Zeinab Amrollahi is a second year PhD student at Department of Energy and Process Technology at NTNU in Norway. She is working on the project, “Theories for Systematic Design of Processes with CO2 Capture,” which evaluates heat and energy penalties in CO2 capture processes. In her current research, Zeinab is comparing capture processes by the level of their minimum work requirements; more specifically, performing exergy analysis on various CO2 capture processes working inside natural gas-fired power plants. She has done exergy calculation for a post-combustion chemical absorption plant and is extending her research into other capture areas. Her pre-graduate studies were with the major of chemical engineering and separation processes at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran where she also graduated with a BSc. in chemical engineering.
Peter Berger received his Bachelor's degree from Bowling Green State University and Master's from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign both in geology. While a grad student, he spent several years working as a programmer on the Geochemist's Workbench suite of modeling tools and working on sequestration problems. He is currently an Assistant Geochemist at the Illinois State Geologic Survey working on geochemical modeling for various carbon sequestration and enhanced oil recovery projects in the Illinois Basin.
Indrajit Bhattacharya completed his Bachelors and Masters from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in Exploration Geophysics. He joined The Ohio state University in September 2003 for a PhD in Earth Sciences. His research involves microwave remote sensing of Cryosphere.
Veronica Brieno Rankin, LL.M., is Founder and President of GeoSeq International, LLC. As a hydrogeologist and international legal/regulatory professional, her expertise includes the scientific and legal aspects of CCS systems, earth system science, groundwater geology, and contaminant transport. Veronica was a 2005 Visiting Acknowledged Research Leader to the CO2CRC and Land and Water Australia, conducting research on geosequestration in Australia. She is the author of numerous publications on geological sequestration and serves as Associate Editor for Oil, Gas, and Energy Law.
Kelly Deuerling is currently pursuing a M.S. in geology with special focus in polar geochemistry at The Ohio State University as an SES and NSF fellow. She received her B.S. from the University of Florida (UF) in geological sciences. As an undergraduate, she worked as a research assistant in a hydrogeochemistry lab at UF and interned at PCS Phosphate in White Springs, FL.
Paul Emeka Eke is a Process Chemical Engineer and Post-Doctoral Research Associate in CO2 Storage and Sequestration at Scottish Centre for Carbon Storage (SCCS) in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. He is an Engineer and Environmentalist with several years of diverse experience in process, chemical, environmental, oil, gas, operations, optimization, research and project management. Paul’s most recent projects have focused on process facilities design, CO2 injection strategies, studies of the behaviours of large-scale CO2 stream in process facilities and deep geological formations. Paul received his BEng in Chemical Engineering from Enugu State University of Science & Technology, MSc in Oil and Gas Engineering from Robert Gordon University Aberdeen and PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from University of Edinburgh.
Chris Eisinger is a recent geology graduate of a M.Sc. program in reservoir characterization at the University of Calgary. He is currently working on the Wabamun Area Sequestration Project as a Research Associate, with the goal of creating accurate geologic earth models useful for simulating large-scale injection and storage of carbon. Additionally Chris is interested in policy and regulatory aspects associated with the geological storage of CO2.
Jamil Farbes is a graduate student in the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley. His current research interests focus on what constitutes effective regulation of carbon markets and how to best implement those measures. Specifically, he is interested in how carbon market regulation over a mandatory US market might build upon existing methods of assessing and managing financial risk. Jamil is more broadly interested in climate policy and the role scientist play in the policy-making process.
Ling Gao is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Geological Sciences at Indiana University. Her research focus is the storage of CO2 in deep (unminable) coal beds in the subsurface of Illinois Basin. She is now involved in the study of various aspects of CO2 adsorption into organic-matter rich rocks. Except for analyzing the micropore and mesopore volume and surface area of coal samples, Ling also studies the CO2 adsorption process in-situ in coals of different ranks and maceral composition under controlled temperature and pressure conditions by using small angle neutron scattering (SANS) and ultra small angle neutron scattering (USANS), in order to see how CO2 sorption processes happen under simulated hydrostatic reservoir conditions. She received her BSc in Earth Sciences from Nanjing University (China) and MSc in Quaternary Climate Change from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China).
Tyler Hauck is a geologist with Carbon and Energy Management of the Alberta Research Council in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He has worked for the Alberta Research Council for 15 months, following graduation from the University of Alberta with a B.Sc. in Geology and a M.Sc. in Geology. M.Sc. His research focused on the sedimentology and neoichnology of a modern microtidal barrier island-embayment system on the east coast of Canada. Current professional activities focus on the geological characterization of candidate formations for CO2 storage within the Alberta (foreland) Basin.
