Two Sustainability Institute affiliated faculty members received funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for research projects focused on sustainable energy and net-zero emission agriculture and cropping systems.
Scott Demyan, environmental and natural resources and Sustainability Institute core faculty member; Laura Lindsey, horticulture and crop science; and Klaus Lorenz, environment and natural resources, are among leaders of a team that received a $1,494,969 grant. The team’s research focuses on the development and evaluation of pathways to net-zero emission agriculture and cropping systems. Other collaborators are from the University of Kentucky, Michigan State University, Purdue University and Indiana University
Jeffrey Bielicki, civil, environmental and geodetic engineering, a Sustainability Institute Faculty Advisory Board member and research co-lead in sustainable energy, and collaborators from the University of Michigan and North Carolina State University received a $613,144 grant. The group’s geothermal energy research project will investigate how to pump CO2 — which is captured from industrial processes such as coal-fired power generation — and isolate it underground in realistic geologic settings in order to enable carbon-free renewable energy generation directly from geothermal resources and indirectly from wind and solar resources..
Learn more about the Sloan Foundation and read about Bielicki and Demyan’s research projects.