First-Order Priorities
Research and development
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September 13, 2024 - 8:06pm
- Resolving the absorption and albedo of different HGMs.
- Biogeochemical impacts of HGMs on sea ice (Miller et al. 2020).
- Is silicon fertilization an issue?
- How does sea ice biogeochemistry change with a layer of HGMs on sea ice?
- What is the fate of HGMs after deployment? Do they reach human communities?
- What are the impacts of HGMs on food webs? (toxicity, filling guts, transmission to organisms up food web) Do impacts reach humans? (Use research on microplastics as starting point.)
- Resolving the absorption and albedo of different HGMs.
- Biogeochemical impacts of HGMs on sea ice (Miller et al. 2020).
- Is silicon fertilization an issue?
- How does sea ice biogeochemistry change with a layer of HGMs on sea ice?
- What is the fate of HGMs after deployment? Do they reach human communities?
- What are the impacts of HGMs on food webs? (toxicity, filling guts, transmission to organisms up food web) Do impacts reach humans? (Use research on microplastics as starting point.)
- Resolving the absorption and albedo of different HGMs.
- Biogeochemical impacts of HGMs on sea ice (Miller et al. 2020)
- Is silicon fertilization an issue?
- How does sea ice biogeochemistry change with a layer of HGMs on sea ice?
- What is the fate of HGMs after deployment? Do they reach human communities?
- What are the impacts of HGMs on food webs? (toxicity, filling guts, transmission to organisms up food web) Do impacts reach humans? (Use research on microplastics as starting point)
Enabling conditions
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August 30, 2024 - 5:27pm
- Site suitability analysis – are there areas that would be effective?
- Research framework proposed by Diamond et al. (2022) for MCB could be adapted and developed for application of HGMs and other surface albedo modification approaches. This framework includes checkpoints (research questions that need to be addressed for the pathway to be viable) and exit ramps (criteria for terminating research if the pathway is deemed not technically or socially feasible). Once developed, this type of research framework could be enacted now, even in the absence of other governance structures and international guidance. Diamond et al. (2022) focuses on physical and technical checkpoints and exit ramps. However, social checkpoints and exit ramps also need development.
- Further development of what priorities look like in different places for different actors will be needed.
- Site suitability analysis – are there areas that would be effective?
- Research framework proposed by Diamond et al. (2022) for MCB could be adapted and developed for application of HGMs and other surface albedo modification approaches. This framework includes checkpoints (research questions that need to be addressed for the pathway to be viable) and exit ramps (criteria for terminating research if the pathway is deemed not technically or socially feasible). Once developed, this type of research framework could be enacted now, even in the absence of other governance structures and international guidance. Diamond et al. (2022) focuses on physical and technical checkpoints and exit ramps. However, social checkpoints and exit ramps also need development.
- Further development of what priorities look like in different places for different actors will be needed.
Engagement
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September 13, 2024 - 8:07pm
- Public engagement, education, and town halls about all aspects of the approach need to be developed and implemented in parallel with research in order to determine whether this approach can be implemented.
- Follow core engagement principles identified by the Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx) advisory committee (Jinnah et al. 2024):
- Start engagement efforts as early as possible.
- Include social scientists with engagement expertise on research teams during the research design process.
- Don’t presuppose what communities will be concerned about.
- Develop a plan to be responsive to community concern.
- Public engagement, education, and town halls about all aspects of the approach need to be developed and implemented in parallel with research in order to determine whether this approach can be implemented.
- Follow core engagement principles identified by the Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx) advisory committee (Jinnah et al. 2024):
- Start engagement efforts as early as possible.
- Include social scientists with engagement expertise on research teams during the research design process.
- Don’t presuppose what communities will be concerned about.
- Develop a plan to be responsive to community concern.
- Public engagement, education, and town halls about all aspects of the approach need to be developed and implemented in parallel with research in order to determine whether this approach can be implemented.
- Follow core engagement principles identified by the Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx) advisory committee (Jinnah et al. 2024):
- Start engagement efforts as early as possible
- Include social scientists with engagement expertise on research teams during the research design process
- Don’t presuppose what communities will be concerned about
- Develop a plan to be responsive to community concern
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