The Institute of Applied Ecology (Dept. Climate Change Impact Research) at Geisenheim University of Applied Sciences has a temporary position for a research assistant (m/f/d) with the opportunity to optain a PhD, part-time (65%). The position is in the project „Pyrogenic Carbon and Mineral Weathering („PyMiCCS„) for Accelerated Plant Growth and CO2 Removal and Storage“, which is embedded in the German CDRterra research network.
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by Frauke Kracke, Joanna Klitzke, Nan Ransohoff on https://frontierclimate.com/writing/cdr-gap-database
An editable database of CDR gaps – the authors built a CDR gap database that highlights major knowledge and innovation gaps across the field. To make the initial list of 100+ gaps navigable, each one is tagged with attributes to help orient a user to the gap, how impactful it would be if filled, and who might be best positioned to fill it.
by The Ocean Embassy, Moderator Anna Madlener, 1h
The Ocean Embassy podcast shares knowledge to help protect the oceans. In the latest episode of its Ocean CDR Series, dive into the science of ocean alkalinity enhancement with marine biogeochemist Dr. Lennart Bach.
28.05.–02.06.2023; Les Diablerets (Switzerland)
This fifth edition of the Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) addresses the transformative science required to establish a new carbon economy. Transformative science goes beyond studying fundamentals by actively initiating and catalyzing change processes. The Gordon Conference on CCUS will examine scientific advances covering all dimensions of the anthropogenic carbon cycle: from capturing hard-to-abate CO2 emissions to using CO2 as feedstock and generating negative emissions by removing CO2 from the atmosphere and oceans.
Katie Lebling, Eliza Northrop, Colin McCormick, Liz Bridgwater; Report. Washington, DC: World Resources Institute. https://doi.org/10.46830/wrirpt.21.00090, 102 p.
This report distills the potential scale of carbon dioxide removal (CDR), expected costs, risks, co-benefits, and areas of research needed for seven ocean CDR approaches. It proposes an overall approach centered on informed and responsible development and deployment of ocean CDR that balances the urgency of emissions reductions against the environmental and social risks of ocean CDR, including halting development where risks outweigh expected benefits.
Jing-Chun Feng, Liwei Sun, Jinyue Yan IN: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 171, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2022.113018
„This paper evaluates the carbon sequestration potential of bivalve shellfish farming because its sequestration process is driven by nature, and it is cost-effective and energy efficient. (…) Using China as a case study, a preliminary estimation suggests that the carbon sequestration efficiency and intensity of cultivated shellfishes are much higher than those of artificial forests.“
The Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS) of the University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science (Rosenstiel) has an opportunity for a Post-Doctoral researcher. The work will involve close collaboration with scientists at NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML), and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL). The applicant will be physically stationed at AOML in Miami, FL. The principal objective of the position will be to conduct and analyze a suite of Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE) model simulations to understand the efficacy, processes and impacts associated with this Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) method.
The 2023 OpenAir Carbon Removal Challenge is a worldwide contest for students to gain hands-on experience with new technologies that capture excess carbon directly from our atmosphere, soil, and waters. With guidance from researchers and industry experts, student teams will design and build creative, open-source solutions to the carbon pollution problem. The very best approaches will be selected for an in-person showcase at New York University in April 2023.
on carbon-drawdown.de
Carbdown set up an extensive greenhouse experiment involving hundreds of pots (and lysimeters which collect the leachate waters) filled with different mixtures of soils, basalt rock dusts and plants. Their goal is to conduct experiments such that the team can sample for all known (and yet unknown) ERW analytical approaches. This way, all measurements will be from the same set-up, the same water, the same soil and under the same environmental conditions. This should enable Carbdown to find out whether the measurement approaches converge on the same CDR rates. Or at least it should let them get closer to the answers.
Eve Tamme from Climate Principles, 5 p.
The first examples of projects that have received substantial public funding and are looking to stack it with the proceeds from selling removal credits on the Voluntary Carbon Markets (VCM) have emerged, together with diverging views on how to combine these resources. This paper provides a brief exploration of considerations for such situations, together with elaborating on the changing role of the VCM and possible ways forward.
