Research Theme 5

GCCC staff outreach efforts by audience type

GCCC staff outreach efforts by audience type

Outreach, Training, Policy, and Regulation

Theme 5: Outreach, Training, Policy, and Regulation [PDF]

The major goal of this theme is to increase accessibility of GCCC results and provide technical information relevant to policy.

Accomplishments

  • Gave 384 presentations worldwide; hosted more than 40 U.S. and international colleagues from academia, industry, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
  • Supported and advised [PDF] 29 undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Developed and taught a cross-disciplinary graduate course at The University of Texas at Austin in geologic storage of CO2.
  • Published 58 papers on GCCC research.
  • Expanded information platforms over which GCCC provides information to stakeholders; registered a higher-than-average open rate on electronic messaging.
  • Partnered with multiple outside research institutions in collaborative field injection experiments; provided technical expertise on carbon capture and storage (CCS) to regulators and policy-makers.

Impacts

  • Collaboration [PDF] with the International Energy Agency Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme's (IEAGHG) Monitoring Network led to GCCC representation within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
  • Delivered over 8,000 training and education contact hours; 4,400 continuing education units, and 3,500 coursework contact hours related to CCS through GCCC's outreach partner STORE [PDF].
  • Student mentoring gave GCCC sponsors, other companies, and academic institutions a more informed workforce.
  • GCCC influence increased through additional dollars provided by new members: Korea Carbon Capture and Sequestration R&D Center (KCRC) and Ecopetrol.
  • Prominence of GCCC led to award from U.S. Department of the Interior to develop a best-practices manual for injection of CO2 in the Outer Continental Shelf.
  • GCCC provided technical expertise [PDF] to U.S. offshore CCS (Bureau of Ocean Energy Management [BOEM]) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulators.

Geographic Coverage

  • GCCC researchers visited stakeholders in 17 countries; 83% of activity was within the United States, 44% in the Gulf Coast region.
  • GCCC researchers hosted visitors from 11 countries: Australia, Botswana, Brazil, Colombia, Ghana, Japan, Korea, Norway, South Africa, Taiwan, and U.K.
Geographic Coverage

GCCC researchers have given presentations worldwide

Collaborative Research Partners

  • American Water Works Association
  • Carbon Counts
  • CO2 Capture Project—British Petroleum
  • Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CO2CRC)
  • Det Norske Veritas (DNV)
  • Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
  • Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc.
  • Lawrence Berkley National Labs (LBNL)
  • Lawrence Livermore National Labs (LLNL)
  • Mesa Photonics
  • Mississippi State University
  • Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL)
  • Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE)
  • Sandia National Laboratories
  • University of Durham
  • University of Edinburgh
  • University of Florida at Miami
  • University of Mississippi
  • The University of Texas at Austinâ„¢ (UT Austin), Chemical Engineering
  • UT Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences (JSG), Department of Geological Sciences
  • UT Austin, JSG, Energy & Earth Resources
  • UT Austin, JSG, Institute for Geophysics
  • Wood Group Mustang

Staff Publications by the Numbers

  • 58 papers in peer-reviewed journals
  • 74 abstracts in presentation proceedings
  • 16 papers in the International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control (IJGHGC) Special Publication on carbon sequestration stacked storage test at Cranfield, Mississippi site

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