Briefs

Two lab posters receive honorable mentions at the ESE undergrad research symposium

Congrats to Elie and Sarang for their awesome work:

Using integrated Assessment Modeling to Compare Negative Emissions Technologies, by Elie Seff, mentored by Jay Fuhrman, and supervised by Andres Clarens

Sustainable Pseudowollastonite-based Cements, by Sarang Patel, mentored by Dan Plattenberger, supervised by Andres Clarens

Andres on NPR – Infrastructure of Power

Andres was interviewed for a NPR piece about the natural gas pipelines that are being developed in Virginia to transport natural gas from hydraulically fractured wells in Western PA to Virginia, North Carolina and for export. You can listen here.

We need better technology and policy

Interesting presentations today as part of the UVa Sustainability Bicentennial events. Our lab’s friend Bill Shobe made compelling case that climate change can’t be solved by us through our personal choices – we need better technology and policy. Andres talked about all the different disciplines that need to be engaging to help with the carbon drawdown as well as our work with the environmental resilience institute.

Post-doctoral fellow opportunity in our lab

Our group is looking for a post-doctoral fellow in the broad area of negative carbon emissions for a project co-directed by Scott Doney (env science) and Bill Shobe (econ and policy).  Candidates with a background in integrated assessment modeling are strongly considered to apply. You can read about the position here.  In the meantime, please email Andres (andres@virginia.edu) if you are interested.

New ‘3 Cavaliers’ project on Negative Carbon Emissions Funded

The work is collaborative with Scott Doney in Environmental Science and Bill Shobe in Economics/Batten and we’re going to look at the environmental impacts of negative carbon emissions in the Chesapeake Bay region. Stay tuned for more!

Bo defends his dissertation

Congratulations Dr. Liang! Next stop Houston and Halliburton.

New paper on silicate carbonation could help us design much better cements

Dan’s new paper in ES&T Letters reports on some really unexpected and cool reaction products we’ve been able to create in the lab using calcium silicates and CO2. You can take a look here

Don’t waste photons!

Dan and Andres spent a week at Argonne National Lab with our collaborators Catherine Peters and Flo Ling from Princeton. Incredible results and tons of fun.

New NSF-funded project on pseudowollastonite-based building materials

Click here to learn more about our recently funded project:

Characterizing the reactivity and industrial ecology of pseudowollastonite to enable high performance building materials from waste streams

Buddy Defends His Dissertation

Congrats to Buddy on defending his dissertation entitled:

Alternatives for Hydraulic Fracturing Fluids in Unconventional Shale Gas Wells