Katlyn MacKay
Scientist, Global Methane
Work
Areas of expertise:
Methane emissions, gas measurement, inventories and field work
Description
Dr. Katlyn MacKay is a Scientist in EDF's Office of the Chief Scientist. Her current work is focused on characterizing the sources and magnitudes of global anthropogenic methane emissions in support of the MethaneSAT mission.
Background
Katlyn has over 7 years of experience in measuring methane emissions across the oil and gas industry. She has previously participated in projects related to knowledge translation, training, and controlled release testing, alongside many of Canada’s major oil and gas companies and several prolific sensor manufacturers. Her PhD research focused on collecting and analyzing methane measurements to better understand emission patterns and magnitudes across Canada’s oil and gas sector, and to improve national inventory estimates and modeling.
Education
PhD Oil & Gas Engineering, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada (2023)
MSc Earth Sciences, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada (2017)
BSc Earth Sciences, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada (2015)
Publications
Seymour, S.P., Xie, D., Li, H.Z., MacKay, K., 2022. Sources and reliability of reported methane reductions from the oil and gas industry in Alberta, Canada. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 10 (1), 00073. https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2022.00073
Lavoie, M., MacKay, K., Stirling, J., Risk, D., 2022. Methane inventories, but not regulatory submissions, show major variations in methane intensity for Canadian oil and gas producers. Cleaner Environmental Systems 5, 100081. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cesys.2022.100081
Lavoie, M., Baillie, J., Bourlon, E., O’Connell, E., MacKay, K., Boelens, I., Risk, D., 2022. Sweet and sour: A quantitative analysis of methane emissions in contrasting Alberta, Canada, heavy oil developments. Science of The Total Environment, 807, Pt2, 150836. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150836
MacKay, K., Lavoie, M., Bourlon, E., Atherton, E., O’Connell, E., Baillie, J., Fougère, C., Risk, D., 2021. Methane emissions from upstream oil and gas production in Canada are underestimated. Scientific Reports, 11, 8041. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-87610-3
MacKay, K., Risk, D., Atherton, E., Fougère, C., Bourlon, E., O’Connell, E., Baillie, J. 2019. Fugitive and vented methane emissions surveying on the Weyburn CO2-EOR field in southeastern Saskatchewan, Canada. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 88, 118–123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2019.05.032
Baillie, J., Risk, D., Atherton, E., O’Connell, E., Fougère, C., Bourlon, E., MacKay, K., 2019.
Methane emissions from conventional and unconventional oil and gas production sites in southeastern Saskatchewan, Canada. Environ. Res. Commun. 1, 011003. https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/ab01f2
Latest pieces
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Saskatchewan's oil and gas methane: how have underestimated emissions in Canada impacted progress toward 2025 climate goals?
Environmental Research Letters, July 11, 2023