquering the “Data Gap” and Overcoming “Stuck In Rut Thinking” " AAPG Unconventionals Update Geosciences Technology Workshop, November 4-5, 2014, Austin, TX. AAPG Search and Discovery Open Journal. http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/2014/70176nash/ndx_nash.pdf

"Springer Shale: A Sleeping Giant?" AAPG Granite Wash Geosciences Technology Workshop, Sept. 25, Oklahoma City. AAPG Search & Discovery Open Journal. http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/pdfz/documents/2014/10664nash/ndx_nash.pdf.html / video: https://www.aapg.org/videos/playmaker/Articleid/41892/susan-nash-optimization-in-u-s-shale-plays-emerging-new-techniques-and-technologies

"Refining the Tactics: Current Approaches to Exploration and Development of Shale Plays in the U.S" AAPG Research Exchange - Focus on the Permian Basin, September 4-6, Houston. AAPG Search & Discovery Open Journal. http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/2014/70173nash/ndx_nash.pdf

An Analysis and Outlook of the Technology Strategy for Shale Plays: Independents and Majors. Petroleum Drilling Techniques, 2014, Issue 5. PDF of article (translated to Chinese): http://www.syzt.com.cn/en/oa/pdfdow.aspx?Sid=20140501
  http://www.syzt.com.cn/en/oa/darticle.aspx?type=view&id=20140501

"Effective Technology Strategy for Developing Shale Gas and Oil: Accounting for the Success of Independents vs. Majors"  Proceedings of the 8th International Multi-Conference on Society, Cybernetics and Informatics (IMSCI 2014),  Orlando, USA, on July 15-18, 2014. Proceedings published in September 2014.

"Determining Effectiveness of Instructional Strategies for Technical Writing Online Courses" Proceedings of the 8th International Multi-Conference on Society, Cybernetics and Informatics (IMSCI 2014),  Orlando, USA, on July 15-18, 2014. Proceedings published in September 2014.

"Technology Strategy for Shale Plays: Independents vs. Majors - An Analysis and Outlook" Eagle Ford Geosciences Technology Workshop, February 24-26, San Antonio, Texas (2014). AAPG Search & Discovery.  #70159 (2014).
http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/2014/70159nash/ndx_nash.pdf

“Key Factors for Success in Unconventionals: Characteristics, Key Plays, Typical Challenges” AAPG Search and Discovery Digest, #80352 (2014) http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/2014/80352nash/ndx_nash.pdf

"Trije eseji:  Postpostmoderniaem: Tehnokratske kulture?" (Three essays:  Postpostmodernism: Technocratic Culture?"  and "Nepreputsnost tu ni dovoljena" (Impermeability Not Allowed Here) and "Pasolini, Boccaccio in Dekameron: Podlage za razumevenje sodobne kozmologije in iskanje odgovorov na tehnologo" in Sodobnost 2014 (Ljubljana, Slovenia): p 1-10.

"Review of Loteria Jarocha by Alec Dempster" World Literature Today. May-August 2014, p. 119-120.

"Review of Holy Heathen Rhapsody by Pattiann Rogers" in World Literature Today. May-August 2-14, p. 117-118.

“Technology Strategy Considerations in Reservoir Optimization”, AAPG Geosciences Technology Workshop, August 6-7, 2013. http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/2013/70154nash/ndx_nash.pdf

“Producibility Checklist for Unconventionals.”  Petroleum. November 2013.

Review of Tiempo de ángeles / A Time of Angels. By Homero Aridjis. George McWhirter, Tr. Francisco Toledo, Ill. World Literature Today. October 2013. p 66-67.

Reliable vs. Unreliable Information in the Eagle Ford: Sources and Credibility Tests, Search and Discovery, #70142 (2013). http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/2013/70142nash/ndx_nash.pdf

"Produced Saltwater: The Overlooked Resource in Resource Plays?"  AAPG Search and Discovery online journal.  May 2013.

"Gunslinger" The Correlator: Division of Professional Affairs Journal. April 2013.

"Evald Flisar and Live, Face-to-Face Theatre in an Age of Digital Performance" in The Collected Plays of Evald Flisar, Part II. 2013. Texture Press, p. 1-12.

"A Compilation of Shale Play and Unconventionals Articles: The Role of Access and the Making of Normative Standards" #70135 (2013) (adapted from oral presentation at Geosciences Technology Workshop, Shale Plays: An Integrated Approach, Houston, Texas, November 12-14, 2012). AAPG Search and Discovery.   http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/2013/70135nash/ndx_nash.pdf

"Hearing and Not Believing: The Strange Case of Hydraulic Fracturing" Search and Discovery Article #70123 (2012) (adapted from oral presentation at Geosciences Technology Workshop, Hydraulic Fracturing, Golden, CO, August 13-15, 2012). AAPG Search and Discovery.  http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/2012/70123nash/nash.pdf

"Effective Strategies in Museum Distance Education" (co-authored with Elaine Bontempi)  Proceedings of Informing Science & IT Conference (InSITE) 2012. June 2012. http://proceedings.informingscience.org/InSITE2012/InSITE12p013-025Bontempi0008.pdf

"Museum Education in Transition: What Are the Essential Elements? Responses to Interview Questions" (co-authored with Elaine Bontempi) Education Research Journal, Summer 2012. http://www.resjournals.com

"Making a Case" with Case Studies: Comparative Analysis of Three Hydraulic Fracturing Case Studies" ICSIT-IREPS 2012 Proceedings. 2nd International Symposium on Integrating Research, Education, and Problem Solving (IREPS 2012). Winter Gardens, FL: International Institute of Informatics and Systemics.

"Matching Courses with Careers" The Correlator. AAPG Division of Professional Affairs. March 2012: http://dpa.aapg.org/correlator/careermatchupQ112.cfm

"Effective Strategies in Museum Distance Education" (co-authored with Elaine Bontempi)  inSITE, Montreal, Canada, June 26, 2012. (accepted) Proceedings. 2012 Informing Science + IT Education Conference, Montreal, Canada.

"Success Strategies for E-Learning" GTW Deepwater Reservoirs: Multi-Disciplinary Exploration and Development, 24-25 January 2012, Houston, Texas. Abstract and presentation published. Search and Discovery Article #70122. Posted April 26, 2012.

"Assistive Technologies: Accessing Voice and Selfhood in an Age of Digital Technologies" Feminist Cyberspaces: Pedagogies in Transition.  Ed. Sharon Collingwood, Alvina E. Quintana, and Caroline J. Smith.  Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012: pp. 202-229.

“Maximizing Your Training and Professional Development Return on Investment” The Correlator. AAPG Division of Professional Affairs. June 2011: pp. 9-10.

“The Heart Journal” Press1 Practicum. Videos and Text. Press1: Vol 5, No. 2. http://www.leafscape.org/press1/v5n2/heartjournal.html

"Using Simulations and Virtual Worlds for Success in the Marcellus" Search and Discovery Article #70096. Posted June 26, 2011.  Adapted from presentation at AAPG Geoscience Technology Workshop, “Success in the Marcellus and Utica Shales: Case Studies and New Developments,”  Baltimore, Maryland, May 23-25, 2011. http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/2011/70096nash/ndx_nash.pdf.  Includes mp3 audio file.

"Review of Joey Brown's Oklahomaography" World Literature Today. July-August issue, 2011, p. 72-73.

"Maximizing Your Training and Professional Development Return on Investment" The Correlator. Division of Professional Affairs, AAPG. Second Quarter 2011. http://dpa.aapg.org/correlator/maximizeQ211.cfm

"E-Learning and the Geoscientist" The Correlator, AAPG Division of Professional Affairs. 1st Quarter, 2011: http://dpa.aapg.org/correlator/e_learnQ111.cfm

"Effective  E-Learning for Geoscientists in the Global, Multi-Generational Workplace," Proceedings of the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Annual Meeting 2010.  Houston, TX:  GCAGS. CD-ROM.  Search and Discovery Article #70089 (2010): (includes presentation slides as well as article)  http://www.searchanddiscovery.net/documents/2010/70089nash/ndx_nash.pdf

“Review of John Vick’s Chaperons of a Lost Poet” Untitled Country Review. Issue 4, Winter  2011. http://untitledcountry.blogspot.com/2011/02/issue-4-review-john-vick.html

“Review of David Wolach’s Occultations” The Psychic Sponge’s Guide to Zeitgeistland. Volume 4, Number 3.  January – April 2011.  http://www.leafscape.org/press1/v4n3/nash-review.html

“The Illusion of Time” The Psychic Sponge’s Guide to Zeitgeistland. Volume 4, Number 3.  January – April 2011. http://www.leafscape.org/press1/v4n3/psychicsponge1.html

“The Wildcatters” The Psychic Sponge’s Guide to Zeitgeistland. Volume 4, Number 3.  January – April 2011. http://www.leafscape.org/press1/v4n3/psychicsponge2.html

Effective E-Learning for Geoscientists in the Global, Multi-Generational Workplace, GCAGS 60th Annual Convention, San Antonio, Texas, October 10-12, 2010. http://www.searchanddiscovery.net/documents/2010/70089nash/ndx_nash.pdf

http://www.searchanddiscovery.net/documents/2010/70089nash/ndx_nash.pdf

"Love Philtre."  The Psychic Sponge's Guide to Zeitgeistland.  Press 1, Vol 4, No 1. May - August, 2010.  http://www.leafscape.org/press1/v4n1/psychicsponge.html

“The Artifice of Ananios” GHR, vol 13.  March 2010.

