Geochemist @Yale | Dr. Sci. | enhanced and natural silicate rock weathering | CDR | passion for climate change mitigation and climate science communication
Check out our new piece on potential environmental issues around enhanced weathering. Led by Charlotte Levy, we try to give clear monitoring and mitigation recommendations, rather than just a list of problems.
The supplement has loads of useful stuff, too!
Exciting Enhanced Weathering Postdoc opportunity at Yale University. If you are experienced in modeling Earth surface processes across soils, rivers, and oceans and want to improve our understanding of CO2 removal through EW (and OAE), this is your job: https://tinyurl.com/9dn7nrwc
*please share*
On Monday, Dr. Tom Reershemius defended his excellent dissertation - some super interesting findings to be submitted soon! It was an absolute pleasure to work together for the past year, excited to see what you will do next in #Newcastle - glad you are staying in #ERW science!
Our sensitivity analysis of soil-based approaches to quantify carbon dioxide removal from enhanced rock weathering is published. In short, they should be useful in most regions as long as you get your sampling protocols right & choose the right feedstock!
My PhD method chapter is finally published. Read if you are interested in how we can use lake sediments to reconstruct how silicate rock weathering has changed over the last glacial transitions. :)
It is open acces!
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0009254124001347?via%3Dihub
The new abstract submission deadline for #ERW24 is now March 14th! This extension provides an excellent opportunity for those who have yet to submit their abstracts to present their work on enhanced rock weathering! All info on submission: https://www.erw24.com/
The field of enhanced rock weathering keeps growing: 2023 showed another ~50% increase in publications as well as some first patents...
lit list: https://tinyurl.com/ERWlit
add missing lit: tinyurl.com/ERWmorelit
Contact me if you want to help with the review project! :-)
If you happen to be in San Francisco next week and are excited about enhanced rock weathering -- come check out my poster at the session below and/or make sure to reach out! :)
Want to learn more on how to quantify carbon dioxide removal from enhanced rock weathering? Check out our (not yet peer reviewed) review of pros and cons of different approaches as well as sources of uncertainty and ways to navigate them!
Led by Tom Reershemius and Mike E. Kelland, our paper on using solid-based approaches to quantify carbon dioxide removal in enhanced rock weathering field trials is finally out!
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.3c03609
Not open access (😵💫), let me know if you need a copy!
A colleague and I are publishing a comment on a paper in a @wileyglobal journal. The open access fee is 4330$. The original paper is already open access. 4330$. For a comment. Grant does not cover publishing fees for a COMMENT. 4330$! What the actual fuck?!
Dear #ERW community, I am compiling a (hopefully) complete list of ERW literature. Am I missing any studies? Please share, add using the form, & reach out to collaborate!😊
lit list: https://tinyurl.com/ERWlit
form to add lit: https://tinyurl.com/ERWmorelit
Result will be public too!🥳
Today I joined Isabella Chiaravalloti in the greenhouse to help with her enhanced rock weathering (ERW) experiments. Isabella is testing how ERW and associated metal release impacts fluxes of greenhouse gases (like carbon dioxide, but also methane, nitrous oxide, ammonia, and water vapor) from soils.
Super interesting and important for measurement, reporting, and verification of carbon dioxide removal! Can't wait for the results!
Every CDR talk anywhere should always start and end with the disclaimer that we still, absolutely and ASAP, need to cut CO2 emissions. As much as we need CDR, it won't matter much without deep decarbonization. I think the danger of politicians/public to miss this point is real...
Next exciting event @YaleUniversity after the #YCNCC symposium- Yale climate day! Super excited for the talks (and posters), and to learn more about the connection between climate change and the oceans. Particularly looking forward to the talk on the limits of life… #YaleClimateDay
Super excited to participate in the Yale YCNCC spring symposium on enhanced weathering. Two days of interesting panel discussions, talks – and most of all meeting fascinating people working on enhanced weathering from different backgrounds: science (natural & social!), business, policy.
Very inspiring to work at a place that brings together so many leading experts, helping to identify key challenges for enhanced weathering and bring about the collaborations to tackle them!
#ERW #CDR #MRV
@GreenOlivine awesome, I will check it out tomorrow! Thanks for the info! :)
Spent yesterday out in the field helping Quinn Zacharias prepare for their big enhanced weathering field trials! Soon, they'll amend the soils with basalt powder, which will (hopefully!) remove CO2 from the atmosphere.
The project is unique, because they will apply basalt to a complete watershed. Plus the catchment is continuously monitored and has ~60 years of baseline data! Can't wait for their results! 🤓
@davidho That is funny! 😂