The Department of Energy's (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $1,018,902 Cooperative Agreement to the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) on May 6, 2024 under the agency's Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (MCDR) program (CFDA 81.135). This funding supports the development of scalable measurement, reporting, and validation (MRV) technologies to quantify marine carbon drawdown as part of the emerging negative emissions industry. Key activities include: Assisting...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $3,371,587 Cooperative Agreement to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) to quantify atmospheric carbon dioxide removal using an autonomous ocean sensor that measures sinking particulate carbon flux. The project, titled "Quantification of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Removal Using an Autonomous Ocean Sensor that Measures Sinking Particulate Carbon Flux," will run from June 2024 to...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $3,904,266 Cooperative Agreement to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) to develop small, low-cost, multiparameter carbon sensors that can be fabricated at scale. The 3-year project, starting on June 7, 2024, aims to create sensor "motes" that can cost-effectively monitor the evolution and fate of marine carbon dioxide across broad spatial and temporal scales. The sensors will...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program (CFDA 81.135) provides $2,100,490 to the University of Pittsburgh for a project entitled "Hybrid Distributed pH, CO2, Temperature, and Acoustic Sensing for Monitoring and Verification of Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal Applications." The project aims to develop advanced ocean monitoring technologies, including specialized buoys, sensors, and data platforms, to...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $2,279,867.00 cooperative agreement to Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences to develop a regional biogeochemical model that includes vertical transport of carbon via diel vertical migration (DVM) and ontogenetic vertical migration (OVM) of zooplankton. Using optical datasets from eight locations, the project will generalize relationships between vertical migration behavior and zooplankton size and...
The University of Utah has been awarded a $2,004,554 Cooperative Agreement from the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E), CFDA 81.135, to develop the SEASCAPE (Seafloor Self-Sustaining CO2 Assessment Probe EDGE) system. SEASCAPE is a fixed-point, self-powered, acoustically-tethered sensor network deployed at the ocean floor to measure (1) dissolved organic carbon accumulation in sediments, (2) dissolved inorganic carbon and pH in ocean water, and (3) marine snow deposition...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E), under the CFDA 81.135 Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy program, will provide $3,884,825.00 to [C]Worthy, LLC to develop scalable measurement, reporting and validation (MRV) technologies to accelerate the growth of the marine carbon dioxide removal industry. The project aims to enable reliable quantification of carbon drawdown magnitudes and permanence to support carbon markets and...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under the Conservation Research and Development (CFDA 81.086) program, will support a comprehensive assessment of the technical, social, and governance feasibility of establishing a community alliance for direct air capture in California. The total funding amount is $3,685,904.00, with a performance period of August 1, 2024 to April 30, 2025. The prime awardee, the...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) has awarded a $1,221,032 Cooperative Agreement under its CFDA #81.135 Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy program to Precision Combustion, Inc. The purpose of the award is to accelerate the development of the marine carbon dioxide removal (MCDR) industry through the advancement of scalable measurement, reporting, and validation (MRV) technologies. The project aims to drive a paradigm shift in chemical...
The Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) awarded a $4,274,658 Cooperative Agreement to GE Vernova Operations LLC, operating as the GE Vernova Advanced Research Center, to develop a novel fiber optic sensor system for high-fidelity measurement of marine pH and pCO2. The primary objectives of the 3-year project are to: 1) create a distributed measurement system spanning kilometers horizontally with 5-20 m spatial resolution down to 1 km depth, 2) enable robust...