Michael Zane Bey graduated from Tulane University where he earned a B.S. in Geology from the School of Science and Engineering. Under the mentorship of Dr. Jennifer Whitten-Jackson, he participated in a planetary science research project in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science identifying mass wasting on Venus using synthetic aperture radar. He has worked a full-time summer internship at the Bureau of Land Management Carlsbad, New Mexico field office through the Geological Society of Americas GeoCorps program in association with the federal Direct Hiring Authority student program. He enjoyed working collaboratively with specialty departments as a GIS Realty Specialist, where he processed land permitting requests and attended a wide variety of field site visits, gaining a strong perspective into federal land and natural resource management as it relates to energy geoscience and sustainable environmental practices. He spent much of his life living overseas as an American expat and is highly adaptable. He is earning a Professional Master of Science in Energy Geoscience at Rice University with a focus in geophysics