Rate My Professor Shikha Sharma

As principal investigator or co-principal investigator, Sharma has directed numerous funded projects, including an $11.85 million DOE-EERE Geothermal Technologies Office grant for geothermal deep direct-use and reservoir thermal energy storage on the WVU campus (2021-2025), a $749,904 DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences project on subsurface hydrogen storage (2022-2025), the $24.5 million Marcellus Shale Energy and Environment Laboratory (2014-2021, co-PI), and an NSF Early Career Instrumentation award (2012-2015). Her key publications encompass 'Role of pH and Eh in geothermal systems: Thermodynamic examples and impacts on scaling and corrosion' (Geothermics, 2023), 'Modes of Occurrence, Elemental Relationships, and Economic Viability of Rare Earth Elements in West Virginia Coals' (Minerals, 2022), 'Geochemical controls on CO₂ interactions with deep subsurface shales' (Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts, 2021), and 'Role of Biogeochemistry in efficient shale oil and gas production' (Fuel, 2020). Selected as one of the Top 50 Women Leaders of West Virginia in 2024, her contributions have influenced energy research through extensive press coverage in outlets such as Science Magazine, NPR, and EurekAlert on geothermal energy, carbon capture, and shale contaminants.