[geo] Report on SRMGI/AAS geoengineering meetings in Africa

2013-10-15 Thread Andy Parker
In 2012 and early 2013 the African Academy of Sciences, in partnership with the SRM Governance Initiative (www.srmgi.org), ran a series of workshops to introduce SRM to a range of African stakeholders and encourage open discussion of SRM research and governance. The workshops brought

[geo] Engineering geo-engineering - Fox - 2011 - Meteorological Applications - Wiley

2013-10-15 Thread Andrew Lockley
Poster's note : This 2011 paper doesn't seem to have made the list yet. I couldn't agree more that there's a major lack of engineering progress in most fields (CCS, OIF and biochar excepted) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/met.245/abstract Fox, T. A. and Chapman, L. (2011),

[geo] Report from Biochar conference - U Mass.

2013-10-15 Thread Ronal W. Larson
1. This coming at end of 2nd day. One more day and then a field demonstration day. 2. The conference agenda should anyone want detail (or possible answer to a specific question) is at http://scholarworks.umass.edu/biochar/2013/ 3.Today's schedule is at:

[geo] When geoengineering (and everything else) fails: Genetic engineering

2013-10-15 Thread Greg Rau
The Paul Allen Foundation announced the winner of their ocean acidification mitigation contest today http://www.pgafamilyfoundation.org/oceanchallenge/ The winning entry in a nutshell: The rate at which coral reefs world-wide are declining has raised concern about the natural capacity of corals