Socio-­economic Roadmaps to Commercial Geothermal Energy Production in W. Canada

The goal of the Future Energy Systems research in geothermal energy is to produce scientific, engineering, economic, environmental, and social research in support of three specific types of geothermal power applications available to Canadians. This project is aimed at assessing regulatory, economic, environmental, and sociological pathways and impacts of utilizing geothermal energy in Canada.

Eckert, H., Lefsrud, L.M., Zhao, L. & Gehman, J. 2022 Creative Sentencing and Workplace Safety.

Joel Gehman

Government Briefings

Inclusive Futures: Indigenous Engagement in Canada’s Workforce. Two workshops with Employment and Social Development Canada.

Government Briefings

Indigenous Engagement in Canada’s Workforce

Government Briefings

Lefsrud, L.M. 2022. Safe and Responsible Resource Development: The role of the Technical Engineer as a Regulator. Panelist with Dr. Graeme Norval, Canadian Standards Association (CSA) Z767 tech committee; George Stoyanov, Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission

Government Briefings

SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, Enhancing Regulatory Effectiveness and Corporate Performance

Joel Gehman

Misc

(Renewed) President’s Doctoral Prize of Distinction

Award

2022 Process Safety Management Award, Canadian Society of Chemical Engineers (CSChE) and Canadian Institute of Chemistry (CIC)

Award

A Century of Accomplishments— Dr. Lianne Lefsrud, P.Eng. Profiled for APEGA’s Centennial

Award

Alberta Advanced Education Alberta Graduate Students Travel Incentive

Award

Andrew Stewart Memorial Graduate Prize

Award

Beakerhead Science Communication Scholarship

Award

Best Symposium Award Runner-up, Science denial: causes, courses, and remedies. A route map for organizational scholars, 2021 Organizations and Management Theory Division, Academy of Management Meeting. PIs: Elena Bruni (WU Vienna, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wi

Award

Brett Cortus Memorial Graduate Scholarship

Award

Bryan-Gruhn Graduate Research Award

Award

Bryan–Gruhn Graduate Research Award

Award

Canada Graduate Scholarships Program – Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplements Award

Award

Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW) Margaret Brine Graduate Scholarship

Award

Department of Anthropology Travel Award

Award

Distinguished Academic Early Career Award

Award

Distinguished Alumni Award

Award

Edmonton Consular Corps Award

Award

Faculty of Fine Arts and Communications Sessional Professional Development Fund

Award

Friends of the University of Alberta Society Graduate Award

Award

Fulbright Scholarship

Award

Graduate Student Travel Award

Award

Graduate Students Travel Incentive

Award

Hawkins Graduate Research Award (2019)

Award

Joseph Armand Bombardier Canadian Graduate Scholarship-Master’s (CGS M)

Award

Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship

Award

Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral

Award

Kule Scholar, July 2022 – July 2025

Award

Most Cited Paper

Joel Gehman

Award

Most Read Paper

Award

National Geographic Explorer Grant

Award

National Geographic Society – Explorer Grant Level I

Award

Outstanding Mentorship

Award

President’s Doctoral Prize of Distinction

Award

Published Paper Award of Excellence

Award

Researcher Mobility Fund Award

Award

Risk, Innovation, and Sustainability Chair (RISC), David and Joan Lynch School of Engineering Safety and Risk Management, July 2022 –

Award

Scholarly Activity Dissemination Fund

Award

Science denial: causes, courses, and remedies. A route map for organizational scholars

Award

Summit Award

Award

Travel Award

Award

Travel Award

Award

Travel Award

Award

University of Alberta Department of Anthropology Graduate Student Travel Award

Award

University of Alberta Education Abroad Individual Award

Award

University of Alberta Future Energy Systems Opportunity Award

Award

University of Alberta Graduate Students’ Association Academic Travel Grant

Award

Walter H. Johns Graduate Fellowship, 2019/2

Award

Clean and Renewable Energy - Taking a Systems Approach to Geothermal Energy

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Inter- professional relations and categorization in accounting regulation: The case of Modernizing Oil and Gas Reserve Reporting

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Invited Lecturer for University of Alberta’s Civil Engineering (CIVE) 221: Environmental Engineering Fundamentals (Winter Term)

Other Event

Invited speaker for the University of Alberta SKIPP (Situated Knowledges: Indigenous Peoples and Place) Community Voices Colloquium Series

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Maintaining Oil and Gas Reserves Accounting: The Limits of Commensuration

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

Our journey with creative sentencing.

