Utah has named R. William (Bill) Keach II, as the new Utah
state geologist and director of the Utah Geological Survey (UGS), following the
retirement of Rick Allis, who served as director of UGS and state geologist
since 2000.
According to the Utah DNR, Bill has over 30 years’
experience in industry, academia and regulatory state government, most recently
as senior engineer at the California Department of Conservation’s Division of
Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources. He spent two decades working in the
petroleum industry.
Keach is currently a visiting associate professor of geology
at Brigham Young University and visiting instructor at the University of Utah’s
Department of Chemical Engineering. He received a bachelor’s degree in Geology
from BYU and a master’s degree in Geophysics from Cornell University.
