2019+ Former Graduate Students, Postdoctoral Fellows, & Projects in Chronological Order
Ruba Afifi
2026 JSG Geological Sciences Master’s Thesis: CO₂ Storage Resource Assessment in Southeast of Jefferson County, Offshore Texas, USA (download)
Supervisors: Tip Meckel & Carlos Uroza
Javid Aliyev
2026 JSG EER Master’s Thesis: Classification and Calibration of Legacy Well Risks for CO₂ Storage in the Gulf Coast Basin (download).
Supervisors: Alex Bump
Bimar Maulana
2026 JSG EER Master’s Thesis: Assessment of the CO₂ Storage Potential of the Sunda Strait Area, Indonesia (download)
Supervisors: Tip Meckel & Carlos Uroza
Edwina Owusu-Adjapong
2026 JSG EER Master’s Thesis: Optimizing Offshore CO₂ Transport Pathways: A Decision-Support Framework for Multimodal CO₂ Transport in the Texas Gulf Coast (download)
Supervisors: Sue Hovorka & Ramon Gil-Egui
Eddie Talen
2026 JSG EER Master’s Thesis: CO₂ Storage Potential of the Corsair Trough, Offshore Gulf of Mexico, USA (download)
Supervisors: Alex Bump
Ssu-Chi Yang
2026 JSG EER Master’s Thesis: Assessing the CO₂ Sequestration Potential of the Frio Formation in South Texas, USA (download)
Supervisors: Carlos Uroza & Sue Hovorka
Previna Arumugam
2025 JSG EER Master's Thesis: Efficient Detection of Unintended Lateral Migration of CO₂: An Example from the Onshore Gulf Coast (Texas Louisiana, USA) (download)
Supervisors: Drs. Alex Bump & Sue Hovorka
Sean Avitt
2025 JSG Geological Sciences Master's Thesis: Large-scale Carbon Storage Effects on Up-dip Fresh Water: Simulating Plume, Pressure and Salinity Changes in the Wilcox Aquifer, DeWitt County, Texas, USA (download)
Supervisors: Drs. Tip Meckel & Carlos Uroza
Argenis Pelayo Nava
2025 JSG EER Master’s Thesis: Impact of Subsurface Setting on CO₂ Storage Leakage Risk: Implications for Financial Responsibility and the Insurance Industry (download).
Supervisors: Sue Hovorka & Sahar Bakhshian
Sawsan Almalki
2024 JSG EER Master’s Thesis: The Value of Stratigraphic Well Data for a Geological Carbon Storage Project (download)
Supervisors: Drs. Seyyed Hosseini & Carlos Uroza
Germán Chaves
2024 JSG EER Master’s Thesis: Effect of Sub-seismic Reservoir Heterogeneity on CO₂ Plume Migration, Onshore Gulf of Mexico (download)
Supervisors: Drs. Alex Bump & Seyyed Hosseini
Dr. Zhicheng (William) Wang
Former Postdoctoral Fellow, now a Reservoir Characterization Engineer with Aethon Energy
Wang, Z.W., and Hosseini, S.A., 2024, Advanced CO₂ Storage Capacity Estimation with EASiTool v.5, SPE-AAPG-SEG Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Conference and Exhibition: Houston, Texas, USA, [extended abstract] https://doi.org/10.15530/ccus-2024-4001383. Retrieved from here.
Wang, Z.W., Peng, C., Ayala, L.F., Hosseini, S.A., 2024, A framework for simulating the partially miscible multi-component hydrocarbon fluids in porous media via the pseudo-potential lattice Boltzmann model: InterPore, v. 1., 21 p., https://doi.org/10.69631/ipj.v1i1nr7.
Ismail Halim Faruqi
2024 JSG EER Master’s Thesis: CO₂ Storage Potential in the Late Neogene Interval, Federal Offshore, Gulf of Mexico Shelf, USA (download).
Supervisors: Drs. Alex Bump and Susan Hovorka
Maria Madariaga
2024 JSG EER Master’s Thesis: Assessment of CO₂ storage potential of the Wilcox Group in an Onshore Region of Texas (download).
Supervisors: Drs. Carlos Uroza and Susan Hovorka
Chinemerem Okezie
2024 JSG EER Master’s Thesis: Calibrating Performance Predictions for Large-Scale Injection (download).
Supervisors: Drs. Alex Bump and Susan Hovorka
Chris Deranian
2024 JSG EER Master’s Thesis: Evaluating the Financial Implications of Injectivity Risk in Compartmentalized Reservoirs for CCS (download).
