Secretary of Energy’s Achievement Award for Exceptional Service, 2011
USGS Director’s Award for Exemplary Service to the Nation, 2010
Publications
Pawar, R.J., Bromhal, G., Carey, W., Foxall, W., Korre, A., Ringrose, P., Tucker, O., Watson, W., White, J., 2015, Recent advances in risk assessment and risk management of geologic CO2 storage, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 40, 292-311, 2015.
Dempsey, D., O’Malley, D., Pawar, R., Reducing uncertainty associated with CO2 injection and brine production in heterogeneous formations, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 37, 24-37, 2015
Sullivan, E.J., Chu, S., Pawar, R., Probabilistic cost estimation methods for treatment of water extracted during CO2 storage and EOR, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 41, 316-327, 2015.
Porter, M., Pawar, R., Plampin, M., Illangasekare, T., CO2 leakage in shallow aquifers: A benchmark modeling study of CO2 gas evolution in heterogeneous porous media, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 39, 51-61, 2015.
Chen, L., Kang, Q., Pawar, R., He, Y., Tao, W., Pore-scale prediction of transport properties in reconstructed nanostructures of organic matter in shales, Fuels, 158, 650-658, 2015.
A. Jordan, P. Stauffer, B. Carey, D. Harp, R. Pawar, A Response Surface Model to Predict CO2 and Brine Leakage along Cemented Wellbores, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 33, 27-39, 2015.
Plampin, M., Lassen, R., Sakaki, T., Porter, M., Pawar, R., Jensen, K., and Illangasekare, T., Heterogeneity-Enhanced Gas Phase Formation in Shallow Aquifers during Leakage of CO2-Saturated Water from Geologic Sequestration Sites, Water Resources Research, 50, 9251-9266, 2015.
Kelkar, S.; Lewis, K.; Karra, S.; Zyvoloski, G.; Rapaka, S.; Viswanathan, H.; Mishra, P. K.; Chu, S.; Coblentz, D.; Pawar, R., A simulator for modeling coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical processes in subsurface geological media, International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, Sept, 2014, Vol.70, p.569(12)
Dempsey, D., Kelkar, S., Pawar, R., Keating E., Coblentz, Modeling caprock bending stresses and their potential for induced seismicity during CO2 injection, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 22, 223-236, 2014
Keating, E., Dempsey, D., Pawar, R., Insights into interconnections between the shallow and deep systems from a natural CO2 reservoir near Springerville, Arizona, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 25, 162-172, 2014.