Workshop Recording: Quantifying Methane Emissions with the Integrated Methane Inversion (IMI)

On November 4, 2024, the Harvard Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling Group and Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability hosted a virtual workshop for current and prospective users of IMI, a cloud-computing tool for tracking methane emissions using satellite observations.

Quantifying methane pollution is a critical step in meeting climate goals. The free workshop covered the principles for quantifying methane emissions by analytical inversions of satellite observations, the implementation of these principles in the IMI, the range of IMI capabilities, and how to run the tool.

The workshop comprised a series of short presentations by the IMI development team highlighting the tool’s capabilities followed by discussion and Q&A. Presentations covered the principles for quantifying methane emissions by analytical inversions of satellite observations, the implementation of these principles in the IMI, the range of IMI capabilities, and how to run the IMI.

View the presentations here:

Why the IMI (Daniel Jacob, IMI Principal Investigator)

IMI description and capabilities (Daniel Varon, IMI Co-Principal Investigator)

Running the IMI (Lucas Estrada, IMI Lead Developer, and Melissa Sulprizio, IMI Software Engineer)

Using IE for easy access to the IMI (John Thomas, IE Lead Developer)

Interested in learning more/taking action? Contact the workshop organizers with questions:

For IMI questions: integrated-methane-inversion@g.harvard.edu

For IE questions: integral.earth.team@gmail.com

Please reach out if you are interested in beta testing Integral Earth. New beta testers will be accepted on a first come, first served basis.

This workshop was supported in part by the Harvard Initiative on Reducing Global Methane Emissions, a Research Cluster of the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard University.