In the past years the momentum around marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (mCDR) has grown tremendously in part in response to growing scientific consensus that carbon removal will be a necessary part of achieving our climate goals. In response to inquiries from industry, academic partners, and congress, NOAA has formed an internal task team in 2020 to develop a strategy for NOAA CDR research. As a marine mCDR intern within NOAA’s Ocean Acidification Program you would support initiatives related to the task team and NOAA’s CDR research strategy such as:

• Contribute to existing product that track domestic CDR legislation
• Collecting and processing social scientific data pertaining to CDR policy readiness
• Assist in coordinating the Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network (GOA-ON)’s mCDR working group and related initiatives
• Generate new tools to track international CDR products and initiatives