Curt S. Blakley

Curt is the field manager overseeing the field operations of the Monitoring, Verification, and Accounting (MVA) Program supporting the deep saline geological storage of CO₂ at the Illinois Basin Decatur Project (IBDP) and the upcoming Illinois Carbon Capture and Storage (ICCS) Project.  The MVA Program involves extensive environmental monitoring of the near surface and shallow subsurface using near-infrared color aerial imagery acquisition, continuous GPS, net CO₂ flux monitoring, soil CO₂ flux monitoring, soil gas sampling, shallow groundwater sampling, and tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy (TDLAS).