Guide to Best Practices in Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement Research
Guide to Best Practices in Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement Research
Editor(s): Andreas Oschlies, Angela Stevenson, Lennart Bach, Katja Fennel, Rosalind Rickaby, Terre Satterfield, Romany Webb, and Jean-Pierre Gattuso
Ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) is a marine carbon dioxide removal (CDR) approach. Publicly funded research projects have begun, and philanthropic funding and start-ups are collectively pushing the field forward. This rapid progress in research activities has created an urgent need to learn if and how OAE can work at scale. The Best Practices Guide to OAE research contains 7 topics broken down into 13 chapters that compare and synthesise previously published methods and offer guidance for future research.

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13 Jul 2023
Laboratory experiments in ocean alkalinity enhancement research
Maria Debora Iglesias-Rodríguez, Rosalind E. M. Rickaby, Arvind Singh, and James A. Gately
State Planet Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/sp-2023-7,https://doi.org/10.5194/sp-2023-7, 2023
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03 Jul 2023
Mesocosm experiments in ocean alkalinity enhancement research
Ulf Riebesell, Daniela Basso, Sonja Geilert, Andrew W. Dale, Matthias Kreuzburg, and Filip Meysman
State Planet Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/sp-2023-11,https://doi.org/10.5194/sp-2023-11, 2023
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03 Jul 2023
Seawater carbonate system considerations for ocean alkalinity enhancement research
Kai G. Schulz, Lennart T. Bach, and Andrew G. Dickson
State Planet Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/sp-2023-12,https://doi.org/10.5194/sp-2023-12, 2023
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29 Jun 2023
Legal Considerations relevant to the Research of Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement
Robert Craig Steenkamp and Romany M. Webb
State Planet Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/sp-2023-8,https://doi.org/10.5194/sp-2023-8, 2023
Revised manuscript accepted for SP (discussion: closed, 6 comments)
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28 Jun 2023
Modeling considerations for research on Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE)
Katja Fennel, Matthew C. Long, Christopher Algar, Brendan Carter, David Keller, Arnaud Laurent, Jann Paul Mattern, Ruth Musgrave, Andreas Oschlies, Josiane Ostiguy, Jamie Palter, and Daniel B. Whitt
State Planet Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/sp-2023-10,https://doi.org/10.5194/sp-2023-10, 2023
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28 Jun 2023
Climate targets, carbon dioxide removal and the potential role of Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement
Andreas Oschlies, Lennart Bach, Rosalind Rickaby, Terre Satterfield, Romany M. Webb, and Jean-Pierre Gattuso
State Planet Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/sp-2023-13,https://doi.org/10.5194/sp-2023-13, 2023
Revised manuscript under review for SP (discussion: final response, 8 comments)
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27 Jun 2023
Field experiments in ocean alkalinity enhancement research
Tyler Cyronak, Rebecca Albright, and Lennart Bach
State Planet Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/sp-2023-9,https://doi.org/10.5194/sp-2023-9, 2023
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26 Jun 2023
General considerations to experimental research on ocean alkalinity enhancement
Sam Dupont and Marc Metian
State Planet Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/sp-2023-4,https://doi.org/10.5194/sp-2023-4, 2023
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23 Jun 2023
Natural Analogs to Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement
Adam Vinay Subhas, Nadine Lehmann, and Rosalind Rickaby
State Planet Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/sp-2023-5,https://doi.org/10.5194/sp-2023-5, 2023
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23 Jun 2023
Data reporting and sharing for ocean alkalinity enhancement research
Li-Qing Jiang, Adam Subhas, Daniela Basso, Katja Fennel, and Jean-Pierre Gattuso
State Planet Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/sp-2023-6,https://doi.org/10.5194/sp-2023-6, 2023
Preprint under review for SP (discussion: open, 1 comment)
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15 Jun 2023
Social Considerations and Best Practices for Engaging Publics on Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement
Terre Satterfield, Sara Nawaz, and Miranda Boettcher
State Planet Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/sp-2023-3,https://doi.org/10.5194/sp-2023-3, 2023
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14 Jun 2023
Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification for Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement
David T. Ho, Laurent Bopp, Jaime B. Palter, Matthew C. Long, Philip Boyd, Griet Neukermans, and Lennart Bach
State Planet Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/sp-2023-2,https://doi.org/10.5194/sp-2023-2, 2023
Revised manuscript under review for SP (discussion: final response, 10 comments)
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08 Jun 2023
Assessing technical aspects of ocean alkalinity enhancement approaches
Matthew Eisaman, Sonja Geilert, Phil Renforth, Laura Bastianini, James Campbell, Andrew Dale, Spyros Foteinis, Patricia Grasse, Olivia Hawrot, Carolin Löscher, Greg Rau, and Jakob Rønning
State Planet Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/sp-2023-1,https://doi.org/10.5194/sp-2023-1, 2023
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