“Introduction”  The Red Room:  Writings from Press 1.  Ed. Arlene Ang, Valerie Fox, Jordan Schilling.  Philadelphia: Straw Gate Books, 2010, p 1-4.

“Air-Clipping with Zoroaster: The Sun-Magnolia Refinery”  The Psychic Sponge’s Guide to Zeitgeistland.   Press1, Vol 3, No. 3.  January – April, 2010. http://www.leafscape.org/press1/v3n3/nash-review1.html

Review:  Brian Clements’ And How To End It.  Press1, Vol 3, No. 3.  January – April, 2010. http://www.leafscape.org/press1/v3n3/nash-review1.html

Review:  John Taggart’s There Are Birds. Press1, Vol 3, No. 3.  January – April, 2010.
http://www.leafscape.org/press1/v3n3/nash-review2.html

Review of The River that Flows Uphill” World Literature Today. Spring 2010.

Review – World Literature Today.  Winter 2009.

“Libraries in Second Life: New Approaches to Education, Information Sharing, Learning Object Implementation, User Interactions and Collaborations,”  Proceedings.  Education and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications: EISTA 2009.

Review of Ana Merino’s Cell Mate”  World Literature Today.  Winter 2009

“On Jerome McGann’s The Point is to Change it:  Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present”  Talisman,  Spring 2009

“On Six Slovenian Poets, ed. Brane Mozetic” Talisman,  Spring 2009.

“Subjectivity in Second Life:  Enactments in the Space Between the Real and the Virtual” Talisman.  Fall 2008
 “Los nuevos manuales de texto incluirán guiones para usar en juegos de rol en el mundo virtual: New training guides will include scripts to use with role-playing games and simulations in virtual worlds”  Learning Review Latinoamerica.  Year 5, No 23. April-May-June 2008. pp. 24-26.

Mobile Learning, Cognitive Architecture and the Study of Literature, Summer 2007, Issues in Informing Sciences, Volume 4,  http://proceedings.informingscience.org/InSITE2007/IISITv4p811-818Nash399.pdf .  Journal of Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology (IISIT), pages 811-818. It is also listed in the Proceedings of the 2007 Informing Science  and IT Education (InSITE) conference

"Fighting Intrusive Thoughts Using Podcasts:  A Strategy for Effective E-Learning" InSITE Informing Sciences Proceedings.  June 2006. http://proceedings.informingscience.org/InSITE2006/ProcNash137.pdf

"Pedagogically optimizing the use of weblogs and podcasts for maximum effectiveness in online and hybrid learning."  with Sabrina Johnson-Taylor.  U.S.-China Forum on Distance Education.  April 2006.
 
“Learning Objects, Learning Object Repositories, and Learning Theory: Preliminary Best Practices for Online Courses” Interdisciplinary Journal of Knowledge and Learning Objects, Volume 1, pages 217-228. (cited in 65 publications)
Categories:  distance education, program management, instructional design, humanities, literary criticism
Numerous articles in journals and magazines, along with interviews

"Successful Incorporation of Learning Objects in Online, Hybrid, Multiple-Modality Distance Courses," (chapter) in Learning Objects. Ed. Alex Koohang and Keith Harmon, Spring 2006 by Informing Science Press (Santa Clara, California).

Review of Riverbend's Baghdad Burning. World Literature Today. Spring 2006.

Review of Diana Wakoski's Selected Poems. Talisman, Fall 2005.

"Jim McCrary: Unbounded Portals of Being" Black Spring. Summer 2005.

Contributing author for chapters on online / web-based composition elements, in Jane Aaron's Little Brown Handbook. Longman. 10th ed. 2006.

Review of Selected Poems - Ilhan Berk," Rain Taxi. Fall 2004.

"Review of Burning Salt by Anna Mockler" Rain Taxi. Fall 2004.

"Online Courses for Active-Duty Military Personnel," US Naval Institute Proceedings. Accepted August 2004.

"Technology and the Adult Degree Program: The Human Element," Developing and Delivering Adult Degree Programs. Ed. James P. Pappas and Jerry Jerman. New

Directions for Adult and Continuing Education. 103: Fall 2004, 73-79. (with Frank Rodriques).

"Stranded Again, This Time in Ghana" Submodern Fiction. 2004.

"Nizami, Literary Appropriations, and the Internet," Contemporary Turkish Culture. 1:1 Winter 2004: 64-68.

Companion website for The World is a Text, Jonathan Silverman, 1st ed. Prentice-Hall. http://wps.prenhall.com/hss_silverman_worldtext_1/0,6331,490765-main,00.html

Review of Short Fuse: The Global Anthology of New Fusion Poetry. ed. Todd Swift, Philip Norton. NY: Rattapallax. Winter 2004.

"New Quality Benchmarks for Online Courses: Meshing Technology and Conceptual Underpinnings" Selected Papers from the 15th International Conference on College Teaching and Learning. (Received recognition). April 2004.

Links to more than 100 articles and columns written on online education: http://www.beyondutopia.net/learning and http://beyondutopia.tripod.com/xplanazine/

Review of Dallas Wiebe, Vox Populi Street Stories. Reviewed in Review of Contemporary Fiction. Winter 2003.

“Madonna in Che Guevara’s Beret: Using Pop Culture Images to Teach Students to Track the Dislocated Referent”  in Integration.   Xplana: Exploring How We Can Learn and Teach with Technology.  XPLANA.COM  April 2003.
 
Review of Burning Deck: Two Score and More.  In Review of Contemporary Literature.  Fall 2003.

“Introduction to My Father’s Dreams”  My Father’s Dreams by Evald Flisar.  Ljubljana, Slovenia.
 
“I Write Myself Alive,” Sodobnost. December 2002. Ljubljana, Slovenia.
 
"The Function of Collections of Little-known National Literatures on the Internet: The Case of Azerbaijan"
Political Discourse:  Theories of Colonialism and Post-Colonialism. George Landow, ed. U of Singapore. Winter 2002.  http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/poldiscourse/nash/nash1.html
 
Review of Eduardo Garrigues.  West of Babylon.  Translated by Nasario Garcia.  In World Literature Today, forthcoming.
 
Review of Sheryl St. Germain.  Swamp Songs:  The Making of an Unruly Woman in World Literature Today, forthcoming.
 
Review of Robert Murray Davis’ Mid-Life Mojo in World Literature Today, forthcoming 2003.
 
Review of Cydney Chadwick’s Flesh and Bone, in World Literature Today, Spring 2003.
 
Review of Cheese  in Contemporary Literature Review, Fall 2002.
 
Review of Victor Osojnik’s And Things Happen for the First Time, in Rain Taxi, Summer 2002.  http://www.raintaxi.com
 
Review of Juan Felipe Herrera’s Giraffe on Fire in World Literature Today, Winter 2002.
 
“Land of Fire:  Azerbaijan and the Caspian Continue to Burn Hot with Potential”  Oklahoma City Geological Society Journal.  Oklahoma City, OK, March-April, 2002: 123-129.  Cited and indexed in PetroAlert.
 
“Female Desire in Paraguayan Filmmakers Maneglia and Schemboir’s Artefacto de la primera necesidad:  Revenge Fantasy, Camp, or Postdictatorship Self-Loathing?”  in Women in Contemporary World Cinema. Ed. Alexandra Heidi Karriker.  NY: Peter Lang, 2002: 1-14.
 
“Defenders of Islam or OPEC?”  The Daily Oklahoman.  2 January 2002.
 
“Rochelle Owens and Luca: Discourse on Life and Death,”  Rain Taxi, Vol 6, No. 4, Winter 2001/2002, 33-34.
 
“David Wojahn: Strange Good Fortune”  Rain Taxi online Winter 2001/2002. http://www.raintaxi.com/frame.htm
 
“Translating Bilingual Texts:  The Guarani/Spanish Poetics of Susy Delgado,” Talisman, Winter/Spring 2001, 136-142.
 
“Poetics // The Next Level,”  13th Moon: A Feminist Literary Magazine. (SUNY/Albany), 138-146.
 
“Creativity in an Online Course,”  Syllabus, October 1999.
 
