YCNCC Researchers Shine at ERW25 with Innovative Presentations

The Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture (YCNCC) was well-represented at the Enhanced Rock Weathering 2025 (ERW25) meeting last week at the University of Antwerp, with a series of impactful presentations showcasing the Center’s enhanced weathering research.

Congratulations to Earth & Planetary Sciences graduate researcher Kira Beiner for an outstanding poster presentation on “Exploring the mechanisms of ectomycorrhizal fungal interactions with enhanced rock weathering and white pine seedlings”. 

YCNCC Scientific Leadership Team member and Earth & Planetary Sciences Professor Noah Planavsky delivered a talk on “Enhanced weathering, carbon removal time-lags, and carbon crediting”. His presentation emphasized the importance of understanding, accepting, and properly crediting the time intervals between the deployment of enhanced weathering strategies and measurable atmospheric CO₂ removal.

YCNCC Postdoctoral Fellow Tim Jesper Surhoff gave a compelling presentation outlining how “Aggregated monitoring of enhanced weathering outperforms quantification based on individual deployments”. His talk underscored the growing emphasis across YCNCC research on jurisdictional level monitoring of both the carbon mitigation impact and the co-benefits of open-system climate interventions.

Closing out the event, Ella Milliken, a graduate researcher in Yale’s Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, delivered an excellent talk on “Utilizing in-soil CO₂ flux estimation as a direct MRV technique for ERW quantification.” Ella shared findings from YCNCC’s innovative “research through development” partnership in Southside Virginia, in collaboration with Lithos Carbon, Microsoft, and Wilbourne Land &Timber.We’re proud to celebrate the work of our team at ERW 25—advancing the science, credibility, and implementation of enhanced weathering as a meaningful carbon removal strategy.