Peilin Cao, a PhD candidate working in the EMS Energy Institute, received first place for her poster submitted in the Energy and Engineering category at the 2013 CarbonEARTH Carbon Conference. Cao is part of Dr. Zuleima Karpyn’s Flow in Porus Media research group. Cao’s research focuses on wellbore integrity and degradation of well cement under CO2 sequestration conditions.
The Carbon Conference, which was held on February 23, brings together the University's carbon research community and features talks by distinguished faculty on novel carbon research and an undergraduate/graduate/postdoctoral research poster competition.