The workshop will be held in the Martin Johnson House on the campus of Scripps Institution of Oceanography on Thursday, October 1 and Friday, October 2, 2020. Thursday will consist of a morning briefing, followed by an afternoon of academic collaboration and a sunset reception. Friday will again be a full day with the primary emphasis on academic collaboration.
A draft agenda is here.
This workshop will focus on reducing uncertainty about marine geoengineering approaches through an interdisciplinary research agenda. While the idea of climate geoengineering, or the deliberate intervention in the Earth system to counteract some impacts of global warming, has received increased attention in the past several years, marine geoengineering proposals (that is, those that are ocean-based) have received relatively less attention (Nature 553, 27; 2018). We are convening a workshop at Scripps Institution of Oceanography to further collaborative research related to the engineering, impacts, economics and governance of marine geoengineering technologies, with particular emphasis on coastal California. We will discuss the research to-date and uncertainties surrounding three illustrative marine geoengineering approaches:
The primary goal will be to lay out an interdisciplinary research agenda to reduce uncertainty for informed future decision making around these technologies.
Organizers:
Confirmed Participants:
Email, geoengineering2020@ucsd.edu
MAS Fellow Morgan Block, mblock@ucsd.edu
Kate Ricke, kricke@ucsd.edu
Drew Lucas, ajlucas@ucsd.edu