A097
The Global Methane Opportunity: Methane Emissions from Solid Waste
Session ID#: 250158
Session Description:
Communities around the world deal with solid waste management every day, presenting a global opportunity to reduce methane from the waste sector. Despite the existence of mitigation solutions, landfills and dumpsites remain a major source of methane emissions. This session focuses on some of the big remaining scientific questions for the sector: (1) the contribution of solid waste methane to current or future regional budgets, (2) major causes of emissions and drivers of variability, and (3) effective monitoring strategies for supporting mitigation. This is intended to be a cross-disciplinary session, and we expect a range of geographic scopes from global- to facility-scale. We invite a range of submissions related to understanding methane emissions from solid waste, including but not limited to studies on measurement technologies, models and inventories, case studies, or climate and air quality impacts. We especially invite submissions that involve collaboration with stakeholders.
Co-Sponsor(s):
Index Terms:
0315 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0394 Instruments and techniques [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
Primary Convener: Tia Scarpelli, Carbon Mapper, Pasadena, United States
Conveners: Paul Thomas Imhoff, University of Delaware, Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Newark, United States and Charlotte Scheutz, Technical University of Denmark, DTU Sustain, Kgs Lyngby, Denmark
Student/Early Career Convener: Tia Scarpelli, Carbon Mapper, Pasadena, United States
Estimation of Anthropogenic Methane Emissions from U.S. Landfills Using Activity-Based Methods (1881814)
Huilin Sun1, Kevin R Gurney2, Pankaj Sadavarte2, Anna Kato2, Pawlok Dass2, Lech Aleksander Gawuc2 and Mr. Bilal Aslam2, (1)Northern Arizona University, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (2)Northern Arizona University, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Flagstaff, United States
Using Earth Observations to Quantify Methane Concentrations Produced by Landfills in New Hampshire (1897593)
Chloe Alimurong, Duke University, Durham, United States, Ana Chavez, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, United States, Sadie Lockwood, Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States and Ashtyn Gluck, Auburn University, Auburn, United States
Methane Radiocarbon Measurements From Capped Landfills Indicate Substantial Fossil Carbon Biodegradation (1918213)
Joshua Wasserlauf1, Peter Munroe Douglas2, Grant Clark3 and Jacob Asomaning1, (1)McGill University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada, (2)McGill University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Montreal, Canada, (3)McGill University, Bioresource Engineering, Montreal, QC, Canada
Year-round Monitoring of Landfill Methane Emissions Captures Seasonality and Meteorological Drivers (1920932)
Andrew Hallward-Driemeier1, Yuwei Zhao1, Matthew P Drews2, Maryann R Sargent3, Steven C Wofsy4, Rory Alistair Barton-Grimley5, Amin R Nehrir5, Ashwin Yerasi5 and Roisin Commane1, (1)Columbia University, New York, United States, (2)Rutgers University, Institute of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, New Brunswick, United States, (3)Harvard University, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)Harvard University, Cambridge, United States, (5)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States
Advancing Landfill Methane Measurement: Insights from the SIMFLEX Controlled Release Facility (Invited) (1948308)
David A Risk1, Pylyp Buntov1, Rafee Iftakhar Hossian1, Yurii Dudak1, Khalil El Hachem1, Karen Marsh2, Chelsie Hall1, Anna Chepkova1 and Tarek R Abichou3, (1)St. Francis Xavier University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Antigonish, NS, Canada, (2)Lumina Sky Consulting, Raleigh-Durham, United States, (3)Florida State University, Engineering, Tallahassee, FL, United States
Understanding Trends In Methane Emissions From Landfills In The Appalachian Region – Impact Of Seasonal Changes, Precipitation And Landfill Characteristics (1955106)
Adithya Srikanth1,2, Shannon N Stokes1,3, Shuting Yang1,4 and Arvind P Ravikumar2, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Center for Energy and Environmental Systems Analysis (CEESA), Austin, United States, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, TX, United States, (3)University of Texas at Austin, Chemical Engineering, Austin, United States, (4)University of Texas at Austin, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Austin, United States
Assessing Methane Oxidation and Significance of Aerobic Waste Degradation across Different Landfill Covers with Eddy Covariance Data (1963149)
Tawsif Sultan Raaz1, Paul Thomas Imhoff1, Madjid Delkash2 and Ramin Yazdani3, (1)University of Delaware, Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Newark, United States, (2)Texas A&M University at San Antonio, Texas, United States, (3)University of California at Davis, California, United States
Digital Twins to Understand Methane Emissions From Landfills (1968349)
Paul Thomas Imhoff1, Muhammad Elius2, Kyungwoon Yang2, Harold Gamarro2, Ramin Yazdani3, Madjid Delkash4, Tawsif Sultan Raaz1 and Fotini K Chow2, (1)University of Delaware, Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Newark, United States, (2)University of California, Berkeley, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Berkeley, United States, (3)University of California at Davis, California, United States, (4)Texas A&M University at San Antonio, Texas, United States
Waste Outweighs Oil: Sectoral Analysis of Methane Source Persistence Using EMIT Data over the Arabian Peninsula (1969212)
Abdulrahman Aljurbua1, Raissa Estrela2, Andrew K Thorpe2, Robert O Green2 and Charles Elachi3, (1)King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (3)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Estimating Methane Fluxes from Landfills in New York State: A Methodological Intercomparison (Invited) (1984402)
Lee T Murray1, Matthew Loman2, Jie Zhang3, Margaret Jane Schwab3, Alexandra M Catena4, Joseph Marto3, James Jerome Schwab3, Eric Liebensperger5, Andrew Hallward-Driemeier6 and Roisin Commane7, (1)University of Rochester, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rochester, NY, United States, (2)University of Rochester, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Rochester, United States, (3)University at Albany State University of New York, Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, Albany, United States, (4)University at Albany State University of New York, Atmospheric Science Research Center, Albany, United States, (5)Ithaca College, Ithaca, United States, (6)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, (7)Columbia University, New York, United States