Conference Proceedings

Role of AI in Humanities and Ethics

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Safety Moment

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

The Messenger Matters — Finding The Right Advocate To Tell The Energy Sector’s Story

Interview (Broadcast or Text)

42nd New Zealand Geothermal Workshop

Andie Palmer

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

A Pattern-Oriented Approach to Safety Climate: An Empirical Example.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

A Theoretical Framework for Data-driven Artificial Intelligence Decision Making for Enhancing the Asset Integrity Management System in the Oil & Gas Sector

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

A numerical study on compositional modeling of two-phase fluid flow and heat transfer in vertical wells.

David S. Nobes, Sara Eghbali

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

A rising tide raises all boats: Regional promotion of process safety through joint government/industry management

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

AI4Buzz.ca - A Toolkit For Analyzing Online Conversations for Solutions Based Policy Development

Joel Gehman

Website

Advanced technologies to depolarize energy dialogues

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Alberta’s ‘energy war room’: Reframing the energy debate or attempt to mimic legitimate journalism

Interview (Broadcast or Text)

Allford: Tips on talking about energy in Canada, Jennifer Allford,

Article in popular media

An introduction to oil sands tailings: Innovations and challenges. Tailings

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

An updated look at petroleum well leaks, ineffective policies and the social cost of methane in Canada’s largest oil-producing province

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

Analysis of Induced Seismicity at Pohang Geothermal Power Plant and Examination of Public Perception following the Incident-A Perspective

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

Analysis of social components within environmental assessments of geothermal projects

John R Parkins

Research Report

Analyzing and Visualizing Twitter Conversations

Joel Gehman

Conference Proceedings

Analyzing and Visualizing the Canadian Research Landscape

Conference Proceedings

Anthropological Engagements with Divisions and Disputes

Andie Palmer

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Application of Bayesian Network and Artificial Intelligence in Reducing Accident/Incident Rates in Oil & Gas Companies

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

Bibliometric Analysis of Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion (MIC) of Engineering Systems

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

Bruni, E.* & Lefsrud, L.M. 2021. Science denial: causes, courses, and remedies. A route map for organizational scholars, Academy of Management Conference, July 31 – August 3, 2021.

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Can Farmers be Climate Leaders

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Combining safety approaches to bring hazards into focus: An oil sands tailings case study.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

Communicating Risks

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Communicating Risks To Support Sustainability Discussions: Challenges In A Post-Truth Era

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Communicating Risks to Support Sustainability Discussions: Challenges in a Post-Truth Era

Other Event

Communicating Risks to Support Sustainability Discussions: Challenges in a Post-Truth Era

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Communicating risks across organizations and to contractors

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Creating a Positive Safety Culture and Continuous Improvement in Alberta’s Construction Industry

Research Report

Creative Sentencing: My Experience with Companies

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Creative sentencing improves workplace safety: Why don’t we use it more?

Joel Gehman

Article in popular media

Cutting-Edge Linguistic Methods

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Decision support for process operators: task loading in the days of big data

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

Decolonizing Approaches to Geothermal Energy Development in Alberta through Indigenous Community-Led Research and Engagement.

Andie Palmer

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Deep Entanglements: Geothermal power development and Indigenous-state relations from Aotearoa New Zealand to Alberta

Andie Palmer

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Dirty Oil or Ethical Oil? Visual rhetoric in legitimation struggles.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

Employing multifaceted teaching and learning components to foster CEAB graduate attribute development

Conference Proceedings

Energy transition in Canada: Exploring the social, cultural and ethical dimensions of a changing energy landscape

John R Parkins

Website

Engaging communities and adaptive change

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Enhancing Regulatory Effectiveness to Improve Corporate Performance

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Enhancing regional process safety management

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

Entangled, but disengaged: Geothermal energy policy development without First Nations in Alberta

Andie Palmer

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Etchanchu, H., Cascadden, M.*, & Lefsrud, L.M. 2021. Addressing Grand Challenges in Organization Theory-System Change through Theory, Engagement & Action

Maggie Cascadden

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Evaluation of three geothermal project SIA reports

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Extrapolating Human Judgments from Skip-gram Vector Representations of Word Meaning

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

Final Report for Creative Sentencing: Protecting Worker Safety in Alberta by Enhancing Field Level Hazard Assessments and Training for Ground Hazards Associated with Tailings Facilities, Dams, and Systems

Research Report

Framework for Developing Risk Evaluation Criteria

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

Fulbright Scholar researches Indigenous community engagement in Hawaii

Interview (Broadcast or Text)

Geothermal Power in the Indigenous World: exploring the dynamics of collaborative research in resource development

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Geothermal Theme Website

Website

Giant toxic lakes you can see from space: A theory of multimodal messages and emotionality in legitimacy work.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

Gibson, G., Vandenberghe, J. & Lefsrud, L.M. (moderator). 2021. Engineering Community Benefit Agreements. Sustainability Council Public Lecture Series, online 13 October 2021.

