We won DOE MSIPP award again! Congratulations!
Title: Development and testing of small unmanned aerial systems for real-time detection of methane leaks and mercury emissions
Program: Department of Energy – Office of Environmental Management Minority Serving Institutions Partnership Program (MSIPP) Competitive Research Awards (CRA)
PIs: Marc Beutel, UC Merced (Principal Investigator); Yangquan Chen, UC Merced (Co-Investigator); and Peggy O’Day, UC Merced (Co-Investigator); Derek Hollenbeck, UC Merced (Key Participant)
Activity/Research Area: Artificial Intelligence
PA1: Cutting-Edge Airborne Methane Detection Technology
RN1: The objective is to develop an airborne, autonomous (but human pilot monitored), realtime leak detection technology that applies machine learning to passive optical sensor data to mitigate methane leak emissions through early detection.
Funding: $350K for 2025-2026. [our last MSIPP funding was also $350K, 2023-2024 (NCE to sumemr 2025) for CH4Drone led by Dr. Derek Hollenbeck), this time for both methane and gaseous elemental mercury (GEM).
CMERI: Center for Methane Emission Research and Innovation (http://methanes.ucmerced.edu)
Created and last updated 3/2/2025 by Prof. YangQuan Chen.
