Ning Zeng
Ning Zeng is an American climate scientist and academic. He is a professor at the University of Maryland.He is primarily known for his work in the field of carbon sequestration. He is considered a pioneer amongst scientists of biomass burial, and has been researching in the area for over a decade. He has written papers proposing the 'Wood Vault', a process by which woody biomass is buried as a means to slow re-entry of CO2 into the atmosphere through the carbon cycle.
He has argued that one of the easiest targets for the removal of CO2 from the atmosphere is to bury wood that would otherwise be mulched, burned, or simply left to rot. In the United States alone, 'unexploited wood residuals' represent around 300 megatons of annual carbon dioxide emissions. He has also advocated for his carbon sequestration techniques as a possible method to mitigate fire risk in the American West and other parts of the world.
Zeng first formally proposed his idea of 'Carbon sequestration via wood burial' in the ''Carbon Balance and Management'' journal in 2008. Since then, he has continued research in the area and published a follow-up paper proposing the 'Wood Vault' in a 2022 paper co-authored with Henry Hausmann. this paper highlighted a number of potential approaches; including storing biomass in frozen sites, underwater, or even in above-ground shelters.
In 2021, Zeng was listed on Reuter's list of 'hot climate scientists'. He is member of the editorial board at the scientific journal Earth System Dynamics. Provided by Wikipedia
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5by Tiexi Chen, Shengjie Zhou, Chuanzhuang Liang, Daniel Fiifi Tawia Hagan, Ning Zeng, Jun Wang, Tingting Shi, Xin Chen, A.J. DolmanGet access
Published in Remote Sensing (2020)
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7by Jin-Soo Kim, Jong-Seong Kug, Sujong Jeong, Jin-Ho Yoon, Ning Zeng, Jinkyu Hong, Jee-Hoon Jeong, Yuan Zhao, Xiaoqiu Chen, Mathew Williams, Kazuhito Ichii, Gabriela Schaepman-StrubGet access
Published in Communications Earth & Environment (2022)
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8by Jin-Soo Kim, Jong-Seong Kug, Sujong Jeong, Jin-Ho Yoon, Ning Zeng, Jinkyu Hong, Jee-Hoon Jeong, Yuan Zhao, Xiaoqiu Chen, Mathew Williams, Kazuhito Ichii, Gabriela Schaepman-StrubGet access
Published in Communications Earth & Environment (2022)
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9by Jinzhi Ding, Tao Wang, Shilong Piao, Pete Smith, Ganlin Zhang, Zhengjie Yan, Shuai Ren, Dan Liu, Shiping Wang, Shengyun Chen, Fuqiang Dai, Jinsheng He, Yingnian Li, Yongwen Liu, Jiafu Mao, Altaf Arain, Hanqin Tian, Xiaoying Shi, Yuanhe Yang, Ning Zeng, Lin ZhaoGet access
Published in Nature Communications (2019)
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10by Joshua B Fisher, Daniel J Hayes, Christopher R Schwalm, Deborah N Huntzinger, Eric Stofferahn, Kevin Schaefer, Yiqi Luo, Stan D Wullschleger, Scott Goetz, Charles E Miller, Peter Griffith, Sarah Chadburn, Abhishek Chatterjee, Philippe Ciais, Thomas A Douglas, Hélène Genet, Akihiko Ito, Christopher S R Neigh, Benjamin Poulter, Brendan M Rogers, Oliver Sonnentag, Hanqin Tian, Weile Wang, Yongkang Xue, Zong-Liang Yang, Ning Zeng, Zhen ZhangGet access
Published in Environmental Research Letters (2018)
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