Current projects
Blue Alkalinity: Integrating innovative ways of coastal carbon drawdown into marine engineering applications
Period: 01/01/2024 – 31/12/2026
Awarded to Filip Meysman (UAntwerp), Steven Bouillon (KULeuven ) and Vera Van Lancker and Michael Fettweis (RBINS), funded by VLAIO – cSBO-project
Alkalinity production and consumption in coastal ecosystems and the corresponding impact on atmospheric CO2
Period: 01/10/2023 – 31/09/2026
Postdoctoral fellowship awarded to Astrid Hylén, funded by the Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Vlaanderen (FWO)
Carbon dioxide removal via coastal enhanced silicate weathering (CESW) with olivine materials
Period: 15/11/2022 – 31/12/2025
Awarded to Filip Meysman, funded by Time for the Planet, Carbon Time, Carbon Odyssea
In collaboration with Ghent University (Progress) and VLIZ
DEHEAT – Natural analogues and system-scale modeling of marine enhanced silicate weathering
Period: 15/12/2021 – 15/03/2026
Awarded to Sebastiaan van de Velde and Filip Meysman, funded by the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (BELSPO)
In collaboration with Université Libre de Bruxelles and Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Detailed Geochemical and Ecological Characterization of Papakōlea Beach (Hawaii) as a Globally Unique Analog for Coastal Enhanced Weathering Technologies
Period: 01/07/2020 – 30/09/2023
Awarded to Filip Meysman, funded by Vesta
in collaboration with Vesta
Finalized projects
Title: Negative emissions through enhanced mineral weathering in the coastal zone Period: 01/01/2019 – 31/12/2022
Funding source : FWO-SBO project
Collaboration: University of Antwerpen (Geobiology and ECOSPHERE), Ghent University (Progress), VLIZ
Coastal Carbon groups all coastal ocean alkalinization projects of the Geobiology research group at the University of Antwerp. We investigate natural processes that drive ocean alkalinity content and explore how ocean alkalinity can be increased to stimulate the ocean’s CO₂ storage capacity.
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