Publications
Published articles
El Hachem, K; Flood, M; Kennedy, SP; Seymour, S; Risk, D. (2026). Capturing Well Integrity Loss Through Measurements of Methane and Ethane Emissions from Surface Casing Vents and Soils Surrounding Oil and Gas Wells. Atmospheric Environment: X. 29
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Lavoie M., Fougère C., Risk D. (2026). A Review of Landfill Methane Emission Detection, Localization and Quantification Systems. Elementa.
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Lavoie, M; Perine, G; Bourlon, E; Risk, D. (2026). Methane Emissions from Inactive Oil and Gas Wells in Western Canada. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment.
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Hossain, R.I., Buntov, P., Dudak, Y., Martino, R., Fougere, C., Naseridoust, S., Bourlon, E., Lavoie, M., Khaleghi, A., Hall, C., Risk, D. (2026). A Controlled Release Experiment for Investigating Methane Measurement Performance at Landfills. Elementa.
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Fougère C., Ghasemi D., Khaleghi A., Coyle L., Bourlon E., Li H., Smith M., Lavoie M., Risk D. (2025). Estimating Methane Emissions from Canadian Landfills Using Aircraft Measurements. Waste Management.
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Tarakki N., Marsh K., Bourlon E., Coyle L., Lavoie M., Iftakhar Hossain R., Buntov P., Dudak Y., Hall C., Abichou T., Risk D. (2026). Rethinking EPA Method 21 Surface Emissions Monitoring: Quantifying Performance Limits for Methane Detection at Municipal Solid Waste Landfills. Elementa.
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Stuart, J; Martino, R; Coyle, L; Fraser, S; Laurin, E; Vogel, F; Bishop, N; Ars, S; Risk, D. (2026). Canada’s Landfill Methane Inventories: The Challenge of Accurate Modelled and Measurement-Based Emissions. Elementa.
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Mahdianpari, M., Sonnentag, O., Mohammadimanesh, F., Radman, A., Mariani, M., Morse, P., Marsh, P., Lavoie, M., Risk, D., Wu, J., Sun, C.N., Gee, D., Giff, G., Ferguson, C., Peichl, M., Granger, J. (2026). State of the art in monitoring methane emissions from Arctic–boreal wetlands and lakes. Remote sensing.
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Abichou, T., Arklan, F., Howarth, E., Malmir, T., Hossain, R.I., Buntov, P., Dudak, Y., Risk, D. (2026). Expanding the tracer correlation method (TCM): A performance-based framework for wider implementation in landfill methane emissions monitoring. Waste Management.
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Omidi, A., Bourlon, E., Khaleghi, A., Perrine, G., Tarakki, N., Martino, R., Stuart, J., Risk, D. (2025). Active face emissions: An opportunity for reducing methane emissions in global waste management. Elementa.
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Omidi, A., Bourlon, E., Khaleghi, A., Tarakki, N., Martino, R., Stuart, J., Risk, D. (2025). Most Landfill Methane Emissions Escape Detection in EPA21 Surface Emission Monitoring Surveys. Waste Management.
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Tarakki, N., Risk, D. (2025). Investigating radiocarbon isotope anomalies in CO2 for CCS monitoring: Insights from the Aquistore project and the influence of coal mine spoils. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control.
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El Hachem, K., von Sperber, C., Allard, C., Heagle, D., Vyriotes, D., Staebler, R.M., Caron-Beaudoin, E., Kang, M. (2025). Characterizing multifaceted environmental risks of oil and gas well leakage through soil and well methane and hydrogen sulfide emissions. Environmental Research.
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Tarakki, N., Risk, D. (2024). Importance of adaptive baseline measurement monitoring and verification (MMV) studies at CCS projects: lessons from Aquistore, Saskatchewan, Canada. Proceedings of the 17th Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies Conference (GHGT-17) 20-24 October 2024.
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Lavoie, M., Risk, D., Rainham, D. (2024). Sociodemographic and Population Exposure to Upstream Oil and Gas Operations in Canada. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
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Khaleghi, A., MacKay, K., Darlington, A., James, LA., Risk, D. (2024). Methane emission rate estimates of offshore oil platforms in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Elementa.
