Energy resources engineers are concerned with the design of processes for energy recovery. Included in the design process are characterizing the spatial distribution of hydrocarbon reservoir properties, drilling wells, designing and operating production facilities, selecting and implementing methods for enhancing fluid recovery, examining the environmental aspects of petroleum exploration and production, monitoring reservoirs, and predicting recovery process performance.

The Earth Systems Program is an interdisciplinary environmental science major. Students learn about and independently investigate complex environmental problems caused by human activities in interaction with natural changes in the Earth system.

The overarching goal of CNEEC is to increase the efficiency of energy conversion devices by manipulating materials at the nanometer scale. This involves developing the fabrication and characterization methodologies to understand how nanostructuring can optimize transport, light absorption, and reaction kinetics and thermodynamics in materials. Based on these fundamental advances, we hope to demonstrate ways to improve the performance and efficiency of energy conversion devices such as photovoltaics, fuel cells, and batteries that rely on shared physical and chemical phenomena. Although the Center emphasizes fundamental research, we conduct our research with the motivation to improve efficiencies in energy conversion.

CAMP, the Center for Advanced Molecular Photovoltaics at Stanford University, is a research center led by Prof. Michael McGehee with the goal of revolutionizing the global energy landscape by developing the science and technology for stable, efficient molecular photovoltaic cells that can compete with fossil fuels in cost per kilowatt-hour produced.

Starting in the 2004-2005 academic year, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University began offering degree options in a new program called Atmosphere/Energy.

The Carnegie Institute’s Department of Global Ecology, founded in 2002 on the campus of Stanford University, conducts basic research on the interactions among the earth’s ecosystems, land, atmosphere, and oceans.