David Hopkinson is a Program Manager at the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Fossil Energy. His primary focus is on carbon capture and sequestration technologies for existing coal fired power plants. He is interested in developing technologies that will reduce the cost of separating carbon dioxide from flue gas such as solvents, sorbents, membranes, and oxy-combustion. He is also exploring sensor networks for monitoring of carbon dioxide gas after sequestration. David completed his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech where he studied physical properties of lipid membranes. He earned his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech.
Pradeep Indrakanti is an engineer at Leonardo Technologies, Inc. where he provides clients with technical inputs on energy-related issues. Pradeep received his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering, focusing on the light-induced conversion of CO2 to useful organic compounds. This work, which was part of a larger research effort on mineral carbonation of CO2, involved quantum chemical calculations and experimental electron spin resonance studies of CO2 reactions on titania surfaces. He has received a B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirapalli, India. Pradeep's interests include techno-economic and policy aspects of CCS, cleaner-coal technologies, algal biofuels, CO2 chemistry and the promotion of energy literacy. He has process experience in the cement and fertilizer industries, and co-authors an energy blog.
Praveena Jayaraman is pursuing a PhD in Natural Resource Economics at West Virginia University. Previously, she completed her Bachelors and Masters in Chemistry at the University of Madras, India and Annamalai University, India. Praveena’s research focus is the economic impacts of storing CO2 in deep saline aquifers. Specifically, she is doing a cost-benefit analysis for treating fresh water aquifers if they are contaminated by CO2 leakage from deep saline aquifer storage sites.
Ben Kravitz recently finished his second year as a Ph.D. student in atmospheric science at Rutgers University. He also has a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Northwestern University and a masters degree in mathematics from Purdue University. His area of research is geoengineering, specifically conducting climate model simulations of large injections of stratospheric sulfate aerosols.
Yue Liu is pursuing a Master’s degree in Environmental Science and Policy in Clark University with special interests in CCS. She currently is a Cynthia Helms fellow at the World Resource Institute (WRI), supporting the WRI-Tsinghua University efforts to develop guidelines for CCS deployment in China. Yue is researching existing regulations and policies that are relevant to the demonstration and deployment of CCS in China. She graduated from China Agricultural University with a M.S. degree on Fluid Machine and Engineering.
Jennifer McAdoo is currently studying for her MS in Environmental Engineering at Columbia University. Her thesis will be on the geo-statistics for monitoring, verifying, and accounting of CO2 in geological storage reservoirs, which will have implications for regulatory protocols on that method of sequestration. She is also interested in contributing to a better understanding of the carbon cycle, especially between the oceans and atmosphere. Before joining Columbia, Jennifer worked for a biofuels start-up and a major management consulting firm. She graduated summa cum laude from Mount Holyoke College in philosophy and mathematics.
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Amelia Paukert -Amelia Paukert is a Ph.D. student at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University. Her research focus is mineral carbon sequestration in the Samail Ophiolite in the Sultanate of Oman. Her research involves analyzing naturally occurring water-rock interactions within the ophiolite to determine how the mineral sequestration process could be artificially enhanced. Before starting at Columbia, she spent a year as a Fulbright Fellow in Almaty, Kazakhstan where she studied the implementation of international water rights treaties in Central Asia. Amelia graduated from the University of Southern California in 2006 with a B.S. in Geology and a B.A. in International Relations.
Liu Qi is a PhD student at the Centre for Innovation in Carbon Capture and Storage (CICCS), based at Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of Nottingham (UK). His PhD interests are in carbon sequestration in depleted oil and natural wells and deep saline aquifers. His work is mainly carried out in the lab through carbonation experiments in a high pressure/high temperature reactor, which simulatethe underground conditions of geological carbon storage. He obtained his B.eng in Chemical engineering and technology at China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), and MSc in Environmental Engineering with Distinction at University of Nottingham (UK).
Tim Rappold is Ph.D. candidate at the Deptartment of Earth and Environmental Engineering at Columbia University. His research interests include the management and disposal of sulfur from oil and gas as well as related issues of carbon management
Saikiran Rapaka is finishing his Ph.D in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He received his undergraduate and Master's degrees in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. For his dissertation, he has developed an accurate mathematical model for the onset of dissolution-driven convection in heterogeneous porous media. He is currently working on developing computer simulations to understand the role played by chemical reactions between dissolved carbon dioxide and the host minerals.
