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

H. Pike Oliver focuses on master-planned communities. He is co-author of Transforming the Irvine Ranch: Joan Irvine, William Pereira, Ray Watson, and THE BIG PLAN, published by Routledge in 2022.

Early in his career, Pike 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. For the next three decades, he was involved in master-planned development on the Irvine Ranch in Southern California, as well as other properties in western North America and abroad.

Beginning in 2009, Pike taught real estate development at Cornell University and directed the undergraduate program in Urban and Regional Studies. He relocated to Seattle in 2013 and, from 2016 to 2020, served as a lecturer in the Runstad Department of Real Estate at the University of Washington, where he also served as its chair.

Pike graduated from San Francisco State University's urban studies and planning program and received a master's degree in urban planning from UCLA. He is a member of the American Planning Association and the Urban Land Institute and a founder and emeritus member of the California Planning Roundtable.

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