NSF Convergence Accelerator: Landscape Carbon Sequestration for Atmospheric Recovery (LCSAR)

该项目将组织和主办一次研讨会，扩大学术界、工业界和社区部门利益攸关方之间的合作，以开发从大气中回收碳并将其封存在陆地生态系统中的自然解决方案。计划的标题是景观碳封存大气恢复（LCSAR）研讨会，将于2019年秋季在俄勒冈州大学举行。该活动旨在刺激新工具的开发，通过自然气候解决方案量化和加速二氧化碳减少，促进数据集成，以满足林业，农业，牧场和湿地/蓝碳部门的工业和土地管理需求。研究表明，保护、恢复和管理增加森林、湿地、草原、农业和发达土地的碳储存，可以减轻地球大气中二氧化碳积累的影响。然而，在将这些知识转化为执行方面仍然存在重大差距。为了推进所寻求的天然二氧化碳封存解决方案，公共和私营部门的土地管理者需要更详细的建议，包括成本效益分析、协议和技术，这些技术可以精确地综合数据，以帮助优先考虑最有可能实现投资回报最大化的机会。计划中的研讨会有可能加快私营和公共部门之间的创新和融合，以减少碳排放，同时实现经济福祉、生物多样性和自然资源保护的共同效益。结果可能包括新的原型和平台想法，以促进对基于碳封存的企业的投资。LCSAR研讨会将召集来自商业，科学，公共部门和主要非营利组织的领导人，以评估和综合这些需求，包括：（i）碳固存、土地系统和社会科学方面的学术专家，（ii）林业、农业、畜牧业的行业利益攸关方，（iii）联邦、部落、州和地方土地管理机构，（iv）土地信托和私人土地所有者，以及（v）从事开发非专有知识基础设施的技术公司和软件工程师。从大气中去除二氧化碳受到物理定律和生态过程的限制。与人类活动释放的二氧化碳的速率和数量相比，自然的净碳吸收速率是缓慢的。新出现的科学数据表明，有必要制定和协调战略，以满足国家从大气层向土地清除大量二氧化碳的需要。LCSAR研讨会将鼓励使用来自NSF资助的网络和其他基于基金会的研究工作的现有数据，通过强大的多机构合作伙伴关系创建一套可操作的协议和可交付成果。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

This project will organize and host a workshop to expand collaboration between stakeholders in academia, industry, and community sectors to develop natural solutions to recovering carbon from the atmosphere and sequestering it in terrestrial ecosystems. The planned title is Landscape Carbon Sequestration for Atmospheric Recovery (LCSAR) workshop which will be held in fall 2019 at the University of Oregon. The event will be designed to stimulate the development of new tools to quantify and accelerate CO2 drawdown through natural climate solutions by catalyzing data integration in alignment with industry and land stewardship needs across forestry, farming, ranching, and wetlands/blue carbon sectors. Research has established that conservation, restoration, and management that increase carbon storage across forests, wetlands, grasslands, agriculture and developed lands, can mitigate impacts of CO2 build up in the Earth's atmosphere. However, critical gaps remain in translating this knowledge to implementation. To advance the natural CO2 sequestration solutions that are sought, public and private-sector land stewards require more detailed recommendations, including cost-benefit analyses, protocols, and technologies that can precisely synthesize data to help prioritize opportunities that are most likely to maximize investment returns. The planned workshop has the potential to accelerate innovation and convergence between private and public sectors to provide carbon drawdown while achieving co-benefits for economic well-being, biodiversity and natural resource conservation. Outcomes may include new prototypes and platform ideas to catalyze investments toward carbon sequestering landscape-based enterprises.The LCSAR workshop will convene leaders from business, science, the public sector, and key non-profits to assess and synthesize these needs, including: (i) academic experts in carbon sequestration, land systems, and social sciences, (ii) industry stakeholders in forestry, agriculture, livestock, and development (iii) federal, tribal, state, and local land management agencies, (iv) land trusts and private landowners, and (v) technology companies and software engineers engaged in developing non-proprietary knowledge infrastructures. The removal of CO2 from the atmosphere is limited by laws of physics and ecological processes. Natural rates of net carbon uptake are slow compared to the rates and amounts of carbon dioxide released by anthropogenic activity. Emerging scientific data show the need for development and coordination of strategies to address a national need to remove meaningful quantities of CO2 from the atmosphere to the land. The LCSAR workshop will stimulate the use of existing data from NSF-funded networks and other landscape-based research efforts to create an actionable set of protocols and deliverables envisioned via robust multi-institutional partnerships.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.