Join us for an exciting talk led by Wen Song on the topic of "Ash Gel-O: The Origin, Formation, and Avoidance of Gels during REEs Extraction from Coal Fly Ash."

Wen is the Anadarko Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin.  Her research aims to understand the interfacial reactions and coupled transport mechanisms that control energy and environmental processes in geologic porous media.  Specifically, she develops novel micro/nanovisualization platforms that enable the in situ observation of fluid-fluid and fluid-solid interactions with ~ nm, ~ real-time, and chemical species resolution, and combines experimental observations with analytical geochemistry and fluid mechanics to elucidate fundamental interfacial geochemical processes.  She received her Ph.D. in energy resources engineering from Stanford University prior to joining UT Austin.  She is a recipient of the NSF CAREER, ACS PRF, and EAGE Arie van Weelden awards, and is a Scialog fellow in Negative Emissions Science and in Sustainable Minerals, Metals and Materials.