Lincoln F Pratson, Truman and Nellie Semans/Alex Brown and Sons Professor of Earth and Ocean Sciences and Energy Initiative

Lincoln Pratson is a professor in the Nicholas School of the Environment and is Director of the School's Energy & Environment Program. He is also the Director of the Duke University Energy Hub, Associate Director of the Gendell Center for Engineering, Energy & the Environment at Duke,serves on the Executive Committee for the Research Triangle Energy Consortium (https://www.rtec-rtp.org/), and is the co-founder & co-director of the Sustainable Energy Fellowship (http://www.teachenergy.org/). Pratson is a geologist/geophysicist by training. He has consulted for major oil companies and helped co-found an energy service company that provides state-of-the-art gravity data used to explore for offshore oil and gas reserves. Pratson co-leads a research group at Duke on carbon capture and storage. The research is supported by the DOE and private industry. Working with students, Pratson is also conducting research into integrating different forms energy storage and renewable energy generation into the electricity delivery system, assessing current and future water use in thermo-electric power generation, and evaluating future demand for and supplies of energy resources.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	203 Old Chem
Office Phone:	(919) 681-8077
Email Address:

Teaching (Summer1 2013):

• EOS 393.12, RESEARCH INDEPENDENT STUDY Synopsis

  TBA, 12:00 AM-12:00 AM

• ENVIRON 330.01, ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT Synopsis

  Gross Hall 107, MW 03:05 PM-04:20 PM

  (also cross-listed as EOS 330.01)

• ENVIRON 711.01, ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT Synopsis

  Physics 130, MW 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

Education:

PhD, Geology	Columbia University
BS, Geology	Trinity University
MS, Oceanography	University of Rhode Island

Specialties:

energy
geology
geospatial technologies
technological environment
business and the environment
sediment transport/strata formation

Research Interests: carbon capture and storage, energy resources and energy systems.

Curriculum Vitae

Working Papers   (More Publications)

1. Darmawan Prasodjo and Lincoln Pratson, OptimaCCS Carbon Capture and Storage Infrastructure Optimization: North Carolina Case Study, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions Report NI R 12-02 (April, 2012) [optimaccs-carbon-capture-and-storage-infrastructure-optimization-nc]
2. Darmawan Prasodjo and Lincoln Pratson, OptimaCCS Carbon Capture and Storage Infrastructure Optimization: Texas Case Study, Joint report of the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions and Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University. (January, 2012) [optimaccs-carbon-capture-and-storage-infrastructure-optimization-nc]

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Jordan K. Eccles, Lincoln Pratson, Richard G. Newell, Robert B. Jackson, The impact of geologic variability on capacity and cost estimates for storing CO2 in deep-saline aquifers, Energy Economics (September, 2012) [S0140988311002891]
2. Monast, J., B.R. Pearson, and L.F. Pratson, A cooperative federalism framework for CCS regulation, Environmental & Energy Law Journal of the University of Houston Law Center (Spring, 2012) [pdf]
3. Jordan Eccles, Lincoln F. Pratson , and Munish Kumar Chandel, Effects of Well Spacing on Geological Storage Site Distribution Costs and Surface Footprint, Environ Sci & Technol, vol. 46 no. 8 (2012), pp. 4649–4656 [es203553e]
4. David Amblas, T.P. Gerber, B. De Mol, R. Urgeles, D. Garcia-Castellanos, M. Canals, L.F. Pratson, N. Robb and Jason Canning, Survival of a submarine canyon during long-term outbuilding of a continental margin, Geology, vol. 40 no. 6 (2012), pp. 543-546 [543.short]
5. Jordan K Eccles, Lincoln Pratson, Economic evaluation of offshore storage potential in the US Exclusive Economic Zone, Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology (Accepted, 2012) [abstract]