A team of students led by Morgan Cobb has been awarded funding from the Planet Blue Student Innovation Fund. The project is a device that will remove carbon dioxide from the Huron River, with a larger device planned for implementation in the Ann Arbor Wastewater Treatment Plant. Cobb is a Global CO2 Initiative Student Association…
“It makes me hopeful for our generation’s ability to meet the plethora of challenges that climate change will pose to us in our lifetimes, and excites me for the possibilities of future student teams to generate meaningful carbon capture solutions.” ~ Eli Weaver This issue of the newsletter features the team of students led by Morgan Cobb,…
“I used to hear a lot of despair and hopelessness around climate change, but lately I’ve been hearing more about concrete actions we could take, if we could only figure out how to navigate certain roadblocks.” This newsletter features Kristi Kattapong, Communications Specialist at the Global CO2 Initiative. Kristi Kattapong describes her position at the Global CO2 Initiative…
Recently GCI welcomed a new research assistant, third year chemical engineering student Michael Ficaj, from Holton Lake, Michigan. “I’m working on the Carbon Removal Index TM, which is a tool and a database of tracks waste carbon that’s been removed from the atmosphere since the early 1970’s. I’m working on optimizing the data–getting it into…
