This Is CDR Ep. 92: Banyu Carbon with Dr. Alex Gagnon.

This week we are pleased to welcome Alex Gagnon and Julian Sachs from Banyu Carbon to present and discuss the company's novel photochemical CDR process to capture carbon dioxide from seawater. https://www.banyucarbon.com/ ​About Alex: ​Dr. Alex Gagnon (PhD Chemistry, Caltech; BS, UC-Berkeley) is an expert in marine carbon who was recognized with a National Science Foundation CAREER award. He has shared his work with President Obama and as an invited panelist for the National Academies. He is deeply involved in marine carbon removal research in both his academic and now his business roles. As a member of a mountain rescue team during graduate school, Alex learned the value of leadership, resilience, and community, lesson that he brings to his role as an entrepreneur. The next 20 years will determine if we can manage atmospheric CO2 and keep global temperatures below dangerous levels. Alex can think of no higher calling than developing climate technology to meet this challenge. Alex is on leave from his faculty duties at the University of Washington to advance the carbon-dioxide-removal technology developed with co-founder Julian Sachs. Alex loves to run, hike, and garden with his family. ​About Julian: ​Dr. Julian Sachs (PhD, MIT; BS, MIT) is a marine organic chemist and climate scientist. His 120 scientific publications have been cited more than 8,000 times. He’s been obsessed with weather and climate since childhood when his family evacuated Martha’s Vineyard in advance of a hurricane and a blizzard closed his New Jersey school for a week. Majoring in Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science in college, earning a PhD in Chemical Oceanography with a dissertation on past climate, then researching and teaching climate science for the last 20+ years fueled his passion to understand the earth system. No longer satisfied with studying the global warming threat, Julian is motivated to help avert it. Toward that end Julian is on leave from his faculty position at the University of Washington to advance Banyu Carbon’s carbon removal technology. Outside Banyu, Julian loves to do anything on a bike (inclines & obstacles preferred), snowboard, toss frisbees to his dog, and spend time with his wife and two teenagers.