Regina M. Capuano, Ph.D., P.G., C.P.G. Biography

Councilor-at-Large

Regina M. Capuano, Ph.D., P.G., C.P.G.
Houston, Texas
Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
The University of Houston, Main Campus
Email: capuano@uh.edu

Dr. Capuano received her B.S. from the State University of New York, at Brockport in Geology/Math (cum laude) with the New York State Regents Incentive Award, 1970-1974, a M.S. from the University of Arizona Geosciences with the support of a University of Arizona Graduate Scholarship, 1974-1975, a Wyoming Minerals Corporation and a Westinghouse Research Fellowship, 1976-1977; Thesis: Chemical Mass Transfer and Solution Flow in Wyoming Roll-Type Uranium Deposits, under Advisor: Dr. Denis Norton, and a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in Geosciences/Hydrology; Dissertation: Chemical Equilibria and Fluid Flow during Compaction Diagenesis of Organic-Rich Geopressured Sediments, under Advisor: Dr. Denis Norton. with the support of a Sohio Petroleum Company Research Fellowship, 1984-1986.

After receiving her Ph.D., she served as a served as a Project Manager – Geochemist at the University of Utah Research Institute, Earth Science Laboratory, Salt Lake City, Utah. Afterward she was appointed to the position of Principal Investigator / Research Associate University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, Texas.

Dr. Capuano joined the University of Houston, Department of Geosciences, in Houston, Texas in 1990 and has been a Faculty Advisor in Environmental Sciences in 2007 and was elected to the Faculty Senate, University of Houston in 2016.

She holds Professional Geoscientist License (Texas Board of Professional Geoscientists #452), and she supported the University of Houston Chapter of the AIPG Chapter and Assoc. of Environmental and Engineering Geoscientists in 2013. She also serves as the Chair, of the AIPG Texas Section Scholarship Committee. She pursues a number areas of interest in her research and recent publications (more).