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Philip Stauffer
Scientist V (Hydrogeologist), EES-16
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Development and use of porous flow multiphase heat and chemical transport models. Extensive experience with Performance Assessment modeling, site characterization, and CO2 sequestration. Specialties: Working with large FORTRAN codes. Debugging on multiple platforms. Implementation of new physics and chemistry algorithms. Working with multidisciplinary teams to get complex projects completed and papers published.

Education

Ph.D., Earth Sciences
University of California, Santa Cruz
1999

B.S., Physics
Elizabethtown College
1992

Positions

2020 - Present | Scientist V (Hydrogeologist) Earth and Environmental Science Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory Computational Earth Sciences group EES-16, FEHM Development Team, CO2-PENS development team
1/2018 - 6/2018 | Team Leader, Applied Terrestrial, Energy, and Atmospheric Modeling Team, EES-16
2010 - Present | Scientist IV (Hydrogeologist)
2008 - 2010 | Scientist III (Hydrogeologist)
2000 - 2008 | Staff Research Scientist (Hydrogeologist)
1999 - 2000 | Post Doctoral Researcher
1991 - 1999 | Research Assistant

Awards

2020 SPOT Award for extraordinary effort on a tight deadline milestone
2020 2019 Editors’ Citation for Excellence in Refereeing for Geophysical Research Letters
2019 LANL Large Team Distinguished Performance Award: Subsurface Science for Environmental Protection
2019 R&D100 Winner: SimCCS2.0
2019 R&D 100 Silver Medal, Corporate Social Responsibility Special Recognition Category, SimCCS2.0
2019 LAAP Award, Outstanding Dedication as EES Division Student Liaison
2019 Waste Management 2019 Superior Paper Award (Paper# 19192)
2018 LAAP Award, WIPP Borehole Heater Test Installation
2018 LAAP Award, top first author publisher for EES Division, LANL. 2011-2018
2018 Outstanding Reviewer, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control
2017 R&D100 Award for contributions to the National Risk Assessment Partnership Toolset
2017 LAAP Award for MDA G performance assessment and composite analysis
2015 Distinguished Mentor Performance, LANL. 2011-2013
2015 LAAP Award Top 10 publisher for EES Division, LANL. 2012-2014
2015 Distinguished Reviewer for Int. J. Greenhouse Gas Control
2014 LAAP Award for quick turn-around simulations of thermal conditions in waste drums prior to the 2014 radiological incident.
2013 Co-author on award winning presentation at CCUS Pittsburgh. May 2013. “The real cost of CO2 capture and storage: variable electricity generation for retrofitted coal-fired power plants”. Only 12 of over 300 presentations received this award.
2013 Top 10 publisher (4th) for EES Division, LANL. 2011-2013
2013 Top Reviewer for International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 2007-2012.
2009 Science Highlights Certificate of Appreciation, Associate Directorate for Chemistry, Life, and Earth Sciences.
2009 Los Alamos Awards Program, for contributions to the SFT Brownbag Seminar
2008 Los Alamos National Laboratory Technology Transfer Award, Outstanding Programmatic Impact Award For Contributions to the development of FEHM.
1997 Schlanger Ocean Drilling Fellowship, ODP Leg 171, Modeling Deformation and Dewatering in the Barbados Accretionary Complex: Implications for Proto-decollement Evolution.
1992 Outstanding Student Award, Physics Department, Elizabethtown College.
1991 Science and Engineering Research Semester Award, (DOE) at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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Publications

