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James Dooley

James Dooley

Joint Global Change Research Institute
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Biography

Jim Dooley leads the Joint Global Change Research Institute's and the Global Energy Technology Strategy Project's research related to carbon dioxide capture and storage and the role of this class of technologies in addressing climate change. He is also a senior member of the Joint Global Change Research Institute's Integrated Assessment modeling team and in this capacity has principally been focused on the set of economic incentives needed for the development and large scale commercial adoption of advanced carbon management technologies.

Dooley was both a Lead Author for Costs and Economic Potential and the Cross-Cutting Chairman for Market Deployment for the recently released Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage. He is the Associate Editor for the International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, the first peer reviewed journal to focus on carbon dioxide capture and storage technologies. Dooley is the co-developer of a state-of-the-art geographic information based model for examining the large-scale deployment of carbon management technologies in the United States.

Affiliations and Professional Service

  • Associate Editor for Integrated Systems and Economics, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control
  • Managing Guest Editor, Special Issue: 9th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies (GHGT9), International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control
  • Member of Editorial Board for the International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control
  • Programme Committee Member responsible for organizing all sessions on integrated CCS systems and on the economics of CCS 9th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies (GHGT9)
  • Lead Author for Chapter on Economics of Carbon Capture and Disposal, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage.
  • Cross-Cutting Chairman for Market Deployment, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage.
  • Chairman of the Battelle Advisory Board overseeing a large and scientifically rigorous field demonstration of CO2 disposal in the United States.
  • Made significant contributions to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy process that developed a uniform federal policy for scientific misconduct. 1994-2000.

Awards and Recognitions

  • Significant contributor to the research of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
  • Outstanding Performance Award, Fundamental Science Directorate, for innovative and productive leadership of the GTSP Deep Dive in Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (2006).
  • Director’s Level, Outstanding Performance Award, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (2002).
  • United States Department of Energy, Office of Science, Appreciation Plaque (1999).

PNNL Publications

2012

  • Dooley JJ, EL Malone, and JA Bradbury. 2012. "Response to "The value of CCS public opinion research" by Fleishman et al. (2011)." International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 7:267.  doi:10.1016/j.ijggc.2011.09.003

2011

  • Dooley JJ. 2011. "Industrial CO2 Removal: CO2 Capture from Ambient Air and Geological Sequestration." In Joint IPCC WGI/WGII/WGIII Expert Meeting on Geoengineering, June 20-22, 2011, Lima, Peru.  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Geneva, Switzerland. 
  • Dooley JJ. 2011. "Valuing National and Basin Level Geologic CO2 Storage Capacity Assessments in a Broader Context." International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 5(1):177-178.  doi:10.1016/j.ijggc.2010.07.002
  • Luckow P, MA Wise, and JJ Dooley. 2011. "Deployment of CCS Technologies across the Load Curve for a Competitive Electricity Market as a Function of CO2 Emissions Permit Prices." In 10th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, September 19-23, 2010, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Energy Procedia, vol. 4, ed. J Gale, C Hendriks, W Turkenberg, pp. 5762-5769.  Elsevier, London, United Kingdom.  doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2011.02.572
  • Dahowski RT, CL Davidson, and JJ Dooley. 2011. "Comparing large scale CCS deployment potential in the USA and China: a detailed analysis based on country-specific CO2 transport & storage cost curves." In 10th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, September 19-23, 2010, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Energy Procedia, vol. 4, ed. J Gale, C Hendriks and W Turkenberg, pp. 2732-2739.  Elsevier, London, United Kingdom.  doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2011.02.175
  • Davidson CL, RT Dahowski, and JJ Dooley. 2011. "A quantitative comparison of the cost of employing EOR-coupled CSS supplemented with secondary DSF storage for two large CO2 point sources." In 10th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, September 19-23, 2010, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Energy Procedia, vol. 4, ed. J Gale, C Hendricks and W Turkenberg, pp. 2361-2368.  Elsevier, London, United Kingdom.  doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2011.02.128
  • Dooley JJ, and KV Calvin. 2011. "Temporal and Spatial Deployment of Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage Technologies across the Representative Concentration Pathways." In 10th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, September 19-23, 2010, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Energy Procedia, vol. 4, ed. J Gale, C Hendriks and W Turkenberg, pp. 5845-5852.  Elsevier, London, United Kingdom.  doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2011.02.583

