Gunter Flipkens- Doctor of Science
- Postdoctoral researcher at University of Antwerp
Gunter Flipkens
- Doctor of Science
- Postdoctoral researcher at University of Antwerp
Investigating the CO2 sequestration potential and ecological safety of mineral-based ocean alkalinity enhancement
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Introduction
I am a postdoc at the University of Antwerp in Belgium. My research is focused on the efficiency and ecological safety of different mineral-based coastal ocean alkalinity enhancement methods for climate change mitigation.
Current institution
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September 2019 - February 2024
Position
- PhD student
Description
- Coastal enhanced olivine weathering for climate change mitigation: investigating the CO2 sequestration potential and ecotoxicological risks
Education
September 2017 - June 2019
September 2014 - June 2017
Publications
Publications (7)
Gigaton scale atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) removal (CDR) is needed to keep global warming below 1.5 °C. Coastal enhanced olivine weathering is a CDR technique that could be implemented in coastal management programmes, but its CO2 sequestration potential and environmental safety remain uncertain. Large scale olivine spreading would change the s...
Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies at a gigaton scale need to be developed and implemented within the next decades to keep global warming below 1.5 °C. Coastal enhanced silicate weathering is one of the proposed CDR techniques that aims to accelerate the natural process of CO2-sequestration during marine chemical weathering of silicate miner...
Active atmospheric carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is needed at a gigaton scale in the next decades to keep global warming below 1.5 °C. Coastal enhanced silicate weathering (CESW) aims to increase natural ocean carbon sequestration via chemical weathering of finely ground olivine (MgxFe(1-x)SiO4) rich rock dispersed in dynamic coastal environments. H...
Enhanced silicate weathering (ESW) by spreading finely ground silicate rock along the coastal zone to remove atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) is a proposed climate change mitigation technique. The abundant and fast-dissolving mineral olivine has received the most attention for this application. However, olivine contains nickel (Ni) and chromium (Cr...
In the aquatic environment, metals are present as mixtures, therefore studies on mixture toxicity are crucial to thoroughly understand their toxic effects on aquatic organisms. Common carp were used to assess the effects of short-term Cu(II) and Cd(II) mixtures, using a fixed concentration of one of the metals, representing 25 % of its individual 9...