Anna Sommer is a graduate student at the Energy and Resources Group at UC-Berkeley. She was previously a Research Associate at Synapse Energy Economics where she worked on a wide variety of topics including integrated resource planning, administration and evaluation of end-use energy efficiency, feasibility of coal gasification with carbon capture and storage and the development of renewable portfolio standards. Most recently, she was Project Manager at Energy Solutions where she helped to implement building envelope and lighting efficiency measures at city and county agencies in the San Francisco Bay area.
Annette Trierweiler is pursuing a Master’s degree in geology at The Ohio State University, where she is a OSU and NSF fellow. Her research focuses on long term carbon cycling and the role of landsliding on carbon transport from high sediment yielding watersheds to the oceans for burial. She received a B.S. degree in Earth and Environmental Science and Biology from Furman University.
Cristian Vieira After graduating with honours as a Geological Engineer from Central University of Venezuela, Christian worked in geotechnics, mainly slope stabilization and geological evaluation for building flood barriers (mainly dykes). He then joined the petrophysical team of the research department in the national oil company of Venezuela, where he was trained as a Junior Petrophysicist. In late 2007, he got the opportunity of diversifying and further improving his knowledge in geophysical methods and numerical modelling by starting a PhD in the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris under the Marie Curie Research Training Network and GRASP program. His PhD project consists of calibrating surface electrical methods for monitoring hydraulic changes in sandstones and limestones, trying to offer some alternatives for monitoring other than seismic. The project is focused in electrical methods, also aimed at bringing more information about the chemical and physical processes triggered during CO2 injection. His current professional interests are related to monitoring and following evolution of reservoirs during CO2 injection, and comparing different techniques according to the scenario by balancing cost, resolution and efficiency.
Deyong Wang is a PhD student in the Environmental Engineering program at the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to this, he held a position of senior engineer/scientist in the China Coal Research Institute (CCRI), with over 10 years research experience in the field of coal research and development, Clean Coal Technology and clean energy projects. He also participated in the compilation of China Coal Industries Standards and was in charge of the section of “the classification of arsenic in coal”. Mr. Wang has more than 10 papers published and conducted several oral presentations in International and national conferences. His research interests include geology and geochemistry, coal field investigation, evaluating the environmental impact, fossil energy and environmental issues and CCS. Before joining CCRI, he received his M.S. and B.S. in geochemistry and geology from Peking University where he conducted significant findings on High-Pressure-Granulites for the first time.
Nathan Webb is a 2007 graduate of Western Illinois University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology with a minor in Geographic Information Systems. Currently he is a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign working on a research project dealing with the origin of a series of glacial ridged in southwestern Illinois and anticipates graduating in August 2009. He has just taken a position with the Illinois State Geological Survey working on reservoir characterization of the Lawrence Oil Field in southeastern Illinois.
Martijn Woltering is a PhD candidate in Water Resources Science at the University of Minnesota. His research focuses on the development on sedimentary processes and new methods to reconstruct past climate using biomarkers from Lake Sediments. He obtained a Bachelors degree in Analytical Chemistry in the Netherlands where at one of his internships at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research he worked on the research involving potential iron fertilization of the southern ocean as a way to sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide. After obtaining his Bachelors degree he worked for as a research assistant at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research working in oceanography, biogeochemistry and climate reconstructions. He decided to go back to grad school and obtained a Master degree in Water Resources Science at the University of Minnesota, a very interdisciplinary program where we focused on combining the knowledge of biology, chemistry, geology and policy in his research and produced a ~75,000 year temperature record from sediment cores from Lake Malawi. This lead to pursuing a PhD degree at the University of Minnesota.
Mehdi Zeidouni is a PhD student in the Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department at the University of Calgary. He has developed an analytical model for predicting salt dry-out during CO2 injection into aquifers and its effect on injectivity. He is currently working on development of pressure-transient test techniques for characterization of cap-rock for geological storage of CO2. Mehdi received his MSc and BSc degrees both in Petroleum Engineering from Delft University in the Netherlands and Petroleum University in Iran respectively. He also has more than three years of work experience as petroleum engineer in National Iranian South Oil Company (NISOC).
