Reservoir riddle

David Dominic, chair of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and graduate student researchers Ritu Ghose and Jami Moore are part of a Wright State team investigating the effectiveness of trapping greenhouse gases underground.

January 29, 2016

Congratulations to David Dominic, Ph.D. and his research team from the â€™Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences for being awarded part of a $10 million U.S. Department of Energy grant to advance the scientific understanding of geologically sequestering carbon dioxide.

Geosequestration of carbon dioxide is one strategy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. In this strategy, CO2 from industrial emissions is captured and pumped into deep geologic formations, typically brine reservoirs more than a mile underground. The CO2 is then trapped beneath an overlying shale