"Introduction to the Work of  Susy Delgado and Notes on Translating from Spanish and Guarani" (Spanish and English versions)  "Introduction" Tatapype / Junto al fuego.  Asunci?n, Paraguay:  Arundel, 1998.
 
"Current Trends in Contemporary Poetics," Rhizome, October 1997.
 
"The Poetics of Erotic Writing," Juxta  Summer 1997.
 
"Apocalypse and Exotic Meat," Talisman Spring 1997.
 
"Contemporary Innovative Writing:  Post-Language & Other Traumas" Rhizome Spring 1997.
 
"David Koresh, The Branch Davidian Tragedy and its Aftermaths:  The Uses of Apocalyptic Narratives in Cultural Texts" Perforations Issue #7. http://www.pd.org/topos/perforations/perf7/perf7_index.html.  Fall 1996.  Edited by Robert Cheatham.
 
"The Small Press and Future Literacy," Washington Review  (Nov. 1996), 2-5.
 
"Apocalyptic Enactments in the Work of Rochelle Owens,"  Poetics and Criticism Forum:  Light and Dust Books, online, edited by Karl Young.  http://www.thing.net. (Fall 1996).
 
"The Artifice of Confession:  T.E. Lawrence and Autobiographically Representing Rape in Seven Pillars of Wisdom" T.E. Notes 6:1 (Summer 1996), 1-3.
 
"Revoicings:  Collaboration and Individual Art Production," Synergism ed. Valerie Fox and Kelly McQuain.  (Philadelphia, PA:  Boshi Press, 1996), 14-17.
 
"Dorothy Richardson's Technologies of Gender"  Witz (Winter 1996), 2-3.
 
"Keeping a Field Notebook," Oklahoma Geological Survey Special Publication 96-3: Rockhounding and Earth Science Activities in Oklahoma (Norman, OK:  Oklahoma Geological Survey, 1996), 23-30.
 
"Leslie Scalapino and the Making of Consciousness," Witz 6 (Spring 1996), 1-3.
 
"Erotic Apocalypses in The Crow," Perforations 7 (Summer 1996), http://www.noel.pd-org/topos/perforations.
 
"Cultural and Political Apocalypses in the Work of Stephen-Paul Martin" Perforations 6,
http://www.noel.pd-org/topos/perforations.
 
"Mainstreaming the Apocalypse:  Doomsday Narratives in Waco Echo Armageddon and Extinction in Literature and Science,"  Central Park 24 (Spring 1995), 112-120.
 
"Magic and Mystery in Poetic Language: A Response to the Writings of Leslie Scalapino," Talisman 14 (Fall 1995), 90-100.
 
"Channel-Surfing the Apocalypse: Excerpt," Talisman 14 (Fall 1995), 90-100.
 
"Apocalypse as Reconnection in James Chapman's Our Plague," Juxta 4 (Fall 1995), 10-14.
 
"Language Poetry:  Not Fit for Human Consumption?" Juxta 1 (1994),  63-71.
 
"The Observing Eye, The Observing Ear:  Using Personal Experience in Writing Instruction," Oklahoma English Journal
(Spring 1994), 23-31.
 
"On Editing and Publishing a Small Magazine:  Saddle-Stitching Away from the Margin," Chain 1 (1994), 86-89.
 
"Construct Gloved and Anthropos Texted,"  A Poetics of Criticism (Buffalo, NY:  Leave Books, 1994), 33-37.
 
"Essay-Review of James Miller's The Passion of Michel Foucault, and Cydney Chadwick's Enemy Clothing" To: A Journal of Poetry, Prose, and Visual Arts (1994), 288-292.
 
"Science and the Spatial in Experimental Poetics," Central Park 23 (Spring 1994), 181-85.
 
"Beyond the Language Movement:  A Manifesto of Aesthetics in a Time of Communication, Plague, and a New World Order," Taproot Reviews 4 (Spring 1994), 3-4.
 
"Redefining Meaning's Topographies: Poetic Language and the Female Body," Anatomy: Raw 12 (1994), 33-35.
 
"Introduction," Wolf's Clothing by Rillo, (Barrytown, NY: Left Hand Books, 1994), i-ix.
 
"AIDS and the Avant-Garde," Talisman 11 (Fall 1993), 42-50.
 
"Fractal Geometry and the Poetry of John Perlman," Witz 1:3 (Spring 1993), 1-3.
 
"Gustaf Sobin and the Consolation of Imagerie," Talisman 10 (Spring 1993), 52-53.
 
"Death, Decadence, and the Ironies of Language Poetics," Talisman 10 (Spring 1993), 202-06.
 
"An Alien Double in Poetics," Writing from the New Coast: Technique (1993), 189-191.
 
"On Visual Poetics," CORE: A Symposium on Contemporary Visual Poetry (1993), 114-120.
 
"On Camille Paglia's Sexual Personae" Arkansas Quarterly (Winter 1993), 22-31.
 
"H.D.'s Dark Night of the Soul," The Arkansas Quarterly (Fall 1992), 337-343.
 
"Stevens' 'The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm',"  The Explicator 50:4 (Summer 1992), 231-232.
 
"Paradigms in Collision:  A Few Considerations on the Nature of Geological Controversy," The Shale Shaker 43:1 (Nov-Dec,
1992), 2-5.
 
"T. E. Lawrence and the Limits of Will," T. E. Notes 3:6 (June 1992), 1-3.
 
"The Courage to Fall," The Georgia Review (Winter 1992), 794-98.
 
"Building and Explanation:  Todorov's Minimal Units," Aerial 5 (1989), 161-62.
 
"Interrogating Text and Textuality:  The Rupture of Poetics" Aerial 5 (1989), 173-176.

Short Fiction, Creative Non-Fiction, Poetry

"Leper Farm" Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. http://www.talismanmag.net/nash.html  Audio recording:  https://soundcloud.com/beyondutopia/leper-farm-susan-smith-nash

"Shale Plays and Hairless Bears" Press 1. Vol. 5, No. 4.

"The Body Ekstasis" Press 1. Vol. 5, No. 3. http://www.leafscape.org/press1/v5n3/psychicsponge.html

"I, Vampire" (fiction).  Gargoyle.  pp. 464-470, Fall 2011.

"Solar Flares, Interconnectivity, and a 2012 End of the World" Press 1. Vol 5, No. 2  http://www.leafscape.org/press1/v5n2/psychicsponge.html

"Shredded Silk and Living in Cars: Follow Your Dream" Press 1.  Vol 5, No 1. http://www.leafscape.org/press1/v5n1/psychicsponge.html

"Review of Veronica Golos' Vocabulary of Silence" Press 1. Vol 5, No. 1. http://www.leafscape.org/press1/v5n1/nash-review.html.

“The Illusion of Time” The Psychic Sponge’s Guide to Zeitgeistland. Press 1. Volume 4, Number 3.  January – April 2011. http://www.leafscape.org/press1/v4n3/psychicsponge1.html

“The Wildcatters” The Psychic Sponge’s Guide to Zeitgeistland. Press 1. Volume 4, Number 3.  January – April 2011. http://www.leafscape.org/press1/v4n3/psychicsponge2.html

"5102010: A Story of Signs and a Tornado" The Psychic Sponge’s Guide to Zeitgeistland. Press 1. http://www.leafscape.org/press1/v4n2/psychicsponge1.html

"Perfect Storms," The Red Room:  Writings from Press 1.  Ed. Arlene Ang, Valerie Fox, Jordan Schilling.  Philadelphia: Straw Gate Press, 2010.  p. 68-69.

“Discourses & Dustin, Oklahoma,” Gargoyle. # 55.  Winter 2009. p. 246-249.

“Panhandle Gun & Coin.”  Gargoyle.  # 55.  Winter 2009.  p. 250-252.

“Crystal Skulls”  Big Bridge.  #14.  2009.  http://www.bigbridge.org/BB14/FIC-SSN.HTM

“Arroyo” Big Bridge. #14.  2009.  http://www.bigbridge.org/BB14/FIC-SSN2.HTM

“Big Big Sky” Big Bridge #14. 2009.  http://www.bigbridge.org/BB14/FIC-SSN3.HTM

“Perfect Storms”  Press1. May – August 2008.  http://www.leafscape.org/press1/v2n1/nash.html

Edublogs and Online Journals:

Elearning Queen.  http://www.elearningqueen.com

Project Working Mom:
“Why More Moms are Going Back to School”  Project Working Mom. http://www.elearners.com/projectworkingmom/resources/be-a-great-mom/why-more-moms-are-going-back-to-college/  December 2009.
(mentioned in Page6, New York Daily News, March 2010).

“The New Jobs in Healthcare”  Project Working Mom. http://www.elearners.com/projectworkingmom/resources/go-back-to-school/the-new-jobs-in-healthcare/ December 2009.

