Bio

Catherine Callas is a Ph.D. candidate in the Benson Lab in Energy Resources Engineering. She is an ExxonMobil Emerging Energy Fellow, and her research is focused on offshore carbon capture and sequestration in the Gulf Coast. She obtained her M.S. degree in the Atmosphere and Energy program within Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford University and a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Brown University. Before attending Stanford, she worked as a Financial Analyst within the Fixed Income group at Goldman Sachs in New York City for three years. She was a Schneider Fellow at the Natural Resources Defense Council in San Francisco where she analyzed the impact of the 2017 Northern California wildfires and 2018 Camp Fire on retail rates within PG&E’s service territory.

Honors & Awards

  • Schneider Fellow, NRDC (2019)
  • Emerging Energy Fellow, Exxon Mobil (2020)
  • Centennial Teaching Assistant Award, Stanford University (2021)
  • Best Paper Award for the paper “CCSNet: A deep learning modeling suite for CO2 storage", The Applied Energy Symposium: MIT “A+B” (2022)
  • High Impact Technology Fund Award, Stanford OTL (2023)
  • EnergyTech University Prize, Department of Energy Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (2024)

Education & Certifications

  • M.S., Stanford University, Civil and Environmental Engineering (2020)
  • B.S., Brown University, Chemical Engineering (2015)

Contact

  • Academic
    haycat@stanford.edu
    University - Student Department: Department of Energy Science and Engineering Position: Graduate

Additional Info

All Publications

  • Criteria and workflow for selecting saline formations for carbon storage INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GREENHOUSE GAS CONTROL Callas, C., Davis, J., Saltzer, S. D., Hashemi, S. S., Wen, G., Gold, P. O., Zoback, M. D., Benson, S. M., Kovscek, A. R. 2024; 135

    View details for DOI 10.1016/j.ijggc.2024.104138

    View details for Web of Science ID 001296471500001

  • Assessing the impact of dip angle on carbon storage in saline reservoirs to aid site selection INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GREENHOUSE GAS CONTROL Callas, C., Kovscek, A. R., Benson, S. M. 2023; 129

    View details for DOI 10.1016/j.ijggc.2023.103966

    View details for Web of Science ID 001106663500001

  • Criteria and workflow for selecting depleted hydrocarbon reservoirs for carbon storage APPLIED ENERGY Callas, C., Saltzer, S. D., Davis, J., Hashemi, S. S., Kovscek, A. R., Okoroafor, E. R., Wen, G., Zoback, M. D., Benson, S. M. 2022; 324

    View details for DOI 10.1016/j.apenergy.2022.119668

    View details for Web of Science ID 000841967400010

  • Assessment of oil and gas fields in California as potential CO2 storage sites INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GREENHOUSE GAS CONTROL Kim, T., Callas, C., Saltzer, S. D., Kovscek, A. R. 2022; 114

    View details for DOI 10.1016/j.ijggc.2022.103579

    View details for Web of Science ID 000776040000001

  • CCSNet: A deep learning modeling suite for CO2 storage ADVANCES IN WATER RESOURCES Wen, G., Hay, C., Benson, S. M. 2021; 155

    View details for DOI 10.1016/j.advwatres.2021.104009

    View details for Web of Science ID 000697379300006

  • The impact of wildfires and beneficial electrification on electricity rates in PG&E’s service territory The Electricity Journal Hay, C., Chhabra, M. 2020; 33 (3)

    View details for DOI 10.1016/j.tej.2020.106710

  • Impacts of Green New Deal energy plans on grid stability, costs, jobs, health, and climate in 143 countries ONE EARTH Jacobson, M. Z., Delucchi, M. A., Cameron, M. A., Coughlin, S. J., Hay, C., Manogaran, I. P., Shu, Y., von Krauland, A. 2019; 1: 449-463

    View details for DOI 10.1016/j.oneear.2019.12.003

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