Ling Gao

Ling Gao (RECS 2009) is a 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 the Illinois Basin. She is involved in the study of various aspects of CO2 adsorption into organic-matter rich rocks. 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). 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.