Joost de Gouw has been involved with several studies that characterized the emissions associated with the production of oil and natural gas. He collaborated on hydrocarbon measurements at the Boulder Atmospheric Observatory and quantified the contribution from oil and gas production in the region to the measured VOCs. He spent three winters in the Uintah basin in Utah researching the causes for the unusual phenomenon of winter ozone formation. Joost de Gouw was the PI on the NOAA SENEX study in 2013 and the NOAA SONGNEX study in 2015, during which airborne measurements were used to quantify the emissions of methane and other pollutants from oil and natural production in many basins in the U.S., including the Marellus, Haynesville, Fayetteville, Bakken, Upper Green River, Uintah, Denver-Julesburg, San Juan, Barnett, Eagle Ford and Permian.

Collaborators

Steve Brown, Jessica Gilman, Bill Kuster, Jeff Peischl, Jim Roberts, Tom Ryerson, Michael Trainer, Patrick Veres, Carsten Warneke (NOAA & CIRES), Abby Koss (MIT), Bin Yuan (Jinan Univ.), Pete Edwards (York Univ.), Rui Li (Tofwerk), Brian Lerner (Aerodyne)

Key Publications

• Gilman, J. B., Lerner, B. M., Kuster, W. C. and de Gouw, J. A.: Source signature of volatile organic compounds from oil and natural gas operations in northeastern Colorado, Environ. Sci. Technol., 47, 1297–1305, doi:10.1021/es304119a, 2013.
• Edwards, P. M., Brown, S. S., Roberts, J. M., Ahmadov, R., Banta, R. M., de Gouw, J. A., Dubé, W. P., Field, R. A., Flynn, J. H., Gilman, J. B., Graus, M., Helmig, D., Koss, A. R., Langford, A. O., Lefer, B. L., Lerner, B. M., Li, R., Li, S.-M., McKeen, S. A., Murphy, S. M., Parrish, D. D., Senff, C. J., Soltis, J., Stutz, J., Sweeney, C., Thompson, C. R., Trainer, M. K., Tsai, C., Veres, P. R., Washenfelder, R. A., Warneke, C., Wild, R. J., Young, C. J., Yuan, B. and Zamora, R.: High winter ozone pollution from carbonyl photolysis in an oil and gas basin, Nature, 514(7522), 351–354, doi:10.1038/nature13767, 2014.
• Peischl, J., Eilerman, S. J., Neuman, J. A., Aikin, K. C., de Gouw, J. A., Gilman, J. B., Herndon, S. C., Nadkarni, R., Trainer, M., Warneke, C. and Ryerson, T. B.: Quantifying Methane and Ethane Emissions to the Atmosphere From Central and Western U.S. Oil and Natural Gas Production Regions, J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos., 123, 7725–7740, doi:10.1029/2018JD028622, 2018.