OBSERVATION 6: Random Observations Regarding the USGS 2013 Assessment of the Bakken: UND-EERC

This may or may not be trivial with regard to the USGS 2013 Assessment of the Bakken.

Check out the USGS 2013 PowerPoint presentation [The USGS Report on the Bakken] regarding the assessment of the Bakken. Slide lists the "Non-USGS Cooperators." Notably absent is UND and/or UND-EERC. The only academic entity listed is the Colorado School of Mines. Perhaps UND and UND-EERC are closely aligned with the North Dakota Geological Survey and perhaps the UND folks had some input.

Maybe I'm just super-sensitive but it certainly seems UND/UND-EERC should have been part of the process.