2026 CanCH4 Symposium Agenda
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Day 1 |
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| 7:30 | Registration / Coffee / Light breakfast | |||
| 8:30 | Opening Remarks / Welcome | |||
| 8:40 | Opening Remarks / Welcome | |||
| 8:45 | Keynote Address: | |||
| Euan Nisbet “Perspectives on the Past, Present and Future of Atmospheric Methane“ | ||||
| 9:00 | Session 1: Methane Inventories I | |||
| 9:00 | Anna Hodshire | Models models everywhere / Shall I compare thee to each other? | ||
| 9:15 | Arvind Ravikumar | Integrating Measurement Data with Operational Information for Accurate Methane Emission Inventories | ||
| 9:30 | William Daniels | Sampling variability under extreme skewness: sample size guidance for future methane measurement campaigns | ||
| 9:45 | Matthew Johnson | Implications of Repeated Measurement-Based UOG Methane Inventories in Western Canada | ||
| 10:00 | Discussion | |||
| 10:25 | Poster Discussions & Refreshment Break | |||
| 11:25 | Session 2: Methane Inventories II | |||
| Lightning Talks | ||||
| 11:25 | Michael Moy | Upstream Emissions Distributions in the State of Colorado | ||
| 11:35 | Bradley Conrad | Methane Super-Emitters in the Global Oil and Gas sector: Basin-scale Inventories, Intensities, and Contributions | ||
| 11:45 | Lauren Bowman | Comparing Aerial LiDAR Scans with Ground-Based Source-Level Measurements to Inform Robust Oil and Gas Methane Inventories | ||
| 11:55 | Yori Jamin | An Industry View on Effective Methane Monitoring and Field Follow-Up | ||
| 12:05 | Discussion | |||
| 12:30 | Catered Lunch | |||
| 13:30 | Session 3: Waste MRV & Mitigation | |||
| 13:30 | David Risk | Advancing Landfill Methane Measurement: Insights from the SIMFLEX Controlled Release Facility | ||
| Lightning Talks | ||||
| 13:50 | Nadia Tarakki | Rethinking EPA Method 21 Surface Emissions Monitoring: Quantifying Performance Limits for Methane Detection at Municipal Solid Waste Landfills | ||
| 13:55 | Keyvan Ranjbar | Airborne In-Situ and Hyperspectral Characterization of Landfill Emissions in Quebec | ||
| 14:00 | Wameed Alghazali | Can Methane Oxidation Biosystems (MOBs) Survive Winter? Process-Based Evaluation of Passive and Active MOBs Using GEGCSim | ||
| 14:05 | Minxuan Wang | Process-based Analysis as a tool to quantify the effectiveness of Methane Oxidation Biosystems (MOBs) to reduce residual landfill emissions | ||
| 14:10 | Discussion | |||
| 14:35 | Session 4: Agriculture and Natural Sources | |||
| 14:35 | Nathan Sweet | Not Just Burps: Total Methane Emissions From a Cattle Feedlot | ||
| Lightning Talks | ||||
| 14:55 | Trevor Coates | Advances in Measuring, Modeling, and Mitigating Methane Emissions in Canadian Agriculture | ||
| 15:00 | Noah Boss | Empirical Modeling of Annual Peatland CH₄ Emissions Across Canada Using Harmonized Flux Dataset and ERA5 Climate Predictors | ||
| 15:05 | Scott Davidson | CanFlux: A National Network for Ecosystem-Climate Interactions | ||
| 15:10 | Discussion | |||
| 15:30 | Poster Discussions & Refreshment Break | |||
| 16:30 | Session 5: Satellites | |||
| 16:30 | Sabour Baray | Monitoring subnational-scale methane emissions in Canada from space using a constellation of satellites and inverse modelling | ||
| Lightning Talks | ||||
| 16:50 | Ray Nassar | Future satellite observations of CH4 from the proposed Arctic Observing Mission (AOM) | ||
| 16:55 | Joseph Mendonca | Identifying Methane Plumes from Space Using a Convolution Neural Network | ||
| 17:00 | Mohammad Marjani | Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning for Methane Plume Detection using Sentinel-2 Satellite Imagery | ||
| 17:05 | Discussion | |||
| 17:30 | End of Day 1: Closing Remarks | |||
Day 2 |
