OCI⁺ Project Partners

• Deborah Gordon

  Deborah Gordon is the lead OCI+ investigator. Gordon is a senior principal in the Climate Intelligence Program at RMI. Gordon also serves as a senior fellow at the Watson School of International and Public Affairs at Brown University and is an affiliate at Brown University’s Climate Solutions Lab. Before joining RMI, Gordon was the director of the Energy and Climate Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She began her career with Chevron and directed the Energy Policy Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. Gordon has taught at the Yale School of Environmental Studies and Brown University. She is a stakeholder in NASA’s Carbon Monitoring System and has testified before Congress and served on National Academy of Sciences panels. The OCI⁺ is the topic of Gordon’s book, No Standard Oil (Oxford University Press, 2022) due out in paperback with a new afterword in 2025.

  

• Mohammad Masnadi

  Mohammad Masnadi is an Assistant Professor of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. He is currently on eof the main developers of the Oil Production Greenhouse Gas Emissions Estimator (OPGEE) model, which is used to estimate upstream production greenhouse gas emissions. Masnadi's lab includes two research levels: Process-level by working on novel class of catalysts which are robust and durable in reactions with contaminated environment (e.g., plastic chemical recycling, biomass conversion, biofuels upgrading, carbon-rich feedstock conversion); System-level by taking data-driven approach to assess environmental footprints of different energy systems and design strategies and policies to mitigate such emissions.

  

• Adam Brandt

  Adam Brandt is an Associate Professor in Stanford University’s Department of Energy Resources Engineering and a senior fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy. Brandt is the foundational developer ofOPGEE. His research is focused on measuring and reducing GHG emissions from fossil energy sources. Brandt applies tools of life cycle assessment (LCA) and process optimization to measure and estimate impacts from technologies at broad scales. He is currently conducting controlled release studies to test methane satellite measurements. Brandt has been a collaborator on the OCI⁺ project since 2013.

  

• Joule Bergerson

  Joule Bergerson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Calgary. She is also the Canada Research Chair in Energy Technology Assessment and a member of the Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists. Bergerson is the foundational developer on the open-source tool, the Petroleum Refinery Lifecycle Inventory Model (PRELIM), which was released in April 2015, and has been adopted as part of the OCI⁺. Bergerson’s primary research interests are systems-level analysis for policy and decision making of energy system investment and management. The focus of her work is developing LCA tools and frameworks for the assessment of prospective technology options and their policy implications from a life-cycle perspective.

  

• Jonathan Koomey

  Jonathan Koomey is the founder of Koomey Analytics where he focuses on the economics of reducing GHG emissions and the effects of information technology on resource use. From 2016 to 2018, Koomey was a lecturer in Earth Systems, from 2012 to 2016 he was a research fellow, and from 2004 to 2012 he was a consulting professor, all at Stanford University. For over two decades, he worked at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and has been a visiting professor at Stanford University, Yale University, and the University of California Berkeley’s Energy and Resources Group. Koomey holds master’s and doctoral degrees from the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley, and a bachelor’s in history and science from Harvard University. He is the author or co-author of nine books and more than 200 articles and reports, including Turning Numbers into Knowledge: Mastering the Art of Problem Solving, and Cold Cash Cool Climate: Science-Based Advice for Ecological Entrepreneurs (both published by Analytics Press).

  

RMI OCI⁺ Team Members

• Lauren Schmeisser

  Lauren is a data scientist in RMI’s Climate Intelligence Program as part of the Oil and Gas Solutions Initiative. Her expertise is in analysis of large datasets, drawing out actionable insight from complex information. She specializes in use of remotely sensed data for modeling oil and gas emissions, with particular interest in using satellite-measured methane data to quantify super-emitting events. Before joining RMI, Lauren was a postdoctoral researcher at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She holds a PhD in Atmospheric Sciences, a MSc in Earth Sciences, and a BS/MS in Environmental Engineering.

  

• Carmela Chaney

  Carmela is a manager in RMI’s Climate Intelligence Program, working within the Oil and Gas Solutions Initiative. She focuses on translating engineering expertise into scalable modeling approaches that promote industry transparency. Before joining Climate Intelligence, Carmela was part of RMI’s Climate Aligned Industries hydrogen team, where she worked on business models, project configurations, and deployment strategies to accelerate clean hydrogen adoption. Prior to RMI, she worked as a facilities engineer in upstream technology at ExxonMobil, leading initiatives in emissions reduction, digitalization, and automation. Carmela holds both an MS and a BS in Mechanical Engineering.

  

• Adrienne Tecza

  Adrienne is a data scientist in RMI’s Climate Intelligence Program. Her work focuses on building data driven tools to monitor and analyze emissions from oil and gas operations and assess the impact of those emissions as it relates to issues of environmental justice. Prior to joining RMI, Adrienne worked as a Research Associate in the Denver Museum of Nature and Science’s Digital Research Lab. Adrienne attained a PhD in Political Science from Oxford University. She spent the first year of her PhD as a visiting student researcher in Princeton University’s Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department where she focused on modeling the interplay between human and natural systems.

  

• Sasha Bylsma

  Sasha is an Associate in RMI’s Climate Intelligence program working to bring transparency to the oil and gas sector by leveraging modelled, observed, and reported data to produce insights for emissions reduction and pathways for decarbonization. Before joining RMI, Sasha interned with SkyTruth, a small non-profit dedicated to exposing inconspicuous environmental harms such as oil spills from offshore platforms and illegal mining activity through processing and publishing publicly available satellite imagery. Sasha received a bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley in 2021 where he studied environmental policy, data science, and geographic information systems.

