Dear students and post-docs,
I'm helping a team at Frontier, a nonprofit in Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR). They're sponsoring an exciting challenge to identify large sources of alkalinity around the world. Please see the blurb below describing the opportunity and the link! Please feel free to forward to your department email lists and others who may be interested.
https://frontierclimate.com/alkalinity-challenge
Best,
Dan Ibarra
In total, the world needs to do ~1 teraton of carbon removal over the next ~100 years to effectively stabilize global temperatures around 1.5°C, in addition to reducing emissions. This challenge focuses on a subset of carbon removal approaches that rely on rocks with alkalinity-generating capacity as feedstock. To that end, we're interested in finding the most accessible deposits of highly reactive rock. We're hoping to tap into your diverse geological and geographical expertise in order to locate the largest deposits of highly reactive rock, in the fewest possible sites, anywhere around the world!
For this challenge, we're asking applicants to submit "Site Hypothesis" documents, approximately 2-5 pages long, describing promising sites for large deposits of alkalinity generating rocks. Up to 10 awardees will receive a $5K honorarium, submissions are due Jan 6th. Please see the website here for full details including contact info for more questions.
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Daniel Ibarra
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