RCSA, the Sloan Foundation, and ClimateWorks Foundation have made awards to seven cross-disciplinary teams of early career scientists in the fourth and final year of the #Scialog: Negative Emissions Science initiative. bit.ly/3vSVTP6

Our very own Dr. Wen Song is one of 20 scientists to receive this Negative #Emissions Science funding! Her work on #CO2 mineralization as a means of #CCUS is funded by Sloan Foundation. Congrats, SongLab! More: pge.utexas.edu/news Texas CSEE Texas Engineering UT Austin

Very excited to start working on this project, awarded by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement and Sloan Foundation, with teammates Rachel Davidson and Michael Ross!

Congratulations to Sheila for winning a best poster award at the UT GAIN meeting on her rare earth elements recovery from coal ash work! sites.utexas.edu/gain/gain-2024/

Excited to start working on this with our collaborators at UCLA and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory!

Proud of Sheila for winning a best poster award from UT Material Sciences on her characterization of reactive transport mechanisms controlling rare earths recovery from coal ash!

Wen Song, assistant professor in UT PGE , has been awarded an ARPA-E grant from U.S. Department of Energy to develop a new technology to extract geologic hydrogen – a promising carbon-free fuel. Learn more: bit.ly/4bLJXyQ #TexasResearch Texas Engineering UT Energy Institute

David's paper elucidating a previously unknown mechanism of capillarity-driven reaction-imbibition process that controls the rate of CO2 clathrates formation is out now! Here, he uses micromodels to see inside ocean sediments during CO2 storage! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Celebrating Shunxiang’s birthday with the group! Shunxiang has been working hard on understanding how microbes are stabilized in geologic materials!

Artur's paper on an operando SEM platform that allows, for the first time, direct observation of dynamic fluid-mineral interactions at the nanoscale is out now! This platform opens the door to elucidating interfacial phenomena under realistic conditions pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/Art…

Very proud to hood Artur and Sheila today! A hearty congratulations to these two, who started with me on day 1 of my time at UT PGE and have grown into fantastic young scientists!

Congratulations to Dr. Gerardo on a successful defense! Sheila developed seminal knowledge on the morphologic, mineralogic, and physicochemcial characteristics of ash as it pertains to the recovery of rare earth elements. I am a very proud advisor today.

If you work on pore-scale experiments, modeling, or theory development, please consider submitting to our session this AGU!

Congratulations to Feras for winning a TMS WAAIME Scholarship! Feras is working on understanding the recovery of rare earth elements from regoliths.

Congrats to SongLab on her selection as a Scialog Fellow in Sustainable Minerals, Metals and Materials! She is one of 58 scientists — including just two from Texas institutions — selected for the 3-year #sustainability initiative. #WhatStartsHere More: pge.utexas.edu/news/639-song-…

The first meeting of #Scialog: Sustainable Minerals, Metals, and Materials comes to a close today with Fellows presenting proposals for collaborative cross-disciplinary projects. Thanks, good luck, and see you next year!

Enjoying a sunny day hike with the group!

Join us for the North American Workshop on Critical Mineral Research, Development and Education this August in Austin! linkedin.com/pulse/save-dat…

I ran into 2 professors today that had just received notification of their promotion to associate professor with tenure! Congratulations to Professors SongLab & Blair Johnson! These amazing professors are doing so much to support students and advance essential research, and

Congrats to UT PGE faculty members Hugh Daigle, Nicolas Espinoza and SongLab on their promotions announced today! Effective in the fall, Dr. Daigle and Dr. Espinoza will be full professors and Dr. Song will be an associate professor with tenure. 🤘🎉