Klaus Lackner Featured On PBS
Klaus Lackner, Maurice Ewing and J. Lamar Worzel Professor of Geophysics and chair of the SEAS Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, has been working on novel ways to reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. His most recent venture, air capture of carbon dioxide, was featured in the July 2 broadcast of the PBS science show, Nova Science Now.
Professor Lackner is also Director of the Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy at Columbia’s Earth Institute. He received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Heidelberg and did postdoctoral work at Caltech and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. He then joined Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he held various positions until his appointment to the SEAS faculty. He is also is a member of GRT, a company based in Tucson, Arizona, that is working to develop a commercially viable device to capture carbon dioxide from the air and that is featured on the broadcast.
Click here to see the 12-minute video and learn about Professor Lackner’s artificial “trees” that capture carbon dioxide from the air.
