39A in the News
Posted 20 OCT 2025
Summer Tech Showcase
This summer, 39 Alpha Research scientist, Tucker Ely, highlighted the team’s new thermodynamic modeling software at several leading scientific conferences, including ARPA-E Subsurface Week, the Goldschmidt Conference in Prague, and the Geologic Hydrogen Summit hosted by NREL.
The software advances the modeling of complex geochemical water–rock systems, with immediate applications in the emerging geologic hydrogen generation and carbon sequestration markets.
By sharing this work across diverse forums, 39 Alpha Research is helping build the foundation for innovative solutions in clean energy and climate resilience.
Posted 21 APR 2025
Earth Day Live Event
@ The Plant Mill
Join Team Zero Scientist Tucker Ely at The Plant Mill in Tempe, AZ on Tuesday April 22nd, 2025 from 10am to 6pm.
Tucker will be posted up in front of a large screen, visualizing near-real time global climate data while spouting facts, opinions, hopes and fears, and taking questions about this island we call home.
He might have answers, he might not. He'll try really really hard to keep wild speculation to a minimum. He will be sober, so this shouldn't be too difficult.
Earth is an island people!
Find out how researchers 'see' the Earth in all of its infinite scale and complexity. How can we 'see' plants breath from space? What planetary-scale forces shape regional climates? And how can we 'see' this with satellite imagery.
Posted 3 APR 2025
Beer With Scientists
@ goldwater brewing co.
39 Alpha Research held our first Beer with Scientists fundraiser at Goldwater Brewing Co. on January 16th, 2025. Thank you to everyone who came out and supported our nonprofit!
Our inaugural research group, Team Zero, highlighted two of their recent projects on stimulated geologic hydrogen and the carbonate state space. We were accompanied by guest scientists of varying disciplines -from Clinical Psychology and social science to GeoBiochemistry and beyond- to share insights and stories, drink beer, debate weighty things, and really just get people talking about science.
Stay tuned for our future Beer with Scientists events!
Posted 3 APR 2025
ARPA-E Award
39 Alpha Research has been awarded a cooperative agreement by the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program to explore the stimulated production of geologic hydrogen.
Geologic hydrogen is hydrogen gas (H2) that is produced through reactions between water and rock in Earth’s subsurface. H2 is a clean energy source that produces no carbon when burned or used in a fuel cell, and so represents a promising target for the United States’ decarbonization efforts.
39 Alpha’s Team 0 will leverage it’s expertise in high-throughput computation and geochemistry provide large-scale, high-resolution modeling support to other ARPA-E funded teams in an effort to maximize the production of H2 through subsurface water-rock interactions.