2010

2009

  • Dooley JJ, CL Davidson, and RT Dahowski. 2009. An Assessment of the Commercial Availability of Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage Technologies as of June 2009. PNNL-18520, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA. 
  • Dooley JJ, RT Dahowski, and CL Davidson. 2009. "Comparing Existing Pipeline Networks with the Potential Scale of Future U.S. CO2 Pipeline Networks." In Energy Procedia: 9th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Contorol Technologies (GHGT9), vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1595-1602.  Elsevier, London, United Kingdom.  doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2009.01.209
  • Dooley JJ, RT Dahowski, and CL Davidson. 2009. "The Potential for Increased Atmospheric CO2 Emissions and Accelerated Consumption of Deep Geologic CO2 Storage Resources Resulting from the Large-Scale Deployment of a CCS-Enabled Unconventional Fossil Fuels Industry in the U.S." International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 3(6):720-730.  doi:10.1016/j.ijggc.2009.08.004
  • Dooley JJ. 2009. Visualizing the Surface Infrastructure Used to Move 2 MtCO2/year from the Dakota Gasification Company to the Weyburn CO2 Enhanced Oil Recovery Project: Version of July 1, 2009. PNNL-18532, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA. 
  • Wise MA, and JJ Dooley. 2009. "The Value of Post-Combustion Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage Technologies in a World with Uncertain Greenhouse Gas Emissions Constraints." International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 3(1):39-48.  doi:10.1016/j.ijggc.2008.06.012
  • Dahowski RT, X Li, CL Davidson, N Wei, JJ Dooley, and R Gentile. 2009. "A Preliminary Cost Curve Assessment of Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage Potential in China." In Energy Procedia: 9th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Contorol Technologies (GHGT9), vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 2849-2856.  Elsevier, London, United Kingdom.  doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2009.02.058
  • Dahowski RT, X Li, CL Davidson, N Wei, and JJ Dooley. 2009. Regional Opportunities for Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage in China: A Comprehensive CO2 Storage Cost Curve and Analysis of the Potential for Large Scale Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage in the People's Republic of China. PNNL-19091, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA. 
  • Davidson CL, JJ Dooley, and RT Dahowski. 2009. "Assessing the impacts of future demand for saline groundwater on commercial deployment of CCS in the United States." In Energy Procedia: 9th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Contorol Technologies (GHGT9), vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1949-1956.  Elsevier, London, United Kingdom.  doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2009.01.254
  • Malone EL, JA Bradbury, and JJ Dooley. 2009. "Keeping CCS Stakeholder Involvement in Perspective." In Energy Procedia: 9th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Contorol Technologies (GHGT9), vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 4789-4794.  Elsevier, London, United Kingdom.  doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2009.02.305

2008

  • Dooley JJ, and RT Dahowski. 2008. "Large Scale U.S. Unconventional Fuels Production and the Role of Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage Technologies in Reducing Their Greenhouse Gas Emissions." In Energy Procedia: 9th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Contorol Technologies (GHGT9), vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 4225-4232 .  Elsevier, London, United Kingdom.  doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2009.02.233
  • Dooley JJ, C Trabucchi, and L Patton . 2008. "Tipping Fees Can't Save us from the Tipping Point: The Need to Create Rational Approaches to Risk Management that Motivate Geologic CO2 Storage Best Practices." In Energy Procedia: 9th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Contorol Technologies (GHGT9), vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 4583-4590.  Elsevier, London, United Kingdom.  doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2009.02.278
  • Dooley JJ, RT Dahowski, and CL Davidson. 2008. On the Long-Term Average Cost of CO2 Transport and Storage. PNNL-17389, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA. 
  • Dooley JJ, RT Dahowski, and CL Davidson. 2008. Comparing Existing Pipeline Networks with the Potential Scale of Future U.S. CO2 Pipeline Networks . PNNL-17381, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA. 
  • Dooley JJ. 2008. U.S. Federal Investments in Energy R&D: 1961-2008 . PNNL-17952, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA. 
  • Dooley JJ. 2008. Trends in U.S. Venture Capital Investments Related to Energy: 1980-2007. PNNL-17953, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA. 
  • Dahowski RT, and JJ Dooley. 2008. Source/Sink Matching for U.S. Ethanol Plants and Candidate Deep Geologic Carbon Dioxide Storage Formations. PNNL-17831, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA. 
  • Dahowski RT, X Li, CL Davidson, N Wei, W Chen, F Teng, JJ Dooley, and R Gentile. 2008. "Developing Cost Curves for Carbon Dioxide Transport and Storage in China ." In Seventh Annual Conference on Carbon Capture and Sequestration.  Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Washington, DC. 
  • Wise MA, GP Kyle, JJ Dooley, and SH Kim. 2008. "The Impact of Electric Passenger Transport Technology on the Demand for Coal-fired Power with CCS under a Climate Policy." In Energy Procedia: 9th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Contorol Technologies (GHGT9), vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 4355-4362.  Elsevier, London, United Kingdom.  doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2009.02.249

