Mitigating methane emissions

Written By H. Pike Oliver

Former University of Washington Vice Provost for Research Mary Lidstrom is researching how to reduce methane emissions. To do so, she plans to utilize bacteria that can consume the greenhouse gas, which accounts for 30% of global warming emissions.

For nearly three years, Lidstrom’s lab has been working to address two primary challenges associated with harnessing bacteria for methane mitigation. The first was to find the right methane-eating bacteria, methanotrophs, for the job.

Lidstrom and her team are designing a bioreactor to house the methane-consuming bacteria in a shipping container-like structure. The goal is to deploy the technology by 2030 to slow global warming by 2050. Scale-up projections indicate significant reductions in methane emissions can be achieved by 2050.

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H. Pike Oliver

Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, H. Pike Oliver has worked on real estate development strategies and master-planned communities since the early 1970s, including nearly eight years at the Irvine Company. He resided in the City of Irvine for five years in the 1980s and nine years in the 1990s.

As the founder and sole proprietor of URBANEXUS, Oliver works on advancing equitable and sustainable real estate development and natural lands management. He is also an affiliate instructor at the Runstad Department of Real Estate at the University of Washington.

Early in his career, Oliver worked for public agencies, including the California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research where he was a principal contributor to An Urban Strategy for California. Prior to relocating to Seattle in 2013, Oliver taught real estate development at Cornell University and directed the undergraduate program in urban and regional studies. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute, the American Planning Association and a founder and emeritus member of the California Planning Roundtable.

Oliver is a graduate of the urban studies and planning program at San Francisco State University and earned a master’s degree in urban planning at UCLA.

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