SES assistant professors Ann Cook and Derek Sawyer attended the Gordon Research Conference on Natural Gas Hydrates in Galveston, TX Feb. 28 – March 04, 2016. Post-doc Jess Hillman and graduate students Li Wei (PhD), Chen Yang (MS) and Katie Treiber also attended and presented their research.

The week featured a wide range of current topics on gas hydrates encompassing field programs to assess gas hydrate formation, accumulation and destabilization in the Arctic, Gulf of Mexico, North Atlantic, eastern and western Pacific and Indian Oceans; gas transport in pipelines, sediments and the water column; geo-mechanics and sediment-hydrate interaction; sensor development and monitoring strategies; applications and challenges in cabled observatories; numerical simulations of reservoirs.