🚨 🌊 Major new oCDR legislation: Four leading US lawmakers have introduced the ReSCUE Oceans Act, to strengthen American leadership in oCDR. The landmark bill includes new grants to spur innovation, strengthens interagency coordination, and helps ensure there are appropriate environmental safeguards as the field matures. A strong oCDR field has many benefits for the US, from maintaining its edge as a home for cutting edge science and technology to real potential for jobs. We are grateful to Senator Schatz & Representatives Bonamici, Tonko, and González-Colón for their leadership. Learn more with the links below: Read the press release: https://lnkd.in/gwW7_HEw Additional statements of support: https://lnkd.in/gCU5Rtws See a summary of the bill: https://lnkd.in/gCD8hrcs One-pager: https://lnkd.in/gbC2z3Mi
Carbon to Sea Initiative
Non-profit Organizations
R&D on the ocean's natural mechanisms for safely removing carbon from our atmosphere.
About us
The Carbon to Sea Initiative is a non-profit program to determine if and how ocean alkalinity enhancement can safely remove and store billions of tons of atmospheric CO2. To achieve this, we bring together the best scientists, engineers, field builders, and market shapers to systematically assess whether and how OAE can be a safe, scalable, and permanent CDR method, and to lay the groundwork for cost-effective and responsible deployment in the future. We engage stakeholders of all kinds to create a richly-collaborative approach with communities around the world interested in tackling climate change. Follow along our journey to hear about grant announcements, publications and fresh insights on ocean cdr.
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www.CarbonToSea.org
External link for Carbon to Sea Initiative
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- Non-profit Organizations
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
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- Nonprofit
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- 2022
Employees at Carbon to Sea Initiative
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Mike Schroepfer
Partner @Gigascale, fmr CTO @ Meta, founder @AdditionalVent. Investing in tech and science to fight climate change. AI
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Irene Polnyi
Strategy for climate
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Diane Hoskins
Director, Policy at Carbon to Sea
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Miriam Zitner
I collaborate with people and institutions to bring new ideas to life | GM Canada, Carbon to Sea Initiative | Co-founder, Board Director, Halifax…
Updates
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Thank you to everyone who participated in our community-driven workshop at this year’s American Geophysical Union conference to help establish OAE data management guidelines! Participants were engaged in discussion about shaping guidelines that can increase the usability, interoperability, and inter-comparability of OAE projects — enhancing the impact of research findings across the field. Once finalized, the requirements will be integrated into funding and partnership agreements across the NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration’s mCDR portfolio and Carbon to Sea’s grantee network. This work is part of Carbon to Sea’s recent Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with NOAA. We look forward to building on this work to help develop these emerging standards! Learn more about the takeaways from our workshop at AGU24:
Community-Driven Workshop Advances OAE Data Management Guidelines - Carbon to Sea Initiative
https://carbontosea.org
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A new episode of the Plan Sea Podcast is now live, along with a special request to you, our listeners! In this edition of Plan Sea, hosts Anna Madlener and Wil Burns are joined by two leading ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) researchers: Dr. Jaime Palter from the URI Graduate School of Oceanography and Dr. Dariia Atamanchuk from Dalhousie University’s Department of Oceanography. Palter and Atamanchuk both lead research field sites studying OAE and are part of Carbon to Sea’s Field Research Steering Committee. Palter and Atamanchuk discuss their work leading research field sites studying OAE in coastal lagoon and ocean harbor settings, respectively, and share initial findings. The Plan Sea hosts and this episode’s guests underscore the importance of field research guiding the recommendation for scientifically robust, yet affordable and actionable monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) processes, and encourage greater collaboration between projects and across the sector. To hear more about these exciting OAE field trials, listen to the full episode here: https://lnkd.in/eVe_9p3R Finally, we would like to hear from you over the Holiday break! Let us know what 2024 milestone we should be celebrating or what you hope to see in 2025 by leaving us a voice message (via the link above) that may be used in our next episode.
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We were proud to work with American Geophysical Union (AGU) to produce a video outlining the good work going on around the world to evaluate OAE. As AGU24 is underway this week, we’re excited to see scientists from different fields discuss promising ocean-based climate solutions, and we’re looking forward to engaging with many of our friends and partners -- including COVE, [C]Worthy, Dalhousie University, GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel, NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, Planetary Technologies, Röst Marine Research Center, Sequoia Scientific, Inc., Ulnooweg Development Group, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Watch the full video to learn more about the work of Carbon to Sea and our partners in the growing effort to advance OAE!
