Our goal is to harness plants and microbes to increase carbon flux into soil carbon storage pools to form persistent carbon that is stable for more than 100 years.
This will address the U.S. Department of Energy Carbon Negative Shot goal to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and durably store it at meaningful scales for less than $100/net metric ton of carbon-dioxide-equivalent within a decade.
Most carbon fixed by plants is respired within a year, but some becomes persistent soil carbon due to chemical, physical or environmental factors. To enhance carbon accumulation in soils, we will target soil, microbial, and plant factors influencing carbon flux and stability.
Divisions
RESTOR-C is organized into four divisions—Soil, Microbial, Plant, and Scaling and Impact—supported by essential advances that will be achieved by a cross-cutting mathematical and computational research team.
Research Objectives
Each division has a research objective and four sub-objectives.
Computing
RESTOR-C is funded by the Department of Energy Office of Science, by the programs for Biological and Environmental Research (BER) and for Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR). Computing is central to the goals we aim to achieve.