Supporting Researchers
Graduate Students
Edna Rodriguez Calzado
Ismail Halim Faruqi
Blazej Ksiazek
Richard Colt Larson
Yushan Li
Angela Luciano
Chinemerem Okezie
Shadya Taleb Restrepo
Jose Eduardo Ubillus
Charlie (Yu-Chen) Zheng
Undergraduate Students
Nico Adams
Former Staff
Vanessa Nuñez-López
Dr. Jiemin Lu
Dr. Stavana Strutz
Dr. Changbing Yang
Former Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows
Marco Guirola
Former M.S. Student, now a Geoscientist, ExxonMobil
2022 EER Master’s Thesis: Estimating Across-Fault Migration Rates and Their Financial Implications for CCS with Application to Offshore Gulf of Mexico. Read the abstract here. Advised by Dr. Alexander P. Bump and Dr. Susan D. Hovorka
Maddie Laidlaw
Former M.S. Student, now a Commodity Financing Analyst, Macquarie Group
2022 EER Master’s Thesis: Evaluating, Risking, and Ranking Carbon Sequestration Buoyant Traps with Application to nearshore Gulf of Mexico. Read the abstract here. Advised by Dr. Alexander P. Bump and Dr. Susan D. Hovorka
Taylor Barnhart
Former M.S. Student, now a Hydrologist, NOAA’s National Weather Service
2021 EER Master’s Thesis: Constraining the Data and Investment Needs for Obtaining a Carbon Dioxide Injection Permit in the United States (download). Advised by Dr. Susan D. Hovorka
Arnold Aluge
Former M.S. Student, now a Market Lead, MISO at Wood Mackenzie
2021 EER Master’s Thesis: Screening and Assessing the CO₂ Storage Potential of CO₂-EOR in Onshore Oil Fields in Louisiana (download). Advised by Susan Hovorka
Harry Hull
Former M.S. Student, now a Geologist, EOG Resources
2021 JSG Master’s Thesis: Characterizing Reservoir Quality for Geologic Storage of CO₂—A Case Study from the Lower Miocene Shore Zone at Matagorda Bay, Texas (download). Advised by Tip Meckel
John Franey
Former M.S. Student, now Staff Professional, Antea Group
2021 JSG Master’s Thesis: High Order Stratigraphic Framework of Intraslope Growth Faulted Subbasins Near Offshore Matagorda Bay, Texas (download). Advised by Tip Meckel
Melianna Ulfah
Former M.S. Student, now a Geologic CO2 Storage Project Scientist, Tetra Tech
2021 EER Master’s Thesis: Plume Migration and Pressure Evolution Analyses for Recommendations in Offshore CO₂ Storage Acreage Leasing Policy (download). Advised by Susan Hovorka
Dr. Reza Ganjdanesh
Former Postdoctoral Fellow, now a Senior Data Scientist, Cognizant
Ganjdanesh, Reza, and S. A. Hosseini, 2018, Development of an analytical simulation tool for storage capacity estimation of saline aquifers, GCCC Publication Series #2018-02, originally published in International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, v. 74, p. 142–154, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2018.04.017. See Texas Scholar Works abstract here.
Dr. Ali Goudarzi
Former Postdoctoral Fellow, now a Technology Licensing Specialist at UT Austin
Goudarzi, A., T. A. Meckel, S. A. Hosseini, and R. H. Trevino, 2019, Statistical analysis of historic hydrocarbon production data from Gulf of Mexico oil and gas fields and application to dynamic capacity assessment in CO2 storage: International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, v. 80, p. 96–102, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2018.11.014. See abstract here.
