Dr. David R. Tyner is a Senior Research Associate in the Energy and Emissions Research Laboratory (EERL) at Carleton University with over a decade of experience working to quantify and provide insight into methane emissions from upstream oil and gas production in Western Canada. Before joining EERL, Dr. Tyner completed a Ph.D. in Mathematics and Engineering at Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario in 2007. As part of EERL, Dr. Tyner’s research, in collaboration with governmental and industry partners, has been focused on understanding methane emissions at the source-level. This research has contributed to numerous peer-reviewed journal articles on economic methane mitigation, methane regulatory equivalency, development of laser-based measurement tools for liquid storage tanks and venting sources, and more recently measurement-based provincial methane inventories using large scale aerial surveys.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications
- M.R. Johnson, D.R. Tyner, B.M. Conrad (2023) Origins of Oil and Gas Sector Methane Emissions: On-Site Investigations of Aerial Measured Sources, Environmental Science & Technology, 57(6):2484-2494 (doi: 10.1021/acs.est.2c07318)
- B.M. Conrad, D.R. Tyner, M.R. Johnson (2023) Robust Probabilities of Detection and Quantification Uncertainty for Aerial Methane Detection: Examples for Three Airborne Technologies, Remote Sensing of Environment, in press (Preprint: https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/3399/)
- S.A. Festa-Bianchet, D.R. Tyner, S.P. Seymour, M.R. Johnson (2023) Methane Venting at Cold Heavy Oil Production with Sand (CHOPS) Facilities Is Significantly Underreported and Led by High-Emitting Wells with Low or Negative Value, Environmental Science & Technology, in press (doi: 10.1021/acs.est.2c06255)
- S.P. Seymour, S.A. Festa-Bianchet, D.R. Tyner, M.R. Johnson (2022) Reduction of Signal Drift in a Wavelength Modulation Spectroscopy-based Methane Flux Sensor, Sensors, 22(16):6139 (doi: 10.3390/s22166139)
- S.A. Festa-Bianchet, S.P. Seymour, D.R. Tyner, M.R. Johnson (2022) A Wavelength Modulation Spectroscopy-Based Methane Flux Sensor for Quantification of Venting Sources at Oil and Gas Sites, Sensors, 22(11), 4175 (doi: 10.3390/s22114175)
- D.R. Tyner, M.R. Johnson (2021) Where the Methane Is—Insights from Novel Airborne LiDAR Measurements Combined with Ground Survey Data, Environmental Science & Technology, 55, 14, 9773–9783 (doi: 10.1021/acs.est.1c01572)
- M.R. Johnson, D.R. Tyner, A.J. Szekeres (2021) Blinded evaluation of airborne methane source detection using Bridger Photonics LiDAR, Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 259, 112418. (doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2021.112418)
- M.R. Johnson, D.R. Tyner (2020) A case study in competing methane regulations: Will Canada’s and Alberta’s contrasting regulations achieve equivalent reductions? Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 8(1), p.7. (doi: 10.1525/elementa.403)
- D.R. Tyner, M.R. Johnson (2018), A Techno-Economic Analysis of Methane Mitigation Potential from Reported Venting at Oil Production Sites in Alberta, Environmental Science & Technology, 52(21):12877-12885 (doi: 10.1021/acs.est.8b01345)
- D. Zavala-Araiza, S.C. Herndon, J.R. Roscioli, T.I. Yacovitch, M.R. Johnson, D.R. Tyner, M. Omara, B. Knighton (2018) Methane emissions from oil and gas production sites in Alberta, Canada, Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 6(1):27 (doi: 10.1525/elementa.284)
- R. Roscioli, S.C. Herndon, T.I. Yacovitch, W.B. Knighton, D. Zavala-Araiza, M.R. Johnson, D.R. Tyner (2018) Characterization of Methane Emissions from Five Cold Heavy Oil Production with Sands (CHOPS) Facilities, Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, 68(7):671-684 (doi: 10.1080/10962247.2018.1436096).
- M.R. Johnson, D.R. Tyner, S. Conley, S. Schwietzke, D. Zavala-Araiza (2017) Comparisons of Airborne Measurements and Inventory Estimates of Methane Emissions in the Alberta Upstream Oil and Gas Sector, Environmental Science & Technology, 51(21):13008-13017. (doi: 10.1021/acs.est.7b03525)
- S. Schoonbaert, D.R. Tyner, M.R. Johnson (2015) Remote Ambient Methane Monitoring Using Fiber-Optically Coupled Optical Sensors, Applied Physics B, 119(1):133-142. (doi:10.1007/s00340-014-6001-0)
- D.R. Tyner, M.R. Johnson (2014) Emission Factors for Hydraulically Fractured Gas Wells Derived Using Well- and Battery-level Reported Data for Alberta, Canada, Environmental Science & Technology, 48(24):14772-14781. (doi: 10.1021/es502815b)