Marine Sequestration: Practice, Policies, and Promise
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Join the Manylabs carbontech community for an evening on marine sequestration: the role oceans, underwater plants, and minerals play in the natural and engineered solutions to climate change through carbon dioxide removal, storage, and utilization.
Experts Dr. Greg Rau (UC Santa Cruz) will offer an overview of marine sequestration and Dr. Wil Burns (Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy) will discuss the current policy and ethics perspectives of this important topic.
Agenda:
6-6:30 networking
6:30-7:30 presentation
7:30-8 networking
NOTE: There is somewhat limited seating at this venue. For those that are able, please expect that you may stand for the duration of this event.
Getting to the venue:
Schmidt Marine Technology Partners' brown brick building is just south of the Ferry Building. Please note that you cannot get to their office through the building's main entrance. You must go through the construction gate on the left side (look for the Schmidt Marine sign) and head to the back corner. The venue's front door is on the backside of the building, facing the water and the Bay Bridge.
We highly recommend you take BART/public transit; this venue is only a 5 minute walk from Embarcadero BART Station. Unfortunately there are no parking options on site but there is street parking nearby by Pier 24. There is also a parking garage at 75 Howard Street. Note that the holiday may affect parking options.
Speaker Bios:
Dr. Greg Rau is a Senior Research Scientist with the Institute of Marines Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is also a Visiting Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. With a background in the study of natural carbon cycling, he has become increasingly involved in CO2 management R&D over the past 20 years. He has written over 130 articles on the preceding topics and holds 5 patents. In 2013 Greg was a winner in 2 sections of MIT’s Climate CoLab technology competition, and has been a finalist in: the ConocoPhillips Energy Prize (2008), the Paul Allen Ocean Challenge (2013) and most recently the Keeling Curve Prize (2018). During 2014-5 he served as a Judge for the Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health XPrize. He has also been an advisor/consultant for the International Maritime Organization, The Ocean Solutions Group, the National Academy of Sciences, and other organizations. Dr. Rau is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and lives with his wife, Vreni, in Castro Valley, California.
Dr. Wil Burns is a Professor of Research and Founding Co-Executive Director of the Institute for Carbon Removal Law & Policy at American University in Washington, DC. Prior to this, he served as the Founding Co-Executive Director of the Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment, and Director of the Energy Policy & Climate program at Johns Hopkins University. He also serves as the Co-Chair of the International Environmental Law Section of the American Branch of the International Law Association. Previously, he served as well as President of the Association of Environmental Studies & Sciences. His research agenda includes: climate geoengineering, the effectiveness of the European Union’s Emissions Trading System, and climate adaptation mechanisms within international climate treaties. He received his PhD in International Law from the University of Wales-Cardiff School of Law.
Learn now! There are many ways that marine environments sequester carbon:
General marine CDR:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2018.00337/full
Mineral weathering:
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/2016RG000533
Negative-emissions:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0203-0
Governance:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/18366503.2017.1400899
Seagrasses:
https://rsj-prod.literatumonline.com/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2018.0529
Liming:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11027-018-9835-7