Jane Woodward is a founding shareholder of MAP and its President and Chief Executive Officer. MAP is a private firm focused on acquiring and managing natural gas royalty interests and renewable energy royalty interests, primarily associated with commercial wind and solar projects, all in the onshore continental U.S. MAP self-imposes a carbon tax on itself and funds a variety of sustainable energy education initiatives largely benefiting Stanford students. Since 1990, Jane has been a Consulting Assistant Professor at Stanford University where she teaches classes on energy and environment in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Prior to founding MAP, Jane worked as an exploration geologist with ARCO Exploration Company and later as a petroleum-engineering consultant. She holds a BA in geology from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Additionally, she holds an MS in engineering and petroleum geology and an MBA, both from Stanford University. She serves on the following Advisory Boards/Councils: Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, Stanford's Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency, and the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy; and she serves as a Trustee Associate of the AAPG Foundation.
Guest Lecturers
Tomakin Archambault is a Renewable Energy Project Financial Analyst at MAP. His primary responsibilities include business development and existing investment management in the solar and energy efficiency sectors. Prior to MAP Mr. Archambault spent two years consulting on high-performance buildings for the Rocky Mountain Institute where he was involved with a number of notable clients including the UNEP, the USGBC, and several large REITs. Mr. Archambault also worked as a Mechanical Design Engineer for FIberForge--a start-up composites manufacturing company dedicated to efficient automotive transportation and at the National Park Service where he designed high-efficiency HVAC systems and participated in high-altitude wind and solar feasibility studies. Mr. Archambault graduated with Honors from the University of Denver with a BS in Mechanical Engineering and has an MS in Atmosphere/Energy from Stanford University.
Audrey Chang is the Director of the California Climate Program for the Natural Resources Defense Council. She coordinates NRDC's advocacy efforts for successful implementation of California's Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32) and also works on energy policy and utility regulation to promote the increased development of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and other global warming solutions. Her work involves research, analysis, and advocacy at the state, regional and national levels. Audrey has represented NRDC in utility advisory committees in California and Idaho and has participated in numerous regulatory proceedings before the California Public Utilities Commission and California Energy Commission. She currently serves on the Green-e Governance Board and is also a LEED Accredited Professional. Prior to her employment at NRDC, Audrey worked as an energy efficiency and green building consultant at Energy Solutions in Oakland, California, where she managed projects for schools, universities, and small businesses. Preceding her work at Energy Solutions, Audrey worked with Stanford University to develop its Guidelines for Sustainable Buildings, serving as a lead author. She also helped establish and run an ecological field studies program for middle and high school students in East Palo Alto, California. Audrey received her M.S. in Energy Engineering and B.S. in Earth Systems, with a concentration in energy systems, both from Stanford University.
Danny Cullenward is a first-year PhD student in the Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (IPER). Prior to grad school, he worked with Jane Woodward and Karl Knapp at MAP to help teach Energy Resources. For two years, he worked with Stanford's Program on Energy and Sustainable Development (PESD), conducting field research on climate policy and international energy systems. Danny is most interested in global energy challenges, and has published work on carbon markets, coal technology, and greenhouse gas emissions from hydropower. His first exposure to energy issues was in Energy Resources, and he hopes that others will be similarly inspired by their experience in class.
