Plan Sea: Ocean Interventions to Address Climate Change
“Plan Sea” focuses on ocean-based climate solutions that seek to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere (carbon dioxide removal) or reduce incoming solar radiation (solar radiation modification). The podcast scrutinizes risks and benefits of these options, as well as matters of governance, stakeholder engagement, ethics, and politics.
Episodes
25 episodes
Planetary Technologies’ Mike Kelland and Dr. Will Burt update on the company’s growth
In this edition of Plan Sea, hosts Anna Madlener and Wil Burns are joined by returning guest
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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50:31
Grace Andrews on Hourglass Climate’s Approach to Monitoring Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement
In today's episode, hosts Anna Madlener and Wil Burns are joined by Grace Andrews from Hourglass Climate. They discuss Hourglass' work on environmental monitoring and carbon removal quantification of Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE) tri...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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56:05
Alex Gagnon on Banyu Carbon’s novel Direct Ocean Removal approach
In this edition of Plan Sea, hosts Anna Madlener and Wil Burns discuss a novel sunlight-driven approach to marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) with Alex Gagnon, co-founder and CEO of Banyu Carbon, a direct ocean removal startup based in Seattl...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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1:13:50
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Rory Jacobson on the evolving landscape of mCDR
Hosts Anna Madlener and Wil Burns discuss the evolving landscape of marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) with Rory Jacobson, Acting Division Director for Carbon Dioxide Removal at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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49:24
Isometric’s Sophie Gill, Jing He, and Jennifer Yin on Marine Carbon Removal Certification
Plan Sea dives into the world of carbon removal certification, joined by experts Sophie Gill, Jing He, and Jennifer Yin from Isometric — a carbon credit certification platform and registry focused on high-quality carbon removal.
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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1:14:32
A new season of Plan Sea
Carbon to Sea & the American University Institute for Responsible Carbon Removal announce a new collaboration for the second season of “Plan Sea” — a semi-weekly podcast exploring ocean-based climate solutions. Plan Sea will release episode...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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5:07
Dr. Lennart Bach and Dr. Veronica Tamsitt on (Cost-)Efficiency of Iron Fertilization in the Southern Ocean
Our guests today, Lennart Bach, at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, and Veronica Tamsitt, Head of Oceanography at the mCDR MRV company, Submarine, are two of the ...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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59:26
CarbonPlan's Freya Chay on Market Shaping and Uncertainty in Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal
Our guest today is Freya Chay, Carbon Removal Program Lead at CarbonPlan, a non-profit organization in the US working on data and science for climate action by improving the transparency and scientific inte...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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53:29
Sara Nawaz and Terre Satterfield on Just, Responsible and Socially Viable Carbon Removal
Welcome back to the Plan Sea Podcast as we kick off our final stretch of season 1. Today's episode focuses on the findings and observations in a recently published paper in the Journal of Environmental Science and Policy entitled ...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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45:34
Dr. Matt Eisaman and Frances Simpson-Allen on Ebb Carbon's Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement Approach and Developments
Dr. Matt Eisaman and Frances Simpson-Allen join Plan Sea to discuss Ebb Carbon's marine carbon dioxide removal approach and their latest developments. Matt is a cofounder and Chief Scientist as well as A...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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48:31
David Koweek of Ocean Visions on the Importance of Interdisciplinary Networks for Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal
Today’s guest is David Koweek, who holds a PhD from Stanford University in Earth System Science and is currently the Chief Scientist of Ocean Visions, a non-profit organization comprised of a network of l...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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45:54
Dr. Ken Buesseler on New Perspectives and Opportunities for Ocean Iron Fertilization
Dr. Ken Buesseler, senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, joins us to discuss new perspectives and opportunities of ocean iron fertilization (OIF) as a carbon removal solution.Ken explores with us how the journey ...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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54:12
SEAO2_CDR: An Insight into the European Ocean CDR Space with Christopher Pearce, Patricia Grasse and Christine Merk
