Seed Grants

Seed Funded 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. Seed project report forms are available here.

• Natural Gas Leak Detection, Quantification, and Mitigation Focus Area 
  • Rob Jackson, Adam Brandt
• Development of Microbial Cell Factories for Methane-based Industrial Biotechnology 
  • Craig Criddle, Robert Waymouth, Nils Averesch
• Energy Focus Area 
  • Frank Wolak, Mark Thurber
• Global Markets and Governance 
  • Frank Wolak, Mark Thurber
• Integration of Gas and Renewables 
  • Frank Wolak, Mark Thurber
• Methane Conversion Focus Area 
  • Matteo Cargnello, Thomas Jaramillo, Xiaolin Zheng
• "Natural H2" Subsurface Solutions 
  • Tony Kovscek, Tapan Mukerji
• Prevention of Hydrogen Embrittlement in Pipeline Alloys 
  • Wendy Gu
• Satellite Technology for Methane Emissions Detection 
  • Adam Brandt

Seed Project Report Forms