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From Methane to Mercury

February 10, 2026
Developing innovative technologies to monitor and mitigate atmospheric pollutants is a significant research priority for the US Department of Energy (DOE) and the Office of Environmental Management (EM). For this proposal, we plan to build off our current FY2023 MSIPP DOE EM award to continue...

Researchers Developing New Tools in Fight Against Methane Emissions

February 20, 2025
"IBM and Los Alamos National Laboratory are leading the effort, which earned a $20 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy in December. UC Merced's team, led by mechanical engineering Professor YangQuan Chen and postdoctoral researcher Derek Hollenbeck...

IBM wins DOE proposal to characterize methane emissions

December 20, 2024
In late August of 2024, International Business Machines (IBM) corporation and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) led an effort with seven other organizations (Butterfly  Photonics, University of Utah, Utah State University, New Mexico Tech, EarthDaily Analytics, University of California...

Proof of concept grant awarded for unpurified biogas engine

June 20, 2024
Dr. YangQuan Chen, Dr. Srinivasan Krishnamoorthy (CEO of https://www.sunburstabs.com/ SunBurst Ag Research and Innovation Center, Turlock, CA) and Dr. Paul Moller (Father of Flying Car (https://moller.com/), CEO, Freedom Motors Inc., https://freedom-motors.com/ Dixon, CA) Receive $50k to...

DOE-MSIPP grant awarded to develop drone-based methane detection

March 17, 2024
Professors Marc Beutel, Yangquan Chen, and Peggy O’Day, lead a DOE-MSIPP grant to develop and test unmanned aerial systems for real-time methane leak detection. The research aims to utilize tunable diode laser absorption spectrometer (TDLAS)-based sensor on-board multi-rotor sUAS for...

CMERI gets $1M in Climate Action Seed Funds

April 30, 2023
The Office of Research, Innovation, and Economic Development (ORED) has selected the Center for Methane Emission Research and Innovation (CMERI) for $1M in funding, which is led by principal investigator (PI) YangQuan Chen and co-PI's Gerardo Diaz, Xuan Zhang, and Sarah Kurtz. The funding...