2007

  • Dooley JJ, RT Dahowski, and CL Davidson. 2007. "CCS: A Strategy for Tackling Climate Change." Chapter 4 in Fundamentals of the Global Oil and Gas Industry, 2007, vol. 2007, pp. 67-69.  World Petroleum Council, London, United Kingdom. 
  • Wise MA, JJ Dooley, RT Dahowski, and CL Davidson. 2007. "Modeling the Impacts of Climate Policy on the Deployment of Carbon Dioxide Capture and Geologic Storage across Electric Power Regions in the United States." International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 1(2):261-270.  doi:10.1016/S1750-5836(07)00017-5
  • Wise MA, JJ Dooley, RT Dahowski, and CL Davidson. 2007. "Modelling the impacts of climate policy on the deployment of carbon dioxide capture and geologic storage across electric power regions in the United States." International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 1(2):261-270.  doi:10.1016/S1750-5836(07)00017-5
  • Edmonds JA, JJ Dooley, SH Kim, SJ Friedman, and MA Wise. 2007. "TECHNOLOGY IN AN INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT MODEL: THE POTENTIAL REGIONAL DEPLOYMENT OF CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBAL CO2 STABILIZATION." Chapter 16 in Human-Induced Climate Change: An Interdisciplinary Assessment, ed. M Schlesinger, et al, pp. 181-197.  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom. 
  • Edmonds JA, MA Wise, JJ Dooley, SH Kim, SJ Smith, PJ Runci, LE Clarke, EL Malone, and GM Stokes. 2007. Global Energy Technology Strategy: Addressing Climate Change Phase 2 Findings from an international Public-Private Sponsored Research Program.  Battetlle Memorial Institute, College Park, MD. 

2006

  • Dooley JJ. 2006. A Brief Analysis of Geologic CO2 Storage Potential in South Korea. PNNL-15895, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA. 
  • Friedmann SJ, JJ Dooley, H Held, and E Ottmar. 2006. "The low cost of geological assessment for underground CO2 storage: Policy and economic implication." Energy Conversion and Management 47(13-14):1894-1901.  doi:10.1016/j.enconman.2005.09.006
  • Gupta N, DA Ball, PE Jagucki, JJ Dooley, JR Sminchak, and L Wickstrom. 2006. "Understanding the Geologic Storage Potential in the Midwestern USA through Multiple Field Demonstrations." In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies (GHGT-8), June 19-22, 2006, Trondheim, Norway .  Elsevier, London, United Kingdom. 
  • McGrail BP, HT Schaef, AM Ho, YJ Chien, JJ Dooley, and CL Davidson. 2006. "Potential for Carbon Dioxide Sequestration in Flood Basalts." Journal of Geophysical Research. Solid Earth 111(B12):Art. No. B12201. 
  • Runci PJ, LE Clarke, and JJ Dooley. 2006. "Energy Research (Letter)." Issues in Science and Technology XXII(3):10-11. 

2005

  • Wise MA, and JJ Dooley. 2005. "Baseload and Peaking Economics and the Resulting Adoption of a Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage System for Electric Power Plants." In 7th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, vol. 1, ed. ES Rubin, DW Keith and CF Gilboy, pp. 303-311.  Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 
  • Herzog HJ, K Smekens, P Dadhich, JJ Dooley, Y Fujii, O Hohmeyer, and K Riahi. 2005. "Chapter 8: Costs and economic potential." Chapter 8 in IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage. , ed. B. Metz, O. Davidson, H. de Coninck, M. Loos, and L. Meyer, pp. 341-362.  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom. 

2004

  • Dooley JJ, RT Dahowski, CL Davidson, S Bachu, N Gupta, and J Gale. 2004. "A CO2 STORAGE SUPPLY CURVE FOR NORTH AMERICA AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE DEPLOYMENT OF CARBON DIOXIDE CAPTURE AND STORAGE SYSTEMS." In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies (GHGT7), vol. 1, ed. ES Rubin, DW Keith, CF Gilboy, pp. 593-604.  Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 
  • Dooley JJ. 2004. A Framework for viewing theoretical, technological, economic and market potential of carbon dioxide capture and storage. PNNL-14894, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA. 
  • Runci PJ, and JJ Dooley. 2004. "Research and Development Trends for Energy." In Encyclopedia of Energy, vol. 5, ed. Cutler J. Cleveland, pp. 443-449.  Elsevier Science, Oxford , United Kingdom. 
  • Dahowski RT, and JJ Dooley. 2004. "CARBON MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES FOR U.S. ELECTRICITY GENERATION CAPACITY: A VINTAGE-BASED APPROACH." Energy 29(9-10): 1589-1598. 
  • Dooley JJ, SH Kim, JA Edmonds, JS Friedman, and MA Wise. 2004. "A FIRST ORDER GLOBAL GEOLOGIC CO2 STORAGE POTENTIAL SUPPLY CURVE AND ITS APPLICATION IN A GLOBAL INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT MODEL." In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies (GHGT7) , vol. 1, ed. ES Rubin, DW Keith, CF Gilboy, pp. 573-582.  Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 
  • Dooley JJ, CL Davidson, MA Wise, and RT Dahowski. 2004. "ACCELERATED ADOPTION OF CARBON DIOXIDE CAPTURE AND STORAGE WITHIN THE UNITED STATES ELECTRIC UTILITY INDUSTRY: THE IMPACT OF STABILIZING AT 450 PPMV AND 550 PPMV." In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies (GHGT-7), vol. 1, ed. ES Rubin, DW Keith, CF Gilboy, pp. 891-900.  Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 
  • Edmonds JA, JF Clarke, JJ Dooley, SH Kim, and SJ Smith. 2004. "Modeling Greenhouse Gas Energy Technology Responses to Climate Change." Energy 29(9-10 (Special Issue)):1529-1536 . 
  • Edmonds JA, JF Clarke, JJ Dooley, SH Kim, and SJ Smith. 2004. "Stabilization of CO2 in a B2 World: Insights on The Roles of Carbon Capture and Disposal, Hydrogen, and Transportation Technologies." Energy Economics 26(4):517-537. 