Zihan Zhu is a PhD candidate in the China University of Petroleum-Beijing. His research focuses on including CO2 capture and permanent geological storage (CCS) - including the use of CO2 for enhanced oil or gas recovery. He also did some experimental researches about the wettability impact on CO2 storage in oilfield and mechanism of CO2 EOR. He has already been involved in assessments of CO2 storage capacity in Dagang and Shengli oilfield, and the “injecting flue gas into Shegli reservoir to enhance oil recovery” project which is sponsored by PetroChina. In April 2009, He has also finished the courses of “COACH Spring School on CCS”.
Zeinab Amrollahi is a second year PhD student at Department of Energy and Process Technology at NTNU in Norway. She is working on the project, “Theories for Systematic Design of Processes with CO2 Capture,” which evaluates heat and energy penalties in CO2 capture processes. In her current research, Zeinab is comparing capture processes by the level of their minimum work requirements; more specifically, performing exergy analysis on various CO2 capture processes working inside natural gas-fired power plants. She has done exergy calculation for a post-combustion chemical absorption plant and is extending her research into other capture areas. Her pre-graduate studies were with the major of chemical engineering and separation processes at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran where she also graduated with a BSc. in chemical engineering.
Peter Berger received his Bachelor's degree from Bowling Green State University and Master's from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign both in geology. While a grad student, he spent several years working as a programmer on the Geochemist's Workbench suite of modeling tools and working on sequestration problems. He is currently an Assistant Geochemist at the Illinois State Geologic Survey working on geochemical modeling for various carbon sequestration and enhanced oil recovery projects in the Illinois Basin.
Indrajit Bhattacharya completed his Bachelors and Masters from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in Exploration Geophysics. He joined The Ohio state University in September 2003 for a PhD in Earth Sciences. His research involves microwave remote sensing of Cryosphere.
Veronica Brieno Rankin, LL.M., is Founder and President of GeoSeq International, LLC. As a hydrogeologist and international legal/regulatory professional, her expertise includes the scientific and legal aspects of CCS systems, earth system science, groundwater geology, and contaminant transport. Veronica was a 2005 Visiting Acknowledged Research Leader to the CO2CRC and Land and Water Australia, conducting research on geosequestration in Australia. She is the author of numerous publications on geological sequestration and serves as Associate Editor for Oil, Gas, and Energy Law. 
Kelly Deuerling is currently pursuing a M.S. in geology with special focus in polar geochemistry at The Ohio State University as an SES and NSF fellow. She received her B.S. from the University of Florida (UF) in geological sciences. As an undergraduate, she worked as a research assistant in a hydrogeochemistry lab at UF and interned at PCS Phosphate in White Springs, FL.
Paul Emeka Eke is a Process Chemical Engineer and Post-Doctoral Research Associate in CO2 Storage and Sequestration at Scottish Centre for Carbon Storage (SCCS) in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. He is an Engineer and Environmentalist with several years of diverse experience in process, chemical, environmental, oil, gas, operations, optimization, research and project management. Paul’s most recent projects have focused on process facilities design, CO2 injection strategies, studies of the behaviours of large-scale CO2 stream in process facilities and deep geological formations. Paul received his BEng in Chemical Engineering from Enugu State University of Science & Technology, MSc in Oil and Gas Engineering from Robert Gordon University Aberdeen and PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from University of Edinburgh.
Chris Eisinger is a recent geology graduate of a M.Sc. program in reservoir characterization at the University of Calgary. He is currently working on the Wabamun Area Sequestration Project as a Research Associate, with the goal of creating accurate geologic earth models useful for simulating large-scale injection and storage of carbon. Additionally Chris is interested in policy and regulatory aspects associated with the geological storage of CO2.
Jamil Farbes is a graduate student in the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley. His current research interests focus on what constitutes effective regulation of carbon markets and how to best implement those measures. Specifically, he is interested in how carbon market regulation over a mandatory US market might build upon existing methods of assessing and managing financial risk. Jamil is more broadly interested in climate policy and the role scientist play in the policy-making process.
Ling Gao is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Geological Sciences at Indiana University. Her research focus is the storage of CO2 in deep (unminable) coal beds in the subsurface of Illinois Basin. She is now involved in the study of various aspects of CO2 adsorption into organic-matter rich rocks. Except for analyzing the micropore and mesopore volume and surface area of coal samples, Ling also studies the CO2 adsorption process in-situ in coals of different ranks and maceral composition under controlled temperature and pressure conditions by using small angle neutron scattering (SANS) and ultra small angle neutron scattering (USANS), in order to see how CO2 sorption processes happen under simulated hydrostatic reservoir conditions. She received her BSc in Earth Sciences from Nanjing University (China) and MSc in Quaternary Climate Change from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China).
