CARBON MEASUREMNT ＆ MONITORING

Catalog description

Sources of various GHGs (whether fossil/industrial or biogenic), their chemical behavior, interactions, and global warming potential once airborne; available measurement, monitoring, and detection technologies to track gas emissions, including leakage from storage sites. Carbon accounting and reporting methodologies such as life cycle analysis, and corporate carbon footprinting. In addition to basic science and engineering challenges of each technology, full spectrum of economic, environmental, regulatory, and political/policy aspects, and their implication for regional and global carbon management strategies of the future. Combination of lectures, class debates and breakout groups, student presentations, and independent final projects