The ocean is under threat from many pressures, but none loom larger than the greenhouse gas pollution causing climate disruption. The effects of greenhouse gas pollution are particularly dangerous to the ocean, driving steady heating and acidification. The only way to solve these problems is to dial back carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere. This means reducing emissions and cleaning up legacy pollution. The ocean could play a critical role in providing solutions that can scale in time to address the crisis, but this will require the responsible development of innovative new technologies and solutions.

A member of Ocean Visions’ Launchpad program, Running Tide is building an integrated technology and positive interventions platform that can diagnose key ocean health indicators and deploy nature-based solutions to restore ocean health. They are in ongoing development and refinement of an Ocean Carbon Removal (CDR) system that can amplify and verify multiple natural carbon removal pathways to restore ocean health while maintaining a negative emissions supply chain. This intervention is designed to remove carbon from the fast carbon cycle back to the slow carbon cycle and eventually restore ocean health at scale. Running Tide’s multidisciplinary team of scientists and engineers, in concert with their independent Scientific Advisory board and external partners, developed a Research Roadmap that will help to deploy and scale interventions responsibly.

Join Running Tide Board Member Max Chalfin for an exposition of Running Tide's approach to ocean-based CDR research and development.

About Max Chalfin

Max Chalfin is an applied mathematical scientist and a member of Running Tide's Board of Directors. Before joining the board, Max served for three years as Running Tide's Chief Technology Officer and Research Director. Max designed Running Tide's approach to MRV and ecology, and has been a thought leader in the development of Ocean CDR.

Running Tide: Ocean-Based CDR Research & Development Roadmap