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David J. Beerling
Leverhulme Trust · 🇬🇧 GB

Career Stage: Eminent

CDR Specialization

Enhanced Weathering

Accelerating natural weathering reactions to capture CO₂ and store it in carbonate minerals.

Metrics

MetricValue
h-index97
Citations33,885
Publications509
CDR Focus10.2%
TrajectoryStable

Top CDR Publications

  1. Substantial carbon drawdown potential from enhanced rock weathering in the United Kingdom (2022) 159 citations · Enhanced Weathering

  2. Effects of mineralogy, chemistry and physical properties of basalts on carbon capture potential and plant-nutrient element release via enhanced weathering (2021) 153 citations · Enhanced Weathering

  3. Enhanced weathering in the US Corn Belt delivers carbon removal with agronomic benefits (2024) 131 citations

  4. Technologies to deliver food and climate security through agriculture (2021) 110 citations · General CDR

  5. Chemistry-albedo feedbacks offset up to a third of forestation’s CO 2 removal benefits (2024) 102 citations · General CDR

  6. Increased carbon capture by a silicate-treated forested watershed affected by acid deposition (2021) 93 citations · Enhanced Weathering

  7. Improved net carbon budgets in the US Midwest through direct measured impacts of enhanced weathering (2023) 84 citations · Enhanced Weathering

  8. Legume–microbiome interactions unlock mineral nutrients in regrowing tropical forests (2021) 78 citations · Enhanced Weathering

  9. Quantification of CO2 removal in a large-scale enhanced weathering field trial on an oil palm plantation in Sabah, Malaysia (2022) 70 citations · Enhanced Weathering

  10. Environmental and health impacts of atmospheric CO2 removal by enhanced rock weathering depend on nations’ energy mix (2022) 66 citations · Enhanced Weathering

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