Energy & Emissions Research Lab (EERL)

🔥Come join our team! If you are a motivated and collaborative person who loves problem solving and data analysis that makes a positive impact on the world, then you might be a perfect fit in our Energy & Emissions Research Lab (EERL)! We have many exciting projects ahead, and are #hiring a post doctoral research associate to contribute to new and ongoing methane emissions inventory development; monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) protocols; mitigation policy and regulatory impact analysis, and more! Further details are in the attached .pdf and applications can be sent directly to eerl@carleton.ca. 📢 Know someone who fits this description? Please share this post with your network and help us find the perfect candidate! #methane, #emissions, #recruitment, Carleton Engineering And Design, Carleton University, Carleton University Research & International

🔥Come join our team! If you are a motivated and collaborative person who loves problem solving and data analysis that makes a positive impact on the world, then you might be a perfect fit in our Energy & Emissions Research Lab (EERL)! We have many exciting projects ahead, and are #hiring a post doctoral research associate to contribute to new and ongoing methane emissions inventory development; monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) protocols; mitigation policy and regulatory impact analysis, and more! Further details are in the attached .pdf and applications can be sent directly to eerl@carleton.ca. 📢 Know someone who fits this description? Please share this post with your network and help us find the perfect candidate! #methane, #emissions, #recruitment, Carleton Engineering And Design, Carleton University, Carleton University Research & International

#TeamEERL in action at the #2024AGU conference 🔥 It's been a busy week - thank you for the warm welcome, Washington D.C. and AGU! We feel inspired to see some really fascinating and innovative research. We attended very insightful talks, dove into all the cool science behind the beautiful graphs and figures at the poster sessions, and of course, enjoyed sharing our projects and recent findings! What a success! Thank you to Shona Wilde, Simon Festa-Bianchet, David Tyner, Milad Mohammadi, Nikolai Calderon and Matthew Johnson for representing #EERL and congratulations on your excellent presentations. Until next year, #AGU ✨ #methane #emissions #research #mitigation #innovation #climategoals Carleton Engineering And Design, Carleton University, Carleton University Research & International

✨Team #EERL at #AGU24 ✨ Every year we look forward to the American Geophysical Union conference - one of the largest international events in geosciences. Traditionally held in December, this conference is a great opportunity to reflect on the year's progress, share research findings, (re)connect with fellow researchers, and set goals for the year ahead. Our team is heading to Washington D.C. this weekend, excited to present our collaborative projects, recent findings and insights! We are showcasing 6 distinct projects within our core expertise of methane measurement and mitigation. Stop by our sessions, meet the team and ask questions! We look forward to connecting with you. ⭐ Simon Festa-Bianchet "Monitoring Landfill Methane: A Comparison of Drone and Surface Measurement Techniques" Session A21K-1906, Hall B-C (Convention Center) Tuesday, 10 December 2024, 08:30 - 12:20 ⭐ Milad Mohammadi "Parametric Study on Combustion Efficiency and Methane Emission Rates of Flares in Crosswind" Session A23B-1954A, Hall B-C (Convention Center) Tuesday, 10 December 2024, 13:40 - 17:30 ⭐ Nikolai Calderon "Creating a First-Ever Measurement-Based Methane Inventory for Upstream Oil and Gas Production in Colombia" Session A23B-1958, Hall B-C (Convention Center) Tuesday, 10 December 2024, 13:40 - 17:30 ⭐ David Tyner "The Prevalence of Unlit Flares and Combustors at Upstream Oil and Gas Sites in Western Canada" Session A42E-04, 147 A (Convention Center) Thursday, 12 December 2024, 10:55 - 11:05 ⭐ Shona Wilde "Development and Implementation of a Novel Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) Protocol to Reduce Oil and Gas Methane Emissions" Session SY53A-2611, Hall B-C (Convention Center) Friday, 13 December 2024, 13:40 - 17:30 ⭐ Matthew Johnson "Using Measurement-Based Inventories to Track Year-over-year Trends in Methane Emissions" Session SY53A-2620, Hall B-C (Convention Center) Friday, 13 December 2024, 13:40 - 17:30 #methane #emissions #mitigation #measurement #climatepolicy #climategoals #research #innovation Carleton Engineering And Design, Carleton University, Carleton University Research & International

Carleton University and Faculty of Engineering and Design - Carleton University are proud to have professors actively contributing to COP29 Azerbaijan, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Baku. Dr. Elisabeth Gilmore, lead author of the UN Environment Programme's Climate Technology Progress Report, is speaking at the kickoff event, explores the goal of tripling global renewable energy capacity by 2030. Dr. Gilmore also co-organized an event at the Canadian pavilion alongside Dr. Idil Boran of York University highlighting international research partnerships funded by Canada’s New Frontiers Research Fund, including Dr. Gilmore's project on transformational adaptation to support equitable climate mobilities and migration. Dr. Matthew Johnson, Scientific Director of Carleton’s Energy & Emissions Research Lab (EERL), presented groundbreaking work on methane emissions. His research helped Canada become the first country to integrate direct atmospheric measurements into its official IPCC inventory. Their contributions reflect Carleton University's leadership in global climate solutions. #COP29 #ClimateAction #CarletonUniversity

