Late breaking news: due to indisposition, the speaker Evangelos Mouchos will not be able to travel from Cardiff today. We are however pleased that his colleague and collaborator in the work, Will Savage, will be presenting the talk on the current status of Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies in EU and the UK, with particular focus on enhanced weathering of rocks and mine wastes.
All other information remains the same (the venue RCA, behind Plas Mawr in Conwy, will be open from 18:00 for refreshments and chat).
Will Savage graduated as a Chemical Engineer from the University of Swansea in 2023, joining Mine Environment Management Ltd. (MEM) straight after graduating. In the two years since, Will has been heavily involved in the EU C-SINK project, specifically working on the design of monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) pre-CEN standards for enhanced weathering, while supporting project partners with pre-CEN standards on six other carbon dioxide removal technologies (including biochar, afforestation and biological fixation).
Will has been working alongside Swedish C-SINK partner BioSteam on MRV development, and the wider MEM team on both lab and field experimentation to quantify carbon dioxide removal efficiencies of mine waste. He has presented work on CO2 and O2 mass flux in mine waste at BC Mend conference in Vancouver; at the International Conference on Acid Rock Drainage (ICARD) in Nova Scotia; delivered a C-SINK workshop on MRV of enhanced weathering as a carbon dioxide removal technology, in Bruges; and is due to present an update of this work at the Advances in Mining Technology Conference in Birmingham next month.