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Thoughts from the Greenman Award Recipient, Sally Benson

10 Dec

I am so appreciative of receiving the Greenman Award (even though I am the first Greenwoman).  There are so many people who are deserving of this honor. CCS has advanced so rapidly over the past ten years. It is truly remarkable, but entirely dependent on the hard work and dedication of so many people.

I’ve had the pleasure of working with outstanding scientists and engineers from around the world. The IPCC Special Report on CO2 Capture and Storage brought many of us together, not that we agreed on everything, but this accelerated  the pace of building a worldwide community of researchers interested in CCS.

We also owe a great deal to the pioneers who started the Sleipner Saline Aquifer CO2 Storage Project. Operating for nearly 16 years, this project has provided a wealth of data and insights. The seismic data and interpretations have taught us so much about the behavior of CO2 in the subsurface.

The IEA Greenhouse Gas Programme has also been crucial for the development of CCS. I attended my first IEAGHG conference in Interlaken, Switzerland in 1998, and have been to everyone since then. The IEAGHG has contributed so much, from the conferences, to the networks, and now a high impact journal that publishes leading research articles. So, thank you very much for this wonderful award. It made my year!

Now all we need to do it get CCS implemented in a couple hundred projects. Then, we will all know we have succeeded.

I will be really proud to be a small part of that.

Blogged by Sally Benson,

2012 Greenman Award Recipient

 

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A Taste of Things to Come…

13 Nov

As well as blogs keeping everyone updated on the presentations, keynotes and other parts of the conference, I am intending to run a series of mini-interviews on the blog. I have identified a few people I’d like to interview, and here is a taster of things to come:

John Gale & Professor Kaya, co-chairs of the GHGT-11 Steering Committee,

Sam Pickard, author of http://lowco2motives.wordpress.com/where he has described his journey to GHGT-11, via a conference in Beijing, travelling overland in an attempt to minimise carbon emissions.

Clare Lehane, Executive Publisher at Elsevier, talking about the links between Elsevier, IEAGHG and the IJGGC,

The recipient of the GHGT-11 Greenman Award,

The hosts of GHGT-12… possibly the worst kept secret in CCS circles…

Obviously, the tricky one here is the Greenman Award recipient as the identity of this individual is a closely guarded secret, and even they will not be aware of their award until the presentation ceremony at the conference dinner. This means I either have to catch them at this dinner or try to catch up with them the following day… so this could be a tricky assignment!

I would be interested in hearing from anyone who is attending for the first time, so that I can present a newcomers view to the conference series, and also anyone who has attending many of these events, and can give a view of how things have changed over the years. If you fit into either of these categories, or it you have a view or opinion you would like to see put across, please let me know, either in the comments on this blog post, or by email at toby.aiken@ieaghg.org. Alternatively, you can probably catch up with me at the IEAGHG booth in the Exhibition Hall.

That’s all for now, more later.

Your GHGT-11 Blogger,

Toby Aiken

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