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Thursday, November 14, 2024

Matthew Johnson at COP29!

This year's United Nation's COP29 is held in Baku, Azerbaijan, and we are thrilled to announce that our Scientific Director, Matthew Johnson, is representing the Energy and Emissions Research Lab (EERL) and Canada at this global event. Matt will be presenting at the Canada's Clean Resource Innovation Network Pavilion on Saturday, November 16th,... More

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

EERL Team is expanding!

We are thrilled to announce an opening for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join our diverse and dynamic Team EERL on our mission to measure and mitigate methane emissions. We are looking for motivated individuals eager to make a real-world impact through their knowledge, expertise and experience. Know someone who fits this description? Share... More

Thursday, September 12, 2024

EERL reveals previously overlooked yet significant source of methane emissions at oil and gas sites

In summer 2023, as part of a large-scale emissions measurement campaign in British Columbia (BC) in collaboration with the British Columbia Government and United Nations Environmental Programme’s International Methane Emissions Observatory (UNEP IMEO), EERL researchers Simon Festa-Bianchet and Milad Mohammadikharkeshi completed comprehensive... More

Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Congratulations to Alexis Tanner and EERL team on the recent publication

EERL’s latest research on flaring has been published in the Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, one of the most respected journals in the field. Congratulations to our PhD researchers Alexis D. Tanner and Milad Mohammadikharkeshi, EERL alumna Parvin Mehr, and our scientific director Matt Johnson. If you are familiar with the oil and gas... More

Monday, September 9, 2024

EERL hosted 2024 CanCH4 Symposium

Our EERL Team was honoured to host a national-scale cross-sectoral event "2024 CanCH4 Symposium" at Carleton University on May 13-15, 2024. This was a seminal event in the field of methane measurement and mitigation with participation across the oil and gas, waste management, and agricultural sectors. Featuring a common theme “Methane By The... More

Friday, April 5, 2024

EERL Researchers receive their iconic Iron Rings!

EERL researchers are celebrating an incredible milestone! 🎉 Our researchers Sangamithra Sakthivel and Joshua Parent received their very own iconic Iron Rings! The Iron Ring is given to Canadian-trained engineers upon completion of their degree in a ceremony known as The Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer. The ring serves as a symbol... More

Monday, December 18, 2023

EERL at AGU 2023 in San Francisco

This year AGU Annual Meeting took place in San Francisco, CA during the week of 11-15 December 2023. Simon Festa-Bianchet, Alexis Tanner, Matthew Johnson, Ellen McCole and Shona Wilde (from left to right) represented Team EERL and joined over 25,000 attendees from 100+ countries. We congratulate them on excellent presentations and engaging... More

Tuesday, November 7, 2023

Canada’s First-Ever Methane Census to Help Define a Path to Meet 2030 Reduction Targets

Canada’s First-Ever Methane Census to Help Define a Path to Meet 2030 Reduction Targets By Alyssa Tremblay October 30, 2023   After weathering a summer of wildfires, tornados and record-breaking rainfall and heat, many Canadians are left worrying how we can address climate change fast enough to prevent future environmental disasters.... More

Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Congratulations to Fraser Kirby for defending his thesis!

Congratulations to Fraser Kirby! Fraser successfully defended his master’s thesis titled “Development of a Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopy System for Quantification of Transient Emissions from Liquid Hydrocarbon Storage Tanks”. This project revolved around the storage containers predominantly used to store extracted hydrocarbon... More

Monday, May 15, 2023

Researcher Spotlight – Simon Festa-Bianchet

Meet the EERL team through our Researcher Spotlight Series! Today’s spotlight features Simon Festa-Bianchet. Now – Dr. Festa-Bianchet, who successfully defended his PhD and submitted his final thesis last week 👏 👏 👏 Simon joined EERL as a master’s student after completing his bachelor degree in mechanical engineering... More

Friday, April 21, 2023

EERL Team is expanding!

EERL is looking for talented M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. students to join our team. Our research group leads a range of world-class interdisciplinary projects to quantify and minimize methane and other pollutant emissions in Canada and globally. These projects span areas of emissions measurement, technology development, methane inventory analysis, and... More

Friday, March 17, 2023

Researcher Spotlight – Bradley Conrad

Meet one of our superstar researchers – Dr. Bradley Conrad! Brad joined EERL (Energy & Emissions Research Lab) after finishing his undergraduate program in Mechanical Engineering at Carleton ten years ago. Having received an NSERC USRA (undergraduate student research award) he started off as a summer student and continued as a Master’s... More

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