Claris Sunjo is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at UC Davis, working under the supervision of Professor Eliot Atekwana in the Atekwana Research Lab Group. Sunjo's research focuses on investigating carbon cycling in tropical mangrove estuaries.
While not nearly as prevalent or long-lived in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, increasing methane emissions are a problem for the environment. Responsible for about one-third of the Earth’s warming, methane is about 80 times more powerful in terms of global heating than carbon dioxide. Oceanographer Tessa Hill talks about what can be done to mitigate this.
As humanity reckons with a climate shaped by a legacy of burning fossil fuels, implementing solutions we already have requires large-scale coordination and overcoming social challenges that stunt action.
University of California researchers, in collaboration with University of Michigan researchers, have developed a method to take carbon dioxide, an industrial waste product that pollutes the atmosphere, and turn it into something useful: precursors to make cement.
As society reckons with the fallout from this atmospheric chemical change, University of California researchers are seeking solutions to not only mitigate emissions but to harness carbon dioxide waste.