Gan, M., M.C. Nguyen, L. Zhang, N. Wei, J. Li, H. Lei, Y. Wang, X. Li, and P.H. Stauffer, Impact of reservoir parameters and wellbore permeability uncertainties on CO2 and brine leakage potential at the Shenhua CO2 Storage Site, China, in press, Int. J. Greenhouse Gas Control.
Singh, M., A. Chaudhuri, M.R. Sotanian, and P.H. Stauffer, Coupled multiphase flow and transport simulation to model CO2 dissolution and local capillary trapping in permeability and capillary heterogeneous reservoir, Int. J. Greenhouse Gas Control, 108, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2021.103329.
Nguyen, M.C., M. Morteza, M. Fazelalavi, Y. Zhang, G.W. Gay, D.W. Bowen, L.H. Spangler, W. Zaluski, and P.H. Stauffer, Skin factor and potential formation damage from chemical and mechanical processes in a naturally fractured carbonate aquifer with implications to CO2 sequestration, in press, Int. J. Greenhouse Gas Control.
Bourret, S.M., E.M. Kwicklis, and P.H. Stauffer, Evaluation of transport and other fractionation processes on xenon isotope ratios sampled near underground nuclear explosions in shafts and tunnels, in press, J. Environ. Radioactivity
Avendano, S.T., D. Harp, S. Kurwadkar, J.P. Ortiz, and P.H. Stauffer, Continental-Scale Geographic Trends in Barometric-Pumping Efficiency Potential: A North American Case Study, in press, Geophysical Research Letters.
Eric J. Guiltinan , Kristopher L. Kuhlman , Jonny Rutqvist , Mengsu Hu , Hakim Boukhalfa , Melissa Mills , Shawn Otto , Douglas J. Weaver , Brian Dozier , P. H. Stauffer, Temperature response and brine availability to heated boreholes in bedded salt, Vadose Zone Journal 19(1)
Middleton, R.S., J.M. Bielicki, B. Chen; A.F. Clarnes, R. Currier, K.M. Ellett, D.R. Harp; B.A. Hoover, R.M. Kammer, D. McFarlane, J.D. Ogland-Hand, R.J. Pawar, , P.H. Stauffer, H.S. Viswanathan, S.P. Yaw, Great SCO2T! Rapid tool for carbon sequestration science, engineering, and economics, Applied Computing and Geosciences, 7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acags.2020.100035 (70)
Bourret, S.M., E.M. Kwicklis, D.R. Harp, J. P. Ortiz, and P.H. Stauffer, Beyond Barnwell: Applying lessons learned from the Barnwell site to other historic underground nuclear tests at Pahute Mesa to understand radioactive gas-seepage observations, J. Environ. Radioactivity,220, 106297
Stroujkova, A., E. Gorman, S.T. Avendano, M. Horne, M. Person, P. Hubbard, J. Salerno, C.R. Carrigan, D.R. Harp, P.H. Stauffer, Using SF6 and Xe to monitor gas migration through explosion-generated fracture networks, J. Geophysical Research – Solid Earth, 125(5)
Hyman J., J. Jiménez-Martínez; C.W. Gable; P.H. Stauffer; Rajesh Pawar, Characterizing the impact of fractured caprock heterogeneity on supercritical CO₂ injection, Transport in Porous Media, 131
Chen, B.; Harp, D.; Pawar, R.; Stauffer, P.H.; Viswanathan, H.; Middleton, R., Frankenstein’s ROMster: Avoiding Pitfalls of Reduced-Order Model Development, Int. J. Greenhouse Gas Control, 93
Singh, M., A. Chaudhuri, P.H. Stauffer, R.J. Pawar, Simulation of gravitational instability and thermo-solutal convection during the dissolution of CO2 in deep storage reservoirs, Water Resources Research, 56(1)
Harp, D.R., S.M. Bourret, P.H. Stauffer and E.M. Kwicklis, Discriminating underground nuclear explosions leading to late-time radionuclide gas seeps, Geophysical Research Letters, 47(13)
P.H. Stauffer, T. Rahn, J. P. Ortiz, L. J. Salazar, H. Boukalfa, H. R. Behar, and E. E. Snyder, Evidence for High Rates of Gas Transport in the Deep Subsurface, Geophysical Res. Let, 46(7). 10.1029/2019GL082394
Harp, D.R., J.P. Ortiz, and P.H. Stauffer, Identification of dominant gas transport frequencies during barometric pumping of fractured rock, Scientific Reports, 9

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