EDUCATIONAL BLOGS, WEBINAR SERIES, PODCASTS

Ongoing Webinar and VLOG Series:  
AAPG Academy: 2022-present:  65+ episodes
Pivoting 2021: 24 episodes
Pivoting during the Pandemic: 27 episodes
Life Edge (2015 to present): 140 episodes
E-Biz Chat
E-Learn Chat

August 14, 2024.  Digital Wildcatters Guest (Chuck Yates, host). https://digitalwildcatters.com/podcasts/

August 13, 2024:  Energy Sector Heroes:  Susan Nash – From Geology Student to Director of Innovation. https://www.michellefraserconsultancy.com/podcast/

April 8, 2024:  Update on Orphaned Wells with Susan Nash of AAPG / Episode 253. Oil and Gas Upstream Global Network. Host: Elena Melchert. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/update-on-orphaned-wells-with-susan-nash-of-aapg-ep-253/id1450833136?i=1000651267983

February 17, 2023. Sustaining Collaborative Relationships with Customers to Crate a Shared Vision. Sales Magic with Jackie Lyles. Episode 22.  https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/sales-magic/id1644148465?i=1000600152193

March 7, 2023. The Role of Conference, Innovations, and the AAPG in the Energy Transition, with Susan Nash of the AAPG
Energy Transition Solutions with Joe Batir. March 7, 2023. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/energy-transition-solutions/id1580441929?i=1000603141956

October 24, 2022. Technology, Water, Trends, and U-Pitch with Dr. Susan Nash, AAPG. Oil and Gas Upstream with Elena Melchert. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/technology-water-trends-and-u-pitch-with-dr-susan-nash-aapg/id1450833136?i=1000581526745

December 10, 2022. Special Guest on Bam Bizhub, with Angel Garcia and Michael Crain, BAM BIZ Talk.  https://rss.com/podcasts/bambiztalk/653222/

Susan Nash at the Unconventional Resources Technology Conference.  June 27, 2022.  Permian Basin Experience Podcast, episode 105. https://www.pbepodcast.com/podcasts/susannashurtec2022

2015 – present. E-Learn Chat / Learn! Blog / E-Biz Chat: Partnered with Rick Zanotti, RelateCasts, to co-host more than 150 video interview programs / video blogs.

2022- current. AAPG Academy: Organized and hosted a series of webinars on various aspects of oil and gas exploration, energy transition, critical minerals, geothermal, carbon management, and more.

Pivoting 2021: Thriving with Change: Organized and hosted a series of 20 webinars on new technologies for changing times, with an emphasis on energy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaeiPk5x4TQ&list=PLfLhA1Ju1dqE9c2-N1ifyQfMhn6OvgkaA

Pivoting 2020: Pivoting during the Pandemic.  Organized and hosted a series of 20 webinars on new technologies for changing times, with an emphasis on energy. Archived at ELearning Corgi: https://www.youtube.com/user/elearningqueen/featured

Arab Oil and Gas Academy Certificate programs: 3D Printing in Drilling, Exploration and Production. July 10, 2020. https://youtu.be/5JkaJTngwOs

Arab Oil and Gas Academy Training: Drones, robotics, and the role of innovative sensor-derived surface images in upstream oil and gas. July 17, 2020.  https://youtu.be/zYiXEvKsHIM

E-Learning Corgi instructional videos:  More than 200 brief videos on writing techniques, instructional design, and elearning, hosted you Youtube at E-Learning Corgi: https://www.youtube.com/user/elearningqueen/featured

edublog:  Inside E-Learning (http://community.elearners.com/blogs/default.aspx?GroupID=8 ) – more than 100 articles on academic writing and research, online education, strategies, career outlook, educational success strategies.

edublog:  E-Learning Corgi (http://www.elearningqueen.com) – theoretical articles, along with numerous online interviews with innovators and leaders in e-learning.  E-Learning Queen has been widely recognized by educators and distance learning providers as a source of high-quality and up-to-date information on online learning, mobile learning, and new trends and technologies.

Categories: instructional design, instructional technology, distance education, leadership, program management, mobile learning

PAPERS PRESENTED AT CONFERENCES

24 October 2023:   “Building Resilient and Agile Teams” AAPL Women’s Energy in Energy Institute:  JW Marriott, Houston, TX

17  October 2023: From Oil to Brine-Mining for Lithium: The Unique Qualities of the Smackover LS.
 Geological Society of America Annual Conference. Pittsburgh, PA. https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2023AM/meetingapp.cgi/Session/54685

14 September 2023:  9th Annual Digitalization in Oil and Gas Conference. Houston, TX.  The Business of Plugging Orphan Wells.  https://www.industryevents.com/events/9th-annual-digitalization-in-oil-gas-conference

23 May 2023:  Repurposing Idle, Abandoned, or Orphaned Wells into Geothermal: Best Practices.  Geothermal Transition Summit, North America.  Houston, TX.

25 July 2022:  Fast-Tracking Conventional Reservoir Development and Carbon Management within the Footprint of Unconventionals. Rocky Mountain Section AAPG, Denver, CO

25 July 2022: The Best Strategies for Effective Cross-Over Training for Geoscientists Seeking to Diversify. Rocky Mountain Section AAPG, Denver, CO.

14 July 2021: What’s next: Using technologies and innovation to transform and reshape the global energy system. Energy Risk Conference. InfoPro Digital.

13 Oct 2021. A Journey to Mars? How the Once Impossible Can Become Possible in the Energy Transition. Global Tech Summit.

21 Oct 2021. Effective Technological Developments for Existing Oil and Gas Fields and Future New Energy in the Energy Transition. Energy China Forum 2021 11th Asia-Pacific Shale & Unconventional Resources Summit.

3 Nov 2021. Machine Learning in Geosciences. First International Conference: Technological Innovations and Artificial Intelligence for Profitable and Sustainable Development of Oil and Gas Fields. Universidad Nacional de Ingenería. Lima, Peru.

8 - 9 Nov 2021. E3 New Technologies and Digitalization - Panel Discussion. (Earth, Energy, and Environment) Student Virtual Conference and Technical Event.  Marietta, OH: Marietta College.

9 Dec 2021. Grant Writing for Geoscientists. MIT Online Talk: RMAG. https://youtu.be/tFEDQ7m9-r4

14 Dec 2021. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in the Geosciences.  Marine Geology: Marginal Seas - Past and Future Conference. Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.

Presentation and Discussion: Life Writing.  University of Ljubljana Department of Philosophy. Ljubljana, Slovenia. April 2, 2015.

"Presentation and Discussion / The Role of Experience in Writing" Novo Mesto, Slovenia. April 1, 2015.

"Leadership, Innovation, and Education to Develop Flexible and Entrepreneurial Organizations" Ramstein, Germany. March 26, 2015.

"El desarrollo económico y los jóvenes emprendadores en el sector energético: La importancia de la innovación y la capacitación" Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Taller para becarios de ExxonMobil. March 4, 2015. Mexico City, DF.

"Unconventionals Update" 7th International Symposium on Unconventional Petroleum Exploration and Exploitation, Chengdu University of Technology, July 26-27, 2014, Chengdu, China.

“Technical Writing Triage” (March 13, 2014). AAPG E-Symposium.

"Success Factors for Unconventionals" at PackersPlus Workshop, Rio de Janeiro, November 8, 2013

“Key Considerations in Unconventional Reservoirs” (2013) Presented at the Sweet Spots in Unconventional Reservoirs AAPG Geosciences Technology Workshop, August 12, Houston, TX.

"Structure of a "Learnings" or "Findings" Report" (2013) Presented at the Woodford Shale Forum, April 11, 2013, Oklahoma City, OK

"Reliable vs. Unreliable Information in the Eagle Ford: Sources and Credibility Tests" (2013) Presented at the Eagle Ford Geosciences Technology Workshop, March 16 - 18, 2013, San Antonio, Texas

"Making Oil and Water Mix: Community Relationships in Oil and Gas Production " AAPG Geosciences Technology Workshop:  February 26-28, 2013, Fort Worth, Texas.

"Brief Bibliography of Shale Play Thought Leaders" AAPG Geosciences Technology Workshop - Shale Plays: Integrated Technologies. November 13-14, Houston, Texas

"Effective Strategies in Museum Distance Education" inSITE, Montreal, Canada, June 26, 2012. (accepted) 2012 Informing Science + IT Education Conference, Montreal, Canada.

"Making a Case" with Case Studies: Comparative Analysis of Three Hydraulic Fracturing Case Studies" Virtual Presentation. Case Studies and Methodologies Track, 2nd International Symposium on

Integrating Research, Education, and Problem Solving (IREPS 2012),Orlando, FL, March 26, 2012.

Success Strategies for Online Teaching and Learning: e-Teachers Summit, e-Learning PRO (Moscow, Russia). Online summit, February 9-10, 2012.

