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Michael D. Masters
University of Illinois System · 🇺🇸 US

Career Stage: Senior

CDR Specialization

Enhanced Weathering

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

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Top CDR Publications

1. Effects of mineralogy, chemistry and physical properties of basalts on carbon capture potential and plant-nutrient element release via enhanced weathering (2021) 143 citations · Enhanced Weathering

2. Enhanced weathering in the US Corn Belt delivers carbon removal with agronomic benefits (2024) 110 citations · Enhanced Weathering

3. Improved net carbon budgets in the US Midwest through direct measured impacts of enhanced weathering (2023) 74 citations · Enhanced Weathering

4. Improving nitrogen cycling in a land surface model (CLM5) to quantify soil N ₂ O, NO, and NH ₃ emissions from enhanced rock weathering with croplands (2023) 15 citations · Enhanced Weathering

5. Iron Chelation in Soil: Scalable Biotechnology for Accelerating Carbon Dioxide Removal by Enhanced Rock Weathering (2024) 6 citations · Enhanced Weathering

6. Enhanced weathering in the U.S. Corn Belt delivers carbon removal with agronomic benefits (2023) 5 citations · Enhanced Weathering

7. Improving nitrogen cycling in a land surface model (CLM5) to quantify soil N ₂ O, NO and NH ₃ emissions from enhanced rock weathering with croplands (2023) 4 citations · Enhanced Weathering

8. Validating assumptions in calculating carbon dioxide removal by enhanced rock weathering in Kantola et al., 2023 (2023) 2 citations · Enhanced Weathering

9. Effects of rock amendment on soil physicochemical properties and organic carbon stabilization (2025) 0 citations · Enhanced Weathering

10. Effects of enhanced mineral weathering on soil structure and organic carbon storage (2024) 0 citations · Enhanced Weathering

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