Ian and Larissa teamed up with folks from the Watmough Environmental Geoscience Group and Yale’s Center for Natural Carbon Capture to begin research at Haliburton Forest & Wild Life Reserve. The Haliburton Forest Project aims to sequester tonnes of CO2 and improve overall forest health via the enhanced rock weathering of wollastonite. This project will entail annual spreading of wollastonite, and establish long-term monitoring stations across four sites located within Haliburton Forests 100,000 acres. To date, the team has collected over 300 baseline soil and water samples from each site and begun preliminary analysis of geochemistry, mineralogical composition, and total inorganic carbon.
