Removing Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere

Undergraduate / Graduate

This class will survey the science of removing fossil fuel carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, using industrial equipment or by altering soils or natural waters. The various potential strategies have different capacities, costs, and environmental impacts, and some are more verifiable than others. We will evaluate them within the context of the geochemistry of groundwaters and the oceans, and Earth's changing climate and carbon cycle, to get a picture of just how big a pickle we are in.