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2024 Excellence in Tech Transfer

AWARD CITATION

The group is recognized for spearheading the development of optical dual-comb spectroscopy, demonstrating its technical value, and enabling its adoption by multiple industries. This technology provides a commercially viable way of measuring critical greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas wells, the agricultural industry, and other industrial sensing applications. This technology has been commercialized, is currently used to monitor fugitive emissions from more than 350 oil and gas wells, and is responsible for mitigating an estimated 40,000,000 cubic feet of harmful methane emissions. 

GROUP AWARD

Brian Washburn

Physicist
Communications Technology Laboratory, Spectrum Technology and Research Division

Kevin Cossel

Physicist
Communications Technology Laboratory, Spectrum Technology and Research Division

Laura Sinclair

Physicist
Communications Technology Laboratory, Spectrum Technology and Research Division

Esther Baumann

Physicist
Communications Technology Laboratory, Spectrum Technology and Research Division

Fabrizio Giorgetta

Physicist
Communications Technology Laboratory, Spectrum Technology and Research Division

Ian Coddington

Supervisory Physicist
Communications Technology Laboratory, Spectrum Technology and Research Division