Coming from a background in communications, Marita brings fresh skills to CARE’s mission.

Marita has spent the last twenty-five years as a professional speaker and writer. She is the author of 19 books (written under a pseudonym) and has served as the president of a communications company. This background has given Marita the opportunity to be a frequent guest on television and radio programs throughout North America. When needed, Marita is comfortable working with the media on behalf of CARE.

In addition to the obvious asset her speaking and writing skills will be to CARE, Marita will also be using her people skills in networking amongst industry experts and building an “energy counsel” from whom CARE can draw when specific expertise is needed. This same interpersonal expertise will help her excel in overall relationship building for fundraising and program services. As a part of Marita’s experience base, she has organized and run numerous seminars and events each year.

Watch for CARE’s future activities to include more direct interaction with the public through a variety of speeches, seminars and other programs. Marita would like to hear from you! What ideas do you have for the future of CARE? How can CARE better serve you? With whom can you connect Marita who should be involved with CARE—as a donor or as an expert for the energy counsel? Please contact Marita via e-mail at: marita@responsiblenergy.org.







James K. Chilton, Jr.
Board Director

Jim Chilton is a 5th generation Arizona cattle rancher whose pioneering ancestors settled in the state in the late 1800's. He and his wife Sue make their home on the family cow-calf ranch south of Arivaca, Arizona. Jim is a representative of the Arizona Cattle Growers' Association to the national Public Lands Council where he participates in the development of policy recommendations for Congress and federal agencies relating to livestock grazing issues.

Jim also owns an investment banking and financial advisory services company. As lead banker, Jim has completed billions of dollars of tax-exempt public purpose bonds to finance public infrastructure.

Jim earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics, a Master of Science in Economics, and a Master of Arts in Political Science from Arizona State University.



Mike Hightower
Board Director

Mike Hightower is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in the Energy Security Center at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is a civil and environmental engineer and has over 25 years experience in and research and development projects. This includes structural and geomechanics research in support of space and weapons systems, research and evaluation of innovative environmental technologies for industrial and nuclear waste treatment and cleanup, and security and protection of critical infrastructures. Currently, he supports research and development projects addressing water and energy resource sustainability and water and energy infrastructure security and protection issues and concerns. These efforts include developing novel water treatment and water monitoring technologies, developing models and techniques to improve water resource use and management, desalination and produced water treatment, impact of water availability on energy security and reliability, and water, electric power, and natural gas infrastructure security and protection.

Mike holds Bachelor and Master Degrees in Civil Engineering from New Mexico State University.





Gavin Longmuir
Board Director

Gavin Longmuir is a consulting petroleum engineer based in Stanley, NM, with over 25 years experience in the oil & gas industry. Since establishing his consultancy about 10 years ago, he has done projects for large and small companies, from Alaska to the Middle East. Gavin has also worked closely with attorneys for oil companies preparing for contract disputes and regulatory issues. His prior experience was in technical, commercial, & management functions with major oil companies in the North Sea, North Africa, California and Alaska.

Within the span of his working life, Dr. Longmuir has participated in the development of new oil fields, which briefly became giant energy suppliers, and then inevitably declined. As someone with direct experience of how challenging it is for the oil & natural gas industry simply to keep up with growing demand, he became interested in the future of human energy supplies. He has presented his views to a variety of audiences in New Mexico & beyond, including as keynote speaker at the 2004 North American Prospect Exposition in Houston. A paper based on his presentation has been published in “Oil, Gas & Environmental Law”. Gavin believes strongly that we all need to take the question of our future energy supplies more seriously. He’s committed to explaining to the public that global energy demand will have to grow to improve the lives of people around the world, especially in developing countries. Meeting that demand will be a major technical & commercial challenge, and will take decades of focused activities.

Gavin Longmuir earned BSc (First Class Honours) and PhD degrees at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland, and an MBA at the University of New Mexico. He benefits tremendously from the company of his wife and two cats.



Thomas R. Morgan, PhD
Board Director

Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer Providence Technologies, Inc.

Dr. Morgan joined Providence Technologies in August of 2005 as Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. He is responsible for all corporate geophysical, computational and other technology related activities. This includes seismic data acquisition design and field supervision, processing QC, interpretation, software evaluation and purchase, hardware platform configuration and purchase, and development of internal applications. Formerly, Dr. Morgan was an Assistant Professor of Geophysics at Colorado School of Mines, a Senior Scientist in IBM’s supercomputing division, and most recently conducted software development for the upgrade project of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Very Large Array in Socorro, NM.

During his career Dr. Morgan has had assignments in nearly every major segment of the oil and gas exploration industry including prospect generation, seismic data acquisition and processing, applied research and software development, as well as education and training. He is also an expert in numerical image reconstruction and the use of large scale cluster computing. He has authored numerous technical papers, reports and presentations as well as a graduate level text on wave theory and seismic imaging.


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