Yale Planetary Solutions 2025 Seed Grants Announced
The Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture (YCNCC) is proud to have partnered with Yale Planetary Solutions (YPS) to support the 2025 YPS Seed Grant program.
As part of this collaboration, YCNCC co-funded several impactful awards, including:
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“Harnessing AI for Climate Change Mitigation and Resilience” - Rohini Pande, Luke Sanford, Lucy Page, Maike Pfeiffer
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“Hidden Climate Benefits: Leveraging Cover Crops to Protect Forest Edges in the Amazon” - Paulo Brando, Xuhui Lee, Leandro Maracahipes, Bela Starinchak, Nadav Bendavid, Skye Hellenkamp, Marcia Macedo + Michael Coe (Woodwell Climate Research Center), Ane Alencar (IPAM Amazonia - Amazon Environmental Research Institute)
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”Incentivizing Sustainable Agricultural Practices Using Satellite Technology” - Nicholas Ryan, Steven Brownstone (UC San Diego), Naveen Kumar (BGS Institute of Technology - India), Aparna Raturi
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”Validation of a Novel Solid State Alkalinity Sensor for Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal” - Peter Raymond, Mingyu Zhang, Kira Biener, Nicolas Theunissen, Isabella Chiaravalloti
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”AI-Powered, Low-Cost Soil Carbon Verification: Scalable and Continuous Monitoring for Agricultural Carbon Credits” - Leandros Tassiulas, Mark Bradford, Jian Ding
YCNCC extends their congratulations to all 2025 YPS grant recipients, and we are grateful to the YPS team—Alex Reich, Ashley Baker, Sarah Smiley-Smith, and Julie Zimmerman—for their outstanding partnership and continued collaboration. We’re excited to see these innovative projects move forward and begin delivering real-world impact over the coming year.