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| 8:00 | Registration / Coffee / Light breakfast | |||
| 8:30 | Day 2 Welcome | |||
| 8:35 | Keynote Address | |||
| 9:00 | Session 6: Downstream Sources & Cities | |||
| 9:00 | Roisin Commane | Methane sources in cities re-interpreted using new laboratory results | ||
| Lightning Talks | ||||
| 9:20 | Yuwei Zhao | Inefficient Consumption of Natural Gas Drives Methane Emissions from a Megacity | ||
| 9:30 | Mary Kang | The role of hydrogen blending on methane and hydrogen emissions from existing natural gas infrastructure | ||
| 9:40 | Joelle Uribe | Comparison of Approaches to Estimate Leak Rate from Belowground Natural Gas Pipeline Leaks Using Surface Concentration Measurements | ||
| 9:50 | David Tyner | Midstream Infrastructure Measurements: Another Piece of the Methane Pie | ||
| 10:00 | Discussion | |||
| 10:25 | Poster Discussions & Refreshment Break | |||
| 11:25 | Session 7: Methane Benchmarking and Policy I | |||
| Lightning Talks | ||||
| 11:25 | Chris Donahue | Benchmarking Methane Emissions Across Major U.S. Oil and Gas Basins Using Aerial Gas Mapping LiDAR | ||
| 11:35 | Tecle Rufael | Source Specific Benchmarking for Oil and Gas Operations from Large Scale Aerial Methane Measurements | ||
| 11:45 | Sue Fraser | Overview of Federal Landfill Methane Regulations | ||
| 11:55 | Athar Omidi | Integrated measurement evidence and policy modeling reveal limited impact of Canada’s new landfill methane regulation | ||
| 12:05 | Discussion | |||
| 12:30 | Catered Lunch | |||
| 13:30 | Session 8: Measurement Technologies & Fixed Sensors | |||
| 13:30 | Kyle Daun | Evaluation of Fixed Sensor Monitoring of Controlled Tanks | ||
| 13:45 | Robyn Latimer | Truck-Based Methane Detection, Attribution, and Quantification in Upstream Oil and Gas: Controlled Release Validation and Field Case Study | ||
| Lightning Talks | ||||
| 14:00 | Stefan Bokaemper | Vendor agnostic method for determining continuous monitoring sensor numbers and placement for sufficient site coverage | ||
| 14:05 | Evan Dodd | Vehicle-Based Quantification of CH4 Emissions using a Hierarchical Bayesian Approach | ||
| 14:10 | Shoma Yamanouchi | Optimization of the Gaussian Dispersion Model Inversion for Estimating Methane Emissions in Canada | ||
| 14:15 | Discussion | |||
| 14:35 | Session 9: Methane Sources & Measurement Technologies | |||
| 14:35 | Negar Nazari | Detection and Quantification of Methane Emissions Over Snow Using Airborne, Optical, and Continuous Monitoring Technologies | ||
| Lightning Talks | ||||
| 14:55 | Liam Woolley | Helicopter-based detection and quantification of methane emissions from plugged oil and gas wells in British Columbia, Canada | ||
| 15:00 | Mu-An Tsai | Ground-based Hyperspectral Imaging of Methane at Landfills Under Winter Conditions Via a Controlled Release Study | ||
| 15:05 | Milos Krnjaja | Field Screening of Engine Exhaust Methane Slip | ||
| 15:10 | Discussion | |||
| 15:30 | Poster Discussions & Refreshment Break | |||
| 16:10 | Session 10: Methane Benchmarking and Policy II | |||
| Lightning Talks | ||||
| 16:10 | Shona WIlde | Stronger Regulations, Lower Methane: A Case Study of Regulatory Ambition Across Canadian Provinces | ||
| 16:20 | Matthew Johnson | How Equivalent are the newly updated ECCC and Alberta Methane Regulations? An ongoing technical Analysis | ||
| 16:30 | Scott Seymour | Methane Emission Intensity Targets for Oil and Gas: Exploring Options for the European Union’s Import Standard (and Beyond) | ||
| 16:35 | Christine Gerbode | Canada’s Job Creation Opportunity: An Input-Output Analysis of Federal Methane Regulations | ||
| 16:40 | Discussion | |||
| 17:00 | End of Day 2: Closing Remarks | |||
| 18:00 | Symposium Dinner | |||