"Success Strategies for E-Learning" GTW Deepwater Reservoirs: Multi-Disciplinary Exploration and Development, 24-25 January 2012, Houston, Texas. Abstract and presentation published. Search and Discovery Article #70122. Posted April 26, 2012.

 
"Using Simulations and Virtual Worlds for Success in the Marcellus" Search and Discovery Article #70096. Posted June 26, 2011.  Adapted from presentation at AAPG Geoscience Technology Workshop, “Success in the Marcellus and Utica Shales: Case Studies and New Developments,”  Baltimore, Maryland, May 23-25, 2011.

Keynote Address:  Summer Faculty Institute, May 31, 2011. University of Delaware. http://ats.udel.edu/news/newsletter/20110330/sfi2011.php

"Wimba and Blackboard Mashup Tools: Incorporating technology that promotes interactivity and student retention." Troy University E-Campus E-Colloquium, April 13, 2011.

"Return on Investment and Edublogging" Panel Discussion. Users Group, Washington, DC, March 2011.

"Effective  E-Learning for Geoscientists in the Global, Multi-Generational Workplace," AAPG Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Conference, San Antonio, TX, October 11, 2010.

“Knowledge Transfer in the Multi-Generational Workplace,” AAPG MidContinent Section Conference, Tulsa, OK, October 12, 2009.

“Avoiding Information Silos in the Distributed Workplace,” AAPG MidContinent Section Conference, Tulsa, OK, October 12, 2009.

Plenary Speaker.  New Directions in E-Learning in Response to Global Environmental and Energy Issues. ,”  13th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics.  July 10-13, 2010.

“Libraries in Second Life: New Approaches to Education, Information Sharing, Learning Object Implementation, User Interactions and Collaborations,”  13th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics.  July 10-13, 2010.

“Web Conferencing Tips for Training and Education.”  Co-Presented with Ken Molay.  Adobe Systems Webinar Series.  September 25, 2008.

“Developing Interdisciplinary Masters’ Thesis.”  Hamline University. June 21, 2008.

“Educational Uses of Mashups” (Keynote Speaker.)  New Media Consortium Spring Symposium. April 3, 2008.

Guest Lecturer.  Florida State University “EDH7635:  Higher Education Administration”  March 31, 2008.

“Mobile Learning and Great Books,” Informing Science + Information Technology Conference (InSITE), Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 23-27, 2007.

“Quality in an E-Learning Course Featuring Mobile Learning,” 18th Annual Conference on Teaching and Learning, Jacksonville, FL, April 5, 2007.

"Fighting Intrusive Thoughts Using Podcasts:  A Strategy for Effective E-Learning" Informing Science + Information Technology Conference (InSITE) University of Salford (Greater Manchester), England, June 25-28, 2006.

"Students In Harm's Way: Effective Learning Strategies for Deployed Military"  presented at Sloan-C, The Eleventh Sloan-C International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks, "The Power of Online Learning: Mobilizing to Expand Community" November 16-18, 2005. (Sloan-C audience evaluation rating: 4.9 out of 5.0)

"Leadership and the Strategic Plan" co-presented with George Timmons, at presented at Sloan-C, The Eleventh Sloan-C International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks, "The Power of Online Learning: Mobilizing to Expand Community" November 16-18, 2005. (Sloan-C audience evaluation rating 4.6 out of 5.0)

"Saving Face through Story: Paraguayan Myth and Folklore." presented at AGLSP - Association for Graduate Liberal Studies Programs Conference, October 2005, Minneapolis, MN.

“Danger, Will Robinson!” versus I, Robot:  Collisions of Art and Artificial Intelligence” and “Graphical Discourses of Time:  The Founders of Geology and Early Romantic Epistemologies” AGLSP – Association for Graduate Liberal Studies Programs Conference, October 26-28, 2004.  Charlotte, NC.
“The Future of Business and Online Learning” at The Future of Online Learning -- Online Learning Conference.  Boston University. September 27, 2004.  Boston, MA.

“The Future of Online Courses and Deployed Military.”  Workshops in conjunction with education initiatives.  Kadena Air Force Base, Kadena, Okinawa.  October 5-9, 2004.

“Online Courses for Active-Duty Military” and “Quality Benchmarks for Online Courses,”  15th Annual International Conference on Teaching and Learning, FCCJ, Jacksonville, Florida.  March 30-April 2, 2004.

“Keys to Successful Online Course Development and Administration”  International Conference on Educational Multimedia.  ICEM / RIMA.  Quebec City, Quebec.  March 14-17, 2004.

December 10, 2003, Center for Military-Civilian Affairs, Wichita, KS.  State Partnership Program.  "Civilian-to-Civilian Initiatives: Azerbaijan."

February 21, 2003, OU-Tulsa, Schusterman Campus Seed-Sower Series:  “Love and Madness in the Movies”  companion site at: <http://www.beyondutopia.net/loveandmadness>

October 15, 2001, Mid-America Bible College:  “Key Considerations for Assessing College Writing”  includes Writing Survival Guide <http://www.beyondutopia.net/writing-survival-guide>

 “Toward Hybrid-Solution Distance Education: Developing Programs That Enable Universities, Colleges, Departments and Units To Build Their Own Education Programs In An Affordable, Technologically-Appropriate Manner”  Computers on Campus National Conference, Myrtle Beach, SC, November 10 – 11, 2002. http://www.rcce.sc.edu/coc/cocconf.html#presentations
 
“Literature on the Internet:  Ethical, Ontological, and Epistemological Considerations”  SCMLA (South-Central Modern Language Association) Annual Conference, Tulsa, OK, November 7 – 10, 2001.
 
“Distance Motivations in Online Courses”  Syllabus 2001, Santa Clara, CA, July 17-21, 2001.
 
“Successful Online Course Development”  (also led workshop)  Edumall Education Conference, Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico, March 28-29, 2001.
 
“Translating from Guarani and Spanish” at Biennial Literary Translation Conference:  Tyrannies of the Target Language, Stevens Institute of Technology, October 18, 2000.
 
“English Language Hegemonies on the Internet” at Biennial Literary Translation Conference:  Tyrannies of the Target Language, Stevens Institute of Technology, October 18, 2000.
 
“Increased Student-Instructor Interaction Pays Off in Distance Learning” at TechLearn2000, Orlando, Florida, October 12, 2000.
 
“Indigenous Folklore in Paraguayan Women’s Writing” at the Western Literature Association Conference, October 26, 2000.
 
“Agricultural Value-Added as Key Component in Economic Diversification”  October 11, 2000, Baku Press Club, Baku, Azerbaijan.
 
“The Basics of E-Commerce”  September 14, 2000, The University of Oklahoma Memorial Union, Norman, OK.
 
“Keys to Successful Online Course Development”  June 6, 2000, Department of Defense Education Conference, Dallas, TX.
 
“La Educación a traves del Internet – Nuevas fronteras”  January 6, 2000, Colegio el Sembrador, Cuidad del Este, Paraguay.
 
“Economic Diversification in Azerbaijan:  New Strategies”  USAID Conference on Economic Development (“Avoiding the Dutch Disease”); December 17, 1999, Baku, Azerbaijan.
 
“Successful Online Course Development,” Oklahoma Education Conference, October 28, 1999, Oklahoma City, OK
 
 “Creativity in Online Course Development,” July 1999, Syllabus Conference, San Jose, California.
 
“Developing Successful Online Courses for International Delivery”  Syllabus Regional Conference, Orlando, Florida, March 1999.
 
Women in Film Conference, March 26, 1998, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma.
 
"Focus on Paraguay" Conference organizer (Official trade and cultural delegation from Paraguay to U.S.), February 6, 1997, St. Gregory's College, Shawnee, OK
 
"The Literature(s) of Waco and Oklahoma City:  Apocalyptic Narratives in Cultural Texts"  presented at the National Conference of the College English Association, April 1996, New Orleans.
 
"Creative Writing and Women's Studies" presented at the Southwestern Women's Studies Conference, The University of
Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, March 1996.
 
"How to Keep A Field Notebook" presented at the Oklahoma Geological Survey's Rockhounds' Workshop, October 1995.
 
"Film Montage as a Strategy for Composition"  presented at the National Conference for the National Council of Teachers of English, March 1995, Washington, D.C.
 
"Michel Foucault and the Rhetoric of Revelation"  presented at National Conference for the National Council of Teachers of English,  March 1994, Nashville, Tennessee.
 

Books

Moodle 4.0 Course Development. 5th Edition. Packt Publishing (Birmingham, England), 2022

Moodle Teaching Techniques, 4th Edition. Packt Publishing (Birmingham, England), 2018.

Moodle Course Development Best Practices. Packt Publishing (Birmingham, England), 2018.

Quick-Start Guide for Canvas. Video course, 42 modules. Packt Publications. Birmingham, England. 2017.

