Dr. Geoffrey Thyne is an expert in increasing recovery by manipulation of water chemistry. Dr. Thyne began his career in 1979 as a research geochemist at the Arco Oil and Gas research facility in Plano, Texas. He received his PhD in Geology from the University of Wyoming in 1991 and taught at California State University-Bakersfield and the Colorado School of Mines until 2005. Dr. Thyne returned to the University of Wyoming in 2006 at the Enhanced Oil Recovery Institute where he was lead scientist for the DOE-funded Big Sky Carbon Storage Project in Wyoming. During his time at EORI, he became immersed in the possibilities of changing water chemistry to improve oil recovery, studying the process in the laboratory and the field. In 2012, Dr. Thyne left EORI and formed ESal in 2013.