  

• Marissa DeLang

  Marissa is a Senior Associate in RMI's Climate Intelligence program as part of the Oil and Gas Solutions Initiative. She models and analyzes methane emissions from the oil and gas supply chain to identify market and policy levers that can drive emissions reductions. Before joining RMI, Marissa was an air quality engineer at RTI International, providing technical and regulatory development support to the EPA. She holds a MS in environmental engineering and a BSE in chemical engineering.

  

• Jake Stanger

  Jake is an Associate in RMI’s Climate Intelligence Program within the Oil & Gas Solutions Initiative. His data analysis focuses on methane and carbon dioxide emissions from the oil & gas sector, finding waste and emissions patterns to inspire environmental and community benefits. Jake has a background in climate and water systems, having engaged in scientific and technical support at the Philadelphia Water Department as an intern prior to joining RMI. Jake holds a Master of Environmental Studies and BA in physics from the University of Pennsylvania.

  

• Kevin Gauthier

  Kevin is a geophysicist on the OCI+ team, working on resource characteristics below ground that affect their emissions intensities. He has a background as a technical project manager at RMI and formerly with Schlumberger where he focused on the oil and gas production and managed large geophysical exploration projects in varied geologic settings, including the Gulf of Mexico, the continental United States, the North Sea, and the Arabian Peninsula. Kevin is currently pursuing further studies in carbon capture and sequestration.

  

• Shannon Hughes

  Shannon is the Strategic Communications Manager in RMI’s Climate Intelligence Program, where she tells stories that make emissions visible throughout supply chains. Her work is critical to understand where we are—and where we want to be—in reaching ambitious decarbonization goals. Shannon focuses on making highly technical information more personally relevant and translating concepts into clear calls for action. Prior to her role at RMI, she served as a marketing specialist and policy communications associate for the Governor of Montana; owned a branding and marketing agency for seven years; and served as the executive director for an ocean plastic elimination non-profit.

  

• John McGrath

  John is the technical product director for RMI’s Climate Intelligence Program, which leverages data and technology to enhance climate performance across material and energy industries. Before joining RMI, John was a sustainability product manager at Amazon Web Services. Previously, he was chief product officer and cofounder of the HR technology company Entelo, led product and software teams at Wordnik and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and was a software developer in the newsroom of The New York Times.

  

• Linda Jirouskova

  Linda is a corporate engagement manager with the Climate Intelligence Program. She focuses on partnerships, collaboration, and external stakeholder engagement to drive decarbonization in hard-to-abate industrial sectors. She supports user-centric focus of OCI+ and helps strengthen external collaboration to further drive OCI+ application in different use cases and resulting impact. Prior to joining RMI, Linda led corporate partnerships, program design, and business development for international organizations, working on a variety of issues in the environmental and social impact arenas in developing countries. Earlier in her career, Linda worked in marketing research consulting.

  

• Joseph Fallurin

  Joseph (Joe) is a manager with RMI’s Climate Intelligence Program. He focuses on reducing emissions in the oil and gas sector through market-based mechanisms and policy levers related to natural gas demand, oil refineries and petrochemicals. Prior to RMI, Joe worked in various downstream operations engineering and sustainability roles in the oil and gas industry after receiving a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University.

  

• Meghan Peltier

  Meghan is a senior associate with RMI’s Climate Intelligence Program. Her work focuses on reducing emissions in the oil and gas sector through policy and market-based levers related to oil refining and petrochemicals. Prior to RMI, Meghan worked for Valero Energy as an engineer in a variety of process optimization and logistic roles.

  

• Jikai Wang

  Jikai is an Associate with RMI’s Climate Intelligence Program. He works on refining and petrochemical emission modeling and low-leak naturel gas market activation. Prior to RMI, Jikai had a background in SAF LCAs and, techno-economic analysis, emission trading scheme mechanism, and corporate ESG reporting and rating reviews. He holds a Master’s in Environmental Management and B.Eng in Environmental Engineering.

  

• Suzy Schadel

  Suzy is an environmental engineer and Senior Associate within RMI’s Climate Intelligence Program. Her work focuses on oil and gas emissions reduction strategies and data transparency and traceability. Suzy assists with OCI⁺ model development and annual emissions calculations. Before joining RMI, Suzy worked within Shell’s Environmental & Regulatory team, at AidData researching Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG11), and at GHD as a project manager for water/wastewater engineering and international environmental impact assessment projects, as well as a program coordinator for the Sustainability & Resiliency program. She is an ENVISION Sustainability Professional and holds a BSE in Environmental Engineering.

  

Contributing Researchers

• Zachary Schmidt

  Zachary Schmidt has over a decade of experience working as a researcher and analyst for Koomey Analytics. He has a BA from UC Berkeley with a major in English Literature and a minor in Energy and Resources. He has also completed the Certificate Program in Data Science from UC Berkeley Extension. Schmidt builds software to help understand and solve energy-related problems. He coded the OPEM model into Python for OCI⁺ v1.0.

  

• Tinu Abraham

  Tinu Abraham is a Research Associate in the Energy Technology Assessment research group at the department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering in the University of Calgary. She is researching transformations to refineries of the future in a decarbonization world using PRELIM (Petroleum Refinery Life Cycle Inventory Model). Tinu completed her PhD from the Department of Chemical & Material’s Engineering at the University of Alberta in 2016 and her Master’s in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India.

  

Contributing Organizations