David Freyberg is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at Stanford. He has been on the faculty here since 1981. He completed undergraduate degrees in engineering science and environmental engineering at Dartmouth College in 1972. Following three years working in the water resources department of a consulting firm in Boston, Massachusetts, he headed west to Stanford for graduate work, where he completed his M.S. (1977) and Ph.D. (1981). His current work focuses on the role of low permeability inclusions on the flow of water and dissolved contaminants in heterogeneous subsurface environments, flow in and below ephemeral channels, sedimentation in small reservoirs, and the pedagogy of fluid mechanics and water resources engineering. He also maintains a strong interest in water resources development, policy, and history, particularly in North America, the American West, the Middle East, and Asia. He is a co-author of a widely-used textbook, Water-Resources Engineering. Prof. Freyberg was a recipient of a 1985 Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation. From 1988 until 1992 he served as Associate Dean of Engineering for Undergraduate Education. He served on the National Research Council's Water Science and Technology Board from 1991 until 1997, chairing it from 1994-97. In June 1993 he was awarded the 1992-93 Tau Beta Pi Teaching Award for the outstanding educator in the School of Engineering, and in April 1994 he was named a Bing Teaching Fellow at Stanford. He is a member of the Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology program within the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
Karl Knapp is Director of Sustainable Energy Education at MAP. Dr. Knapp has over 25 years experience in the renewable energy industry. Prior to joining MAP in March 2008, he was a Senior Resource Planner for City of Palo Alto Utilities, where he was responsible for the City's renewable energy, energy efficiency and climate protection programs. From 1982 to 1994, Dr. Knapp developed processes and equipment for manufacturing photovoltaic cells and modules at Arco Solar/Siemens Solar, where he was awarded three U.S. Patents. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Engineering-Economic Systems and Operations Research, all from Stanford University. His doctoral research was inspired by his strong interest in energy and environmental issues in developing countries, studying the economic value derived from flexibility attributes of small-scale distributed energy systems, applied to a case study in India. Karl enjoys scuba diving, basketball and two daughters, and makes excellent homemade beer.
David Mills is Chief Scientific Officer and Founder of Ausra, Inc. Dr. Mills is known worldwide for pioneering Compact Linear Fresnel Reflector (CLFR) technology and for his work in non-imaging optics, solar thermal energy, and PV systems over 32 years. His lab at the University of Sydney developed and licensed the evacuated-tube solar water heater technology, which comprises 60 percent of the world's solar collectors and is used widely throughout China for distribution of low cost domestic hot water. Mills originated and ran the research program that in 1991, with colleague Dr. Q-C. Zhang, developed the most advanced sputtered double cermet selective absorber coating, which is now used in evacuated tube receivers by China's largest solar company, Himin. He developed or co-developed other commercial systems including the Prism solar concentrator (Sol X) and the "S" evacuated tube reflecting system (Solahart). A solar sterilizer design he originated won a World Health Organization award in 2002, and he was a finalist in the 2002 World Technology Awards for Energy. Dr. Mills is a former president of the International Solar Energy Society (ISES) and served as inaugural chair of the International Solar Cities Initiative (ISCI). While at ISES, he chaired the International Performance Measurement and Verification Protocol for Renewable Energy in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy. Mills has published and refereed numerous academic reports and articles on solar energy in such publications as The Journal of Solar Energy and Applied Optics. At Ausra he leads the company's highly talented R&D team.
John Perkins (Ph.D., nuclear physics, University of Birmingham, England) is a physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. His research interests include nuclear fusion, inertial confinement fusion, fission and fusion energy and advanced concepts. He is presently leading research in advanced target designs for inertial confinement fusion for applications to the National Ignition Facility and future inertial fusion energy systems. He is a former group leader and member of the international design team for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), and group leader for Advanced Fusion Concepts at LLNL. He is a member of the editorial board for the journal Fusion Science and Technology and has authored over 100 scientific papers and several popular press articles in the fields of fusion physics, technology and fusion energy systems.
President of Rumsey Engineers in Oakland, California, Peter is a global leader in energy efficiency and sustainable building design. Peter and Rumsey Engineers have been responsible for many key innovations in energy efficient design and analysis. Rumsey Engineers was the first firm in the U.S. to be awarded four LEED Platinum ratings for its projects. Other firsts include: the first LEED Platinum rating for a U.S. state office building; the first LEED Platinum building in Nevada; and the first LEED Gold rating for interiors. The firm's projects are widely recognized for outstanding design achievement and have received awards from many prominent industry organizations, including AIA Committee on the Environment; AIA Top Ten Green Projects; the Association of Energy Engineers, ASHRAE; Savings By Design; AIA San Francisco chapter; AIA California Chapter. Peter is an ASHRAE Fellow, a Senior Fellow of Rocky Mountain Institute, and a recipient of the 2005 AIA Allied Professions Honor Award. Mr. Rumsey has a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley, and is a registered mechanical engineer in 11 states, including California, Arizona, and Texas. He is a Certified Energy Manager and an active member of ASHRAE and the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE). The AEE San Francisco Bay Area Chapter named Peter Energy Engineer of the Year in 2001.
