Cascade Climate’s Post

Cascade Climate is excited to announce an RFP for Enhanced Rock Weathering Field Data Partnership Grants! Cascade is excited to solicit research proposals between $20,000 and $200,000 that aim to collect high-quality ERW field datasets on existing deployments. Proposals will be awarded to scientific partnerships, in which Deployment Partners agree to open up an existing deployment site for additional monitoring and help coordinate logistics, and Researchers co-propose a study, collect and analyze the data, and publish the results. We believe that this partnership model—in which researchers “piggyback” on existing deployments to carry out additional measurements—can accelerate the collection of novel field datasets in ERW. These partnerships can tackle high-priority research questions at decreased logistical and cost burden for researchers, and enable greater scientific learning from the current wave of commercial ERW activity. Cascade Climate welcomes the creativity of the ERW community to propose datasets that would advance the field, and is excited about datasets that can address the R&D gaps laid out in our recently published “Foundations for Carbon Dioxide Removal Quantification in ERW Deployments”. The RFP closes on December 20, 2024. Please share this announcement widely, and help us bring more researchers into the community. If you are looking to form new partnerships for this RFP, we’ve got a lightweight networking spreadsheet to facilitate connections, which is linked in the comments below. https://lnkd.in/es4JQm6E