Whether for a natural gas pipeline or an offshore production platform, the carbon footprint of reciprocating engines in the oil and gas sector continues to get larger. Wanting to rein in these emissions, University of Oklahoma engineers have discovered that a 70% reduction in emissions from natural gas engines may be achievable. Their project – Low-Cost Retrofit Kit for Integral Reciprocating Compressors to Reduce Emissions and Enhance Efficiency – is led by Pejman Kazempoor, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering in the Gallogly College of Engineering. He says the study’s main scope is to reduce emissions from these oil and gas components.

Nine articles explore the impacts of ancient human societies on tropical ecosystems, revealing the importance of incorporating the paleosciences, social sciences and indigenous traditional knowledge in the development of solutions for contemporary environmental challenges

New special edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showcases multidisciplinary approaches to exploring human impacts on tropical forests and their associated earth systems.

Justin Jaworski, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Lehigh University, has been elected as an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Class of 2022.