Open to all CU ID holders
Please join us for a special Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Morningside Lecture celebrating 75 years of cutting-edge research.
Natural and Engineered Processes of CO2 Capture and Subsurface, Geologic Storage
Speaker: Peter Kelemen, Thomas Alva Edison/Con Edison Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences
About Dr. Kelemen:
Peter Kelemen studies the role of chemical and physical processes of reaction between fluids and rocks in the genesis and evolution of oceanic and continental crust, chemical cycles in subduction zones, and mechanisms for earthquake initiation. His primary focus now is on geologic capture and storage of CO2 (CCS), and applications of engineered reactive fluid flow to power generation, in situ mining for critical elements, and hydrocarbon extraction. He teaches a popular course on “Earth Resources for Sustainable Development”, as well as courses on geological carbon storage, igneous petrology, geochemistry, and geodynamics.
Kelemen was a founding partner of Dihedral Exploration (1980-1992), consultants specializing in exploration for mineral deposits in steep terrain in Canada, Alaska and Greenland. Research and climbing have taken him to Peru, India, Oman, the Aleutian Islands, 7,500 meters above sea level in Pakistan, and 5,500 meters below sea level via submersibles along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
Kelemen received an AB from Dartmouth College in 1980, and a PhD from the University of Washington in 1987. He spent 16 years as a research scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution before moving to Columbia’s Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory in 2004. Kelemen has received the Hess Medal and the Bowen Award from the American Geophysical Union (AGU). He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the AGU, the Mineralogical Society of America, and the Geochemical Society, and the Thomas Alva Edison Professor at Columbia.
