SEES Workshop: Natural and Engineered Carbon Sequestration

摘要可持续发展科学、工程和教育投资领域于2010财年成立，旨在应对气候和能源研究与教育方面的挑战。最初的征求建议书鼓励开展短期活动，如跨学科讲习班，这将有助于为see活动的发展提供信息。该提案概述了与2011年在明尼苏达州明尼阿波利斯举行的美国地质学会年会联合举办研讨会的计划。本次研讨会的目的是召集社区范围内的研究人员，他们的工作涉及全球碳循环的自然和工程组成部分。鉴于观测证据和模式预测表明，显著的全球变暖已经开始，而且向低碳或无碳能源的广泛转换的前景很可能在未来几十年实现，因此，减缓大气中的温室气体水平是一项主要优先事项。高效、安全的工程固碳技术的发展带来了一系列的研究挑战。在这些领域取得进展的同时，应提高对自然碳固存过程的理解，这主要来自对碳循环大扰动的古代时期（例如，古新世始新世）的研究。研讨会将广泛吸引不同的研究团体，努力突出主要问题和方法，集中合作努力，萌发建议概念，并提供已经进行的主要研究工作的总结，以及应该启动的研究工作。

SEES Workshop: Natural and Engineered Carbon SequestrationBradley Sageman, Northwestern UniversityEAR-1138523ABSTRACT The Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES) investment area was established in FY 2010 in an effort address challenges in climate and energy research and education. The initial RFP encouraged near term activities, such as interdisciplinary workshops, that would help inform the development of SEES activities. This proposal outlines a plan to hold a workshop in association with the 2011 Annual meeting of Geological Society of America in Minneapolis, MN. The objective of this workshop is a community-wide gathering of researchers whose work relates to the natural and engineered components of the global carbon cycle. Given that observational evidence and model predictions suggest that significant global warming is already underway, and the prospect of widespread conversion to low- or no-carbon energy sources is likely many decades in the future, mitigation of greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere is a major priority. The development of effective and safe engineered carbon sequestration carries one set of research challenges. Progress in such areas should be matched by improved understanding of natural carbon sequestration processes, largely derived from research on ancient episodes of major perturbation of the carbon cycle (e.g., PETM). The workshop will draw broadly on different research communities in an effort to highlight leading problems and approaches, focus collaborative efforts, germinate proposal concepts, and provide a summary of the major research efforts that are already underway, as well as those that should be initiated.