Supervisors: Drs. James Dyer and Sahar Bakhshian
Richard Colt Larson
2024 JSG EER Master's Thesis: The Effect of Microscale Heterogeneity on the Transport of Carbon Dioxide in Geologic Carbon Sequestration (download).
Supervisor: Sahar Bakhshian
Jose Eduardo Ubillus
2024 PGE Engineering Master's Thesis: Laboratory Experiments and Modeling to Evaluate Critical CO₂ Saturation for Geologic Carbon Storage (download).
Supervisors: David DiCarlo and Hailun Ni
Shadya Taleb Restrepo
2023 JSG EER Master's Thesis: Investigation of CO₂ Migration in Saline Aquifers Using Real-Rock Microfluidic Experiments (download).
Supervisor: Seyyed A. Hosseini
Dr. Reza Ershadnia
2022 to 2023 Postdoctoral Fellow, now at ExxonMobil
Ershadnia, R., Moeini, F., Hosseini, S.A., Dai, Z., and Soltanian, M.R., 2024, Predicting multiphase flow behavior of methane in shallow unconfined aquifers using conditional deep convolutional generative adversarial network: Journal of Hydrology, v. 641, 15 p., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.131674.
Hosseini, S. A., Ershadnia, R., Lun, L., Morgan, S., Bennett, M., Skrivanos, C., Li, B., Soltanian, M.R., Pawar, R., Hovorka, S.D., 2024, Dynamic modeling of geological carbon storage in aquifers – workflows and practices: International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, v. 138, 18 p., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2024.104235.
Dr. Jianqiao 'Tim' Leng
2022 to 2023 Former Postdoctoral Fellow, now a Flow Modeler (RSA III) at Center for Injection and Seismicity Research at the Bureau of Economic Geology.
Leng, J., Bump, A., Hosseini, S.A., Meckel, T.A., Wang, Z., Wang, H., 2024, A comprehensive review of efficient capacity estimation for large-scale CO₂ geological storage: Gas Science and Engineering, v. TBD, 205339, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jgsce.2024.205339.
Angela Luciano
Former M.S. Student, now Project Manager for the GCCC
2023 JSG EER Master's Thesis: Leveraging Class I Wells as an Analog for Class VI in the Gulf Coast (download). Advisors: Dr. Susan D. Hovorka and Dr. Alexander P. Bump
Edna Rodriguez Calzado
Former M.S. Student, now with BEG’s STARR Program
2023 JSG EER Master's Thesis: Estimating CO₂ Storage Capacity, Injectivity, and Storage Costs for Large-Scale CCS Deployment & Carbon Dioxide Removal Goals (download). Advisors: Dr. Susan D. Hovorka and Dr. Alexander P. Bump
Yushan Li
Former M.S. Student, now with the New Mexico Environment Department
2023 JSG EER Master's Thesis: Assessing an Offshore Carbon Storage Opportunity at Chandeleur Sound, Louisiana (download). Advised by Dr. Susan D. Hovorka
Marco Guirola
Former M.S. Student, now a CCUS Specialist, BP Inc., Gas & Low Carbon Energy
2022 JSG EER Master’s Thesis: Estimating Across-Fault Migration Rates and Their Financial Implications for CCS with Application to Offshore Gulf of Mexico (download). Advised by Dr. Alexander P. Bump and Dr. Susan D. Hovorka
Maddie Laidlaw
Former M.S. Student, now a Commodity Financing Analyst, Macquarie Group
2022 JSG EER Master’s Thesis: Evaluating, Risking, and Ranking Carbon Sequestration Buoyant Traps with Application to nearshore Gulf of Mexico (download). Advised by Dr. Alexander P. Bump and Dr. Susan D. Hovorka
Taylor Barnhart
Former M.S. Student, now a Hydrologist, NOAA’s National Weather Service
2021 JSG EER Master’s Thesis: Constraining the Data and Investment Needs for Obtaining a Carbon Dioxide Injection Permit in the United States (download). Advised by Dr. Susan D. Hovorka
Arnold Aluge
Former M.S. Student, now a Market Lead, MISO at Wood Mackenzie
2021 JSG EER Master’s Thesis: Screening and Assessing the CO₂ Storage Potential of CO₂-EOR in Onshore Oil Fields in Louisiana (download). Advised by Susan Hovorka
Harry Hull
Former M.S. Student, now a Geologist, EOG Resources
2021 JSG Geological Sciences Master’s Thesis: Characterizing Reservoir Quality for Geologic Storage of CO₂—A Case Study from the Lower Miocene Shore Zone at Matagorda Bay, Texas (download). Advised by Tip Meckel
John Franey
Former M.S. Student, now Staff Professional, Antea Group
2021 JSG Geological Sciences Master’s Thesis: High Order Stratigraphic Framework of Intraslope Growth Faulted Subbasins Near Offshore Matagorda Bay, Texas (download). Advised by Tip Meckel
Melianna Ulfah
Former M.S. Student, now a Geologic CO₂ Storage Project Scientist, Tetra Tech
2021 JSG EER Master’s Thesis: Plume Migration and Pressure Evolution Analyses for Recommendations in Offshore CO₂ Storage Acreage Leasing Policy (download). Advised by Susan Hovorka
Former Ph.D. Student, now with ExxonMobil
2020 Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering Dissertation: Geologic Heterogeneity Controls on CO₂ Migration and Trapping (download). Advised by David A. DiCarlo, Supervisor and Timothy A. Meckel, Co-Supervisor.
