16 BOONE PICKENS SCHOOL OF GEOLOGY who started in fall 2021, also works on those samples from the Southern Ocean. In addition, Lauren will utilize samples from the North Atlantic to reconstruct changes in deep water ventilation during the Quaternary glacial-interglacial cycles. She will use sample collected during the International Ocean Discover Program (IODP) Expedition 397 in which she is involved as a shore based scientist. Lauren was also strongly involved in organizing and monitoring the undergraduate student research projects. Furthermore, in 2022, many BPSoG colleagues and I were able to ramp up our in-person outreach efforts again. Numerous students from my group were involved in those outreach and science communication events, including among others, an NSF-funded scientific ocean drilling exhibition, Grandparents University, Summer on the Plaza, and water quality event at the public library. Dr. Javier Vilcáez The Geofluids and Hydrogeology research group continues doing cutting edge research on the Water-Energy-CO2 nexus. Currently, the Geofluids and Hydrogeology research group comprises of 5 PhD and 1 MS students. The findings of our research are being published in water, energy, and environment journals. In 2022 we published 2 papers in the Journal of Water Process Engineering (impact factor of 7.3), 1 paper in the Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering (impact factor of 5.2) and 1 paper in Fuel (impact factor of 8.0). All publications are from our research with students as first authors. In 2022, we won a new research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF)-Environmental Engineering program in the amount of $390,444 to do research on “Removal of metals from petroleum produced water by dolomite”. This research grant is in addition to the research grant from the NSF- Hydrologic Sciences program we won in the amount of $282,444 to do research on “Pore-scale machine-learning modeling of flow and transport properties of carbonate rocks”. I’m the principal investigator of these research grants (I value research independence). I am proud that these grants and our publications are 100% the product of research conducted at BPSoG. I enjoy teaching undergraduate and graduate courses very much. In addition to Groundwater Modeling, I have started teaching Applied Geostatistics and Environmental Data Analytics. Both are new courses that have not been taught before at OSU. I’m expecting to start teaching another new course next year, named Advanced Petrophysics. Thanks! BPSoG Staff From left to right: Sandy Earls, Babita Xavier, Jennifer Koch, Sheri Orr, and Tim Sickbert.
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