Aaron Zubaty is the Vice President, Wind Royalty Acquisitions at MAP with responsibility for creating and managing a portfolio of investments in royalties derived from the production of electricity from renewable energy projects, primarily using wind and solar resources. Before joining MAP, Mr. Zubaty spent nearly four years with independent power producer AES Corporation, based in both London and Africa. Through his various roles in business development and financial management capacities, he helped lead the planning, implementation, and financing of large energy projects and power plants as well as helping to direct the management and operation of the national utility serving the country of Cameroon. The successful financial closing with a consortium of international banks in 2004 for the LimbČ power plant at the time marked the single largest investment in the Cameroon power sector in nearly 25 years. Mr. Zubaty holds a BS in Earth Systems (concentration Energy) and an MS in Civil Engineering (concentration Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology), both from Stanford University, and is a graduate of Choate Rosemary Hall.
Teaching Assistants
Ben Carver is in his second year at Stanford Law School and his first in the masters degree program in Environment and Resources (IPER). He was a TA for Energy Resources last year. For two years before law school, he worked as a technology development engineer at SunPower Corporation, a company that designs and manufactures solar cells and solar modules. There, he designed new and less expensive solar modules and was heavily involved in the implementation of an automated module manufacturing facility in the Philippines. He graduated from Stanford in 2005 with a BS in Mechanical Engineering. Favorite activities include bicycling uphill, telemark skiing, and backpacking.
Emily Grubert is a senior in Atmosphere/Energy and Math (the Biology department lost her last year after she took Energy Resources). After visiting China with Professor Woodward in March 2008, Emily spent the summer in Beijing working with an environmental consulting firm on corporate carbon footprinting, the impact of carbon markets in China, and product labeling for Chinese textile producers. The previous summer, she worked in Leipzig, Germany on groundwater bioremediation near a former East German chemicals plant. Emily's love of energy infrastructure may have something to do with her Kern County birth and her Anchorage and Bangkok childhood, and she is especially excited to join members of this year's class on field trips.
Doug Hannah was so inspired after taking Energy Resources in 2007 that he's joined the teaching team in order to take the class again. He's now entering the second year of his masters in Management Science and Engineering, where he studies technological change, innovation, and economic modeling through Stanford's Energy Modeling Forum. Prior to becoming a Californian, Douglas graduated with a degree in environmental science from Dartmouth College and spent two years at an environmental policy consulting group in Boston. Outside of classes, you'll find him cycling the local hills or cruising local restaurants looking for the deep fryer oil he uses to power his waste vegetable oil car.
Last September, Mark sat where you did now- he was but another lucky Energy Resources student fascinated by all things energy. This class opened his eyes, and the experience he got in it opened doors as well. This summer he worked at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, figuring out which batteries would go in GM's 2010 plug-in hybrid cars (think the Chevy Volt- if you haven't heard about it you will soon..). Mark graduated Stanford in 2007 with a bachelor's degree in Symbolic Systems, and stayed on to do a masters in Mechanical Engineering with a focus on energy systems. Mark was on the Ultimate team at Stanford and loves being outdoors and playing sports.
Emma Wendt is finishing her MBA and MS in Environment & Resources, and loved Energy Resources when she took it last year. Emma spent this past summer at Chevron, modeling approaches to reducing carbon emissions and investigating renewable energy options. The previous summer she worked at NaiKun, a wind farm developer based in Vancouver, addressing impacts of wind turbines on birds. Before coming to Stanford, Emma worked at the World Bank and International Finance Corporation in Washington, DC. There, she improved the offices' internal environmental impact, and led the IFC to become carbon neutral. Emma graduated from Harvard with a BA in Environmental Science and Public Policy. Her quirky hobbies include fiddling, curling, baking vegan cookies, and giving green stars to classmates who compost properly.
