Grants and Contributions:

Title:

Landscape carbon accumulation through reductions in emissions (L-CARE): developing brownfield managment protocols for carbon sequestration and habitat use

Agreement Number:

CRDPJ

Agreement Value:

$798,080.00

Agreement Date:

Jan 10, 2018 -

Organization:

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

Location:

Ontario, CA

Reference Number:

GC-2017-Q4-00125

Agreement Type:

Grant

Report Type:

Grants and Contributions

Additional Information:

Grant or Award spanning more than one fiscal year (2017-2018 to 2020-2021).

Recipient's Legal Name:

Basiliko, Nathan (Laurentian University)

Program:

Collaborative Research and Development Grants - Project

Program Purpose:

Brownfield management represents an important opportunity for carbon (C) sequestration and storage to helpx000D
meet industrial climate change mitigation targets. C is four times more plentiful in the terrestrial biosphere thanx000D
in the atmosphere, but conventional ecosystem management for climate change mitigation can be controversial.x000D
The OBJECTIVE of this research program is to quantify how massive sulfur and metal emissions reductions inx000D
Ontario's largest mining and smelting centre, coupled with novel ecosystem reclamation practices, lead to Cx000D
sequestration and influence the underlying processes of primary production, mineralization, and C and energyx000D
transfer through ecosystems. This research program will facilitate important economic and environmentalx000D
opportunities for our partners, Vale and Sudbury-INO (Glencore). Our preliminary estimate of 30y C storagex000D
potential in managed Sudbury uplands relative to un-reclaimed lands is 5Mt representing ~$500 million.x000D
However a unique and important focus of our study relative to other C sequestration initiatives is onx000D
watershed linkages between C pools, recognizing that C is not static, but continuously exchanging betweenx000D
uplands, wetlands and lakes (the landscape receptors) and the atmosphere. We will focus on upland, wetland,x000D
and lake systems and their linkages and the data will feed to a scaling and integration team, who will usex000D
remote sensing approaches and integrative accounting approaches to scale up trial plots to landscape scales tox000D
project future C sequestration potentials. This work will also serve as an important set of case studies to guidex000D
industrial management of brownfield environments for C sequestration elsewhere in Ontario and Canada.x000D
The research program will provide an excellent training environment for both applied and fundamentalx000D
aspects of C and GHG cycling and management across complex industrial landscapes, facilitating HQPx000D
interactions with industry and government partners and with co-applicants and partners across 8 universities, 2x000D
partner and 2 collaborator companies, 3 government agencies and by using multidisciplinary approachesx000D
spanning from the gene-to-field-to-landscape (modelling) scales.