Geology Undergraduate Jarely Mendez Wins Research Fellowship with the National Energy Technology Laboratory
Jarely Mendez is a third-year geology undergraduate student who will graduate with her B.S. in 2023. This past summer, Mendez was selected for the Mickey Leland Energy Fellowship Program, a 10-week summer research fellowship.
This program allows students to complete a research project at one of 17 Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratories or DOE Headquarters.
Mendez was assigned to work with a research group at the National Energy Technology Laboratory. She worked on developing an initial catalog and database to support modeling risks associated with geologic carbon storage in the Illinois Basin. Information from this analysis will be used to inform design of basin or sub-basin-scale numerical models of pressure, saturation, and stress evolution associated with basin-scale geologic carbon storage deployment.
Through her project, Mendez created maps using ArcGIS and learned how to integrate new data and visualize it. She wrote a technical report and presented her summer research at the Mickey Leland Energy Fellowship Technical Forum in Washington, D.C.