GC43G:
Addressing the Carbon Challenge Through Negative Emissions, Utilization of Waste Streams, and Measurement Improvements Posters


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Session ID#: 56715

Session Description:
Carbon is an integral building block of life on Earth and has fueled unprecedented economic and societal progress. But with progress has come significant increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane, causing warming and other health and environmental impacts. While efforts to reduce reliance on carbon-based fuels proceed, there is also growing attention to the need to remove carbon from the atmosphere (negative emissions), reliably sequester it, and develop commercial uses for it in order to meet international climate goals. Advancements and challenges in methane emissions monitoring, measurement, and verification; utilization of carbon waste streams; and carbon dioxide removal and storage approaches will be highlighted. This session will build on Recent National Academies’ reports on these topics and more broadly explore multipdisciplinary work on negative emissions technologies and associated economic, legal and ethical challenges ranging from land-use, water withdrawals and energy consumption, among others.
Primary Convener:  April M Melvin, National Academy of Sciences, Polar Research Board & Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Jennifer Wilcox, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Department of Chemical Engineering, Worcester, CA, United States, Stephen W Pacala, Princeton University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton, NJ, United States and Klaus S. Lackner, Univ British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Naushita Sharma, Arizona State University, Tempe, United States
Chairs:  April M Melvin, National Academy of Sciences, Polar Research Board, Washington, DC, United States and Jennifer Wilcox, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Department of Chemical Engineering, Worcester, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  April M Melvin, National Academy of Sciences, Polar Research Board, Washington, DC, United States
Index Terms:

1615 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1631 Land/atmosphere interactions [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Process-based ecosystem modeling to estimate the relative climate mitigation value of carbon-negative bioenergy systems (422757)
John Field, Colorado State University, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Lee R Lynd, Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, NH, United States, Keith Paustian, Colorado State University, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Fort Collins, United States, Tom L Richard, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States and Erica A H Smithwick, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geography and Earth and Environmental Systems Institute, University Park, United States
Subsurface in Germany Provides Substantial Potential to Contribute to the Goals of the Climate Action Plan 2050 (389946)
Sonja Martens1, Michael Kühn2, Natalie Nakaten1 and Thomas Kempka1, (1)Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany, (2)GFZ Helmholtz Center for Geosciences, Geochemistry, Potsdam, Germany
Comparative Life-cycle Assessment of Aquatic and Terrestrial Bioenergy with CO2 Capture and Storage (416567)
A. Jasmin Melara1, Udayan Singh2, Jeffrey A Bennett2, Andres F Clarens1 and Lisa M. Colosi2, (1)University of Virginia, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (2)University of Virginia, Department of Engineering Systems and Environment, Charlottesville, VA, United States
Direct Air Capture – assessing Energy, Cost and Kinetic constraints based on outlined boundary conditions (451663)
Klaus S. Lackner1, Jennifer Wilcox2, Peter Campbell Psarras3 and Naushita Sharma1, (1)Arizona State University, Tempe, United States, (2)Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Department of Chemical Engineering, Worcester, CA, United States, (3)Colorado School of Mines, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Golden, CO, United States
Ecological carbon sequestration via wood harvest and storage: potential, practical considerations and trials (458406)
Ning Zeng, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
A Research Agenda for Carbon Dioxide Removal and Reliable Sequestration: a focus on terrestrial technologies (446371)
Keith Paustian, Colorado State Univ, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Stephen W Pacala, Princeton University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton, NJ, United States, Mahdi Al-Kaisi, Iowa State, Soil Management, Ames, United States, Mark A. Barteau, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, Erica Belmont, University of Wyoming, Mechanical Engineering, Laramie, United States, Sally M Benson, Stanford University, Geologic Carbon Storage, Stanford, United States, Richard Birdsey, Woods Hole Research Center, Woods Hole, United States, Dane Boysen, Modular Chemical, Inc., Anchorage, United States, Riley Duren, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, Charles Hopkinson, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States, Christopher Jones, Georgia Tech, Chemical Engineering, Atlanta, United States, Peter B Kelemen, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Annie Levasseur, École de Technologie Supérieure, Montreal, Canada, Jianwu Tang, MBL, The Ecosystems Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States, Tiffany Troxler, Florida International University, Institute of Environment, Sea Level Solutions Center, Miami, United States, Michael W Wara, Stanford University, Stanford, United States and Jen Wilcox, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, United States
Landfill Carbon: Decadal to Millennial Pathways for Methanogenesis, Methanotrophy and Carbon Sequestration (395144)
Jean E Bogner, University of Illinois at Chicago, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chicago, IL, United States, Morton Barlaz, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States, Daniel S Cooley, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Kurt Spokas, USDA-ARS, St. Paul, MN, United States
Olivine weathering, the release of Nickel and practical implications for CO2 sequestration (344827)
Pol Knops, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States; Planbco, Twello, Netherlands and Joshi Lenferink, Wageningen University and Research Center, Wageningen, Netherlands

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