Today's episode features three representatives of the SEAO2-CDR project, a European effort to determine strategies for the evaluation and assessment of ocean based carbon dioxide removal. The project's aims r...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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46:55
Exploring the OAE Best Practice Guide with Jean-Pierre Gattuso and Andreas Oschlies
This episode's guests are Jean-Pierre Gattuso, CNRS research professor at Sorbonne University and Institute on Sustainable Development and International Relations, France, and Chair for Ocean Acidification and other ocean changes – Impacts and ...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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1:17:43
Rose Sharifian of SeaO2 on Electrochemical Ocean Carbon Capture and the European Marine CDR Community
Rose Sharifian, CTO of the Dutch startup SeaO2, joins Plan Sea to talk about their electrochemical ocean carbon capture approach. Rose, Anna and Wil discuss SeaO2's technical roadmap, electrochemical membrane technology as well as ...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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40:13
Mike Kelland of Planetary Technologies on Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement Policy and Community Engagement
Mike Kelland, CEO and co-founder of Planetary Technologies, an ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) startup from Canada, joins Plan Sea on this new episode. Mike, Anna and Wil discuss the basics, science and challenges surrounding ocean a...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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1:08:05
Exploring the Risks and Riches of the Deep Sea Ecosystems in Climate Interventions: A Discussion with Lisa Levin
Our guest, Lisa Levin, is a distinguished professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the lead author of a recent article in the journal Science called "Deep Sea Impacts...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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36:58
Matt Long on the [C]Worthy initiative for MRV modeling frameworks
Matthew Long joins Wil Burns and Anna Madlener to discuss his role at the National Center for Atmospheric Research: Climate and Global Dynamics and the Cworthy project, a non-profit research organization to develop the scientific and technical ...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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46:09
Philip Boyd on Operational monitoring for Detection, Attribution and Determination of Side Effects of Marine CDR
Philip Boyd joins Wil Burns and Anna Madlener in this episode of the podcast to discuss a recent publication, "Operational Monitoring of Open-Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal Deployments: De...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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55:38
Jessica Cross on The Pathways for Ocean-Based Carbon Removal Approaches
Dr. Jessica Cross joins Anna Madlener and Wil Burns on the podcast to discuss the driving and scientifically informed academic, entrepreneurial, and legislative pathways for ocean-based carbon removal approaches.Jessica is a re...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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45:37
Cultivating and Sinking Sargassum for CO2 Uptake with Seafields Solutions
Dr. Franziska Elmer and John Auckland join Wil Burns and new cohost Anna Madlener on the podcast to discuss the startup Seafields Solutions. Seafields uses compressed sargassum bales to function as natural “carbon batteries.” The ba...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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57:11
Mowgli Holmes on How Carbon Sequestration will be Measured, Reported, and Verified (MRV) in the Future
Host Wil Burns and producer, Andrew Lewin, welcome Mowgli Homes to the podcast to discuss the measuring, reporting, and verification (MRV) of carbon sequestration in the future. Mowgli is the CEO of Submarine, which is hoping to help the indust...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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47:44
Arin Crumley and Christian Robinson on Pull to Refresh, a Carbon Reversal Program
Arin Crumley and Christian Robinson join Wil Burns and guest host (and producer), Andrew Lewin on the podcast to discuss their business called Pull to Refresh. The idea was borne out of a number of interactions on Clubhouse to help people and b...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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51:51
Romany Webb on Recommendations for Permitting Seaweed Cultivation in California
Wil Burns speaks to Romany Webb, an Associate Research Scholar at Columbia Law School and Deputy Director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, about local legislation around coastal and ocean carbon removal. Romany recently authored a pa...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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29:22
Steve Crooks and Elizabeth Guinessey on The Seascape Initiative
Our inaugural episode is a critical one and one in which host Wil Burns explores often throughout this podcast how we qualify, verify, and report claims of carbon sequestration from ocean-based approaches. Wil is joined by two experts in the fi...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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