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Valley of Death

Crossing the financial “Valley of Death” to clean energy

Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Climate Change, Energy, Human Dimensions and Sustainability
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Freeman Spogli Institute
Lab beaker of CO2

Carbon mitigation is about exergy, not energy

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Energy
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Chemical & Engineering News
Donation box
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Stanford News Service
Human Dimensions and Sustainability
Stanford architecture

Stanford Natural Gas Initiative research grants total $1.3 million

Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences

The Secret of Natural Concrete

Ship

Antarctic species threatened by willful misinterpretation of legal treaty

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Food and Agriculture, Oceans
Dollar signs

The high cost of climate change

Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Climate Change
Nuclear power plant
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Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation
Earth's horizon and the moon

Life on Earth likely started at least 4.1 billion years ago

Courtesy of UCLA
Evolution of Earth and Life
Bacteria

Surprising source for ancient life biomarker found

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Evolution of Earth and Life
Zach in a kayak at Hobbit Hole

Stanford grad's trek on the edge of wilderness

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Forest

Climate change requires new conservation models

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Climate Change, Human Dimensions and Sustainability
A group of people standing in front of a ribbon

A new educational farm on the “Farm”

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Stanford Report
Dynamic Earth, Fresh Water Resources
A man and a women working on a compost pile

Student experiments for a better way to compost

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Water droplets contaminated with oil

Water contamination in Pennsylvania likely due to hydraulic fracturing surface operations

Yale University
Energy

Dean's State of the School Letter 2015

Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Water on Mars
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Chemical & Engineering News
Evolution of Earth and Life
Chris Field

Chris Field: A Man for All Climates

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Climate Change, Human Dimensions and Sustainability
Pam Matson

Sneak Preview: A new way to get our science to decision makers

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The New York Times
Sunset
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Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Climate Change
Sonoma creek (courtesy L.A. Cicero)
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Stanford Report
First year economic graduate students
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New York Times
California river affected by drought
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Stanford News Service
Ice falling into the Arctic Ocean
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New York Times
Climate Change
The Earth re-imaged as a human brain
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Human Dimensions and Sustainability
Methane monitor checking for leaks

Stanford study shows pipeline replacement programs are effective

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Climate Change, Energy
Map of the Earth representing a rise in sea levels

Ice sheets may be more resilient than thought

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Climate Change, Oceans
Purified Water

Arsenic attaches to water that's 'too pure'

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Evolution of Earth and Life, Fresh Water Resources
Western Tick
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Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Human Dimensions and Sustainability
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Nepali Times
Adrienne

Adrienne Pollack (Earth Systems BS '16, MS '17)

Earth Systems Program
Rain over San Francisco, photo by Brocken Inaglory
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New York Times
Climate Change, Oceans
High school teacher Monica Sircar watches a model convection system in a bowl of water

Teachers ask the big questions about our changing planet

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Earth's core
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BBC Earth
Dynamic Earth, Evolution of Earth and Life
Librarian looking over a map
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Stanford News Service
Interns looking at fossils

Educating the next generation: High school interns expand their science frontiers

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Science magazine cover

Italian supervolcano research featured on cover of Science

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Field
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Worldview
ESA 100 years

Ecological Society of America showcases most notable papers

Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
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Smithsonian
Scientists on a zodiac in West Antarctic Peninsula

Melting glaciers feed Antarctic food chain

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Climate Change, Oceans
Ice flow

Glacial Melt Spurs Antarctic Phytoplankton Blooms

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Sumeet Trehan
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Society of Petroleum Engineers
Barron tree
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Washington Post
Tony Kovscek

Tony receives Uren Award

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Photo by Jenny Downing
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Stanford News
Energy
Person and a dog walking in nature
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New York Times
Human Dimensions and Sustainability
Chris Field

Chris Field honored for outstanding climate science communication

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Water drop
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Smithsonian
Alumni Council group

New Alumni Council to Advise Dean

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Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
The Macellum of Pozzuoli

Volcanic rocks resembling Roman concrete explain record uplift

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Natural Hazards, Evolution of Earth and Life
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Smithsonian
Bill Dickinson greeting Jon Claerbout

Bill Dickinson Honored with Distinguished Alumni Award

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Forest
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Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Tony Kovscek
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School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Dennis Bird
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West Magazine
Globe of the Earth

Stanford celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Branner Earth Sciences Library

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HIV education sign in Africa

Drought increases the spread of HIV in Africa

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Natural Hazards
Oil rig

Oklahoma earthquakes linked to oil and gas wastewater disposal wells

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Energy, Natural Hazards
Joanna Sun
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Energy Resources Engineering
Nik Sawe
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TEDxStanford
Rosemary Knight
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TEDxStanford
Pamela Matson speaking to Stanford Earth graduates

Graduating in an ‘Era of Responsibility’

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Mark Zoback with student in front of a computer
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Stanford Report
Hannah Black holding a snake in front of a child

Hannah Black is the 2015 Recipient of the William Whitley Citizen-Scholar Prize

Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences

Earth Systems student Claire Zabel is the 2014 winner of the Miller-Marsden Prize for Innovative Research on the Environment

Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Alluvial fans draining into the Copper river

Weathering and river discharge surprisingly constant during Ice Age cycles

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Dynamic Earth, Evolution of Earth and Life
InSAR image seen through a water drop

"Seeing" Water Underground

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Fresh Water Resources
Storm over India's Western Ghats mountain range

Innovative Approach Produces Climate Breakthroughs

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Geothermal plant

Geothermal Benefits from Advances in Fossil Fuels, Medicine

Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Ship grounded after tsunami

Predicting Risk to Communities from Earthquakes and Tsunamis

Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Natural Hazards
A large boat at the dock

New technique harnesses everyday seismic waves to image the Earth

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Evolution of Earth and Life
Julie Kennedy
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Stanford News
David Lobell
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Stanford Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Image of chemical variation across the lowland Peruvian Amazon
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Carnegie Science
Evolution of Earth and Life
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Stanford News
Natural Hazards

Power = Water = Food in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Smithsonian
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Stanford News

Are Ecosystems a Tsunami Defense?

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NGI Hexagon

Optimizing Natural Gas

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WIRED
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Stanford Report
Fracking well
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Marketplace
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Stanford News
Fresh Water Resources
Rescue workers searching through earthquake debris in Nepal
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Science News
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SPE
Fracking operation site
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Stanford Report
Catalina Island
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Newsweek
Animated image of a fissure in the ground
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The New Yorker
Geological map of California

A fantastic foray to study geology, the environment and art

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SF Chronicle
Praveen Bains, Kyoungjin Lee, Charles-Francois de Lannoy

Research Review Awards Announced

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Stanford News Service
Bay Area students listening to a Stanford scientist

Jenny Saltzman honored as a 'mentor of mentors'

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