2003

  • Dooley JJ, and RT Dahowski. 2003. "EXAMINING PLANNED U.S. POWER PLANT CAPACITY ADDITIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF CLIMATE CHANGE." In Sixth International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, vol. 2, ed. Gale, J.; Kaya, Y., pp. 1113-1118.  Pergamon, Oxford, United Kingdom. 
  • Dahowski RT, and JJ Dooley. 2003. "CARBON MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES FOR EXISTING U.S. GENERATION CAPACITY: A VINTAGE-BASED APPROACH ." In Sixth International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, vol. 2, ed. Gale, J.; Kaya, Y., pp. 1107-1112.  Permagon Press, Oxford, United Kingdom. 
  • Davidson CL, JJ Dooley, RT Dahowski, and NM Mahasenan. 2003. "An Analysis Of The Impact Of Selected Carbon Capture And Storage Policy Scenarios On The US Fossil-Based Electric Power Sector." In Mickey Leland Energy Fellowship Technical Forum Proceedings, DOE/FE-0464.  US Dept of Energy, Office of Fossil Energy, Washington, DC. 
  • Dooley JJ, JA Edmonds, RT Dahowski, and MA Wise. 2003. "Modeling Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies in Energy and Economic Models." In Proceedings of the IPCC Workshop for Carbon Capture and Storage, pp. 161-172.  ECN , Petten, Netherlands. 

2002

  • Edmonds JA, PF Freund, JR, and JJ Dooley. 2002. "The Role of Carbon Management Technologies in Addressing Atmospheric Stabilization of Greenhouse Gases." In Greenhouse Gas Control. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, GHCT-5, ed. David Williams, Bob Durie, et. al., pp. 46-51.  CSIRO Publishing , Collingwood, Australia. 

2001

  • Dooley JJ. 2001. The Need for a Biotechnology Revolution Focused on Energy and Climate Change. PNNL-13551, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA. 
  • Dahowski RT, JJ Dooley, DR Brown, A Mizoguchi, and M Shiozaki. 2001. "Understanding Carbon Sequestration Options in the United States: Capabilities of a Carbon Management Geographic Information System." In Proceedings of the First National Conference on Carbon Sequestration. No publisher listed. 
  • Dahowski RT, JJ Dooley, DR Brown, and AJ Stephan. 2001. "Economic Screening of Geologic Sequestration Options in the United States with a Carbon Management Geographic Information System." In Eighteenth Annual International Pittsburgh Coal Conference Proceedings, December 3-7, 2001, Newcastle, NSW, Australia, vol. CD-ROM, no. Session 23, ed. Badie I. Morsi.  Pittsburgh Coal Conference, Pittsburgh, PA. 
  • Dooley JJ, SH Kim, and PJ Runci. 2001. "The Role of Carbon Capture, Sequestration and Emissions Trading in Achieving Short-Term Carbon Emissions Reductions." In Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, ed. D. Williams, pp. 1127-1132.  CSIRO, Collingwood, Australia. 

2000

  • Dooley JJ, and HM Kerch. 2000. "Evolving Research Misconduct Policies and Their Significance for Physical Scientists." Science and Engineering Ethics 6(1):109-121. 
  • Dooley JJ. 2000. A Short Primer on Collecting and Analyzing Energy R&D Statistics . PNNL-13158, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA. 
  • Dooley JJ, and PJ Runci. 2000. "Developing Nations, Energy R&D, and the Provision of a Planetary Public Good: A Long-term Strategy for Addressing Climate Change." Journal of Environment and Development 9(3):215-229. 

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