Carbon Engineering Department

The Carbon Engineering Department trains students to become field-ready carbon storage specialists through rigorous theory and hands-on practice in permanent CO2 sequestration in deep geological formations. Students complete project-based coursework in (1) supercritical-CO2 injection and plume-migration simulation, (2) caprock-sealing and geochemical-trapping assessment, (3) monitoring-verification-accounting (MVA) framework design, and (4) CO2-EOR feasibility analysis, graduating and heading into the field with a completed track record of independently characterizing CCS sites and evaluating storage capacity in real-world settings.

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⭐ Arrhenius

Chair

💡 Climate Science & Carbon Management

Researchers (real GeoVerse Lab members) 23

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1817–1884

Robert Angus Smith

Researcher

💡 Founder of air-pollution chemistry; coined 'acid rain' (1852)

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1842–1934

Carl von Linde

Researcher

💡 Inventor of the modern refrigeration cycle and industrial air separation (1876, 1902)

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1884–1949

Friedrich Bergius

Researcher

💡 Nobel laureate; invented coal hydrogenation (Bergius process, 1913)

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1881–1957

Irving Langmuir

Researcher

💡 Nobel laureate; developed the Langmuir adsorption isotherm (1918)

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1910–1996

Richard Barrer

Researcher

💡 Founding figure of zeolite science; namesake of the 'barrer' gas-permeability unit

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1805–1869

Thomas Graham

Researcher

💡 Father of colloid chemistry; discovered Graham's law of gaseous diffusion (1833)

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1806–1871

Julius Weisbach

Researcher

💡 Co-formulator of the Darcy-Weisbach pipe-friction equation (1845)

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1778–1829

Humphry Davy

Researcher

💡 Discovered multiple chemical elements; first described gas hydrate formation (1811)

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1894–1965

Arville Irving Levorsen

Researcher

💡 Systematized hydrocarbon trap classification; authored 'Geology of Petroleum' (1954)

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1900–1987

Charles Vernon Theis

Researcher

💡 Derived the Theis equation for transient aquifer-flow analysis (1935)

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1875–1946

Gilbert N. Lewis

Researcher

💡 Developed the fugacity concept and modern chemical thermodynamics (1901, 1923)

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1911–1967

Nabor Carrillo Flores

Researcher

💡 Diagnosed Mexico City land subsidence as pore-pressure-driven soil consolidation from groundwater extraction (1947-48), extending Terzaghi's effective-stress consolidation theory to a large-scale field case

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1935–2015

Robert Berner

Researcher

💡 Co-developer of the BLAG/GEOCARB models of the long-term geochemical carbon cycle (1983-)

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1773–1829

Thomas Young

Researcher

💡 Developed the theory of capillary action / surface tension; demonstrated the wave nature of light

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1892–1957

Erle P. Halliburton

Researcher

💡 Pioneered modern oil-well cementing methods (1920)

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1908–1995

Lucien LaCoste

Researcher

💡 Co-invented the zero-length spring gravimeter (1934), standard instrument for precision gravity surveying

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1871–1957

Reginald Aldworth Daly

Researcher

💡 Magmatic differentiation theory and igneous rock series classification; Igneous Rocks and Their Origin (1914, 1933)

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1906–1974

Maurice Ewing

Researcher

💡 Pioneer of marine seismic surveying and oceanic crustal geophysics

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1929–2012

Nicholas Ambraseys

Researcher

💡 Leading authority on earthquake engineering seismology and reservoir-triggered seismicity

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1927–2018

Grigory Barenblatt

Researcher

💡 Co-developed dual-porosity (fissured rock) fluid-flow theory (1960)

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1916–1987

Vincent E. McKelvey

Researcher

💡 Created the McKelvey Box mineral/energy resource-classification framework (1972); 8th Director of USGS

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1880–1958

Marie Stopes

Researcher

💡 Founded coal maceral classification / coal petrology (1935); pioneering female scientist

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1837–1923

Johannes Diderik van der Waals

Researcher

💡 Nobel laureate; derived the van der Waals equation of state using CO2 critical-point data (1873)