ST.FX professor Risk appointed to energy research initiative
From the Springboard Content Lab
Congratulations to Springboard collaborator and St. Francis Xavier University professor Dr. David Risk on being named the Scientific Director for the Nova Scotia Subsurface Energy Research and Development Investment Program.
The $30-million program will help kick-start the province’s onshore natural gas industry after a decade of inaction and inactivity.
Dr. Risk will work with researchers at Dalhousie University and other organizations to establish environmental, geological, and infrastructure baselines to inform evidence‑based decisions about future oil and gas development. This includes groundwater and methane monitoring, seismic analysis, and transport infrastructure needs.
The Government of Nova Scotia has engaged Dalhousie University to oversee the Subsurface Energy Research and Development Investment Program. Dalhousie’s involvement will help in understanding the potential for natural gas production in Nova Scotia and community readiness.
Dr. Risk is Brian Mulroney Institute of Government Research Chair in Climate Science and Policy and the Director of the FluxLab at St. Francis Xavier University.
Risk’s collaborations with Springboard
St. F.X. researcher Dr. David Risk is on the frontlines of greenhouse gases with the work emerging from his FluxLab and companies that have spun out from research in the Antigonish lab.
FluxLab – the largest gas emissions research centre in Canada – is changing our understanding and management of climate change by detecting, measuring and mapping air pollution and greenhouse gases.
The Lab and its spinoff companies Eosense and Arolytics dispatch scientists, students and technicians to industrial and landfill sites across Canada to measure and manage data on greenhouse gases such as methane.
The FluxLab and its two spinout companies are the single most successful Springboard project at St. Francis Xavier University.
About Springboard
St. Francis Xavier University is a member of the Springboard Network of 19 post secondary institutions in Atlantic Canada. Our mission is to grow the economy through research commercialization and through in