DeLaine Mayer

DeLaine Mayer is passionate about the research and deployment of advanced technologies that can address the climate crisis on Earth while enabling sustainable, long-term human development off-Earth.

DeLaine is a founding member and Director of External Affairs at Nebula Energy, an investment, development, and asset management firm developing low-carbon energy solutions for high-growth markets. She leads Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) Hub development across Southeast Asia, Europe, and the US, leveraging Nebula’s proprietary CO2 transportation solution to enable cost-effective CO2 transport and faster first-injection timelines for permanent CO2 storage. She is also adjunct faculty at New York University, where she teaches graduate course Astropolitik: The Politics, Policies, and Technologies of Outer Space at the Center for Global Affairs.

DeLaine earned her M.S. with distinction from NYU studying Global Affairs with a specialization in Energy and Environmental Policy. She completed her M.S. in Space Resources at Colorado School of Mines, researching astropolitics, technology management, and resource utilization in space.

Her past work in the energy sector contributed to the development of multi-million-dollar distributed energy projects in the United States, Mexico, and Jamaica and her work in the emerging Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) industry advanced the development and deployment of bioplastics technology to engender more sustainable supply chains. In 2021, DeLaine won NASA iTech’s “space packaging” competition, advocating that Full Cycle Bioplastics’ waste-to-bioplastic climate solution could be adapted for use by human settlements in space.