About us
RockMIP is being developed under the auspices of the Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation (LC3M) at the University of Sheffield.
At present there are four independently-developed models from three institutions.
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Developer |
Publications |
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Mark Lomas (Sheffield) |
e.g. Kantzas et al. 2022, Nature Geosci 15:382–389) |
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Lyla Taylor (Sheffield) |
unpublished |
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Yoshiki Kanzaki (GA Tech, SCEPTER) |
Kanzaki et al. 2022 GMD 15:4959–4990 |
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Ed Bolton (Yale, Kinflow) |
e.g. Bolton et al. (1999, AJS 299:1–68) |
These models have a range of capabilities.
Enhanced rock weathering (ERW) is the biogeochemical improvement of cropland soils with crushed basalt, an abundant natural silicate rock, for carbon sequestration and increased food and soil security. It involves the acceleration of silicate mineral dissolution that occurs when rock grains react with rainfall and CO2 in soil to sequester CO2.
The RockMIP trial is part of the Leverhulme Centre for Climate Change Mitigation (LC3M), which investigates enhanced rock weathering with croplands as an use innovative strategy to actively remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere at the scale required to protect the planet. LC3M is a £10million Research Centre established in 2016, with field sites all over the world. Find out more about the rest of LC3M project here.