Info: ****** Mark Zoback is Professor of Geophysics at Stanford University and teaches in the online program in Energy Innovation and Emerging Technologies. His principal research interests are in the fields of crustal stress and geomechanics. He work on these problems at a variety of scales and in different geologic settings. He was one of the principal investigators of the SAFOD project (San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth) investigating the physics of faulting and he has been involved in projects studying active faulting in Taiwan and in the deep mines of South Africa. He also works on regional tectonic problems in various parts of the world. He has also extended his interest in geomechanics to research on environmental problems such as the geologic sequestration of CO2 and coastal subsidence in Lousiana. His book, Reservoir Geomechanics, was published by Cambridge University Press and is now in its fifth printing. The book integrates the fields of structural geology, rock mechanics and petroleum engineering with application to problems in the oil and gas industry. Enroll in his online course Past, Present and Future of Fossil Fuels ******