Tyler Hauck is a geologist with Carbon and Energy Management of the Alberta Research Council in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He has worked for the Alberta Research Council for 15 months, following graduation from the University of Alberta with a B.Sc. in Geology and a M.Sc. in Geology. M.Sc. His research focused on the sedimentology and neoichnology of a modern microtidal barrier island-embayment system on the east coast of Canada. Current professional activities focus on the geological characterization of candidate formations for CO2 storage within the Alberta (foreland) Basin. 
David Hopkinson is a Program Manager at the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Fossil Energy. His primary focus is on carbon capture and sequestration technologies for existing coal fired power plants. He is interested in developing technologies that will reduce the cost of separating carbon dioxide from flue gas such as solvents, sorbents, membranes, and oxy-combustion. He is also exploring sensor networks for monitoring of carbon dioxide gas after sequestration. David completed his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech where he studied physical properties of lipid membranes. He earned his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech. 
Pradeep Indrakanti is an engineer at Leonardo Technologies, Inc. where he provides clients with technical inputs on energy-related issues. Pradeep received his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering, focusing on the light-induced conversion of CO2 to useful organic compounds. This work, which was part of a larger research effort on mineral carbonation of CO2, involved quantum chemical calculations and experimental electron spin resonance studies of CO2 reactions on titania surfaces. He has received a B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirapalli, India. Pradeep's interests include techno-economic and policy aspects of CCS, cleaner-coal technologies, algal biofuels, CO2 chemistry and the promotion of energy literacy. He has process experience in the cement and fertilizer industries, and co-authors an energy blog. 
Praveena Jayaraman is pursuing a PhD in Natural Resource Economics at West Virginia University. Previously, she completed her Bachelors and Masters in Chemistry at the University of Madras, India and Annamalai University, India. Praveena’s research focus is the economic impacts of storing CO2 in deep saline aquifers. Specifically, she is doing a cost-benefit analysis for treating fresh water aquifers if they are contaminated by CO2 leakage from deep saline aquifer storage sites.
Ben Kravitz recently finished his second year as a Ph.D. student in atmospheric science at Rutgers University. He also has a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Northwestern University and a masters degree in mathematics from Purdue University. His area of research is geoengineering, specifically conducting climate model simulations of large injections of stratospheric sulfate aerosols. 
Yue Liu is pursuing a Master’s degree in Environmental Science and Policy in Clark University with special interests in CCS. She currently is a Cynthia Helms fellow at the World Resource Institute (WRI), supporting the WRI-Tsinghua University efforts to develop guidelines for CCS deployment in China. Yue is researching existing regulations and policies that are relevant to the demonstration and deployment of CCS in China. She graduated from China Agricultural University with a M.S. degree on Fluid Machine and Engineering. 
Jennifer McAdoo is currently studying for her MS in Environmental Engineering at Columbia University. Her thesis will be on the geo-statistics for monitoring, verifying, and accounting of CO2 in geological storage reservoirs, which will have implications for regulatory protocols on that method of sequestration. She is also interested in contributing to a better understanding of the carbon cycle, especially between the oceans and atmosphere. Before joining Columbia, Jennifer worked for a biofuels start-up and a major management consulting firm. She graduated summa cum laude from Mount Holyoke College in philosophy and mathematics.
Amelia Paukert - Amelia Paukert is a Ph.D. student at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University. Her research focus is mineral carbon sequestration in the Samail Ophiolite in the Sultanate of Oman. Her research involves analyzing naturally occurring water-rock interactions within the ophiolite to determine how the mineral sequestration process could be artificially enhanced. Before starting at Columbia, she spent a year as a Fulbright Fellow in Almaty, Kazakhstan where she studied the implementation of international water rights treaties in Central Asia. Amelia graduated from the University of Southern California in 2006 with a B.S. in Geology and a B.A. in International Relations. 
Liu Qi is a PhD student at the Centre for Innovation in Carbon Capture and Storage (CICCS), based at Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of Nottingham (UK). His PhD interests are in carbon sequestration in depleted oil and natural wells and deep saline aquifers. His work is mainly carried out in the lab through carbonation experiments in a high pressure/high temperature reactor, which simulate the underground conditions of geological carbon storage. He obtained his B.eng in Chemical engineering and technology at China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), and MSc in Environmental Engineering with Distinction at University of Nottingham (UK). 