🚀 NOW LIVE: Action to #CutMethane is critical for climate progress. Our latest report highlights that the tools are ready, the targets are set – now it’s time to deliver. Human-caused methane emissions are responsible for roughly 1/3 of the planet’s current warming. Reducing these #emissions is the fastest, most cost-effective way to slow global warming in the near-term, avert climate damages and buy valuable time for full decarbonization.   Rapid innovation, new technologies and global momentum have led to a methane #data revolution with the potential to drive methane mitigation at speed and scale.    Released during #COP29, the International Methane Emissions Observatory’s latest “An Eye on #Methane Report: Invisible, but not unseen” takes stock of progress harnessing this data revolution that can #CutMethane and keep global climate goals within reach. https://lnkd.in/dUUkMfGv

What a journey to Baku, Azerbaijan ✈️ Over 30 hours in transit, delayed flights, and missing luggage – but it was all worth it! 🚀 Straight from the airport into event sessions and onto live radio - catch a glimpse of EERL's Matthew Johnson and his #COP29 experience so far: 🎙️: https://lnkd.in/duEs7xQm #ClimateAction #Methane #Emissions #MethaneReduction #Sustainability #COP29Azerbaijan #GlobalMethanePledge #ClimateActionNow #NetZero2050 #GreenTransition Faculty of Engineering and Design - Carleton University, Carleton University, Carleton University - Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Carleton University Research & International CBC/Radio-Canada

🌍 #COP29 is officially underway! 🌍 We are thrilled to announce that our Scientific Director, Matthew Johnson, will be joining this year's conference in Baku, Azerbaijan and presenting this Saturday, November 16th. He will be part of an expert panel discussing "Methane Technology Development and Commercialization - from Canada to the World". Matt will: ◾ Share data-driven insights into the progress and challenges of achieving Canada’s 2030 methane goals; ◾ Highlight key technologies for emissions measurement and our international collaborations on methane measurement and mitigation; ◾ Discuss strategies for applying actionable data and scaling technologies globally to help other countries reduce emissions. Join us in person or online to learn more about all the important work driving global methane emission reductions! #ClimateAction #Methane #Emissions #MethaneReduction #Sustainability #COP29Azerbaijan #GlobalMethanePledge Carleton Engineering And Design, Carleton University, Carleton University - Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Carleton University Research & International

After a conference like CH4 Connections, I come home exhilarated, but exhausted at the same time! After a good night's sleep, I realized my only regret was not sweet talking the organizers into letting me show the last slide of my presentation! 😉 So here's the end of my presentation. In the part many saw, I focused on an example of one operator's impressive #methane emissions reduction journey from 2022 to 2023. The crazy part is, I emphasized how that example was reasonably representative of our 20 largest clients over that time frame... they have collectively achieved a YEAR-ON-YEAR average reduction of 18%* ! Our team at Bridger is so proud to enable and support that success, but this is truly a community win. Virtually everyone in that conference hall has supported at least one of those top operators in some way, shape or form. It's so rewarding to see, for the first time ever, proof that all the hard work we've all been putting in is paying off. We are winning, and that is something we can all celebrate! And *that* is the power of accurate emissions inventories. In my last slide that I didn't get to show (see below), I highlight our work with partners like the Energy & Emissions Research Lab (EERL) at Carleton University, GTI Energy, and Colorado State University with Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to expand beyond individual operators and start benchmarking entire basins, states, and nations so that we can track the entire industry's success in reducing methane emissions. Our largest 20 clients represent a sizable chunk of the industry, so I have a sneaking suspicion their success will be reflected in the industry as a whole. Let's go measure it! In addition to our work with valued partners, we have self-funded a massive Permian Basin emissions inventory in 2024. By the end of this year, we will have scanned more than 60,000 production facilities on our own dime. In addition to benchmarking the basin to track industry success, the scale of this effort gives us incredible opportunities to validate the accuracy of our emissions inventory approach. We will sub-sample those facilities in every which way so that we can experimentally test and validate what sample size and facility make up achieves representativeness for the larger population. We will determine how to crush systematic errors from non-representativeness and correctly propagate random error from a limited sample to the full population. Finally, the massive database will provide a rich resource to enable anonymous statistical analysis and peer comparisons for our clients across the basin. Mike Thorpe will be providing early results from this study, and our inventory methodology at the American Geophysical Union's (AGU's) Annual Meeting in Washington DC in December. * 95% confidence interval: [8%, 25%] API - American Petroleum Institute U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Environmental Defense Fund

We are thrilled to welcome Isabella Cerquozzi to the #EERL team! 🎉 Isabella will be starting her Master's program in January, but she's already hitting the ground running (..or should we say, digging!) by joining us this week and heading straight to the field. 👷♀️ Her "can do" attitude and positive energy are truly inspiring. With a background in aerospace engineering, Isabella is eager to apply her technical skills to our ongoing projects. 🚀 We are excited to have her on board and to see our team grow! 🌱 Carleton Engineering And Design Carleton University #methane #emissions #research #innovation #climategoals #mitigation