Canvas for Collaboration. Video course, 42 modules. Packt Publications. Birmingham, England. 2017

Moodle 3.0 Teaching Techniques. Packt Publications. Birmingham, England. 2016

Quick-Start Guide for Graduate Research and Writing.  Texture Press, 2017.

Video-Assisted Mobile Learning. Texture Press, 2016.

Pensamientos. Texture Press, 2016.

Shale: Extreme Fiction for Extreme Times. Co-editor.  Texture Press, 2015.

Road Trip of the Mind / Random Thoughts. bilingual edition; translated by Maja Kraigher. Sodobnost: Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2015.

Designing Moodle Themes. (video course)  Packt Publishing (Birmingham, England), 2014.

Moodle Course Development Best Practices. Packt Publishing (Birmingham, England), 2014 (co-author, Michelle Moore).

Moodle for Training and Professional Development (video course). Packt Publishing (Birmingham, England), 2013.

Writing for Human Relations. Texture Press, January 2013. http://www.scribd.com/doc/119794339/Writing-for-Human-Relations

E-Learning Success: From Courses to Careers. Texture Press, March 2012. http://www.scribd.com/doc/86590363/E-Learning-Success-From-Courses-to-Careers

Nenavadno potovanje male Ane (Where the Butterfly Goes). Sodobnost International: Ljubljana, Slovenia. January 2013.

The Adventures of Tinguely Querer. Ljubljana, Slovenia: Vodnikova Zalozba, September 2011. Reviews:  Southwestern American Literature (Fall 2011), World Literature Today (Spring 2012, Nota Bene), Amazon.com, Goodreads.com.

Moodle 1.9 Teaching Techniques (co-authored with William Rice), Packt Publishing (Birmingham, UK), 2010.  

E-Learner Survival Guide.  Norman, OK:  Texture Press, 2009.  Interview at Career College Central, November 2009. http://www.scribd.com/doc/56098869/E-Learner-Survival-Guide-by-Susan-Smith-Nash

Excellence in Teaching and Learning:  Classroom and Online.  (co-authored with George Henderson).  Springfield, MO:  Charles C. Thomas Publishers, 2007.  Interviews about the book here:
    Learning Review: Interview with Susan Smith Nash http://www.learningreview.com/e-learning/articulos-y-entrevistas/los-nuevos-manuales-de-texto-incluiran-guiones-para-usar-en-juegos-de-rol-en-el-mundo-virtual-1081-2.html
    Donluk: Interview with Susan Smith Nash http://tolgaozdemir.net/?p=79#more-79  April 1, 2008

Good Deeds Society: Family Plot. (Slovenian title:  Klub dobrih dejanj) (Novel) Sodobnost:  Ljubljana, Slovenia.  May 2008.  Plans to use in schools in conjunction with programs to build self-esteem, self-confidence, and tolerance.  Under development:  website, and “serious game” / virtual world elements. Book tour in Slovenia (February 2009):  http://www.gooddeedssociety.com/

Leadership and the e-Learning Organization (collection of edublog entries). Texture Press: Albany, NY  October 2006. (interview about book and concepts in “Leadership Challenges in eLearning” Lorenzetti, Jennifer Patterson. Distance Education Report, 5/1/2006, Vol. 10 Issue 9, p5-7).  Guest on the VOA’s “Talk to America”  special on Elearning: http://www.voanews.com/english/NewsAnalysis/October-2006-Past-Programs.cfm; On-camera interview for Discovery Channel “History of Video Games.”

Otozna Boginja (Disconsolate Goddess).  Sodobnost:  Ljubljana, Slovenia.  March 2006.  Reviewed including interview with author, in Bukla (April 2006), Astro Novice (April 2006), Novice Koper (March 2006).

Ophelia’s Gold. (novel) Texture Press: Norman, OK.  2006. Available as audio book as well.

Lonelyhearts Pawn Shop. Light & Dust Books, Kenosha, Wisconsin. December 2005. Parts published in the Baku Sun (Baku, Azerbaijan), and Gargoyle (Washington, D.C.)

I Never Did Tell You, Did I?:  Unsent Letters.  Avec Books.  Penngrove, CA.  October 2003.

Lazi Malih Zensk  (novel).  Ljubljana, Slovenia: Vodnikova Zalozba, November 2002.

To the Uzbekistani Soldier Who Would Not Save My Life.  Avec Books, Pivotal Prose Series.  Penngrove, CA.  November 2001. Reviewed in World Literature Today.

PortretNemirneAmericanke. (Slovenian version of I Never Did Tell You, Did I?: Unsent Letters)  Ljubljana, Slovenia: Vodnikova Zalozba, September 2001.

AyvuMembire, Susy Delgado.  Fall 2001, Asuncion, Paraguay. (English translation of Susy Delgado - Spanish and Guarani) Reviewed in World Literature Today.

Fly-Over States of Mind.  Kenosha, WI:  Light and Dustbooks, 2000.  http://www.fly-over.net   Reviewed in Rain Taxi, Winter 2001, ABR: American Book Review, Spring 2002.

First Light:  An Anthology of Paraguayan Women Writers, editor and translator.   Texture Press / Centro Cultural Paraguayo Americano, 1999.  Finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award (1999).

Tatapype, Junto al Fuego, Asuncion, Paraguay: Arandura, 1999. (English translation of Susy Delgado - Spanish and Guarani) Reviewed in World Literature Today.

Doomsday Belly.  San Francisco: Trip Street Press, 1998.  Reviewed in Alsop Review, Rain Taxi.

Catfishes and Jackals,  Potes and Poets Press, Elmwood, CT, September 1997.

Channel-Surfing the Apocalypse, Avec Books, Penngrove, California, May 1996.  Reviews in Review of Contemporary Fiction, Taproot Reviews, Poetics Briefs, Feminist Bookstore News, Small Press Review, St. Mark's Poetry Project, Talisman, Washington Review.  Featured guest and interviewee on Read About It, aired June 9, 1996.  Commentary and essay-review in Talisman (June 1996).

A Paleontologist's Notebook, Left Hand Books, Barrytown, New York, October 1995.  Reviews in the American Book Review, Washington Review, 33 Review, Small Press Review, Taproot Reviews,  Weber Studies, Dusty Dog Reviews, Western Literature Association Journal.  Finalist in the 1996 Oklahoma Book Award.  Interview appeared March 31, 1996 on Read About It, produced by B.J. Hamilton and the Oklahoma Department of Libraries.

Book Chapters:
"Mobile Learning in Education" 2011 e-Learning Annual. Ed. Michael Allen.

“Blended Mobile Learning in Developing Nations and Environments with Variable Access:  Analysis of Four Cases” Chapter 7. Mobile Information Communication Technologies Adoption in Developing Countries:  Effects and Implications. London: IGI Global, 2010: pp 91-102.

“Learning Objects”  (Chapter 10) Trends and Issues in Instructional Design. NY: Pearson Publishing, 2010.

“Recruiting Military Students” Chapter 20.  Co-author with Meredyth Leahy and Susan Dewan.  The College Admissions Officer’s Guide.  Barbara Lauren, Ph.D., J.D., Editor.  Washington, DC: American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, 2008.

 “Learning Lost Along the Way? Warning Signs for an e-Learning Organization” Chapter 7.  Advanced Principles of Effective e-Learning. Edited by Nicole A. Buzzetto-More. Informing Science Press, 2007, p 185-195.
Categories:  distance education, e-learning, leadership

Translations
 
Ayvu Membire, Susy Delgado.  Fall 2001, Asuncion, Paraguay.
 
Translations of poetry, fiction, prose by Paraguayan women authors, in an anthology project, First Light: An Anthology of Paraguayan Women Poetry.
 
Translations of poetry from Guarani and Spanish from the Paraguayan poet, Susy Delgado.
 
"On John M. Bennett's Translation of Sor Juana's Primer Sueno" Prime Sway.   Norman, OK:  Texture Press, 1995.
 
"Translating Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz"  The Washington Review, Fall 1991.
 
Translations of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz in Active Fault, M.A. Thesis, 1989.
 

Chapbooks

Grammar of the Margin Road,  Leave Books, Buffalo, NY, 1992.
 
My Love is Apocalypse and Rhinestone, Texture Press, Norman, OK, 1993.  Reviewed in Taproot Reviews, Situation.
 
Liquid Babylon, Potes & Poets Press, Elmwood, CT, 1994.
 
A Veil in the Sand,  Room Press, White Plains, NY, 1994.  Portion of this was taped and aired on public radio station in
      Portland, Oregon (1994).
 
Mind-Noir and El Siglo de Oro, Luna Bisonte Productions, Columbus, OH, 1995.
 
Candles by Starlight:  A Selection of Works by Susan Smith Nash, Light & Dust Books On-Line.       http://www.thing.n.../nash/1-nash-1.htm.  Fall 1996.

