Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation
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Investigating bio-geochemical improvement of croplands as a strategy for removing CO2 from the atmosphere whilst increasing food and soil security.
University of Sheffield
Joined March 2019
We're holding a @royalsociety discussion meeting on advance, uncertainties, and scientific & societal challenges facing terrestrial enhanced weathering, 17-18 November in London. Find out more: https://t.co/DTpFcX9ZsX
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Our annual newsletter is coming out soon - have you signed up yet? Stay tuned for an update on this funding year's progress, from field sites to social science, papers and media appearances! Sign up form here:
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We'd like to thank all our team and collaborators for so much hard work this year, well done all! Here's some of our Sheffield team on our annual Christmas lunch 🎄🧑🎄🎄
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Our Director Prof David Beerling quoted in @washingtonpost: Scientists seek to turbocharge a natural process that cools the Earth. Thanks @kate_selig!
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Terradot, a carbon removal company, is using “enhanced rock weathering” to sequester carbon by spreading crushed volcanic rock over farmland.
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"[ERW] offers an exciting opportunity for sustainable agriculture - improving food security while at the same time capturing carbon." Our Director Prof David Beerling is quoted in 'How spreading rocks on fields could combat climate change' https://t.co/CJtzej9Zb9 via @ft
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‘Enhanced rock weathering’ is a simple, but also hard to measure, way of capturing carbon
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We have a new paper out! "Challenges and opportunities in scaling enhanced weathering for carbon dioxide removal" has been published online in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. Read it here: https://t.co/JWL65o1pE0
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We have an exciting opportunity to submit posters for consideration at our @Royalsociety discussion! Send proposed title, abstract (max 200 words), author list, institution and the name of the proposed presenter by 19th October to: Scientific.meetings@royalsociety.org
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Lovely to see our team again yesterday for the first day of our three-day annual meeting!
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Staff from our Leverhulme Centre have contributed to the @UKERW_GGRD's latest paper: it's a beautiful friendship (with a director in common). Well done team!
📢Sound the NEW PAPER klaxon please!📢 Read our new @Nature paper, 'Larger rock extraction sites could improve the efficiency of enhanced rock weathering in the United Kingdom', here:
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New Digital Tool By Cascade Climate Pinpoints Locations Fit For ERW https://t.co/d0308N10o5 via @CarbonHerald
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Cascade Climate has launched a new digital tool that points to locations around the globe with favorable ERW conditions.
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🎊Well done to our technical staff who have enabled our lab in C57 to achieve the Bronze LEAF accreditation. By joining the LEAF programme, laboratories reduce their carbon emissions and create an environment that supports research quality. Thanks team!
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If you're not a member of @RoyalAgSociety or you missed the recent webinar our Director Prof David Beerling & Co-I Prof Steve McGrath did on ERW, you can now watch it on their YouTube channel here
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New on the blog! We catch up with our LCA team on Theme 4's Sustainability and Society to summarise their progress since 2016. Read more here: https://t.co/HjtKiXj3mu
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Led by Professor David Beerling @sheffielduni, the @lc3m_cdr is using ordinary volcanic rock dust to absorb CO2 in the atmosphere and cool the planet. 📽️ https://t.co/MKLMFHXNrk
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Our social science lead, Prof Nick Pidgeon, joins new Science and Technology Advisory Council at the UK Department of Energy Security and Net Zero. Congrats Nick! https://t.co/6eJIXMNh0A cc @UKERW_GGRD
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Our social science partner, Prof Nick Pidgeon, joins new Science and Technology Advisory Council at the UK Department of Energy Security and Net Zero.
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👏👏👏 "Understanding and incorporating public perceptions and preferences into emergent governance systems is essential if they are to be fair, effective and representative of societal concerns."
We have a new social science paper out in Nature's @hsscomms! Who pays for carbon dioxide removal? Public perceptions of risk and fairness of enhanced rock weathering in the UK. Well done Cardiff team @PsychCardiffUni | cc @CO2REhub @ScienceShef
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Rock on: How crushed stone could help fight climate change, featuring our partner Paul Nelson, via @JapanToday
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From sugar plantations in Brazil to tea estates in India, crushed rock is being sprinkled across large stretches of farmland globally in a novel bid to combat climate change. The technique is called...
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Such an exciting opportunity! Please repost to your #geochemistry networks @geochemsoc @GeochemGroup
We're recruiting! Our Oxford partners need a #geochemist #PDRA in #enhancedrockweathering #erw. Find out more & apply: https://t.co/6PsPEMgCBH
#postdocjobs #postdoc #postdocchat #climatejobs
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✍️New on the blog!📷 Continuing our series, we catch up with our field site in Malaysian Borneo, with a summary of activities and findings since we began in 2016. Read it here:
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Our field trials are an integral part of the LC3M project, and form the backbone of our Theme 3: Applied weathering science. Here we catch up with the progress on our oil palm field site in Sabah,...
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We're holding a @royalsociety discussion meeting on advance, uncertainties, and scientific & societal challenges facing terrestrial enhanced weathering, 17-18 November in London. Find out more here:
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