Launch of SEN Educational Collective

Hello everyone! Please check out our newly launched website of an educational collective which will host numerous teaching resources for environmental and natural science education. This website will be actively updated with these lessons plans. They will be written in English and Spanish to increase its accessibility with the intention of reaching a global audience.

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Postcards from the Field: Back to the Field

Back to the Field!
Hello from the Methane Emissions Technology Evaluation Center (METEC) (https://energy.colostate.edu/metec/) at Colorado State University (CSU) in Ft Collins! I’m Navodi Jayarathne, a PhD student in Kate Smits research group...

Back to the Field!

Hello from the Methane Emissions Technology Evaluation Center (METEC)  at Colorado State University (CSU) in Ft Collins! I’m Navodi Jayarathne, a PhD student in Kate Smits research group  at The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). As part of multiple interdisciplinary projects funded by the Department of Transportation, Energy and the Northeast Gas Association the CSU/UTA Methane Migration team is running a three-month series of natural gas experiments aimed at finding solutions for underground natural gas leakage related challenges. The METEC pipeline experimental testbed is equipped with environmental sensors to make shallow subsurface, near surface, and atmospheric natural gas (NG) measurements. The on-going integrated experiment series was designed to address multiple underground NG leakage related questions including the expansion of gas plumes based on soil and atmospheric conditions, the formation of preferential pathways and to evaluate the existing and emerging leak detection and quantification (LDAQ) solutions for underground NG leaks. Nothing like being out in the field in the beautiful Colorado summer!

Cheers,

Navodi Jayarathne

Photo curtsey: Dr. Younki Cho, Postdoctoral researcher, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA

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