What this project investigates: An integrated biorefinery strategy to sequester carbon dioxide by employing microbially-induced carbonate precipitation and cyanobacteria.
How this will be addressed: By using cyanobacteria as the biological nucleation seeds for biogenic calcium carbonate precipitation, resulting in a sellable carbonate-encapsulated cyanobacteria end product.
Why it matters: The oceans are a large carbon dioxide sink and cyanobacteria provide one mechanism for capturing and storing carbon. Accelerating this naturally occurring process for carbon sequestration has tremendous potential for mitigating climate change.
Photo by Cristian Palmer - Unsplash
Focus Area:
Geological & Ocean Capture
Project Lead:
Julie Zimmerman
