Dan Maxbauer receives NSF grant to research sustainable agriculture
Maxbauer is a geology professor at Carleton.
Dan Maxbauer, assistant professor of geology, has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant (#2208133) for his project “RUI: CAS-Climate: Carbon sequestration through enhanced weathering in agricultural soils with co-benefits to soil quality and crop yield.” Maxbauer’s three-year field trial tests carbon removal efficiency and co-benefits to crops and soils of annual applications of crushed silicate minerals. This collaboration with local farmers, and involving undergraduate researchers, will provide real-world constraints on enhanced weathering—an exciting carbon dioxide removal technology—and will be shared broadly with scientific and agricultural communities.