50+ Fellows to Meet Virtually for Scialog: Negative Emissions Science
More than 50 promising early-career scientists have been named Fellows for a new Scialog initiative, Negative Emissions Science. Co-sponsored by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and RCSA, the series will begin virtually with its first conference November 5-6, 2020.
Participants in Scialog: Negative Emissions Science will convene to take up the pressing challenge of greenhouse gases accumulating in Earth’s atmosphere and oceans.
The multidisciplinary group of scientists – from chemistry, engineering, materials science, physics, and related disciplines – will explore how to advance fundamental science in the design of novel approaches for removing and utilizing or sequestering greenhouse gases, and for making those technologies globally scalable.
Scialog is short for “science + dialog.” As part of each multi-year initiative, Fellows are selected from multiple disciplines and institutions across the U.S. and Canada to maximize creative thinking and innovative ideas. The cohort of Fellows is diverse and inclusive of researchers from underrepresented groups of scientists.
At each conference, participants form multidisciplinary teams to design cutting-edge research projects, which they pitch to leading scientists who have facilitated discussions throughout the meeting. A committee of these facilitators then recommends seed funding to catalyze the most promising of those team projects, based primarily on the potential for high-impact results.
