Mwanzia chosen as Pathways 2024 speaker

PhD Graduate Student Kanini Dorothy Mwanzia has been chosen as a Pathways 2024 speaker. The Pathways Explorations Series features large-scale, TED-style talks where motivating and inspiring speakers tell their personal, academic and professional stories to the Mines...

Congratulations, Graduates!

The CRFM congratulates the following graduating students: Ali Alsaad, MS in Geophysics and Maureen James, MS in Geophysics. Maureen will continue in CRFM as a PhD student. Ali will be working for Aramco.

CRFM Students Place at GRADS Research Competition

Congrats to PhD student Daniel Rathmaier and MS student Ali Alsaad for placing at the recent Mines GRADS’ Research competition. Rathmaier took second place in the Energy Division for his work titled, “Methane Gas Hydrate Precipitation Modeling Using...

Paper published on CO2 storage

Check out the latest reservoir modeling study evaluating a potential CO2 storage site in the Eastern Illinois Basin by CRFM student Daniel Rathmaier, CRFM Director Luis Zerpa and colleagues.  Find the paper at the following link:...

2023 Review

A lot happened at the CRFM in 2023. Here are just a few of the year’s highlights: AFRAH SIDDIQUE successfully defended her MS thesis titled, “Evaluation of a wettability modifier additive on improving oil recovery in fractured reservoirs”. Several students and...

Paper published

Recent graduate Gama Firdaus, along with co-authors Manika Prasad and Jyoti Behura, have just been published in Scientific Reports with a paper titled, “A novel anisotropy template for an improved interpretation of elastic anisotropy data”. The template...