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2025 Publications

01 January – Performance of survey solutions under single-blind controlled testing protocol. *

     Chiemezie Ilonze, Rachel Day, Ethan Emerson, Aidan Duggan, Ryan Brouwer, Dan Zimmerle

2024 Publications

10 December – Using Measurement-Informed Inventory to Assess Emissions in the Denver-Julesburg Basin *

    Arthur Santos, Winrose Mollel, Jerry Duggan, Anna Hodshire, Prajay Vora, Daniel Zimmerle 

13 Nov 2024 – Evaluating the accuracy of downwind methods for quantifying point source emissions *

     Mercy Mbua, Stuart N. Riddick, Elijah Kiplimo, and Daniel Zimmerle

31 October –Addressing Low-Cost Methane Sensor Calibration Shortcomings with Machine Learning

      Elijah Kiplimo, Stuart N. Riddick, Mercy Mbua, Aashish Upreti, Abhinav Anand, and Daniel J. Zimmerle

5 August – Estimating Total Methane Emissions from the Denver-Julesburg Basin Using Bottom-Up Approaches

    Stuart N. Riddick, Mercy Mbua, Abhinav Anand, Elijah Kiplimo, Arthur Santos, Aashish Upreti, and Daniel J. Zimmerle

18 July – Reconciliation of Ground and Airborne Measurements of Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas Production

    Jeffrey Nivitanont, Kristen Pozsonyi, Tim Vaughn, Arthur Barbaro dos Santos, Stuart Riddick, Shane Murphy, Daniel Zimmerle

12 June – Assessing the Progress of the Performance of Continuous Monitoring Solutions under a Single-Blind Controlled Testing Protocol

     Chiemezie Ilonze, Ethan Emerson, Aidan Duggan, and Daniel Zimmerle

9 May – Flow and Transport of Methane from Leaking Underground Pipelines: Effects of Soil Surface Conditions and Implications for Natural Gas Leak Classification

   J R R Navodi Jayarathne, Daniel Zimmerle, Richard S Kolodziej, Stuart Riddick, Kathleen M Smits

19 April – Flow and Transport of Methane from Leaking Underground Pipelines: Effects of Soil Surface Conditions and Implications for Natural Gas Leak Classification.  

     Jayarathne, J. R. R. N., Kolodziej IV, R. S., Riddick, S. N., Zimmerle, D. J. and Smits, K. M.

12 April – Comparison of Sub-Ppm Instrument Response Suggests Higher Detection Limits Could Be Used to Quantify Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas Infrastructure

    Stuart N. Riddick, Mercy Mbua, Ryan Brouwer, Ethan W. Emerson, Abhinav Anand, Elijah Kiplimo, Seunfunmi Ojomu, Jui-Hsiang Lo and Daniel J. Zimmerle

3 April  – Evaluating Development of Empirical Estimates Using Two Top-Down Methods at Midstream Natural Gas Facilities

     Jenna A. Brown, Matthew R. Harrison, Tecle Rufael, Selina A. Roman-White, Gregory B. Ross, Fiji C. George, and Daniel Zimmerle 

29 February – Methane Emissions from Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells in Colorado

    Riddick, S. N., Mbua, M., Santos, A., Emerson, E. W., Cheptonui, F., Houlihan, C., Hodshire, A. L., Anand, A., Hartzell, W.  and Zimmerle, D. J. 

19 February  – Point Sensor Networks Struggle to Detect and Quantify Short Controlled Releases at Oil and Gas Sites

     Rachel Elizabeth Day, Ethan Emerson, Clay Bell, Daniel Zimmerle 

8 February  – Assessing the progress of the performance of continuous monitoring solutions under single-blind controlled testing protocol

     Chiemezie Ilonze, Ethan Emerson, Aidan Duggan, Daniel  Zimmerle 

5 February  – Potential Underestimate in Reported Bottom-up Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas Operations in the Delaware Basin

     Riddick, S.N.; Mbua, M.; Santos, A.; Hartzell, W.; Zimmerle, D.J.
 
* denotes pre-print publication