Tim Rappold is Ph.D. candidate at the Deptartment of Earth and Environmental Engineering at Columbia University. His research interests include the management and disposal of sulfur from oil and gas as well as related issues of carbon management
Saikiran Rapaka is finishing his Ph.D in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He received his undergraduate and Master's degrees in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. For his dissertation, he has developed an accurate mathematical model for the onset of dissolution-driven convection in heterogeneous porous media. He is currently working on developing computer simulations to understand the role played by chemical reactions between dissolved carbon dioxide and the host minerals. 
Anna Sommer is a graduate student at the Energy and Resources Group at UC-Berkeley. She was previously a Research Associate at Synapse Energy Economics where she worked on a wide variety of topics including integrated resource planning, administration and evaluation of end-use energy efficiency, feasibility of coal gasification with carbon capture and storage and the development of renewable portfolio standards. Most recently, she was Project Manager at Energy Solutions where she helped to implement building envelope and lighting efficiency measures at city and county agencies in the San Francisco Bay area.
Annette Trierweiler is pursuing a Master’s degree in geology at The Ohio State University, where she is a OSU and NSF fellow. Her research focuses on long term carbon cycling and the role of landsliding on carbon transport from high sediment yielding watersheds to the oceans for burial. She received a B.S. degree in Earth and Environmental Science and Biology from Furman University.
Deyong Wang is a PhD student in the Environmental Engineering program at the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to this, he held a position of senior engineer/scientist in the China Coal Research Institute (CCRI), with over 10 years research experience in the field of coal research and development, Clean Coal Technology and clean energy projects. He also participated in the compilation of China Coal Industries Standards and was in charge of the section of “the classification of arsenic in coal”. Mr. Wang has more than 10 papers published and conducted several oral presentations in International and national conferences. His research interests include geology and geochemistry, coal field investigation, evaluating the environmental impact, fossil energy and environmental issues and CCS. Before joining CCRI, he received his M.S. and B.S. in geochemistry and geology from Peking University where he conducted significant findings on High-Pressure-Granulites for the first time.
Nathan Webb is a 2007 graduate of Western Illinois University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology with a minor in Geographic Information Systems. Currently he is a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign working on a research project dealing with the origin of a series of glacial ridged in southwestern Illinois and anticipates graduating in August 2009. He has just taken a position with the Illinois State Geological Survey working on reservoir characterization of the Lawrence Oil Field in southeastern Illinois.
Martijn Woltering is a PhD candidate in Water Resources Science at the University of Minnesota. His research focuses on the development on sedimentary processes and new methods to reconstruct past climate using biomarkers from Lake Sediments. He obtained a Bachelors degree in Analytical Chemistry in the Netherlands where at one of his internships at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research he worked on the research involving potential iron fertilization of the southern ocean as a way to sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide. After obtaining his Bachelors degree he worked for as a research assistant at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research working in oceanography, biogeochemistry and climate reconstructions. He decided to go back to grad school and obtained a Master degree in Water Resources Science at the University of Minnesota, a very interdisciplinary program where we focused on combining the knowledge of biology, chemistry, geology and policy in his research and produced a ~75,000 year temperature record from sediment cores from Lake Malawi. This lead to pursuing a PhD degree at the University of Minnesota.
Mehdi Zeidouni is a PhD student in the Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department at the University of Calgary. He has developed an analytical model for predicting salt dry-out during CO2 injection into aquifers and its effect on injectivity. He is currently working on development of pressure-transient test techniques for characterization of cap-rock for geological storage of CO2. Mehdi received his MSc and BSc degrees both in Petroleum Engineering from Delft University in the Netherlands and Petroleum University in Iran respectively. He also has more than three years of work experience as petroleum engineer in National Iranian South Oil Company (NISOC).
Zihan Zhu is a PhD candidate in the China University of Petroleum-Beijing. His research focuses on including CO2 capture and permanent geological storage (CCS) - including the use of CO2 for enhanced oil or gas recovery. He also did some experimental researches about the wettability impact on CO2 storage in oilfield and mechanism of CO2 EOR. He has already been involved in assessments of CO2 storage capacity in Dagang and Shengli oilfield, and the “injecting flue gas into Shegli reservoir to enhance oil recovery” project which is sponsored by PetroChina. In April 2009, He has also finished the courses of “COACH Spring School on CCS”.