Industrial Affiliates Programs
Industrial Affiliates Programs at Stanford provide a mechanism for multiple faculty and multiple companies to discuss and explore broad research topics in a pre-competitive environment.
Affiliates Programs follow the rules that govern gifts. While member companies may offer suggestions, faculty must be free to select research and teaching topics, methodology, and participants. Typical membership benefits include invitations to meetings and workshops, opportunities to engage with program faculty and students, opportunities to recruit students, and invitations to send visiting scholars.
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The Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability is home to the following affiliates programs. In order to increase transparency about funding for affiliates programs, we are listing below total income from affiliate members to each affiliates program during fiscal year 2022 (9/1/2021 - 8/31/2022). We will update this website to include individual corporate contributions and the titles of all the projects that these affiliates fund before the end of fall quarter. Mineral-X did not launch until 2023 and therefore no funds are listed. The Stanford Project on Deepwater Depositional Systems (SPODDS) stopped operating in 2022 and is not shown.
- Basin Processes and Subsurface Modeling (BPSM FY22: $424,940)
- Mineral X
- Natural Gas Initiative (FY22: $1,549,119)
- Stanford Center for Carbon Storage (SCCS FY22: $460,000)
- Stanford Center for Earth Resources Forecasting (SCERF FY22: $449,930)
- Smart Fields Consortium (SFC FY22: $299,988)
- Stanford Center for Induced and Triggered Seismicity (SCITS FY22: $375,000)
- Stanford Earth Sciences Algorithms and Architectures Initiative (SESAAI FY22: $60,000)
- Stanford Exploration Project (SEP FY22: $928,956)
- Stanford Rocks and Geomaterials Project (SRGP FY22: $153,000)
- SUETRI-A: Subsurface Engineering for the Energy Transition (FY22: $174,955)
- SUETRI-B: Stanford University Energy Transition Research Institute (FY22: $509,988)
- SUETRI-D: Research Consortium on Innovation in Energy Systems Monitoring and Testing (FY22: $130,000)
- SUPRI-Tides: Analysis of Earth Tides (FY22: $39,990)
- Stanford Energy Corporate Affiliates (FY22: $4,197,447)