METEC Team | METEC | Colorado State University

METEC Personnel

Name	Title	Affiliation	Email
Dan Zimmerle	Director / Principal Investigator	Colorado State University	[email protected]
Kate Laughery	Associate Director	Colorado State University	[email protected]
Teagan Bailey	Research Associate	Colorado State University	[email protected]
Ryan Brouwer	METEC Facility Manager	Colorado State University	[email protected]
Jenna Brown	Research Associate	Colorado State University	[email protected]
Anindita Chakraborty	Research Associate	Colorado State University	[email protected]
Rachel Day	Research Associate	Colorado State University	[email protected]
Jerry Duggan	Research Scientist	Colorado State University	[email protected]
Wendy Hartzell	Project Manager	Colorado State University	[email protected]
Anna Hodshire	Research Scientist	Colorado State University	[email protected]
Ezra Levin	Research Scientist	Colorado State University	[email protected]
Shamera Loose	Research Financial Coordinator	Colorado State University	[email protected]
Winrose Mollel	Research Associate	Colorado State University	[email protected]
Michael Moy	Research Scientist	Colorado State University	[email protected]
Kate Patterson	Research Associate	Colorado State University	[email protected]
Bryan Rainwater	Research Scientist	Colorado State University	[email protected]
Arthur Santos	Research Scientist	Colorado State University	[email protected]
Kira Shonkwiler	Research Scientist	Colorado State University	[email protected]
Tim Vaughn	Research Scientist	Colorado State University	[email protected]

METEC Collaborators

Name	Title	Affiliation	Email
David Allen	Professor	University of Texas Austin	[email protected]
Ken Davis	Professor	The Pennsylvania State University	[email protected]
Dorit Hammerling	Associate Professor	Colorado School of Mines	[email protected]
Matt Harrison	Managing Principal	SLR Consulting	[email protected]
Shane Michael Murphy	Associate Professor	University of Wyoming	[email protected]
Tecle Rufael	Principal Scientist	SLR Consulting	[email protected]
Arvind Ravikumar	Research Associate Professor	Univeristy of Texas at Austin	[email protected]
Kate Smits	Solomon Professor for Global Development Chair, Research Engineer, Lead PipelineTestbed	Southern Methodist University	[email protected]

METEC Students

Student	Major	Research Interest	Project
Benjamin Aboagye	PhD Systems Engineering	Storage tank emissions assessments and quantification	Hi-Flow, Tanks, Pipelines
Ezekiel Alaba	PhD Mechanical Engineering	Facility-level leak detection and quantification using small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS)	METEC 2.0
Fancy Cheptonui	PhD Systems Engineering	Implementing controlled testing protocols to assess the performance of emission detection and quantification solutions	ADED 2.0
Sonu Dileep	PhD Computer Science	Computer Vision and Machine Learning	MAES modeling
Rayson Lo	PhD Civil and Environmental Engineering	Multiphase flow in porous media, Vadose zone hydrology, and Numerical modeling	InSENSE, RPLUME, NYSEARCH
Emily Follansbee	PhD Systems Engineering		METEC 2.0
Jacob Mdigo	MS Systems Engineering	Comparative accuracy and efficiency of aerial measurements versus ground-based measurements in detecting and quantifying methane emissions from compressors' seal vents and driver exhaust emissions.	MAES Modeling
Mercy Mbua	PhD Systems Engineering	Reconciling top-down and bottom-up methane estimates	TOPBOT/SABER
Ethan Rimelman	MS Systems Engineering	Informing methane inventory estimates using aerial survey measurements	COBE
Madhu Sehrawat	PhD Systems Engineering	Modeling, simulation, and risk analysis to improve the measurement, monitoring, and mitigation of methane emissions	Energy Emissions Modeling and Data
Aashish Upreti	MS Mechanical Engineering	Emission modeling in complex aerodynamic environment	METEC 2.0
Prajay Vora	PhD Systems Engineering	Modelling the failure modes that lead to large emissions in oil and gas facilities mechanistically	MAES modeling
Daniel Boateng	Remote PhD
Julius Abayateye	Remote PhD
Julian Zenner	Remote PhD

METEC Graduates

Student	Major	Research Interest	Project
Abhinav Anand	MS Mechanical Engineering	Methane emissions estimation using CFD	SABER
Temidayo Fasasi	MS Mechanical Engineering	Gas composition sampling and continuous monitoring	Remote Sensing
Chiemezie Ilonze	PhD Mechanical Engineering	Sustainable Energy resources	ADED
Elijah Kiplimo	MS Systems Engineering	Sensor fusion, Internet of things and cloud analytics, field measurements	SABER and METEC 2.0
Mercy Ngulat	MS Systems Engineering	Examining variable destruction efficiency in natural gas fueled compressor's drivers	MAES Modeling

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