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Biography

Dr. Nathan Hutchings is Bear Creek's President and Chief Operating Officer.  Nate earned his B.S. in Biology and Chemistry from Eureka College (Eureka, Illinois), where he was trained through the Ronald Reagan Leadership Program.   Nate subsequently earned his Ph.D. in Genetics from The University of Iowa (Iowa City, Iowa) and conducted Post-doctoral research in Cell & Structural Biology at The University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign). Nate was an Assistant Professor of Biology and Co-director of the Interdisciplinary Experimentation and Scholarship (IDEAS) Program at Northwestern State University (Natchitoches, Louisiana). Nate subsequently became Chair and Associate Professor of the Department of Biological Sciences at Louisiana State University in Shreveport.  At LSUS, Nate led the development of several graduate programs and was the founder and Executive Director of LEAD-LSU, a three-year leadership education and development program for undergraduate students. In addition to his academic, administrative, and leadership development duties, Nate's & his award-winning team of student researchers' efforts resulted in advances in our understanding of cellular motility, enhanced tertiary recovery process for shallow oil wells, a method for real-time quantification of oil production from stripper wells, and bioremediation technique developments. Nate has successfully gained funding from a variety of sources, has published several peer-reviewed scientific papers, and co-edited an interdisciplinary research symposium book.  In 2007, Nate was honored by the Shreveport Chamber of Commerce and SB Magazine as one of Shreveport's top ‘40 Under 40'.

Nate joined the Bear Creek family in December, 2007 as the Assistant Operations Manager was named President and Chief Operating Officer in February of 2009.

Nate provides day-to-day leadership and operational support for all divisions of Bear Creek as well as technical support and technology development expertise to advance the Oil & Gas industry's practical solutions for spill clean up, water reclamation & recycling, and waste management.