Storing carbon below the seafloor. Ocean Networks Canada’s Dream

Dwight’s career has been largely involved in training, education, science literacy, outreach and capacity development. Since 2008, Dwight has been working for one of the world’s major ocean observing facilities, Ocean Networks Canada (ONC). He has coordinated ONC’s Artist in Residence program for the past 5 years, with deep involvement in a range of Art & Science initiatives. During 2022-2024 he served as Associate Director for ONC’s Learning & Community Engagement department, with oversight for all education and training activities that connect to school age and university classrooms as well as ONC’s work with coastal Indigenous communities. His current role at ONC is as Impact and Capacity Development manager, with a specific focus on creating opportunities for Early Career Ocean Professionals.

Dwight will speak about Ocean Networks Canada’s dream of capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and sequestering it in basaltic rock formations below the seafloor, where the CO2 transforms into carbonate rock. We have proposed a demonstration of this idea at our deepest site, Cascadia Basin, which is 2.7 km below the sea surface and several hundred km offshore.