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Long, M., Withey, P., Risk, D., Lantz, V., Sharma, C. (2024). Economic impacts of reducing methane emissions in British Columbia's oil and natural gas sectors: taxes vs technology standards. Resource and Energy Economics.
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Wesley, D, Dallimore, S., MacLeod, R., Sach, T., Risk, D. (2023). Characterization of atmospheric methane release in the outer MacKenzie River Delta from biogenic and thermogenic sources. The Cryosphere.
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Johnson, MF., Lavoie, M., MacKay, K., Long, M., Risk, D. (2023). Assessing the effectiveness and efficiency of methane regulations in British Columbia, Canada. Climate Policy.
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Vogt, J., Risk, D., Bourlon, E., Azetsu-Scott, K., Edinger, EN, Sherwood, O. (2023). Sea–air methane flux estimates derived from marine surface observations and instantaneous atmospheric measurements in the northern Labrador Sea and Baffin Bay. Biogeosciences.
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Published Datasets
Measurement Data from the FluxLab 2024 and 2025 Controlled Release Campaigns at the Simulation Facility for Landfill Emission Experiments (SIMFLEX), 2026
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Measurement Data from the FluxLab Winter 2026 Controlled Release Campaigns at the Simulation Facility for Landfill Emission Experiments (SIMFLEX), 2026
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Replication data for Capturing Well Integrity Loss Through Measurements of Methane and Ethane Emissions from Surface Casing Vents and Soils Surrounding Oil and Gas Wells, 2025
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Methane emission rate estimate using airborne measurement at offshore oil platforms in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, 2025
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Replication Data for: Optimizing Methane Emission Source Localization in Oil and Gas Facilities Using Lagrangian Stochastic Models and Gradient-Based Detection Tools, 2025
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Multi-Year Methane and Carbon Dioxide Concentrations from Mobile Surveys in Alberta, Canada (2021–2024): A Greenhouse Gas Emission Dataset, 2025
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Replication Data for: Active face emissions: An opportunity for reducing methane emissions in global waste management, 2025
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Replication Data for: Large-scale methane controlled release study, 2025
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Replication Data for: Canada's Landfill Methane Inventories: The Challenge of Accurate Modeled and Measurement-Based Emissions, 2025
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Mobile Greenhouse Gas Emission Surveys from Canadian Landfills (2022), 2024
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Methane emissions measurements from Canadian oil and gas sites, 2022
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Active and inactive oil and gas sites contribute to methane emissions in western Saskatchewan, Canada, 2022
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Cross-sector comparison of methane emissions from anthropogenic sources: A case study in Canada, 2022
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Methane flux estimates from continuous atmospheric measurements and surface-water observations in the northern Labrador Sea and Baffin Bay, 2022
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Preprints
Patents
Solid State Probe for Measurement of Soil Gas Flux, International Patent Cooperation Treaty Application.United States. US Patent 8712692. Assigned to StFX. Commercialized by Eosense Inc.
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Improved Apparatus and Method for Measuring Soil Gas Surface Flux. United States. US Provisional 20090301234. Assigned to StFX. Licensed to Eosense Inc.
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System and Method for Determining Flux of Isotopologues. US Patent 123456. Licensed to Eosense Inc.
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Gas emission detection device, system and method. US Patent 10,203,311. Available for license.
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Meeting abstracts and presentations
14 years of activity
2024
El Hachem, K., von Sperber, C., Allard, C., Heagle, D., Vyriotes D., Staebler, R. M., Caron-Beaudion E., Kang, M. Assessing Environmental Impacts of Producing and Non-Producing Oil and Gas Wells through Methane and Hydrogen Sulfide Emission Rates from Wells and Surrounding Soils. Presented at AGU, Washington DC, US, December 2024. Presented at AGU, Washington DC, US, December 2024.
2023
El Hachem, K., von Sperber, C., Allard, C., Heagle, D., Vyriotes D., Staebler, R. M., Caron-Beaudion E., Kang, M. Gas Migration: Measurements of Methane and Ethane Emissions from Soils Near Oil and GAs Wells. Presented at AGU, Washington DC, US, December 2024. Presented at AGU, Washington DC, US, December 2024.
Reports
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