Hydrogen Pathways Graduate Researcher Nathan Parker received Master degree in March 2007 when he turned in his Thesis with the title: Optimizing the Design of Biomass Hydrogen Supply Chains Using Real-World Spatial Distributions: A Case Study Using California Rice Straw.
Hydrogen Pathways researcher Michael Nicholas recieved the prestigious Barry McNutt Award for the best policy paper at Transportation Research Board (TRB) 2006 Conference.
ITS Davis researchers Anthony Eggert, Dan Sperling, Joan Ogden, and Tom Turrentine along with senior scientist David Greene from Oak Ridge National Lab briefed senior congressional and agency staff at the US Capitol on January 23, 2007.
Hydrogen Pathways Co-Director Joan Ogden held a talk at UC Davis about Hydrogen in beginning of November 2006. The talk was taped by UC Davis media works department and is now available online.
Hydrogen Pathways Co-Director Dan Sperling has edited a book with James Cannon based on the biennial Asilomar Conference 2005: Towards a Policy Agenda for Climate Change.
With the title “What have we learned in the Hydrogen Pathways Program?” the research workshop contained a broad range of synthesizing talks from the Hydrogen Pathways Researchers.
Joan Ogden has written an article "High Hopes for Hydrogen" published in the September edition of Scientific American. As a magazine with more than 1,000,000 copies in circulation, this is an excellent recognition for Ogden and the Hydrogen research at UC Davis.
Graduate Researcher Gustavo Collantes received his PhD degree with a thesis titled The California Zero-Emission Vehicle Mandate: A Study of the Policy Process, 1990-2004.
For the second year in a row, Hydrogen Pathways co-director Prof. Joan Ogden received a R&D award from the US Department of Energy, this year for her work on the H2A hydrogen delivery analysis model.
Scientists, inventors and entrepreneurs may be able to vie for a grand prize of $10 million, and smaller prizes totalling millions of dollars, under legislation passed by the House of Representatives to encourage research into hydrogen as an alternative fuel.
The Institute of Transportation Studies received the prestigious Robert Zweig Award at the National Hydrogen Association Annual Conference in Long Beach.
The Hydrogen Pathways Program had seven presentations at the National Hydrogen Association Annual Conference in Long Beach in March. UC Davis represented one quarter of all the University and National Lab presentations at the conference.
A new Program Manager has entered the Pathways Program in January 2006. With experience from US and Europe, the Pathways program welcomes Are Gjellan to the team.
UC Davis was one of 8 universities named as a Center of Excellence under U.S. Department of Energy’s Graduate Automotive Technology Education program. The GATE Center of Excellence is DOE’s most prestigious graduate education and research program with UCD’s focus on fuel cell, hydrogen and hybrid vehicles. The program, which provides $600,000 over 5 years, includes funding for 4 graduate research fellowships.
Nathan Parker was invited to give Dr. Alan Lloyd’s Secretary Seminar on September 27, 2005 focusing on the conversion of biomass waste streams into hydrogen for use in California’s vehicle fleet. This seminar provided a brief overview of biomass resources in California and focused on current biomass conversion technologies. The potential for converting rice straw waste to hydrogen fuel was presented as a case study.
Make up your own mind about the future of hydrogen as an automobile fuel during an online debate led by UC Davis transportation fuels expert Daniel Sperling and "The Hype About Hydrogen" author, Joseph Romm.
ITS-Davis transportation expert and Hydrogen Pathways program co-director Daniel Sperling will speak on Capitol Hill twice in July on the status of hydrogen and other gasoline alternatives in the U.S. transportation system.
While in Washington for the annual TRB conference in January 2005, ITS-Davis professors Dan Sperling, Joan Ogden, Ken Kurani, and Hydrogen Pathways associate director Anthony Eggert, together with Catherine Dunwoody, Executive Director of the California Fuel Cell Partnership (CaFCP), met to brief the Senate Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Caucus.