 
SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES:  GRANTS & RESEARCH

Principal Investigator:  U.S. Department of Energy:  GEODE  -- Contract to conduct research on geothermal data optimization, $198,000  May 2024

Slovenian Government / Trubar Translation Grants / Publication (Texture Press):  Evald Flisar (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2022)

University of Oklahoma Libraries / Summer writing grant to produce digital graduate research and writing guide.  Summer 2016 and Summer 2017.

Recipient of Publications Grant / Award for E-Learning Queen (http://www.elearningqueen.com) from the Open Source Arts and Letters Initiative (OSALI).

Principal Investigator -- RPSEA  Technology Transfer.  April 2010.

OpenCourseware:  $30,000 from AAPG Foundation: Role Principle Investigator.

Technology Transfer Workshops and Training (Face-to-Face and Online).  Department of Energy.  Amount of award:  $4.0 million.  October 2009. Role: Principal Investigator: 2009 - 2011.

Carbon Capture and Sequestration Workshops and Training.  Department of Energy:  November 2009.  3 years.  Amount of Award:  $995,00 Petroleum Technology Transfer Council.  (Note: Part of ARRA) . Role: Principal Investigator: 2009 - 2011.

The Impact of Diaspora on Communities and Schools:  Teacher Training.  April 2007.  $105,000.  Ford Foundation. Granted to Excelsior College .Role: Principle Investigator: 2006-2007.

Numerous grants and awards, including Ford Foundation (principle investigator), Trubar Fund (Slovenia – publications grant), Paraguayan Ministry of Navigation and Ports, University of Oklahoma Outstanding Teaching award; University of Oklahoma Outstanding Dissertation

American Association of Petroleum Geologists:  Education Committee Advisory Board Member (2004 – present)

Advisory Boards and Directorships
Tulsa Geological Society
    President-Elect and President:  2022-2023
    Vice President: 2020 – 2022
Society of Petroleum Engineers
    Plugging and Abandonment Technical Section:  Outreach Director
    Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles Technical Section:  Board Member
Advisory Board, PetraBytes, Houston, Texas. 2022-present.
Board of Champions, Office of Innovation Management,  University of Louisiana, Lafayette, 2021 - 2023
Board Member, DeepTime Digital Earth Project, a UNESCO Big Science Project 2020-2023
Tulsa Geological Society, Vice President, President-Elect, President (various roles 2019 – 2024).
Advisory Board, Project Innerspace, Geothermal Energy. 2022Proyecto Fénix, Quito, Ecuador: Foundation dedicated to economic development of indigenous peoples impacted by petroleum exploration and development, mining and resources development, 2016

Founder, Texture Press. (publications have received numerous awards, reviews, and honors, including Finalist in the 2014 Next Generation Indie Book Awards in the category of Education/Academic for Valerie Fox / Lynn Levin's Poems for the Writings: Prompts for Poets)

Texas A&M Texarkana College of Business. Advisory Board Member. 2013-2015

Board of Directors, VOCA Foundation, a division of ACDI-VOCA.  Economic development, with focus on agriculture and energy. Washington, DC.  2006 – 2009.

Memberships:

American Association of Petroleum Geologists (Active Member); Energy Minerals Division.
Division of Professional Affairs – Certified Petroleum Geologist
Society of Petroleum Engineers (Active Member)
Modern Language Association.  Active Member.
Tulsa Geological Society.  Active Member.   
Women in Geothermal. Active Member

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

PEN America Literary Award Judge, 2020.  Edward and Lily Tuck Award for Paraguayan Literature. https://pen.org/meet-the-2020-literary-awards-judges/

Trubar Fund (Ljubljana, Slovenia) Translation / Publication Award, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2022, )
Outstanding Faculty Award / Recognition. Florida State College Jacksonville. 2012.
Numerous Awards and Recognitions for E-Learning Queen (http://www.elearningqueen.com):  Top Edu-Blog Award, Education Innovator Award, more.
University of Oklahoma Student Association Award for Outstanding Faculty.  2003.
-Trubar Fund (Ljubljana, Slovenia) – October 2001, Grant to fund research on Slovenian writers.

-Trubar Fund (Ljubljana, Slovenia) – Travel grant to attend the Vilenica Literary Festival, Lipica, Slovenia.
-Oklahoma Fund for Poetry, January 2001, for Flyover States of Mind.  Published by Light and Dust Books, Kenosha, WI.
-Outstanding Staff Award, February 2001, University of Oklahoma College of Continuing Education.
-Outstanding Collaboration Award, February 2001, University of Oklahoma College of Continuing Education.
-Outstanding Teaching Award, May 2000.  University of Oklahoma College of Liberal Studies.
-Featured in Contemporary Authors, Vol 185 (Gale Research) August 2000 – updated 7,500-word autobiographical essay, plus updated headnotes.
-Finalist, Oklahoma Book Award, March 2000.  Oklahoma Center for the Book.
-Reconocimiento – Bio-Ethics Distance Education Initiative – Universidad el Bosque, Bogota, Colombia, 1999.
-Reconocimiento – Paraguayan Prison Reform – Ministerio de Justicia y Trabajo, Asunción, Paraguay, 1999.
-Outstanding Achievement Award – Centro Cultural Paraguayo Americano and the Asociacion Paraguaya de Profesionales Graduados en los EE.UU., 1999.
-Premio de Honor, Paraguayan PEN Association, Asuncion, Paraguay, 1999.
-Oklahoma Arts Council Grant, to make video of the “Setting Face-to-Face in the Clear Light,” 1998.
-Commendation by the Oklahoma Lt. Governor’s Office for originating, organizing, directing the Oklahoma International International Film Festival, 1997.
-Research Grant to interview and translate literary discourses of Paraguayan women authors, August 1997.  Received from
Oklahoma Fund for Poetry.
-Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation in Humanities and Fine Arts (for 1996 graduates), University of Oklahoma, April 1997.
-Selected Juror in area of American Independent Short Films for 8th Annual International Film Festival of Asuncion, Paraguay
(1997).
-Research grant to study comparative indigenous literatures and discourses of Paraguay from Syntax Project for the Arts
(1997).
-Research travel grant from the University of Oklahoma College of Continuing Education
-Education for research and presentations in Paraguay (1996), and from the University of Oklahoma.  
-Grant (January 1997) from California PEN to travel to San Francisco and make presentation at the New College.
-Grant (Fall 1996) from Potes & Poets Foundation for production of "Let Dogs Lie" and "Endangered."
-Travel grant to lecture at San Francisco State University (Fall 1996).
-7,500-word autobiographical essay in Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, (Gale Research) 1996.

Numerous other grants and awards, including
 
            *Clark Memorial Award for Outstanding Ph.D. candidate (1992),
            *Oklahoma Arts Council Grant (1996) for producing video, "Face-to-Face,"
            *Flora Hadsell Award for Outstanding Teaching (1995),
            *Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative Writing (1995 and 1996),
            *Graduate Student Senate Conference Grant (1994 and 1995),
            *Goldia Cooksey Memorial Award for Creative Accomplishments
                        (1989 and 1993),
            *Finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award.
            *Performance grants received from Russian River (CA) Association (1994),
            *California PEN (1994),
            *Washington DC Arts Council (1995), and others.
 
Autobiographical essay about work, life, and influences commissioned and published by Gale Research Publications published in Contemporary Authors: Autobiography Series; Volume 25 (1996), and Contemporary Authors; (2000).
 
Videos and Plays
 
"Let Dogs Lie" and "Endangered" -- partially performed at the DC/Arts Center, Washington, DC, October 21, 1996.  World
premiere full production January 20-21, 1997 by the St. Gregory's Theatre Company at the Sarkey's Performing Arts Center.
Directed by Pat Snyder.  Technical Direction:  Lee Neibert.
 
"Face-to-Face Setting in the Clear Light:  A Service of Contact"  written by Susan Smith Nash and Carolyn Steinhoff Smith.
Video produced, funded by grant from the Oklahoma Arts Council.
 
"A Paleontologist at the Apocalypse" at XYZ Night, Issues of Gender, at the Living Arts Center, Tulsa, OK, February 1996.
 
"Channel-Surfing the Apocalypse" debuted at the New Genre Festival, Tulsa, OK, June 1995.
 
 
Guest Lectureships
 
February 21, 2003, OU-Tulsa, Schusterman Campus Seed-Sower Series:  “Love and Madness in the Movies”  companion site at: http://www.beyondutopia.net/loveandmadness
 
October 15, 2001, Mid-America Bible College:  “Key Considerations for Assessing College Writing”  includes Writing Survival Guide http://www.beyondutopia.net/writing-survival-guide
 
December 14, 1997, Oklahoma City International Trade Association.  Keynote Speaker.  "How to Make Your International Business Trip a Success."
 
December 12, 1996, San Francisco State University, San Francisco.  Lectured to creative writing classes on the subject of Channel-Surfing the Apocalypse, which was a required text.
 
