Carbon sequestration

Carbon Sequestration GPG Group

PI(s):

Peter B. Kelemen

PI(s):

Juerg M. Matter

Mineral carbonation in peridotite for CO2 capture and storage (CCS).

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GPG Group's Carbon Sequestration

Paleoecology Laboratory

PI(s):

Dorothy M. Peteet

Describes global research using vegetation shifts to reconstruct local and regional changes in the landscape due to climate and/or anthropogenic influence.

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Paleoecology Laboratory

Carbon Dioxide Research Group

PI(s):

Taro Takahashi

Sequestration of CO₂ generated by power plants by injection into deep aquifers (geological sequestration) has been proposed as a possible alternative for the reduction of excessive green

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Carbon Dioxide Research Group

The Borehole Research Group (BRG) uses downhole geophysical measurements in a wide variety of scientific investigations including sea level variations, paleoceanography, flow of fluids through fractured rock

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Borehole Research Group

Name	Title	Fields of interest
Amelia Paukert	Graduate Student	Carbon sequestration, hydrogeology, aqueous geochemistry, water-rock interaction
Natalia Zakharova	Graduate Research Assistant	Geophysics, carbon sequestration.
Dorothy M. Peteet	Adjunct Senior Research Scientist	Paleoclimate, paleoecology, climate modeling, wetland carbon storage, palynology.
Angela Slagle	Associate Research Scientist	Sedimentary features and subsurface imaging in shallow subduction zones and continental margins; Carbon sequestration and porosity/permeability in ocean basalts; Wireline logging and logging-while drilling.
David S. Goldberg	Lamont Research Professor	Borehole Geophysics, Methane Hydrates, CO2 sequestration
Juerg M. Matter	Lamont Associate Research Professor	Carbon Sequestration, Hydrogeophysics, Flow and Transport in Saturated Media
Peter B. Kelemen	Arthur D. Storke Memorial Professor
Paul E. Olsen	Arthur D. Storke Memorial Professor	paleontology, stratigraphy, Evolution of continental ecosystems (climate change, mass extinctions)
Taro Takahashi	Ewing Lamont Research Professor	CO2 cycling through oceans and atmosphere; industrial CO2 accumulation.

Drilling for Carbon-Storing Rocks in Suburban New York

September 12, 2011

Under the shopping malls and highways of suburbia, there might one day be a partial fix for global warming. Since August, engineers have been drilling just west of the Tappan Zee Bridge to collect samples of rock from the Newark Basin, an ancient rock formation stretching beneath New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Scientists Target East Coast Rocks for CO2 Storage

January 04, 2010

Scientists say buried volcanic rocks along the heavily populated coasts of New York, New Jersey and New England, as well as further south, might be ideal reservoirs to lock away carbon dioxide emitted by power plants and other industrial sources.
Fighting Global Warming by Turning CO2 into Stone

June 16, 2009

A power plant in Iceland is set to become the first in the world to try turning carbon dioxide emissions into solid minerals underground, starting this September.

In an $11 million pilot project, Reykjavik Energy will capture CO2 from its plant, dissolve the gas in water and inject it deep into volcanic basalt nearby. Over the nine-month study, some 2,000 tons of greenhouse gas will be treated.
Geologists Map Rocks to Soak CO2 From Air

March 05, 2009

6,000 Square Miles in U.S. Might Turn Emissions to Harmless Solids

To slow global warming, scientists are exploring ways to pull carbon dioxide from the air and safely lock it away.
Amazon Outflow is Found to Power Ocean Capture of Carbon Dioxide

July 23, 2008

Nutrients washed out of the Amazon River are powering huge amounts of previously unexpected plant life far out to sea, thus trapping atmospheric carbon dioxide, according to a new study.
Undersea Volcanic Rocks May Offer Vast Repository for Greenhouse Gas

July 14, 2008

Drilling, experiments, target huge formations off West Coast

Palisades, N.Y., July 14, 2008—A group of scientists has used deep ocean-floor drilling and experiments to show that volcanic rocks off the West Coast and elsewhere might be used to securely imprison huge amounts of globe-warming carbon dioxide captured from power plants or other sources. In particular, they say that natural chemical reactions under 78,000 square kilometers (30,000 square miles) of ocean floor off California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia could lock in as much as 150 years of U.S. CO2 production
Lamont Scientists Present Findings on Hidden Dangers of Climate Change, Natural Hazards

December 11, 2007

Dec 10, 2007--Scientists from Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory will report this week on vital topics including new evidence of the effects of climate change; technologies to confront it; studies of eastern U.S. earthquake risk; and previously unseen inner workings of the deep polar ice caps. The reports will be presented at the fall 2007 American Geophysical Union (AGU), the largest earth-sciences gathering in the world, Dec. 10-14 in San Francisco.


	Stashing CO2 In Rocks	NPR Science Friday, Jan. 11, 2010
	Igneous Rock Could Hold CO2	Clean Skies Network, LLC
	Carbon Sequestration Research	at Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
	Carbon Sequestration in Deep-Sea Basalt	Lamont Doherty's Earth Science Colloquium
	Turning Carbon Dioxide Into Stone	NPR Science Friday, July 18, 2008