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Monday, November 3, 2025

EERL’s new research reveals major gaps in methane leak detection and repair (LDAR) surveys

Methane emissions from the oil and gas sector are significantly underreported, yet this sector holds the greatest potential for near-term... More

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

EERL Welcomes Two New Researchers This Fall

Our EERL team is growing! This Fall 2025, we’re excited to welcome two new researchers whose expertise will strengthen our work in UAV-based emission detection and measurements. Cornelius Liburd joins EERL as a Research... More

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

EERL hosted 2025 CanCH4 Symposium

2025 CanCH4 Symposium Our EERL Team is proud and honoured to host the second consecutive (and third since 2017) in what has now become an annual series of national, cross-sectoral, technical meetings in the field of methane... More

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Congratulations to Ellen McCole for defending her thesis!

Congratulations to Ellen Josephine McCole on successfully defending her master’s thesis titled “A Techno-Economic Analysis of Abatement Opportunities for Measured Sources of Methane... More

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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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 👏... 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... 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... More

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Celebrating Women in Engineering IWD2023

This International Women's Day we want to celebrate some of our past and present female researchers making incredible contributions in the field of engineering, energy research and climate change. Here at EERL we are... More

Friday, December 17, 2021

Measuring Methane Emissions One of the Keys to Combatting Climate Change

Measuring Methane Emissions One of the Keys to Combatting Climate Change By Dan Rubinstein December 14, 2021   At the United Nations COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow,... More

Thursday, October 21, 2021

EERL’s latest methane research featured in The Narwhal

Research shows getting tough on methane could reduce warming by 0.3 C If Canada and other countries are serious about preventing global temperatures from rising more than 1.5 C,... More

Thursday, July 15, 2021

Where the Methane Is – EERL’s latest publication provides important insights from novel airborne LiDAR measurements

EERL’s latest research highlighted in CBC News, using laser LiDAR technology from Bridger Photonics Inc.... More

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