Current research projects:

Modeling hydrogen production from coal

Economics of mineral disposal of CO₂

Integrating Steel Production with Mineral Sequestration

Research Interests:

Mining Engineering:

• Systems analysis and design
• statistical rock characterization
• statistical rock mechanics
• probabilistic design.

Environment

Zero emission coal power plant design

Carbon capture during methane reforming

Gas production from methane hydrates

Statistics:

Extreme value statistics and its applications in analysis and forecasting of extremal data, primarily for engineering and earth science applications (i.e., fatigue failure, breaking strength of rock, earthquake magnitudes, temperatures, floods, droughts, etc.)