Parking: There will be limited, marked, free parking available off Pennsylvania Avenue, near the Natural Resources Building garage; look for the open house parking signs. Metered parking is also available on surrounding streets.
Throughout the building we will have more than 45 posters, displays and researchers ready to discuss their work and collaborate. Be sure to pick up a program and map at the sign in table, or you can download one to preview (a link to download will be sent at a later date). For questions, please email Tina Happ at tinahapp@illinois.edu or Kathy Henry at kmhenry@illinois.edu.
Presentations include:
Applied Research & Technology
An Overview of Engineering Research at Applied Research & Technology Section
Yongqi Lu and Seyed Dastgheib
Room 101
Development of Coal-Based, High-Value Carbon Materials
Sohan Singh and Seyed Dastgheib
Room 101
Techno-Economic and Life Cycle Environmental Assessments of a Novel CO2 Utilization Technology for the Coproduction of Value-Added Carbonate and Fertilizer Products
Feyza Kazanc, Peng Zhang, Saha Partha, Yongqi Lu
Room 101
Catalytic Reduction of Residual Oxygen for Gas Stream Purification from Pressurized Oxy-Combustion for Carbon Capture
Yongqi Lu, Hong Lu, Justin Mock, Ye Jiang, Oki Abiodun
Room 101
Development and Evaluation of Novel Biphasic Solvents for Post-Combustion CO2 Capture
Yongqi Lu, Paul Nielsen, Hong Lu, Qing Ye, Justin Mock
Room 101
Development of Materials and Systems for Water and Wastewater Treatment
Seyed Dastgheib
Room 101
Bedrock Geology
Highlights of the ISGS Bedrock Geology Section, Coal balls, Stratigraphy, and Fossil Sharks.
Jennifer Greco, Chris Korose, and Jared Thomas
4th floor Center
Coastal Geology
Geological monitoring of Great Lakes beaches and the anatomy of a storm deposit
Liz Spitzer, Liane Rosario, C. Robin Mattheus, and Kristen Pearce
Outside NRB Garage
Geomorphic changes at Illinois Beach State Park and the impacts of shoreline-protection structures
Kristen Pearce, Liz Spitzer, Liane Rosario, Steve Brown, and C. Robin Mattheus
Outside NRB Garage
Boats, drones, GPR, and other technologies we use in the coastal realm.
Steve Brown
Outside NRB Garage
Critical & Strategic Minerals
A tour of the Advanced Petrography Lab to demonstrate the importance of petrographic characterization for critical minerals and carbon storage.
Mingyue Yu and Jared Freiburg, Advance Petrography Lab
Room 269
Earth Characterization Center
3D Visualization of Geologic Data in Illinois
Jason Thomason
Room 400
Airborne Geophysical Surveys to Map the Mahomet Aquifer in East-Central Illinois
Jason Thomason and Kisa Mwakanyamale
Room 400
Recent Advances in Seismic Recording Technology for Earth Characterization and Monitoring
Mitchell Barklage
2nd floor East Hallway
SpRIT HVSR: An Open-Source Software package to Analyze and Visualize Ambient Seismic Microtremors, Developed at the ISGS
Riley Balikian
2nd floor East Hallway
Simulation of vertical heat transport through the unsaturated zone using the new MODFLOW 6 heat transport model and a new, two-layer extension of the Stallman analytical solution
Yu-Feng Forrest Lin
Room 204 1:00-2:00 only
A new Groundwater Energy (GWE) transport model for the MODFLOW 6 hydrologic simulator
Yu-Feng Forrest Lin
Room 204 1:00-2:00 only
Geologic Mapping in the Chicago Region
Andrew Phillips, Alexandra Sanchez, Andrew Stumpf, and Brandon Curry
2nd floor East Hallway
Looking at loess deposition in Illinois through the lens of a lake
Brandon Curry
2nd floor East Hallway
Earthquakes in Illinois & How the Ground Responds
Robert Bauer
2nd floor East Hallway
Preliminary Environmental Site Assessment (PESA) program purpose and procedures
Mark Collier
TBD
Geochemistry
Vulnerability Assessments at Illinois Nature Preserves – Field assessments for vulnerability to contamination
Ellie Callahan
Room 385
Monitoring program for carbon capture and storage in Decatur Illinois
Bracken Wimmer and Abbas Iranmanesh
Room 389
Measurements of uranium, thorium, and potassium as an inter-laboratory comparison: it takes two to tango!
Sebastien Huot, Emma T. Krolczyk, and Shannon A. Mahan
3rd floor West Hallway
X-Ray Diffraction and X-Ray Fluorescence Materials Characterization Laboratory
Martin Pentrak
3rd floor West Hallway
Geochemical experimentation – Simulating chemical reactions in the deep subsurface
Hongbo Shao
Room 324
Geoscience Information Stewardship
Geological Records Unit
Brent Lemke
Room 227
Geoscience Collection Preservation
Ron Klass, and Mark Yacucci
2nd floor Central Hallway
Illinois Height Modernization Program - Lidar Impacts on projects
Ryan Meekma, Matt Jefferson, Nazmul Huda, and Sami Pantha
2nd floor Central Hallway
Map applications and the Illinois Geospatial Data Clearinghouse
Melony Barrett
Room 266
Maps, and Publications
Dee Lund, Ethan Lehmann, and Rich Schultz
2nd floor Central Hallway
Subsurface Energy Resources
The Utilization of 2-Dimensional Seismic Data in the Geologic Characterization of CO2 Sequestration Projects
Kendall Taft
1st floor Hallway East
The Reservoir Properties Lab hosts specialized equipment used to characterize the properties of reservoir fluids (e.g., resistivity, density, viscosity) and rock (e.g., porosity, permeability, saturation, flow properties).
Dmytro Lukhtai
Room 364
Reservoir characterization of Ironton and Galesville Sandstones, north-central Illinois
Zohreh Askari
1st floor Hallway East
Mitchell CarbonSAFE Overview
Nate Grigsby
1st floor Hallway East
Mitchell CarbonSAFE Geology
Sarah Dendy
1st floor Hallway East
Mitchell CarbonSAFE Community Benefits
Kai Oliver
1st floor Hallway East
Geomechanical aspects of geologic carbon storage in Illinois Basin
Sherilyn Williams-Stroud
1st floor Hallway East
Using Deep Learning-Enabled Seismology to Illuminate Structure and Stress during Injection-Induced Seismicity in Decatur, IL
Sherilyn Williams-Stroud
1st floor Hallway East
Wetlands Geology
Statewide Hydrologic Survey Program: “IDOT Wetlands”
Geoff Pociask, and Audra Noyes
Room 221
Hydrology and Quality of Coastal Wetlands at IL Beach State Park
Nic Sheffield, and Geoff Pociask
Room 221
Hydrology and Chloride Migration at I-90 Tollway and the Kishwaukee River (Boone-Winnebago County line)
Jessica Monson
Room 221
Policy, history, findings of the Tollway Runoff Program
Keith Carr
Room 221
Field data collection for Hydrology and Water Quality
Evyn Anderson, Mario Owens Navarro, and Hayden Zavareei
Room 221
For additional information please email: Tina Happ at tinahapp@illinois.edu or Kathy Henry at kmhenry@illinois.edu