Marine Carbon
Cycling Lab

The ocean is able to sequester a staggering amount of carbon dioxide (CO₂) from the atmosphere and is well understood to be the primary natural control on Earth’s climate, driving us in and out of ice-ages throughout the geological past. Our research focus is on understanding how the marine carbon cycle, and its ability to keep carbon out of the atmosphere, will respond to massive inadvertent (anthropogenic emissions) and potentially intentional (carbon dioxide removal technologies) perturbations across an uncertain future.

Our work spans a variety of topics across marine biogeochemistry, physical oceanography, Earth system modelling, and policy to unravel the connections between the ocean, our climate, and ultimately how society might wish to grapple with, or even augment, the powerful feedbacks between the two.

Our hope, is that this work can further quantify the economic and environmental cost of climate inaction and help determine if emissions reductions can be paired with thoughtful marine carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies to help abate the worst impacts of climate change.