News 2026 Review

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July 1, 2026: Check out Sue Hovorka’s new publication entitled, Evolution of storage monitoring – update in response to commercial and regulatory drivers…click to read


July 1, 2026: Congratulations to Jungang Chen and Seyyed Hosseini for publishing a manuscript in the International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control…click to read


June 5, 2026: Thanks to 1PointFive for hosting the GCCC’s Sponsors’ Meeting at the Ion District…click to read


June 2, 2026: GCCC’s Alex Bump presents, “The State of Gulf Coast Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS)” at the “Offshore CCS & New Frontiers” meeting at Rice University…click to read


May 18, 2026: The GCCC celebrated Ramón H. Treviño who retires at the end of May…click to read


May 15, 2026: Katherine Romanak was selected as a Lead Author for the upcoming 2027 IPCC Methodology Report on Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies, Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage for National Greenhouse Gas Inventoriesclick to read


May 8, 2026: We are particularly proud of our students from the Gulf Coast Carbon Center who graduated today…click to read


May 1, 2026: Ramón Treviño was featured in the Bureau of Economic Geology’s "Meet a Geoscientist" series…click to watch


April 27, 2026: Melianna was awarded with the John Emery Adams Scholarship by the West Texas Geological Foundationclick to read


April 22, 2026: In celebration of Earth Day, Research Scientist Associate Angela Luciano, undergraduate Cecil Armstrong, and graduate student Farzana Rahman joined dozens of students, organizations, and community members for UT Austin's "Hooked on Earth Day Fair"…click to read


April 21–22, 2026: The GCCC’s representatives Katherine Romanak and Alex Bump attended the 8th International Offshore Geologic CO₂ Storage Workshop in Bergen, Norway…click to read


April 18, 2026: The GCCC’s Principal Investigator, Susan Hovorka, participated in Texas General Land Office’s (GLO's) "Coastal Roundup" public outreach event…click to read


April 11, 2026: A GCCC project manager, Ramón Treviño, participated in the Coastal Bend Bays Foundation’s annual "Earth Day / Bay Day" event at Corpus Christi’s “Heritage Park” …click to read


March 30 – April 1, 2026: Members of the Gulf Coast Carbon Center will attend the SPE-AAPG-SEG CCUS conference…click to read


March 6, 2026: Research Assistant Professor Hailun Ni was Invited as a “PhD opponent” by the Reservoir Physics group at the Department of Physics and Technology, the University of Bergen…click to read


March 5, 2026: Research Professor Katherine Romanak provided a remote presentation to the 49th Session of the Scientific Groups of London Convention and 20th Session of the Scientific Groups of the London Protocol…click to read


February 23–25, 2026: Research Assistant Professor Hailun Ni was invited by CO2CRC to present a talk…click to read


February 23, 2026: Congratulations to the GCCC’s Ph.D. Student, Romal Ramadhan, and his advisor, Seyyed Hosseini, for publishing a manuscript in Advances in Water Resources…click to read


February 10–12, 2026: GCCC representatives, Sue Hovorka and Hailun Ni, attended the 2026 Groundwater Protection Council (GWPC) UIC Conference in Fort Worth, TX…click to read


February 10, 2026: Thanks to Alex Bump for participating in a roundtable discussion hosted by the International Conservation Caucus Foundation (ICCF) in Washington, D.C…click to read


January 29, 2026: Sue Hovorka and Vanessa Nuñez-López attended a Powerhouse Texas meeting…click to read


January 28, 2026: At UTCCS-8, the Gulf Coast Carbon Center was surprised by the Bureau of Economic Geology’s directorate with a celebratory cake…click to read


January 27–28, 2026: The Gulf Coast Carbon Center hosted UTCCS-8, which is the eighth organized conference offered every other year that highlights both carbon capture and carbon storage research at The University of Texas at Austin…click to read


January 14, 2026: The GCCC’s Principal Investigator, Susan Hovorka, participated as a speaker at a forum hosted by United States Energy Association (USEA)…click to read


January 7, 2026: The GCCC’s Sue Hovorka and Tip Meckel contributed to a "roadmap" for carbon management in Texas, prepared by the Great Plains Institute, which is officially released today: View the Texas Carbon Management Roadmap and Factsheetclick to read 


January 1, 2026: Click here to meet our scientist, Katherine Romanak, who is the GCCC’s Environmental Geochemist at The State Geologic Survey of Texas, known as the Bureau of Economic Geologyclick to read

Click here for "RI0283. Geological CO2 Sequestration Atlas of Miocene Strata, Offshore Texas State Waters"

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