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Carbon Sequestration: Is It Feasible?

Sponsored by
The Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies'
Center for the Study of Global Change

Friday, April 7, 2006, 2:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Saturday, April 8, 2006,
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Yale University
Environmental Science Center, Room 110
21 Sachem Street, New Haven, CT

Funded by a gift from the Nelson Talbott Foundation.

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Friday, April 7, 2006

2:00 - 3:00 PM

Stefan Bachu, Alberta Geological Survey, Alberta Energy and Utilities Board
Carbon Sequestration in Geological Formations (11.5 MB pdf)
 

3:00 - 3:30 PM Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:30 PM

Karsten Pruess, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Modeling Carbon Sequestration in Saline Aquifers (4.3 MB pdf)

4:30 - 5:30 PM

Daniel Schrag, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
Sea Floor Storage (3.6 MB pdf)


 

5:30 - 6:00 PM

Reception

6:00 PM Dinner Presentation:
Eric Sundquist, U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole
Is Carbon Sequestration Feasible at the Scale of the Global Carbon Cycle? (0.3 MB PowerPoint file)

Dinner Discussion (20.8 kB pdf)

 

Saturday, April 8, 2006

8:30 - 9:00 AM

Continental Breakfast

9:00 - 10:00 AM

Suzanne Hurter, Shell International EP
Subsurface Sequestration: Keeping Infected CO2 in Storage (2.1 MB PowerPoint file)

10:00 - 10:30 AM

Coffee Break

13:00 - 11:30 AM

Peter Brewer, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute  
New Experiments in Ocean Sequestration (Folder with PowerPoint and movie files)
 

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Ken Caldeira, Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institute of Washington
Sequestration in Forests and at Earth's Surface (16.9 MB PowerPoint file)
 

12:30 - 1:30 PM

Lunch

 

1:30 - 2:30 PM

Trygve Roed-Larsen, Det Norske Veritas
International Considerations (3.9 MB pdf)
 

2:30 - 3:00 PM

Coffee Break

3:00 - 4:00 PM

Howard Herzog, MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment
CO2 Capture and Storage: Cost and Economic Potential (0.5 MB pdf)
 

4:00 - 5:00 PM

Klaus Lackner, Earth Engineering Center, Columbia University
Carbon Sequestration Options (2.8 MB PowerPoint file)

 

 

   
YALE INSTITUTE FOR BIOSPHERIC STUDIES
Oswald Schmitz, Director
Rose Rita Riccitelli, Assistant Director
LaToya Sealy, Sr. Administrative Assistant
Environmental Science Center, Room 132
21 Sachem St., P.O. Box 208105
New Haven, CT 06520-8105
Phone: (203) 432-9856 ยท Fax: (203) 432-9927