As we head into the New Year, we offer up a Legion 44 cast snippet featuring an early innovator in the CDR space, Jan Wurzbacher, Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Climeworks, the global leader in carbon removal. Climeworks develops, builds, and operates direct air capture plants to remove CO2 from the air on a gigaton scale by 2050. If you want to share the full feature film Legion 44 and remove carbon, consider paying it forward here, we have already, in only 10 days, removed over 1000 tons of carbon, together. Let's keep it going, this is just a start.

Legion 44 Cast Intros continued! This is Caswell Charlie Joseph, a St. Vincentian working with the scientists of Seafields. He is on the local team building a net for sargassum and through this collaboration, the work continues! There is a role for everyone in CDR...come join the Legion. If you want to know what this is all about, or would like a friend to know, Gift Legion + CDR for the holidays.

Anu Khan is Founder and Executive Director of the Carbon Removal Standards Initiative, a nonprofit that provides financially unconflicted technical assistance to NGOs and policymakers on carbon removal quantification. Anu previously led the Science & Innovation team at Carbon180, a long-standing carbon removal think tank, where her work focused on building systems to promote accountability in federal carbon removal policy. Prior to that, Anu co-led climate-grant making at Founders Pledge, with an emphasis on policy advocacy and energy innovation.

Maurice is founder and CEO of Silicate, a terrestrial enhanced weathering company accelerating a natural geological process – the weathering of minerals – to durably sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide and amend soil pH in farmland. At Silicate, Maurice is responsible for shaping the company’s strategy, forging partnerships with academia and industry, and developing the team so that it can achieve Silicate’s ambitious carbon removal goals. Maurice has a Bachelor of Science in Marine Biology from the University of St. Andrews, and a Master of Science in Carbon Finance from the University of Edinburgh Business School. He has extensive experience in agriculture, having spent years working on some of the world’s largest farms, in the UK and Australia.

More at: http://www.legion44.world Max Pisciotta, PhD from University of Pennsylvania is a Postdoctoral Researcher at UPenn in the areas of Carbon Capture & Removal.

More at: http://www.legion44.world Duncan leads Octavia’s engineering design and project development efforts, focusing on the design of their DAC modules and the engineering of their DAC plants. His idea for building DAC as a solution to climate change emerged while he was still in university, with the goal of supporting Kenyan farmers. He has a background in mechanical engineering and is driven by a passion to use his expertise to tackle the climate crisis.

More at http://www.legion44.world Dr. Claire Nelson is a geochemist with expertise in basalt chemical weathering, aqueous geochemistry, and secondary mineral formation. She earned both an M.S. and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University, where her field-based research focused on basalt weathering in both subsurface and surficial settings in Iceland. As a postdoctoral research scientist at Columbia University, she developed Cella’s novel carbon injection method to optimize the efficiency of mineralization at scale.