Quantifying CO Removal at Enhanced Weathering Sites: a Multiproxy Approach.

Enhanced weathering is a carbon dioxide (CO) mitigation strategy that promises large scale atmospheric CO removal. The main challenge associated with enhanced weathering is monitoring, reporting, and verifying (MRV) the amount of carbon removed as a result of enhanced weathering reactions. Here, we study a CO mineralization site in Consett, Co.

Global silicate weathering flux overestimated because of sediment-water cation exchange.

Rivers carry the dissolved and solid products of silicate mineral weathering, a process that removes [Formula: see text] from the atmosphere and provides a key negative climate feedback over geological timescales. Here we show that, in some river systems, a reactive exchange pool on river suspended particulate matter, bonded weakly to mineral surfaces, increases the mobile cation flux by 50%. The chemistry of both river waters and the exchange pool demonstrates exchange equilibrium, confirmed by Sr isotopes.

Microbial communities of the Lemon Creek Glacier show subtle structural variation yet stable phylogenetic composition over space and time.

Glaciers are geologically important yet transient ecosystems that support diverse, biogeochemically significant microbial communities. During the melt season glaciers undergo dramatic physical, geochemical, and biological changes that exert great influence on downstream biogeochemical cycles. Thus, we sought to understand the temporal melt-season dynamics of microbial communities and associated geochemistry at the terminus of Lemon Creek Glacier (LCG) in coastal southern Alaska.

Selective turn-on fluorescence detection of cyanide in water using hydrophobic CdSe quantum dots.

The ability of 2,2'-bipyridine-bound copper(ii) ions to quench the photoluminescence of hydrophobic CdSe quantum dots is used to create a novel, selective turn-on fluorescence cyanide sensor.