Carbon Mapper

2024 is nearly a wrap! 🎉 It’s been a busy and eventful year at Carbon Mapper. We’re grateful for everyone who supported our mission to drive greenhouse gas emission reductions with accessible and actionable methane and carbon dioxide data. While there were many exciting milestones this year, here are some key highlights: ✅ Published key research on methane emissions – including groundbreaking studies on the prevalence and persistence of landfill waste emissions and a co-authored study with @stanford on the gap between estimated and actual emissions in key oil and gas producing regions. See more: https://bit.ly/4fAxn6t ✅ Launched the first Carbon Mapper Coalition satellite Tanager-1 to detect, quantify and pinpoint methane and CO2 emissions alongside partners Planet, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and others. Tanager-1 is the first of a series of satellites being developed and deployed through a unique public-private partnership powered by philanthropy that brings together technical, scientific, engineering and policy expertise to accomplish bold emission reduction objectives. Read more: https://prn.to/4dKZbVc ✅ Shared 400+ methane and CO2 emissions from Tanager-1, delivering an early look at Tanager-1 capabilities and making emissions data publicly available. See more: https://bit.ly/4fAxor3 ✅ Had our first mitigation success based on Tanager-1 observations, demonstrating the power of granular emissions data to guide targeted actions to curb methane emissions. https://prn.to/4eOvbrH ✅ Sharing expertise in waste and fossil fuel emissions with legislatures and government officials. Carbon Mapper testified at The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on the need for more precise and frequent monitoring of landfill methane emissions to identify effective mitigation solutions. See more: https://bit.ly/4gBmgLA We also supported emissions reductions in the state of Colorado by using Carbon Mapper aerial data to monitor emissions and help the state assess ways to reach its net zero goals. Read the full report: https://bit.ly/3BFo6MB ✅ Developed tools and webinars to help users navigate the portal and deliver insights on human-caused methane super-emitters. View webinars: https://bit.ly/4fAxnDv ✅ Released a mobile version of our data portal to put the power of methane monitoring in the palm of your hand. ✅ Led and supported initiatives focused on using data to drive action, including a mitigation success using Tanager-1 data and contributions to the LOW-Methane initiative to help reduce one million tons of annual waste sector emissions by 2030. In 2025, we look forward to more emissions data from Tanager-1 and continue working to translate this data into emission reductions. Subscribe to receive exciting updates from us in the new year! https://bit.ly/4iUOW3Z #CutMethane #CarbonMapper #2024

The Washington Post recently highlighted positive advances to remember in 2024 — one of them being the launch of the Carbon Mapper Coalition’s Tanager-1 satellite with @Planet @NASA-JPL! Thanks to its ability to detect CO2 and methane emissions at high granularity from individual facilities or pieces of equipment, Tanager-1 is allowing Carbon Mapper to provide public data on emissions key sectors globally — empowering decision makers to act. https://lnkd.in/g63d5_Eh

U.S. landfills emitted 119.8M metric tons of methane in 2022 and present a big opportunity to cut this super-potent greenhouse gas. But cutting emissions is challenging. Landfills are dynamic systems where multiple methane sources may exist. We need better intel on exactly how much methane landfills are emitting, and where these emissions are coming from. 👀 Remote sensing holds the 🔑 A study led by our very own Tia Scarpelli looked at remote sensing observations from 217 landfills across 17 states and attributed emissions to specific sources within the landfill. Data revealed that an outsized proportion of emissions were stemming from a common area: the landfill work face. Learn more about what we observed and how this can guide policies and best practices that can successfully drive down methane emissions from U.S. landfills. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gWUyYH73

Insight alert! A new study by Carbon Mapper and partners investigates major sources of methane at U.S. landfills based on direct observations. 💡 For the first time, this research attributes methane emissions to specific regions of the landfill, revealing vast mitigation opportunities especially at the work face. This is the area of the landfill where waste is placed and compacted each day before being covered at the day’s end. We used airborne data from 217 landfills across 17 states and found: ➡️ 115 were emitting methane ➡️ Of these emitting landfills, 52 of them had large emissions stemming from the landfill work face ➡️ Landfills with work face emissions accounted for less than half of the landfills the team observed emitting methane but were responsible for over 75% of the landfill emissions that were quantified In addition to highlighting the importance of remote sensing in monitoring emissions at landfills, these findings can help guide best practices that tackle emission from the landfill work face. Learn more https://bit.ly/3OXtWLX #MethaneMitigation #MethaneEmissions #RemoteSensing #SatelliteData #SatelliteMonitoring #Landfill #Waste

