Faculty: John Rupp
Selected Works:

• “The Effect of Community Reinvestment Funds on Local Acceptance of Unconventional Gas Development,” (with N. Paydar, O. Schenk, A. Bowers, S. Carley, and J.D. Graham) Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy, Volume 5, Number 1, pp. 131-156 (2016)
• “State regulation of unconventional gas development in the U.S.: An empirical evaluation,” (with N. Zirogiannis, J. Alcorn, S. Carley, and J.D. Graham) Energy Research and Social Science, Volume 11, pp. 142-154 (2016)
• “I Want In on That: Community-level Policies for Unconventional Gas Development in New York,” (with N. Zirogiannis, J. Alcorn, and J. Piepenburg)  Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 2015, Volume. 44, Issue 2, pp. 164-194 (2015)
• “Interaction of risks associated with natural gas and renewable based electricity,” (with D. Esposito and S. Carley) The Electricity Journal, Volume 28, Issue 8, pp. 69-84 (2015)
• “Unconventional Gas Development in the USA: Exploring the Risk Perception Issues” (with J.D. Graham and O. Schenk) Risk Analysis, Volume 35, Issue 10, pp. 1770-1788 (2015)
• “Evaluation of Geological Characteristics of the New Albany Shale as a Potential Liquids-from-shale Play in the Illinois Basin” [abs] (with M. Mastalerz, B.C. Nuttall, J. Crockett, and A. Drobniak), American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Annual Convention & Exhibition, Denver, Colo. (2015)
• “A Hierarchical Approach for Evaluating Carbon Storage Resource Estimates in Deep Saline Formations” [abs], (with K.M. Ellett, C.R. Medina, D.A. Barnes, P.H. Stauffer, R.S. Middleton, D.C. Harris, B. Bing, N. Wei, J. Li, and X. Li) American Association of Petroleum Geologist/Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Conference and Exhibition, Melbourne, Australia (2015)
• “Understanding Regional-Scale Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage in the Ordos Basin, China” [abs], (with R.S. Middleton, P.H. Stauffer, K.M. Ellett, B.  Bing, N. Wei, J.  Li, and X. Li) American Association of Petroleum Geologist/Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Conference and Exhibition, Melbourne, Australia (2015)
• “Making Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage a Reality: Integrating Science and Engineering into a Business Plan Framework” [abs], (with R.S. Middleton, K.M. Ellett, and P.H. Stauffer) American Association of Petroleum Geologist/Society of Exploration Geophysicists International Conference and Exhibition, Melbourne, Australia (2015)
• “Putting the U in Utilization: Developing a Business Model Framework for CCUS” [abs], (with R.S. Middleton, Z.  Dai, K.M. Ellett, J. Langenfeld, J. Bielicki, H. Viswanathan, and P.H. Stauffer) 14th Annual Conference on Carbon Capture Utilization & Sequestration, Pittsburgh, Penn. (2015)

Reports and Publications:

• “Lithologic, mineralogical, and petrophysical characteristics of the Eau Claire Formation: Complexities of a carbon storage system seal,” (with R.J. Neufelder, B.B. Bowen, and R.W. Lahann) Environmental Geosciences, v. 129, no. 3, (2012) 
• Uncertainty in regional-scale evaluation of CO2 geologic storage resources—comparison of the Illinois Basin (USA) and the Ordos Basin (China), (with K. Ellett, C.R. Medina, G. Wang, and T. Carr), 11th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, Kyoto, Japan (2012) 
• Simulating CO2 injection and Storage with Limited Site Data: Utility of a Variably Complex Modeling Approach (with W. McNab, K. Ellett, and J. Wagoner) 11th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Technologies, Kyoto, Japan (2012)
• Pouring Out Our Soils: Facing the Challenge of Poorly Defined Property Rights in Subsurface Pore Space for Carbon Capture and Storage (with K.R. Richards, J. Chang, and J.E. Allerhand) George Washington University Journal of Energy and Environmental Law (Winter 2012)
• Early Public Impressions of Carbon Capture and Storage in a Coal-Intensive State (with S.R. Carley, R.M. Krause, D.C. Warren, and J.D. Graham) Environmental Science and Technology, v. 46 (11), pp. 5792–5794 (2012)
• Lithostratigraphic Division of the Mount Simon Sandstone (Cambrian) along the Cincinnati Arch: Implications for Reduction of Uncertainty in Estimations of Geologic Sequestration Storage Capacity(with C.R. Medina) (2012)
• A Regional Lithostratigraphic Model of the Eau Claire Formation (Cambrian): How Much Shale is in this Confining Unit? (with R.W. Lahann, C. Medina, T.R. Lovell, B.B. Bowen, D.A. Barnes, J.B. Hickman, R. Bandy, and J. Sminchak) Eastern Section Meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (abs), Cleveland, OH (2012)
• Comparison of Geological CO₂ Storage Resource Calculation Methodologies to Evaluate Parameter Sensitivity and Reduce Uncertainty: Case study of the St. Peter Sandstone (Ordovician) in the Illinois and Michigan Basins (with D. Barnes, K. Ellett, J. Sosulski, and H.A. Leetaru) Eastern Section Meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (abs), Cleveland, OH (2012)
• Small angle scattering investigation of absorption of CO₂ in Nanopores MCM-41 and MCM-48 (with B. Wang, N.C. Das, G. Warren, T. Prisk, M. Mastalerz, and P. Sokol)  American Conference on Neutron Scattering (abs), Washington, DC (2012)
• “Reservoir characterization and lithostratigraphic division of the Mount Simon Sandstone; implications for estimations of geologic sequestration storage capacity,” (with C. Medina) Environmental Geosciences, v. 19, no. 1, pp. 1-19 (2011)