Former M.S. Student, now a J.D. Candidate at Texas Law
2019 EER Master’s Thesis: The Effect of Methane and Fluid Geometry on CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery (download). Advised by Dr. Susan D. Hovorka
Former M.S. Student, now with Repsol’s Geological Low Carbon Americas Group
2019 JSG Master’s Thesis: Characterization of the High Island Field 24L Field for Modeling and Estimating CO2 Storage Capacity in the Offshore Texas State Waters, Gulf of Mexico (download). Advised by Dr. Timothy A. Meckel
Former M.S. Student, now an Analyst at Kroll
2019 EER Master’s Thesis: Geologic Characterization and Modeling for Quantifying CO2 Storage Capacity of the High Island 10-L Field in Texas State Waters, Offshore Gulf of Mexico (download). Advised by Dr. Tip A. Meckel
Dr. Baole Wen
Former Postdoctoral Fellow, now an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Mathematics at New York Institute of Technology
Shi, Z., Wen, B., Hesse, M., Tsotsis, T., Jessen, K., 2018, Measurement and Modeling of CO2 mass transfer in brine at reservoir conditions: Advances in Water Resources, v. 113, p. 100–111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2017.11.002.
Dr. Ye Feng
Former Postdoctoral Fellow, now an Upstream Exploration Geophysicist at BP
Meckel, T., Feng, Y. E., Treviño, R. H., and Sava, D., 2019, High-resolution 3D marine seismic acquisition in the overburden at the Tomakomai CO2 storage project, offshore Hokkaido, Japan: International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, v. 88, p. 124–133, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2019.05.034
Dr. Reynaldy Fifariz
Former Postdoctoral Fellow, now a Lecturer at Institut Teknologi Bandung
DeAngelo, M. V., Fifariz, R., Meckel, T. A., Treviño, R. H., 2019, A Seismic-Based CO2-Sequestration Regional Assessment of the Miocene Section, Northern Gulf of Mexico, Texas and Louisiana: International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, v. 81, p. 29–37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2018.12.009. Full text document here.
Former Ph.D. Student, now a Reservoir Engineer, Marathon Oil Corporation
2019 Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering Dissertation: CO2 Trapping Mechanisms Assessment Using Numerical and Analytical Methods (download). Advised by Dr. Seyyed A. Hosseini
Former Ph.D. Student, now with CCS, ExxonMobil
2019 Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering Dissertation: CO2 Trapping Mechanisms Assessment Using Numerical and Analytical Methods (download). Advised by Dr. Seyyed A. Hosseini
Former Undergraduate Students
Camelia Baluta
2020 – 2021 Undergraduate Research Assistant
Colton Hayden
2020 – 2022 Undergraduate Research Assistant
Margaret Murakami
2018 – 2021 Undergraduate Research Assistant
Amanda Merida Rodriguez
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Austin Turner
2019 – 2021 Undergraduate Research Assistant
Former Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows (more information coming soon)
Jacob Anderson
Amar Amir
Emily Beckham
Houman Bedayat
Emmanuel Belostrino
Behni Bolhassani
Eamon Briggs
Fei Cao
Kyung Won Chang
Jong-Won Choi
Stuart Coleman
Julie Ditkof
Joseph K. Essandoh-Yeddu,
Acting Chief and Head, SPPD
Energy Commission
Plot 40, Frema House, Spintex Road,
Accra, Ghana
Reynaldy Fifariz
Guy Fitz
Tyler Fritz
Marlo Gawey
Yanjun Hao
Mary Hingst
Alejandra De La Rosa Illescas
Akand Islam
Nishanth Kalyanaraman
Seunghee Kim
Masoumeh Kordi
Hamid Reza Lashgari
Yuan Liu
Jiemin Lu
Reinaldo Sabbagh Maciel
Daniel Mathews
Parker Medford
Erin Miller
Kelly Mortensen
Francis Mulcahy
Andrew Nicholson
Prisca Ogbuabuo
Munachiso Onwuchekwa
Johnathon Osmond
Michael Patson
Sean Porse
Federico Pozo
Carlos Puerta
Ashley Quinn
Gordon Smith
Silvia Solano
Tamara Sopoeva
Jordan-Leigh Taylor
Nolan Townsend
Luca Trevisan
Peter Tutton
Alex Urquhart
Wylie Walker
Kerstan Wallace
Logan West
Corinne Wong
Derek Wood
Khandaker Zahid
