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Dr. Brian J. McPherson, Carbon Engineering
Dr. McPherson joined the University of Utah as a USTAR Professor from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technologywhere he formed the Southwest Partnership on Carbon Sequestration ($19 million in DOE funding), one of seven regional partnerships funded by the U.S. Department of Energy to evaluate the science and technology of storage of atmospheric carbon in underground geological formations and in surface soil and vegetation.
Dr. McPherson will continue as Principal Investigator and Director of the Southwest Partnership here at the University of Utah, working collaboratively with New Mexico Tech. The partnership has just been selected by the Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) to proceed to a deployment phase ($67M over 10 years), which will involve injection of approximately 1,000,000 tons of CO2 into a geological formation. The purpose of the deployment phase is to assess the efficacy of geological CO2 storage and to evaluate this as an approach for reduction of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Learn more about Carbon Sequestration and how it has been gaining world wide attention.