Sangamithra is our new undergraduate research associate who joined us as part of the highly-competitive i-CUREUS program.
She will be an essential part of the ongoing national-scale effort to create source-specific measurement-based inventories of upstream oil and gas methane emissions in Canada. This project combines source-level methane emission data obtained from both aerial and ground-based measurement surveys with comprehensive analytics to quantify methane emissions and sources within robustly defined uncertainties. Sangamithra will be a part of the team leading a fundamental component of this project which involves the attribution of measurement data, collected by EERL team, Bridger Photonics and Green Path Energy during our 2023 campaign, to specific equipment and active site types. This attribution provides the underlying data set on which methane inventories are based and are key to providing an accurate assessment of emission levels and identifying critical emission sources.