November 23, 1996, La Universidad Católica, Asuncion, Paraguay.  Lectured on new American Independent Cinema.
Coverage in ABC Color, and guest appearance on Radio ñanduti, (interviewed by Armando Rubin).
 
 
Performances and Readings
 
Audio Performances / Recordings: FringeJournal / Librivox.org


March 31, 1998, "Paraguayan Women Writers" part of Women in the Arts Series at St. Gregory's College, Shawnee, Oklahoma.
 
March 13, 1998, "Abriendo Nuevos Mercados"  day-long workshop in the Centro Cultural Paraguayo Americano, Asunci?n, Paraguay.
 
October 4 - 5, 1997, Reading and Workshop, Tulsa Arts and Humanities Association, Tulsa, OK
 
August 1997,  Lecture for the Paraguayan Women Writer's Association, Asuncion, Paraguay
Sept. 2, 1997, Participation in Third Annual Book Fair lecture series, Libro-Feria, Asunción, Paraguay, Plaza del Sol.
 
April 1997, Norman Public Library (Poet's Month)
April 1997, Border's Bookstore (Poet's Month Workshop)
 
March 1997, Poetry Workshop, Centro Cultural Paraguayo Americano, Asuncion, Paraguay
March 1997, Lecture on American Independent films and Film Festivals, Centro Cultural Paraguayo Americano, Asuncion,
Paraguay
 
February 1997, Borders Bookstore, Norman, OK
February 1997, The New College, San Francisco, CA.
 
December 1996, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA.
 
November 1996, La Universidad Catolica, Asuncion, Paraguay
November 1996, Taller Centenario (Writer's Workshop), Club Centenario, Asuncion, Paraguay
 
October 1996, DC Art Center, Washington, DC.
 
March 1996, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant, Oklahoma.
 
February 1996, Living Arts Center, Tulsa, OK
 
October 1995, DaDa-Surrealism Show, Fred Jones Art Museum, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
 
March 1995, DC Arts Center, Washington, D.C.
 
February 1995, Canessa Park Art Gallery, San Francisco
February 1995, Russian River Writers Association, Sebastapol, CA
 
January 1994, Bick's, Washington, DC
 
November 1993, The Ear Inn, New York City NY


Grants, Contracts, Etc.

Contract from Project InnerSpace GEODE:  Geothermal Technology 2024-2025: $198,000.  AAPG Contract Lead.

Slovenian / Trubar Translation Grants / Publication (Texture Press):  Evald Flisar (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2022)

University of Oklahoma Libraries / Summer writing grant to produce digital graduate research and writing guide.  Summer 2016 and Summer 2017.

Recipient of Publications Grant / Award for E-Learning Queen (http://www.elearningqueen.com) from the Open Source Arts and Letters Initiative (OSALI).

Principal Investigator -- RPSEA  Technology Transfer.  April 2010.

OpenCourseware:  $30,000 from AAPG Foundation: Role Principal Investigator.

Technology Transfer Workshops and Training (Face-to-Face and Online).  Department of Energy.  Amount of award:  $4.0 million.  October 2009. Role: Principal Investigator: 2009 - 2011.

Carbon Capture and Sequestration Workshops and Training.  Department of Energy:  November 2009.  3 years.  Amount of Award:  $995,00 Petroleum Technology Transfer Council.  (Note: Part of ARRA) . Role: Principal Investigator: 2009 - 2011.

The Impact of Diaspora on Communities and Schools:  Teacher Training.  April 2007.  $105,000.  Ford Foundation. Granted to Excelsior College . Role: Principle Investigator: 2006-2007.

United States Agency for International Development:  Economic Diversification, 2001:  amount  $23,500.  
United States Agency for International Development --  Private Sector Strengthening Mission (Azerbaijan) :  1999-2000: amount $143,000;   

United States Agency for International Development --  Economic Diversification in Oil-Dependent Economies (Azerbaijan):  1999-2000: amount $168,000;  

Paraguayan Ministry of Justice and Labor:  Prison Reform ($43,500);  

Paraguayan National Administration of Ports ($38,000).

NOAA:  Training Curriculum Design: Forecasting and Analytics for Weather and Climate (University of -Oklahoma):  $230,000. Role: Principal Investigator

Fund-Raising:

Windmill literary magazine of the University of Oklahoma English Department.  Fundraising efforts while editor (1992-94).

Raised sufficient funding to pay for printing costs, distribution, and honoraria.  Instituted Alumni Donor program and prepared press releases and publicity, with resulting coverage in Oklahoma newspapers, including The Daily Oklahoman, The Norman Transcript, The Ponca City News, The Daily McAlester News-Capital and Democrat, The Oklahoma Daily.

U.S. Saving Bond Drive:  Kerr-McGee Chemical Corporation Chair, raised $23,000 during 1988 drive.

The United Way, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.  Loaned Executive Program:  103 accounts, headed team that raised $281,000

 
Susan walking across a parking lot in Tulsa, Oklahoma 😊

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COORDINATION / LEAD

2019-2024:  Online Webinars (see details above)

Technical Program / Committee Member, Speaker Coordination and Content Contribution for Partner Events:  2015-present
NAPE: North American Prospect Expo
IMAGE: International Meeting for Applied Geoscience and Energy
URTeC:  Unconventional Resources Technology Expo and Conference
IPTC:  International Petroleum Technology Conference
OTC:  Offshore Technology Conference
OTC Asia
CCUS
Energy In Data

Face-to-Face Workshops:  Technical Coordination / Lead
TOPICS

2024:
Generative AI and Machine Learning for Subsurface Energy
Geothermal, Lithium, Hydrogen, Houston
Orphan, Abandoned, Idle, and Marginal Wells, Pittsburgh

2023:
Orphan, Idle, and Abandoned Wells

2021:
Geothermal Energy (with BEG) – converted to online

2019:
Machine Learning and Analytics in Exploration and Development
Petroleum Systems
Mexico’s Offshore Potential
Moneymakers Business Forum
Microseepage and Geochemistry
New Tools, Challenges and Opportunities: Petroleum, Geothermal, Carbon Storage
Difficult Unconventionals

2018:
Optimization of Exploration and Production
Reservoir Characterization
Haynesville
Mature Fields
Pore Pressure and Geomechanics
Deepwater Reservoirs

2017:
Delaware Basin
Controls on Shale Reservoirs
MidContinent Playmaker
Geoscience and Engineering Integration
Big Data and Deep Learning in Oil and Gas
Drones and UAVs in Energy Exploration

2016:
Deepwater Reservoirs
Denver Playmaker
Pittsburgh Playmaker
New Thinking and Value Propositions for Reservoirs
Optimizing Geoscience Technologies for E&P
Mature Fields
Mudstones
Drones

2015:
Woodford Forum
Tectonic Evolution
Basin Analysis
Increasing Reservoir Recovery Factors
Revitalizing Reservoirs
Deepwater Reservoirs
Carbonates Workshop
Eagle Ford
Depositional Systems
International Shale Plays

2014:
Playmaker Forum: Midland Basin
Deepwater Reservoirs
Mississippian Lime
Eagle Ford
Woodford Shale
Granite Wash
Unconventionals = New Developments
Bakken / Three Forks
GTW Colombia
Brazil Subsalt

2013:
Deepwater Reservoirs
Solving Water Problems in E&P
Peru reservoirs
Eagle Ford
Geomechanics and Reservoir Characterization
Sweet Spot Detection
Reserves Forum
GTW Canada
Reservoir Quality

2012:
Fractured Carbonate Reservoirs
Unconventionals in South America
Eagle Ford
Brazil: New Plays
Hydraulic Fracturing: Geological considerations
Latin American Shale Plays
New North American Shale Plays

2011:
Colombia Internationals
Microseismic and Geological Reservoir Characterization
Fracture Networks
Marcellus and Utica
Deepwater and Ultradeepwater

2010
Deepwater Reservoirs
Pore Pressure and Reservoirs
Carbon Capture and Sequestration
Reservoir Characterization, Lithology, Diagenesis
New Ways to Look at Old Data

2009
Unconventional Gas Resources
Petroleum Resources and Reserves
Carbonate Reservoirs
Unconventionals in South America

2008 -2015
Responsible for
Field Trips / Short Courses / Education Conferences / Research Conferences /

2006:   Online Instructional Design and Technology Workshop: Excelsior College, Albany, NY
2005:  Online Instructional Programs:  Quality, Engagement, Persistence: Excelsior College, Albany, NY
2003:  Online Curriculum Best Practices:  University of Oklahoma
2002:  Online Program Development Workshop:  University of Oklahoma
2001:  Online Program Development Workshop:  University of Oklahoma
1999 – 2003:  Online course development workshops  (quarterly) – University of Oklahoma Department of Human Relations, Energy Institute, and College of Liberal Studies
1998:  Developing Online Courses Workshop:  University of Oklahoma College of Liberal Studies