Mary Kang
Title:
Associate Professor
Academic title(s):
P.Eng., Ph.D.
Biography:
Professor Kang鈥檚 main research areas are greenhouse gas emissions, groundwater hydrology, and environmental impacts of energy systems. Her current projects involve field measurements of methane and air pollutant emissions from oil and gas and urban systems and geospatial and statistical data analysis of emissions and energy infrastructure.聽
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Degree(s):
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Stanford University
Ph.D., Princeton University
Policy Certificate, Princeton University
B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc., University of Waterloo
Areas of expertise:
- Methane emissions
- Oil and gas development
- Energy transition聽
- Groundwater hydrology
- Multi-phase flow through porous media
- Environmental engineering
- Environmental policy
Courses:
Position:
Associate Professor
Office:
817 Sherbrooke Street West, Rm: 475D
Research areas:
Environmental Engineering
TISED
Brace Water Centre
Awards, honours, and fellowships:
- Humboldt Research Fellowship, 2024-2025
- Christophe Pierre Award for Research Excellence (Early Career), 2022
- United States Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA/NIFA) Post-doctoral Fellowship, 2016-2017
- Rising Environmental Leaders Program, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, 2015
- American Geophysical Union Outstanding Student Paper Award, 2013
- Perkin鈥檚 Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, 2012-2014
- Princeton Energy and Climate Scholarship, Princeton Environmental Institute, 2011-2013
- National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postgraduate Doctorate Scholarship, 2010-2013
- Nonlinearities and Upscaling in Porous Media Conference Travel Award, 2013
- Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics Student Travel Award, 2013
- Princeton University Civil and Environmental Engineering Travel Award, 2011, 2013
- National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postgraduate Scholarship, 2005-2006
- University of Waterloo President鈥檚 Graduate Scholarship, 2005-2006
- University of Waterloo Faculty of Engineering Upper Year Scholarship, 2001-2002
- Korean Canadian Scholarship Foundation Undergraduate Scholarship, 2001-2002
Selected publications:
Professional activities:
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- European Geosciences Union (EGU)聽