Carbon to Sea Initiative: Growing Support for Ocean-Based Carbon Dioxide Removal Research
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📣 This week at the AGU Annual Meeting, the Carbon to Sea team congratulates Dr. Katja Fennel for being named a 2024 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fellow! Carbon to Sea has had the privilege of working with Dr. Fennel and Dalhousie University to conduct groundbreaking research on ocean-based carbon dioxide removal solutions. As the lead principal investigator of the Ocean Alk-Align research program, Dr. Fennel is leading field trials to expand our understanding of OAE as an ocean-climate solution. We're glad to celebrating this achievement at AGU24!
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🎧 Episode 6 of the Plan Sea Podcast is now live! In this edition of Plan Sea, hosts Anna Madlener and Wil Burns are joined by Captura CEO Steve Oldham to discuss Direct Ocean Capture technology. Captura is a Pasadena, CA-based company that is exploring the use of renewable energy to remove carbon from the ocean as a low-cost, large-scale climate solution. Listen as they discuss Captura's unique approach, proprietary technology, and its pilot programs in Los Angeles and Hawaii. To learn more about Captura’s carbon removal work, listen to the full episode: https://lnkd.in/ezHEqTmz
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🌟Join us at AGU24! 🌟 Carbon to Sea is excited to announce that we’ll be hosting two events during this year’s AGU Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. Don’t miss these opportunities to connect! 📅 On Tuesday, December 10th at 6:30pm, we’re partnering with [C]Worthy, Ocean Visions, Exploring Ocean Iron Solutions - ExOIS, and Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry to host an mCDR Community Gathering. Connect with mCDR colleagues over small bites, drinks, and immersive ocean art. RSVP is available here: https://lnkd.in/gT3qAMD4 📅 On Thursday, December 12th at 7:30pm, we’re hosting an Ocean Carbon and Friends Happy Hour with NOAA Research's Ocean Acidification Program. Join us for networking, drinks, small bites, and brief remarks from OAP Director Dr. Sarah Cooley. RSVP is available here: https://bit.ly/carbonHH We hope to see you there!
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Carbon to Sea is excited to announce our 2024 Research Fellowship Program cohort. From a competitive, diverse pool of applicants, our five research fellows stood out as outstanding candidates with expertise across a range of disciplines. The goal of our Fellowship program is to help create a public, living picture of the sector’s progress, as well as inform Carbon to Sea’s own R&D roadmap and future investments. To do so, Fellows will support sourcing, analyzing, and interpreting research data from emerging field research, interview subject matter experts, and produce a written report. We look forward to inviting the following cohort to our team: Sollilja Bjarnadottir, Social Science Fellow Jiaying Guo, Environmental Impacts Fellow Devon Ledbetter, Science Communications Fellow Abby Lunstrum, OAE Efficacy Fellow Ola Oguntoye, Scale & Cost Fellow Laura Stieghorst, Fellowship Program Manager Read more about our fellows and the Research Fellowship Program and follow along with updates on our blog: https://lnkd.in/eCF7h-4W
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Today, Carbon to Sea is proud to join the NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in announcing a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement to develop data management guidelines for oCDR research. These guidelines will be crucial for promoting more collaborative, efficient, and responsible research across the fast-growing ocean climate field. We look forward to working with NOAA and hope this engagement will serve as a catalyst for our collective understanding of oCDR’s viability. The development of the community-driven guidelines will be led by a team of ocean data scientists: Jacki Long and Veronica Tamsitt with Submarine Scientific and Liqing Jiang with NOAA's Cooperative Institute for Satellite Earth System Studies, University of Maryland and in collaboration with the broader scientific community. 🌊 Read more about the agreement here:
NOAA and Carbon to Sea team up to develop data management guidelines for marine carbon dioxide removal projects - NOAA Research
research.noaa.gov
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Episode 5 of the Plan Sea Podcast is now live! In this episode, hosts Anna Madlener and Wil Burns are joined by returning guest Mike Kelland, CEO and co-founder of Planetary Technologies, as well as Dr. Will Burt, Planetary’s Chief Ocean Scientist. Kelland and Burt update the Plan Sea hosts on Planetary’s growth over the last year, which includes securing $11.5 million in Series A funding — a figure which is particularly notable within the relatively young marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) field. They emphasize the importance of cross-sector collaboration, which has been key to the success of Planetary’s groundbreaking OAE field trial in Halifax. In conjunction with Nova Scotia Power and researchers at Dalhousie University, OAE was able to deliver increasing net carbon removals to local customers. To learn more about Planetary’s work, listen to the full episode here: https://lnkd.in/eC3PnyB5