Schreier is part of a team selected for Negative Emission Science initiative funding

Marcel Schreier, an assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is part of a team selected to receive funding from the Scialog: Negative Emissions Science initiative.

Scialog, short for “science + dialog,” was created in 2010 by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement to stimulate intensive interdisciplinary conversation and community building around scientific themes of global importance.

Last November, researchers from across many fields, including Schreier, met for the third negative emissions initiative meeting in Tucson, Arizona, where participants discussed ideas for removing carbon dioxide and other harmful emissions from the atmosphere and developed working relationships. After the meeting, teams then wrote proposals for high-risk, high-reward projects based on those ideas.

Schreier is part of a team with a proposal titled Electro-swing Modulation of Lipophilic Environments for Direct Air Capture of Methane. Other team members include Yuanyue Liu, a mechanical engineer at the University of Texas at Austin and Phillip Milner, a member of the department of chemistry and chemical biology at Cornell University.

In total, 19 researchers on seven teams were selected for the funding, which includes $50,000 in for each individual researcher. The initiative is funded by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and ClimateWorks Foundation.