Meet our Technical Programme Committee
Anna Hodshire
Energy Institute, Colorado State University
Dr. Anna Hodshire is a Research Scientist at the Energy Institute at Colorado State University (CSU) and incoming Associate Professor in CSU’s Systems Engineering Department. She leads the modeling group at the Methane Emissions Technologies Evaluation Center (METEC), currently focused on developing verifiable measurement-informed inventories and working on top down/bottom up reconciliation. As a part of this, she coordinates field campaigns for top down/bottom down surveys and basin-wide surveys of oil and gas emissions of methane. She also helps coordinate graduate student onboarding and recruitment efforts for METEC. Her research interests are broadly on pollution emission and dispersion, air quality, climate change, and the intersection of health among all these topics. Prior to joining METEC, Hodshire worked at small companies focused on measuring properties of atmospheric aerosols for health and climate applications. Hodshire holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Atmospheric Science from Colorado State University.
Matthew Johnson
Energy & Emissions Research Lab., Carleton University
Dr. Matthew Johnson is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and Scientific Director of the Energy & Emissions Research Laboratory (EERL). A two-time winner of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council’s (NSERC) prestigious accelerator award, Matt has worked extensively to translate peer-reviewed research results into practice. His EERL combines advanced experimentation, simulation, and statistical analysis in both large-scale controlled lab experiments and field work and employs a suite of advanced optical diagnostics, analytic tools, and experimental capabilities this is unparalleled in Canada. As of 2023, EERL has successfully completed field measurement studies on four continents with research contributions that include national-scale aerial methane surveys, comprehensive protocols for creating measurement-based inventories, novel “VentX” technology for quantifying unsteady methane flows, “sky-LOSA” technology for measuring black carbon emissions from flares, techno-economic analysis of methane mitigation potential, and quantitative analysis of regulatory equivalency. His work is cited in Canada’s National Inventory Report, incorporated in provincial and federal standards and regulations, and regularly cited in international methane and black carbon mitigation efforts.
David Risk
FluxLab, St. Francis Xavier University
Dr. Dave Risk is the Brian Mulroney Institute for Government Research Chair in Climate Science and Policy at St. Francis Xavier University (StFX). He is a specialist in gas emissions measurement and data processing techniques to quantify emissions in natural and industrial settings. Dr. Risk is a prominent figure in the field of environmental science, research, regulation, and policy. His research focuses on developing innovative sensing technologies to monitor greenhouse gases, track environmental changes, and to understand the impact of industrial activities. Dr. Risk is also involved in developing data analysis techniques and mathematical models to interpret the large datasets generated by his sensor networks and provide meaningful insights into environmental patterns and trends. He has been involved in numerous collaborative research projects, both nationally and internationally. He has collaborated with other researchers, government agencies, and organizations to address pressing environmental issues and advance the field of environmental monitoring.