Other Event

Greasing the Tracts: How Oil & Gas Tactics Slide into Geothermal Legislation

Andie Palmer

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Heated Atmosphere: Organizational Emotions and Field Structuring in Online Climate Change Debates

Conference Proceedings

Hidden Hazards and Blind Spots

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

How organizations create complexity, ambiguity, and uncertainty to blind their risk management efforts.

Conference Proceedings

Identifying Hidden Hazards

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Inclusive Futures: Indigenous Engagement in Canada’s Workforce. Action Canada / Public Policy Forum: Ottawa, ON.

Government Publication

Inclusive Futures: Indigenous Engagement in Canada’s Workforce. Virtual broadcast across Canada.

Other Event

Indigenous Rights, the Environmental and Geothermal Energy Development in the Pacific Ring of Fire.

Andie Palmer

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Indigenous youth engaging in community-led research to decolonize renewable energy development

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Indigenous youth engaging in community-led research to decolonize renewable energy development.

Andie Palmer

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Innovation and Sustainability

Other Event

Inter-professional categorization in accounting regulation

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Interim Report for Creative Sentencing: Protecting Worker Safety in Alberta by Enhancing Field Level Hazard Assessments and Training for Ground Hazards Associated with Tailings Facilities, Dams, and Systems

Research Report

Just don’t call it climate change

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Just don’t call it climate change: Climate-skeptic farmer adoption of climate mitigative practices

Sven Anders

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

Keepers of the Fire, Keepers of the Water: Language, loss, and regeneration through geothermal practices on Indigenous lands

Andie Palmer

Conference Proceedings

Language of Energy Conversations, Edmonton AM with Mark Connolly and Tara McCarthy, CBC radio

Interview (Broadcast or Text)

Lefsrud L.M. & Sattari, F. 2021. Using Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Fusion to Improve the Process Safety and Risk Management in Oil & Gas Industry. Energy Safety Canada, May 27, 2021.

Other Event

Lefsrud, L.M. & Jennings, D.J. 2022. Visualizing Systems: Visual analytics built on big data as a form of analysis and theoretical interpretation. PDW for The Collection, Analysis, Theorization and Representation of Visual Data in Qualitative Scholarship 2

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Lefsrud, L.M. 2022. Back to the drawing board: Reconstructing risk management systems through visualization

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Lefsrud, L.M. 2022. Innovating for Sustainability and Systems-Level Change, Institut für Mittelstandsforschung (IFM), Mannheim University, 7 November 2022.

Other Event

Lefsrud, L.M. 2022. Principles to Depolarize Energy Conversations

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Lefsrud, L.M. 2022. Twitter Analytics Tool. Energy and Climate – West Coast Edition, Canadian Energy and Climate Nexus, 7 April, Vancouver and Online.

Other Event

Lefsrud, L.M. 2023. Principles to Depolarize Energy Conversations. APEGA, March 8, 2023.

Other Event

Lefsrud, L.M. 2023. Principles to Depolarize Energy Conversations. Canadian Society for Senior Engineers (CSSE), January 19, 2023.

Other Event

Lefsrud, L.M. 2023. Visualizing Risk. Canadian Society of Chemical Engineers (CSChE) and Canadian Institute of Chemistry (CIC) Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference (CCEC 2023).

Other Event

Lefsrud, L.M., Gutierrez, C.G.*, Gehman, J., Barbosa, D., Stroulia, E. 2022. Energy to Contest? Emotional and multimodal contestation of energy markets. Sub-theme 42: Markets for Sustainability: Evolving Challenges, Imperfections, and Trade-offs

Joel Gehman

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Lefsrud, L.M., Hussain, A.*, Gholizadeh, N.*, Sattari, F.*, Musilek, P., Liang, H. 2021. Creating System Resilience in Power Generation and Delivery

Petr Musilek

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Managing Microbial Corrosion in Canadian Offshore & Onshore Oil Production Operations

Conference Proceedings

Margaret Ann Armour & WISEST – An Incredible Legacy in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in STEM and the Work Still to Do

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

Office of Energy Research and Development (ERD) Oil & Gas Clean Tech Program Performance Evaluation, NRCan

Government Publication

On the Protocol of Land Acknowledgements

Andie Palmer

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Ontario Power Generation Review of Dam Safety Program, Report of the Twelfth Dam Safety Advisory Panel Meeting, Part 1.

