- Student researchers en route to research site in Hudson’s Hope, BC.
- Core sample showing the abundance of clay in the subsurface of the research site.
- Student researchers collecting core from the drill rig.
- UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) with a methane sensor attached flies over site.
- The methane sensor (black box attached to underside of UAV) uses laser technology to detect and quantify methane leaks.
- An eddy covariance system is used to detect and measure changes in atmospheric gas concentrations.
- Jessie Chao (PhD) sets up for an Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) survey.
- Flare on natural gas processing infrastructure, Peace Region, BC.
- Surface flux chambers are set up to measure changes in methane and carbon dioxide fluxes emitted from the soil zone during a methane injection experiment.
- A mobile methane survey is conducted around an abandoned wellbore.
- Multi-well hydraulic fracturing pad.
- An orphan gas well in Peace region of northeastern BC.
- Landscapes of the Peace region.
- Views and company en route to the research station.
- Landscapes of the Peace region.
- Precision drilling of the injection well at a 45-degree angle.
- Researchers participate in the branding happening next to the research station. Agriculture and energy resource extraction share the lands of the Peace region.
- Emily Prystupa (undergraduate research assistant) samples soil gas at the unsaturated site.
- Drill rig at the saturated site.
- Drilling in the snow.
- Drilling in the snow.
- Student researchers log core as drilling occurs.
- Sonic drilling at the saturated site.
- Research station at the unsaturated site.
- Fractured clay presents itself at a nearby outcrop.
- Branding day at the Venator Ranch, which leases the crown land where research takes place.