Seed Grants
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Current Seed Fund Projects
Seed research is intended to fund new exploratory research or research that does not clearly fit into one of the defined focus areas. Seed research is an important mechanism to encourage involvement in natural gas research by Stanford investigators and to maintain and develop Stanford's organizational capability in gas research.
- Global Markets and Governance
- Frank Wolak, Mark Thurber
- Natural Gas Leak Detection, Quantification, and Mitigation Focus Area
- Rob Jackson, Adam Brandt
- Methane Conversion Focus Area
- Matteo Cargnello, Thomas Jaramillo, Xiaolin Zheng
- Development of Microbial Cell Factories for Methane-based Industrial Biotechnology
- Craig Criddle, Robert Waymouth, Nils Averesch
- Prevention of Hydrogen Embrittlement in Pipeline Alloys
- Wendy Gu
- Energy Focus Area
- Frank Wolak, Mark Thurber
- Integration of Gas and Renewables
- Frank Wolak, Mark Thurber
- Satellite Technology for Methane Emissions Detection
- Adam Brandt
- "Natural H2" Subsurface Solutions
- Tony Kovscek, Tapan Mukerji