OCB2021 June 15

Agenda for virtual OCB2021
Tuesday, June 15, 2021

8:00-8:15am EDT
Breakout Room
 Welcome to the day – announcements and instructions
8:15-10:15
Breakout Room
 PLENARY PANEL DISCUSSION
Ocean-based negative emissions technologiesChairs and Speakers - Lennart Bach (Univ. Tasmania, Australia), Jaime Palter (Univ. Rhode Island), Clare Reimers (Oregon State Univ.), Patrick Rafter (Univ. California, Irvine), David Keller (GEOMAR Kiel, Germany), Ros Rickaby (Oxford Univ., UK), Lisa Windham-Myers (US Geological Survey, USA), Nichole Price (Bigelow Laboratory, USA), Joo-Eun Yoon (Incheon National University, South Korea), David Koweek (Stanford, Ocean Visions, USA), Veronica Tamsitt (Univ New South Wales, AUS), Julius Busecke (Columbia Univ., USA), Candis Callison (Univ British Columbia, Canada)
8:15 - Session intro and Overview (Lennart Bach)
8:30 - Speaker Q&A (Moderator: Lennart Bach)
8:55 - Breakout intro and discussions (pick a topic and join a labeled table for discussions - each floor 1-8 has repeats of these tables for more room)

  • Ocean alkalinity enhancement (Tables 1-2)
  • Ocean afforestation (Tables 3-4)
  • Iron Fertilization (Tables 5-6)
  • Blue Carbon (Tables 7-8)
  • Artificial upwelling (Table 9-10)
  • Storage permanence (Table 11)
  • Other (Table 12)

Breakout Questions (these will be posted on the white board at each table)

  • What is the state of knowledge with respect to the quantitative contribution this method could make toward carbon removal?
  • What tools/studies are needed to reduce uncertainty on that quantitative range?
  • What hands-on research is most urgently needed on the topic overall and where are likely funding sources?
  • Are there "knock-out criteria" that can be identified that would suggest a solution will not be viable?
  • What are the key ethical/community-based questions and stakeholders that should be incorporated in ONET research in general and with respect to the method being discussed at the table?

10:00 Reconvene, report outs and session closing

Watch the recorded plenary talks below before the live session (click linked title to view non-embeded videos)

David Keller (GEOMAR Kiel, Germany)
Overview talk

Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement
password: SM37?*xt
Ros Rickaby (Oxford Univ, UK)

Blue Carbon ecosystem management: A growing global approach to climate mitigation & adaptation - Lisamarie Windham-Myers (USGS)
Slides only, no audio

Nichole Price (Bigelow Laboratory, USA)

Joo-Eun Yoon (Incheon National University, South Korea)

David Koweek (Stanford, Ocean Visions, USA)

Veronica Tamsitt (Univ New South Wales, AUS) and Julius Busecke (Columbia Univ., USA)

Candis Callison (Univ British Columbia, Canada

10:15-10:30   Bio break/informal networking
Lobby
10:30-11:15
Poster Hall
 POSTER SESSION - see poster directory in the ePosterboards platform side menu or:
VIRTUAL POSTER GALLERYPOSTER DIRECTORY (and presentation assignments)
11:15-12:30
Lecture Hall
 AGENCY PRESENTATIONS AND Q&A
NSF: Michael Sieracki (BO), Henrietta [Hedy] Edmonds (CO), Cynthia Suchman (BO), Mete Uz (PO)

NASA: Laura Lorenzoni (OBB)

NOAA: Kathy Tedesco (GOMO), Dwight Gledhill (OAP) 
12:30-1:30
Networking Area
 NETWORKING TIME - NETWORKING DIRECTORY
1:30   Adjourn for day

Chairs: Lennart Bach (Univ. Tasmania, Australia), Jaime Palter (Univ. Rhode Island), Clare Reimers (Oregon State Univ.), Patrick Rafter (Univ. California, Irvine)

Limiting global warming to less than 2°C beyond a preindustrial baseline requires rapid emission reductions. Additionally, all scenarios now require carbon removal to achieve that goal: anywhere from 100-1000 Gt CO2 will need to be removed from the atmosphere by 2100. It is currently unclear if and how gigatonne-scale CO2 removal (CDR) can be achieved. The oceans cover 71% of the Earth surface and could have the capacity to provide a considerable fraction of the required CDR. This session explores the potential and sustainability of the most widely considered marine CDR approaches. We aim to identify key knowledge gaps and discuss future research activities that can close these gaps.

Artwork: Rita Erven, GEOMAR

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