Relevant Scientific Publications
SUMMATION
Quantifying Methane Emissions from Oil Wells in Kern County, California
By Colin Finnegan, et al.
Comprehensive Aerial Surveys Find a Reduction in Permian Basin Methane Intensity from 2020-2023
By Evan Sherwin, et al.Submitted to Applied Energy, 2026
Methane Emissions from Post-Meter Residential Natural Gas Infrastructure: Integrating Existing Data to Inform California’s Statewide Inventory
By B. Sharma, et al.
Isotopic constraints in methane inversions reveal larger wetland emissions with improved linkage to terrestrial water storage
By Y. Oh, et al.
By Daniel J. Varon, et al.
By Philippine M. Burdeau, et al.November 2025
In The News
SUMMATION–or SUper-eMitters of Methane detection using Aircraft, Towers, and Intensive Observational Network–is a Berkeley Lab-led collaborative project with University of California Riverside, Stanford University, Central California Asthma Collaborative and Scientific Aviation.
Like boxers whose punching power declines over their careers, greenhouse gasses lose their warming impact at different rates. So, to compare gasses’ climate changing potential to the most common greenhouse gas – carbon dioxide – international negotiators often use a metric that measures their influence on global warming over a 100-year timeframe.
A Q&A with a Berkeley Lab scientist on how a comprehensive low-cost, high-tech approach to pinpointing California super-emitters could bring about rapid methane emissions reduction within a decade.
Methane, a potent greenhouse gas that traps about 30 times more heat than carbon dioxide, is commonly released from rice fields, dairies, landfills, and oil and gas facilities – all of which are plentiful in California. Now Berkeley Lab has been awarded $6 million by the state to find “super-emitters” of methane in an effort to quantify and potentially mitigate methane emissions.
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