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United States
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CSLF Projects/Activities
Links to CCS-related Information in the United States
- U.S. DOE Office of Fossil Energy's Carbon Sequestration Program
The primary site for carbon sequestration maintained by the Office of Fossil Energy, U.S. Department of Energy. The site includes topic descriptions, news items, program descriptions and budgets, and links to special reports.
- Alabama Organization Focused on Geological Sequesteration
This is a state organization focused on geological sequestration.
- American Geological Institute's Geotimes
This Web site presents an introduction to carbon sequestration, injecting carbon dioxide for enhanced oil recovery and coalbed methane.
- Big Sky Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership Website
Site of Big Sky region (Montane, Idaho, South Dakota, Wyoming, and the Pacific Northwest). Contains recent news on CO2 capture/storage.
- Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center
The Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, which includes the World Data Center for Atmospheric Trace Gases, is the primary global-change data and information analysis center of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
- Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships
Seven regional partnerships of state agencies, universities, and private companies that will form the core of a nationwide network to investigate the potential for carbon sequestration. Together, the partnerships include more than 140 organizations spanning 33 states, three Indian nations, and two Canadian provinces. The seven partnerships will develop the framework needed to validate and potentially deploy carbon sequestration technologies. They will also begin studying possible regulations and infrastructure requirements involving sequestration.
- CCS Opportunity Database
Web site that facilitates collaboration by presenting CCS projects to potential investors
- DOE Center for Research on Enhancing Carbon Sequestration in Terrestrial Ecosystems (CSiTE)
DOE's Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research established CSiTE as a research consortium (including Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Argonne National Laboratory) to perform fundamental research to enhance carbon sequestration in terrestrial ecosystems. Research is developing: (1) Scientific understanding of carbon capture and sequestration mechanisms in terrestrial ecosystems across multiple scales from the molecular to the landscape, (2) Conceptual and simulation models for extrapolation of process understanding across spatial and temporal scales, (3) Estimates of carbon sequestration potential, and (4) Assessments of environmental impacts and economic implications of carbon sequestration.
- DOE Office of Science, Carbon Sequestration Program
DOE's Office of Science is focusing its carbon sequestration efforts on: (1) Sequestering Carbon in Underground Geologic Repositories, (2) Enhancing the Natural Terrestrial Cycle, (3) Carbon Sequestration in the Oceans, and (4) Sequencing Genomes of Microorganism for Carbon Management. By understanding how carbon dioxide "sinks" perform, they seek to enhance the ongoing natural processes and develop innovative new processes that add powerful new measures to carbon management options.
- Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)'s Industry Technology Demonstrations Site
EPRI’s industry demonstration projects address the key issues facing the electric power industry over the next decade. Developing technology to address CO2 challenges, for example, can take a decade or longer and requires large-scale demonstrations prior to market acceptance. EPRI’s role is to develop the collaborative environment for technology development, integration and application.
- E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
The Ocean Biogeochemical Processes Group (OBPG) at the E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has as its main area of interest the oceans' carbon cycle. The OBPG is investigating the oceans' impact on the geochemical cycles of approximately 50 elements which exhibit nonconservative behavior in sea water, and evaluating the feasibility, effectiveness and environmental consequences of ocean carbon sequestration.
- Methane to Markets Partnership
The Methane to Markets Partnership is an international initiative that will deliver significant energy, safety, and environmental benefits through the recovery and use of methane, while reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. The Partnership will focus on deploying cost-effective technologies in landfill gas-to-energy projects, methane recovery projects in coal mines, and improvements in natural gas systems.
- Midwest Geological Sequesteration Consortium Web site
Official Web site of the Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium.
- NATCARB - A natural look at Carbon Sequestration
NATCARB is a project funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory to explore geological sequestration of carbon through linking geological and emission databases from several regional centers into a single interactive mapping system.
- National Energy Technology Laboratory, Carbon Sequestration Program
NETL's Carbon Sequestration Program seeks to define carbon sequestration's role in stabilizing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels by developing a scientific understanding and environmentally acceptable technologies.
- National Energy Technology Laboratory, Carbon Sequestration Roadmap
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), CO2 Group
The CO2 Group is a part of the Ocean Chemistry Division at the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory of NOAA. The Group's goal is to assess the ocean's role in controlling the exchange of carbon dioxide across the air-sea interface and its eventual penetration into the water masses of the deep ocean.
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, (PMEL) Global Carbon Cycle (GCC) Program
Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) carries out interdisciplinary scientific investigations in oceanography and atmospheric science. Its GCC CO2 Program conducts research on the sources and sinks of carbon dioxide in the oceans. Atmospheric and oceanic carbon dioxide data are collected on cruises onboard NOAA vessels and from the TAO moorings.
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Net Primary Productivity (NPP) Database
The ORNL NPP Database contains documented field measurements of biomass and estimated NPP for terrestrial sites worldwide, compiled from published literature and other extant data sources. It includes intensively studied and well-documented field study sites, together with more extensive collections of worldwide data.
- Official U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Climate Change Web site
The official U.S. EPA climate change web site.
- Southeast Regional Carbon Sequesteration Website
Official website of the Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership.
- Southwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership Website
The Southwest Regional Partnership was selected by the U.S. Department of Energy and its National Energy Technology Laboratory as one of seven regional partnerships charged with evaluating available technologies to capture and to reduce the emission of CO2.
- U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP)
The USGCRP was created as a high-priority national research program to: (1) address key uncertainties about changes in the Earth's global environmental system, both natural and human-induced; (2) monitor, understand, and predict global change; and (3) provide a sound scientific basis for national and international decision-making. The USGCRP coordinates the research of 10 Federal departments and agencies with active global change programs and provides liaison with the Executive Office of the President.
- United States Carbon Sequestration Council
The U.S. Carbon Sequestration Council (USCSC) is a non-profit coalition of scientists, engineers, academics, environmentalists, and leaders from the business and the public sectors. The USCSC has written several papers on carbon capture and storage (CCS), which are available for download.
- U.S. Global Change Research Program, Carbon Cycle Science Program (CCSP)
The CCSP is an interagency partnership aiming to develop a whole-system predictive capability for the global carbon system. Carbon cycle research is being coordinated and integrated to identify and quantify regional- to continental-scale sources and sinks for CO2 and other GHGs and to understand how these sources and sinks will function in the future.
- United States Department of Agricultural Forest Service Global Change Research Program
The Forest Service Global Change Research Program focuses research on four scientific program elements and two crosscutting activities. Scientific program elements include: (1) atmosphere/biosphere gas and energy exchange, (2) ecosystem dynamics, 3) disturbance ecology, and (4) human activities and natural resource interactions. Crosscutting activities include assessment and modeling, and data quality assessment.
- United States Department of Agricultural Research Service, Global Change Program
The goal of the Global Change Program at the USDA Agricultural Research Service is to develop and provide adaptation, mitigation, and management strategies to the individual farm, ranch, and rural community, and to natural resource decision-makers to allow them to derive optimal benefit from the positive aspects of global change and deal effectively with the detrimental effects.
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