Chelsea Fougère, MSc Candidate

Chelsea Fougère has rejoined the Flux Lab as an MSc student working on drone-based measurement of landfill methane, having previously worked with the team during the development of ExACT. She was away for a few years managing the stable isotope biogeochemistry lab at Dalhousie University and working on restoration projects with TransCoastal Adaptations, and she is delighted to be back on board for more emissions mitigation work.

Chelsea’s MSc research investigates the use of Gaussian dispersion and a mass balance box model in calculating the flux rate of methane plumes sampled onboard an unmanned aerial vehicle using active aircore and Tunable Diode Laser Spectroscopy technologies. Landfills will be the primary focus of her survey campaign, but other emission sources such as the Donkin coal mine in Cape Breton will be sampled as well. Aside from her drone-based research project, Chelsea is also working on Gaussian dispersion modelling of plane-based measurements of landfill methane commissioned by the UNEP IMEO and is the lab’s present point-person for ongoing measurement, monitoring, and verification at the Aquistore carbon capture and storage site.