Remote sensing is proving to be a useful tool for detecting and quantifying greenhouse gas emissions. 🛰️ A new study from Carbon Mapper researchers analyzed detections from EMIT — NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration's instrument on-board the International Space Station — to determine its detection limit and help calculate the persistence, using observations of emissions from multiple instruments. ➡️ Read the full study: https://lnkd.in/gyjcBMCq Key takeaways: 🔹 The instrument’s 90% probability of detection (or methane emissions detection level) is around 1,000 kilograms of methane per hour. This is important because it provides a better understanding of how EMIT’s emissions detection and quantification capabilities align or differ with those from Carbon Mapper and other satellite programs. 🔹 Knowing how persistent methane emissions are reveals how much a source is emitting over its lifetime. Many repeat observations are needed to estimate persistence. Our researchers developed a method to use observation from multiple instruments (including EMIT) to determine when a source is lower than an instrument’s detection limit or not emitting. This will help combine EMIT emission data with other airborne and satellite observations to get a fuller picture of global emissions. 🎤 Stop by this session at #AGU24 on Thursday this week to hear from Alana Ayasse, Ph.D. the research scientist behind this study — and learn more about identifying, quantifying and attributing methane and carbon dioxide super-emitters from space with the EMIT instrument: https://lnkd.in/gauum_nB #CutMethane #EmissionsData #ClimateData

I'm at #AGU24 this Monday through Wednesday! Send me a message if you'd like to meet up or check out the latest from the Carbon Mapper team at booth 324 or at presentations throughout the week https://lnkd.in/gHZBKgSd

Come see us at #AGU24 next week in Washington, D.C.! We’re hosting booth #324 in the Exhibit Hall from Monday, Dec. 9 through Thursday, Dec. 12. Our teams are also presenting at several sessions and sharing posters with the research and science behind the work we do. Check out our sessions at this year’s American Geophysical Union conference: https://lnkd.in/gjVCkQ-3 📸 : Our team at AGU 2023 #CutMethane #Science

Thank you to everyone who joined us in Houston this week for the 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁! It was great to see members of North America's oil and gas industry come together to collaborate on the vital knowledge and solutions needed to successfully integrate improved methane management practices within operations. We would like to thank our fantastic 2024 event sponsors ⬇️ Endeavour. Inspired Infrastructure., ChampionX, Cimarron, Bridger Photonics, Inc., Envana Software Solutions, 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝗺, GHGSAT, LongPath Technologies, Inc., Orbio Earth (YC S23), Project Canary, Qnergy, Rebellion Energy Solutions, Sensirion Connected Solutions, Shepherd Safety Systems, Teledyne FLIR, Xplorobot, Carbon Mapper, Chronos Energy, Cordova Methane Controls, Drones Plus Robotics, Kuva Systems, NevadaNano, Paradigm by Puloli, S2 Helicopter Services LLC, SLB, TechnipFMC, Windfall Bio In case you missed out, our next event in the United States, the 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 & 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁, will be returning to Austin, Texas from June 2-4, 2025. This summit will bring together the world’s leading minds to reduce oil & gas methane emissions, and will deliver our most comprehensive agenda yet, with 60+ sessions spanning across distinct thematic tracks over two action-packed days. To find out more, please visit the website: https://lnkd.in/evqtv-iZ On behalf of the team, we hope to see you at one of our events soon! #MethaneMitigationSummit

It's time to meet the official Bronze Sponsors for this year's 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗲 𝗠𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁! ⬇️ Carbon Mapper, Chronos Energy, Cordova Methane Controls, Drones Plus Robotics, S2 Helicopter Services LLC, SLB, Teledyne FLIR, Kuva Systems, NevadaNano, Paradigm by Puloli, TechnipFMC, Windfall Bio There is still time to join them at the Norris Conference Center (CityCentre) in Houston, Texas from tomorrow, December 3. Find out more on the official website: https://lnkd.in/euJ9U3rh #MethaneMitigationSummit

🌟 Meet Our Newest Speaker: Judy Lai-Norling, Chief Operating Officer at Carbon Mapper! From Mars missions to Earth observation, Judy brings an extraordinary blend of space expertise and real-world impact to SPACEtalks 5.0. As COO of Carbon Mapper, Judy leads groundbreaking work in satellite-based climate monitoring, overseeing operations that turn space technology into practical solutions for our planet. Her impressive journey includes managing NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Mars 2020 mission and securing a $30M extension for the Orbiting Carbon Observatory satellite mission. Harness the power of space with Judy during our #ExistingMarkets Day panel, "Earthbound Problems, Spacebound Solutions," as she shares insights on transforming space technology into practical solutions for our planet's pressing challenges. 🎯 Don't miss this opportunity to learn from a true innovator: https://lnkd.in/ehKZ6xuc #SPACEtalks2024 #SpaceTech #Innovation #ClimateAction #EarthObservation #SpaceIndustry