Carbon Capture & Storage Project Center

Designs and verifies industrial-scale CCS (carbon capture and storage) demonstration projects through simulation and digital-twin modeling — spanning injection-site selection, reservoir modeling, seismic/pressure-temperature monitoring scenarios, full MRV (monitoring, reporting, and verification) protocols, and long-term behavior forecasting, all built on data-driven simulation of the CCS project lifecycle.

⚙️ GeoVerse System Administration Division 🖥️ AI & Computing Sciences Division 🔬 Basic Sciences Division ⚡ Intelligent Geophysical Exploration Division 🛢️ Resource & Energy Engineering Division 🌍 Applied Geoscience Solutions Division 💼 Economics, Policy & Strategy Division 🎓 Education & Training Development Division 🚀 Innovation & International Collaboration Division

Oil & Gas Exploration Project Center Critical Minerals Exploration Center Carbon Capture & Storage Project Center Applied Geothermal Energy Project Center Nuclear Waste Disposal Project Center Offshore Wind Farm Project Center Environmental Geoscience Center Geohazards & Monitoring Project Center Land Site Survey & Assessment Center Special Applications Center

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⭐ Center Chief

Morris Muskat

Center Head

💡 Father of reservoir engineering, flow through porous media

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1864–1946

Charles S. Slichter

Researcher

💡 Founder of the mathematical theory of groundwater motion in porous media (1899)

🌍 Applied Geoscience Solutions DivisionCarbon Capture & Storage Project Center

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1852–1911

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

Researcher

💡 Founder of physical chemistry; van 't Hoff equation for temperature dependence of chemical equilibrium; first Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1901)

🌍 Applied Geoscience Solutions DivisionCarbon Capture & Storage Project Center

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1931–2007

Harold C. Helgeson

Researcher

💡 Founder of quantitative geochemical thermodynamic modeling of water-rock reactions (SUPCRT)

🌍 Applied Geoscience Solutions DivisionCarbon Capture & Storage Project Center

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1905–1985

Maurice Anthony Biot

Researcher

💡 Theory of poroelasticity coupling fluid pressure and rock deformation (1941)

🌍 Applied Geoscience Solutions DivisionCarbon Capture & Storage Project Center

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1910–1976

Karl William Kapp

Researcher

💡 Founder of social-cost/externality economics ("The Social Costs of Private Enterprise", 1950)

🌍 Applied Geoscience Solutions DivisionCarbon Capture & Storage Project Center

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1897–1978

Perry Byerly

Researcher

💡 Pioneer of earthquake first-motion focal mechanism analysis

🌍 Applied Geoscience Solutions DivisionCarbon Capture & Storage Project Center

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1813–1885

Thomas Andrews (scientist)

Researcher

💡 Discovered the critical point of carbon dioxide and established the concept of a critical temperature/pressure (1869)

🌍 Applied Geoscience Solutions DivisionCarbon Capture & Storage Project Center

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1928–2005

Charles David Keeling

Researcher

💡 Creator of the Keeling Curve, the continuous precise atmospheric CO2 record started 1958

🌍 Applied Geoscience Solutions DivisionCarbon Capture & Storage Project Center

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1888–1972

Richard Courant

Researcher

💡 Co-author of the Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy (CFL) condition for numerical stability of PDE solvers (1928)

🌍 Applied Geoscience Solutions DivisionCarbon Capture & Storage Project Center

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1884–1962

Auguste Piccard

Researcher

💡 Inventor of the bathyscaphe for deep-ocean exploration

🌍 Applied Geoscience Solutions DivisionCarbon Capture & Storage Project Center

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1852–1933

Philipp Forchheimer

Researcher

💡 Forchheimer equation for non-linear (non-Darcy) flow through porous media

🌍 Applied Geoscience Solutions DivisionCarbon Capture & Storage Project Center

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1912–2007

Chauncey Starr

Researcher

💡 Founder of modern quantitative risk analysis ("Social Benefit versus Technological Risk", 1969)

🌍 Applied Geoscience Solutions DivisionCarbon Capture & Storage Project Center

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1932–2018

Milo Backus

Researcher

💡 Pioneer of "bright spot" hydrocarbon-indicator seismic analysis and repeated-survey seismic interpretation

🌍 Applied Geoscience Solutions DivisionCarbon Capture & Storage Project Center

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1853–1939

Vladimir Grigoryevich Shukhov

Researcher

💡 Pioneering engineer of the first large-scale oil pipelines and thin-shell steel structures in Russia

🌍 Applied Geoscience Solutions DivisionCarbon Capture & Storage Project Center

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1778–1855

Joseph Aspdin

Researcher

💡 Inventor of Portland cement (patented 1824)

🌍 Applied Geoscience Solutions DivisionCarbon Capture & Storage Project Center