Led by FluxLab at St. Francis Xavier University, with support from Stanford University’s Environmental Assessment and Optimization Group, the research program evaluates atmospheric methane measurement technologies and generates high-quality datasets to support improving methane monitoring, reporting, and mitigation globally.

Coal mining is a significant global source of methane emissions, and open-cut mines present a particularly difficult measurement environment: large spatial extent, complex terrain, strong atmospheric effects, and spatially distributed sources combine to make standard measurement approaches unreliable.