Emily Killeen graduated with a bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering from Carleton University. She joined EERL in May 2024 as a summer student and will continue as a Master student in the Fall 2024.
Over the course of the summer, Emily 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. Emily will be a part of the team leading a fundamental component of this project which involves the manual 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.