Dr. Reza Ganjdanesh
Former Postdoctoral Fellow, now a Senior Data Scientist, Cognizant
Ganjdanesh, Reza, and S. A. Hosseini, 2018, Development of an analytical simulation tool for storage capacity estimation of saline aquifers, GCCC Publication Series #2018-02, originally published in International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, v. 74, p. 142–154, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2018.04.017. See Texas Scholar Works abstract here.
Dr. Ali Goudarzi
Former Postdoctoral Fellow, now a Technology Licensing Specialist at UT Austin
Goudarzi, A., T. A. Meckel, S. A. Hosseini, and R. H. Trevino, 2019, Statistical analysis of historic hydrocarbon production data from Gulf of Mexico oil and gas fields and application to dynamic capacity assessment in CO₂ storage: International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, v. 80, p. 96–102, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2018.11.014. See abstract here.
Former M.S. Student, now a J.D. Candidate at Texas Law
2019 JSG EER Master’s Thesis: The Effect of Methane and Fluid Geometry on CO₂ Enhanced Oil Recovery (download). Advised by Dr. Susan D. Hovorka
Former M.S. Student, now with Repsol’s Geological Low Carbon Americas Group
2019 JSG Geological Sciences Master’s Thesis: Characterization of the High Island Field 24L Field for Modeling and Estimating CO₂ Storage Capacity in the Offshore Texas State Waters, Gulf of Mexico (download). Advised by Dr. Timothy A. Meckel
Former M.S. Student, now an Analyst at Kroll
2019 JSG EER Master’s Thesis: Geologic Characterization and Modeling for Quantifying CO₂ Storage Capacity of the High Island 10-L Field in Texas State Waters, Offshore Gulf of Mexico (download). Advised by Dr. Tip A. Meckel
Dr. Baole Wen
Former Postdoctoral Fellow, now an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Mathematics at New York Institute of Technology
Shi, Z., Wen, B., Hesse, M., Tsotsis, T., Jessen, K., 2018, Measurement and Modeling of CO₂ mass transfer in brine at reservoir conditions: Advances in Water Resources, v. 113, p. 100–111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2017.11.002.
Dr. Ye Feng
Former Postdoctoral Fellow, now an Upstream Exploration Geophysicist at BP
Meckel, T., Feng, Y. E., Treviño, R. H., and Sava, D., 2019, High-resolution 3D marine seismic acquisition in the overburden at the Tomakomai CO₂ storage project, offshore Hokkaido, Japan: International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, v. 88, p. 124–133, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2019.05.034
Dr. Reynaldy Fifariz
Former Postdoctoral Fellow, now a Lecturer at Institut Teknologi Bandung
DeAngelo, M. V., Fifariz, R., Meckel, T. A., Treviño, R. H., 2019, A Seismic-Based CO₂-Sequestration Regional Assessment of the Miocene Section, Northern Gulf of Mexico, Texas and Louisiana: International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, v. 81, p. 29–37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2018.12.009. Full text document here.
Former Ph.D. Student, now a Reservoir Engineer, Marathon Oil Corporation
2019 Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering Dissertation: CO₂ Trapping Mechanisms Assessment Using Numerical and Analytical Methods (download). Advised by Dr. Seyyed A. Hosseini
Last updated: January 16, 2026
