Summary
This award supports the 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Geologic Hydrogen, an emerging field exploring naturally occurring hydrogen in Earth’s subsurface and ways to enhance its production. Hydrogen is essential for producing commodity chemicals and meeting energy needs. As an alternative to manufacturing hydrogen, which requires energy-intensive processes, pathways to harness the subsurface environment to produce geologic hydrogen are emerging as economically viable and environmentally benign solutions. Early discoveries and rapidly growing industrial interest suggest that geologic hydroge
