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This document includes important announcements for the CSI community from January 19, 2010. Key updates cover planned publications, abstracts, and student selections for summer fellowships. Highlights include the submission of 19 abstracts for the GHGT-10 conference and planning for the Goldschmidt Conference in June. Additionally, project updates from various teams are featured, emphasizing the need for one-page summaries and monitoring of project spending. Important deadlines and the introduction of a new hyperbaric hydrothermal atomic force microscope (H2AFM) project are also discussed.
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CSI BrownbagJanuary 19, 2010 Miscellaneous Announcements – Ellyn CSI Wiki – Andrew Cowell
Miscellaneous One WP# for Brownbags: H32168 Please inform CSI leadership of any planned publications, abstracts, new hires, students, etc. Now is the time to select students for the summer: go to https://wwwi.pnl.gov/see/fellowship/ 19 abstracts submitted to GHGT-10 conference, 5 from CSI Goldschmidt Conference June 13-18th, Knoxville, TN Abstracts due Feb 21st Dates for Annual Review: June 8-9th July 14-15th
CSI Project Updates1) CSI Status Update with LaFemina/Ashby on January 27th2) Strategy Review – February 19thAAAS meeting in San Diego • Need each project to update their one-page project summary • Please send it to me by COB this Friday • Include progress/accomplishments • You will receive the PowerPt template today for editing 3
In situ Molecular-Scale Probes: AFM AS Lea (PI), SR Higgins (Wright State), JE Amonette Fine-scale imaging capability for mineral carbonation in situ is absent • Build the world’s first hyperbaric hydrothermal atomic force microscope (H2AFM) capable of imaging mineral carbonation reactions at the mineral-fluid interface in scCO2 to study reaction mechanisms and kinetics. Objective: Progress:
Micromodel Pore-Scale Studies Mart Oostrom (PI), JW Grate, C Zhang, SK Sundaram Capillarity, mass transfer, interfacial tension and wettability impact caprock sealing efficiency Objective: Challenge: Progress:
Final Comments • Please watch your spending against your plan • Richa will be sending out project reports for each PI • Few projects are tracking behind their spend plans and we will be talking with these folks 6