An ad hoc committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will consider the mission and direction for the activities of the U.S. Geological Survey’s Energy Resources Program (ERP). The committee will summarize the nation’s geologically based energy resource challenges and how existing or future ERP activities and products could address them; discuss how ERP objectives and science portfolio align with federal and non-federal ERP-product consumer needs; describe how ERP may improve that alignment; and recommend areas where ERP’s research portfolio would, over the next 10-15 years, benefit USGS energy priorities and those of U.S. Government.