Eleventh Annual Report

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Overview

• Executive Summary

News from the CMI Community

• New CMI Investigators
• CMI Student Update

Low-Carbon Energy

• Highlights
• Combining Carbon Capture & Storage with Enhanced Oil Recovery
  • CO₂ enhanced oil recovery: a CCS market launch opportunity
  • The oil import reduction and carbon mitigation nexus for CO₂ EOR
  • The economics of energy conversion coupled to CO₂ EOR
  • Policy analysis relating to CO₂ EOR and early action on CCS
New Pathways to Synthetic Fuels
• Low-carbon synthetic gasoline production
• Co-gasification approach to coproduction
• International Collaborations
  • Chinese collaborations
  • Italian collaborations
• Optimizing Energy Storage for Renewable Energy Systems
• Publications

Carbon Storage

• Highlights
• Field-Based Analyses
  • In situ measurement of effective wellbore permeability
  • Shale gas interference with CCS
• Basin-Scale Modeling
  • Large-scale models for CO₂ injection, migration, and leakage
  • Basin-scale modeling including active reservoir management
• Injection-Scale Modeling
  • Simulation of CO₂ injection with dynaflow
• Small-Scale Processes
  • Pore-scale network models
  • Bench-scale investigations of multiphase flow
• Molecular-Scale Modeling
  • Monte Carlo simulations of CO₂+H₂O+NaCl mixtures in geological environments
  • Molecular simulation of hydrate melting and formation
  • Molecular modeling of CO₂ capture and storage
• Publications

Carbon Science

• Highlights
• Monitoring Natural Carbon Sinks
  • Understanding temporal shifts in terrestrial uptake of atmospheric CO₂
  • Understanding CO₂ fertilization of the biosphere
  • The future of the Amazon as a carbon sink
  • Quantifying carbon sinks on managed lands
• Improved Tools for Measuring the Ocean Carbon Sink
  • Better shipboard measurements of dissolved inorganic carbon
  • Estimating the time-varying air-sea CO₂ flux
• New Model Capabilities
  • Simulating food web dynamics in the Eastern Subarctic Pacific
  • Incorporating the role of heterotrophic bacteria in ocean carbon sequestration
  • Improved representations of fire in vegetation models
• Impacts Studies
  • Impacts of ocean acidification on phytoplankton
  • Impacts of climate change on ocean productivity and marine fisheries
  • Impacts of ocean acidification and deoxygenation on fish gill function
  • Terrestrial floral species' response to climate change
• Causes of Climate Variability
  • Search for old ice to be used in reconstructing greenhouse gas concentrations
  • Sensitivity of atmospheric CO₂ and climate to explosive volcanic eruptions
• Publications

Carbon Policy & Integration

• Highlights
• Wedges and Other Community Tools
  • "Wedges Reaffirmed"
  • The Stabilization Wedges game
  • Learning rates and a green energy deployment game
  • Open source climate economics models
• Assessing Mitigation Options
  • Re-engineering the nuclear future
  • Exploring prospects for direct capture of carbon dioxide from air
• Communicating Uncertainty
  • Communicating risks in IPCC reports
  • Policy-relevant information on sea level rise
• Publications

Acknowledgments

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