Carbon deserts paper released

Working in collaboration with colleagues at Los Alamos National Lab and Ohio State, we have published a paper that illustrates why integrated carbon management is going to be a challenge in most parts of the US.You can find the paper here.

VESTlab at AGU

Andres and Tao met up with Shibo (PhD 2013, now at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) in San Francisco for the AGU fall meeting. Andres gave a talk on Tuesday and then after Shibo's talk on Wednesday we headed up to Berkeley for a tour of Shibo's lab that was spectacular! In this photo we're watching the sun set over the San Francisco bay with Strawberry Canyon in the background.

Our work appears in National Geographic

Some of our recent findings are described in a recent National Geographic article. You can read it here.

VESTlab on TV!

Andres makes live TV appearance in an interview discussing our recent shale paper for BNN (Canadian version of Bloomberg news) on their commodities program.  

VESTlab papers in the press

Several papers from our research group have been published over the past few weeks and they are getting covered in the popular and industry press. Tao's paper on sequestration in shale formations is featured here. That work was also featured on the cover of UVa Today. Xiaowei and Pragnya's work on algae biofuels covered here and here.

Department awards!

Shibo won the CEE graduate student researcher of the year award and Andres won the CEE teaching award!

Our first video abstract

Our new Environmental Research Letters paper entitled "Quantifying the total cost of infrastructure to enable environmentally preferable decisions: the case of urban roadway design" will appear here soon. In the meantime, we've prepared our first video abstract and you can watch it here. Check it out! Many thanks to Katie Cleary for her amazing video production skills!