Report, brief, and other forms of grey literature

Ontario Power Generation Review of Dam Safety Program, Report of the Twelfth Dam Safety Advisory Panel Meeting, Part 2

Report, brief, and other forms of grey literature

Organizational (Issue) Field Perspective on Climate Change

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

Organizational emotions in online climate change debate

Conference Proceedings

Part 1 In A Series: UAlberta Academic Says Rebranding The Oil And Gas Industry Must Be Organic

Interview (Broadcast or Text)

Participation at the Storytelling with The Moth Workshop

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Polarizing language creating gridlock in energy debate, says U of A expert, by Geoff McMaster

Article in popular media

Power Relations and the Energy Transition: A Critical Review on Discourses, Ideologies and Perspectives for Sustainable Geothermal Energy Development in Valemount, British Columbia

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Power Relations and the Energy Transition: A Critical Review on Discourses, Ideologies and Perspectives for Sustainable Geothermal Energy Development in Valemount, British Columbia

Conference Proceedings

Power and protocol: Indigenous oral histories and geothermal energy development

Andie Palmer

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Preliminary Work by the Dam Integrity Advisory Committee Towards Thinking Clearly and Communicating Effectively About Risk

Conference Proceedings

Profiled with 29 other women engineers in www.30yearslater.ca to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Montreal Massacre

Interview (Broadcast or Text)

Protecting Worker Safety in Alberta by Enhancing Hazard Identification and Control for Hazards Associated with Tailings Facilities, Dams, and Systems

Master Thesis

Protecting workers exposed to ground hazards through enhanced Field Level Hazard Assessment tools

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Protecting workers exposed to ground hazards through enhanced hazard identification and management tools

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

RRU alum’s geothermal research heats up with Nat Geo grant

Interview (Broadcast or Text)

Risk Communication Teaching Module. Minerva Canada: Mississauga, ON.

Report, brief, and other forms of grey literature

Risk communication in Athabasca oil sands tailings operations

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

Roadmaps and Roadblocks for Energy Transformation: Converting Oil and Gas Wells to Geothermal Resources

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

Role of Safety Management Systems (SMS) in the railway industry and potential for enhancement of the Railway Safety Act (RSA)

Research Report

Sattari F.*, Kurian, D.*, Lefsrud, L.M., & Macciotta, R. 2021. Using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning techniques to analyze incident reports

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Say What? University of Alberta prof says we all need to calm down

Interview (Broadcast or Text)

Science denial impact: People, organizations, and institutions

Book

Sedimentary Basin Geothermal Favourabiity Mapping and Power Generation Assessments.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

Seeing the forest and the trees: Using machine learning to categorize and analyze incident reports for Alberta oil sands operators

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

Social License to Operate: Legitimacy by Another Name?

Joel Gehman

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

Spanning Boundaries Through Conferences: Engaging Diverse EDI Stakeholders to Promote Change

Conference Proceedings

Sustainability Workshop

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Sustainable Leadership and Management of Complex Engineering Systems: A Team Based Structured Case Study Approach

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

Tailings Fatality Research Finds Communication Breakdowns, Daily Oil Bulletin, by Deborah Jaremko

Article in popular media

Techno-economic assessment for heating cattle feed water with low-temperature geothermal energy: a case study from central Alberta, Canada

Vic Adamowicz

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

Terra Nullius or Commons? Undermining Maori Rights and Title Under New Zealand’s Marine and Coastal Areas (Takutai Moana) Act

Andie Palmer

Conference Proceedings

The Intertwined Relationship between Power and Patriarchy: Examples from Resource Extractive Industries

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

The Pools of Ngāwha: Power, History and the Recognition of Māori Interests.

Andie Palmer

Conference Proceedings

The ecology of regulatory change: The Security and Exchange Commission’s modernization of oil and gas reserves reporting

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

Tracing the Genealogies of Supportive Research Networks: Māori Anthropological Pathways

Andie Palmer

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Turning a Liability into an Asset: Re-purposing Inactive Petroleum Wells for Geothermal Energy Production

Master Thesis

Using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning techniques to analyze incident reports.

Conference Proceedings

Using BP Neural Networks to Prioritize Risk Management Approaches for China’s Unconventional Shale Gas Industry

Joel Gehman

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

Using Machine Learning and Keyword Analysis to Analyze Incident Reports and Reduce Risk in Oil Sands Operations

Master Thesis

Using Process Safety Management tools to identify and assess tailings hazards

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution

Visiting Scholar

Visiting Researcher (outgoing)

WinSETT - Creating a Centre for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

nclusive Futures: Indigenous Engagement in Canada’s Workforce

Conference/Symposium/Workshop Contribution