Tyler Kukla

Today we’re launching Open Climate Risk, a fully open option for U.S. building-level climate risk data. It’s unique because it allows you to see not only risk scores, starting with wildfire, but also the complete underlying dataset, methods, and codebase. carbonplan.org/research/cli...

Graphic showing successful climate services that include hazard, sector, and geography at Climate Central.

If you are #AMS2026, stop by our presentation tomorrow about the new work in climate services at @climatecentral.org (ams.confex.com/ams/106ANNUA...) - focusing on preserving critical climate data and improving the tools and communication of the local risks.

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The need to consistently account for time in CDR – CarbonPlan We collaborated on a new preprint that establishes clearer language for talking about temporal lags in CDR, and shows how ignoring them can drive near-term warming.

Most carbon removal projects don’t pull CO₂ from the atmosphere instantly — there are temporal lags. We contributed to a new preprint showing why accounting for lags matters for both near-term warming and long-term temperature stabilization. 1/2

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Consistent temporal accounting supports credible CDR use – CDRXIV Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is increasingly used to support national targets and corporate net-zero commitments, yet the timing of atmospheric drawdown remains poorly represented in carbon accounting...

Consistent temporal accounting supports credible CDR use. cdrxiv.org/preprint/302

382: Silicates vs. Carbonates: How the 1996 IPCC Report Created Enhanced Rock Weathering Path Dependency—w/ Dr. Tyler Kukla, CarbonPlan Spotify video

Ross Kenyon and I talked about why enhanced weathering projects almost always use silicates, not carbonates. There's no single answer! But it was useful to look at the problem through the lens of path-dependence, and ask what it can teach us about CDR more broadly.

Find us for bagels, beignets, and coffee at Pod 1 for the @cdrxiv.org breakfast! 8:30-9:30am today! agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me...

For all fans of open science — find us at AGU tomorrow morning for free bagels, coffee, and beignets! Pod 1, 8:30-9:30am CT agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me...

CDRXIV breakfast is back! Join us at AGU, Wednesday at 8:30am in pod 1 for free bagels and coffee and open science conversation! agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me...

Preprints in Carbon Dioxide Removal At CDRXIV, we want to understand how carbon removal researchers think about preprints. Your responses to this survey will help us gather those perspectives. The results will be anonymized and shared p...

Hey CDR researchers! Help us shape open science infrastructure in CDR by filling out this short survey on the role of preprints. It's open until Dec. 15. Please share with your colleagues and thanks to all who participate! forms.gle/qfSBJqaRzXZM...

Preprints in Carbon Dioxide Removal At CDRXIV, we want to understand how carbon removal researchers think about preprints. Your responses to this survey will help us gather those perspectives. The results will be anonymized and shared p...

Calling all CDR researchers — we want to hear from you! Share your perspective on the current role of preprints in CDR research via this survey, open until Dec. 15th. Results will be anonymized, synthesized, and shared publicly. Thanks in advance! forms.gle/F7VkxJKM7qW9...

Atmospheric Feedbacks Reverse the Sensitivity of Modeled Photosynthesis to Stomatal Function Atmospheric feedbacks reverse the direction of photosynthesis sensitivity to stomatal function in the tropics and high latitudes Stomatal function with higher water cost per carbon gain leads to ...

New lab paper: How does photosynthesis respond to assumptions about stomatal functioning? We find that including atmospheric feedbacks reverses the direction of photosyn. response => stomatal cond. changes temp. & water stress. Led by Amy Liu, w/ many collaborators! doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Katie Wilson gains 'virtually' unbeatable lead in Seattle mayor's race Katie Wilson has gained a lead that Incumbent Bruce Harrell will be unlikely to beat in the race for Seattle mayor.

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A photo of Katie Wilson standing beneath the glass window sign for Katy's corner Cafe restaurant with her arm resting on a public waist bin decorated with stickers and graffiti

an image of the election results from King County on the 9th of November 11th 2025

Wow. While we wait for the few remaining ballots to be counted, we feel like we have won this race. The recent drop put us nearly 1,400 votes ahead, just under the .5 percent threshold for a mandatory recount.

Postdoctoral Research Associate - Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences Position Summary The Climate and Paleoclimate Lab in the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences at WashU in St. Louis seeks a Postdoctoral Research Associate in tropical climate/pa...

We're hiring! I'm recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Associate in climate & paleoclimate modeling of the tropical Americas. Come obsess over the tropical rain belt with me! :) Please share w/folks who may be interested. Ad here: wustl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

This gets at what I think is a fundamental problem with most well-intentioned, public minded SRM work — the governance requirements for ethical SRM would seem to be a subset of the governance requirements that would allow any plausible need for SRM to be avoided.

Lethal by design? Guiding environmental assessments of ocean alkalinity enhancement toward realistic contextualization of the alkalinity perturbation – CDRXIV Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE) aims to mitigate climate change by increasing the chemical capacity of seawater to store anthropogenic CO2. OAE can be implemented through multiple pathways, each of...

Lethal by design? Guiding environmental assessments of ocean alkalinity enhancement toward realistic contextualization of the alkalinity perturbation. cdrxiv.org/preprint/457

Insights lost at points of vulnerability in UK policy evidence gathering on Carbon Dioxide Removal – CDRXIV The methods, quantity, and timing of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is impacted by, and has implications for, decarbonising energy, land use change, agriculture, the earth system response, and global so...

Insights lost at points of vulnerability in UK policy evidence gathering on Carbon Dioxide Removal. cdrxiv.org/preprint/412

A genomic view of Earth’s biomes - Nature Reviews Genetics Genome-wide approaches have uncovered the vast microbial and viral diversity across ecosystems. This Review explores advances in metagenomics, single-cell sequencing and functional profiling to elucid...

Microbiome sequencing has come so far in 2 decades. In my PhD— I used TRFLP…. am now doing long read sequencing of entire soil metagenomes! This review was great fun- thanks Gitta Szabó @emileyeloe-fadrosh.bsky.social Tanja Woyke of @jgi.doe.gov

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Scaling enhanced weathering in limed fields – CarbonPlan Both agricultural liming and enhanced weathering spread crushed rocks on fields and have the potential to remove carbon from the atmosphere. We explore how modifying liming for carbon removal works — ...

Agricultural liming helped create the infrastructure that enhanced weathering needs to scale up, but it also makes some enhanced weathering projects harder to support in the carbon market. We show why this tension exists and discuss some paths forward in our latest article.

Swapping carbonate for silicate in agricultural enhanced rock weathering – CDRXIV Enhanced rock weathering with crushed silicates is often considered as an alternative to agricultural liming for soil pH management and carbon dioxide removal. But swapping carbonates for silicates do...

Swapping carbonate for silicate in agricultural enhanced rock weathering. cdrxiv.org/preprint/304

If you're submitting an #AGU2025 abstract on #enhancedrockweathering biogeochemistry, microbiology, hydrology, modeling, MRV, public policy or social science, consider session B037, Enhanced Weathering for Carbon Dioxide Removal & Improved Soil and Agronomic Properties -due 7/30!

✨Paper #2 has just been published @weareagc.bsky.social ✨ And it is about hopanoids!! Thank you @climategordon.bsky.social for trusting a brand new journal with your research. AGC is 💎 open access: free to publish and free to read 🙌 Geochemists, come publish with us! journals.uu.se/AGC/article/...

Check out our new pre-print on how to use soil mass balance (“TiCAT”) to quantify rock dissolution in enhanced weathering trials. Includes key do’s & don’ts, a deep dive into signal-to-noise (constrained in data from from 5 sites), and open-source code to try it yourself. Feedback welcome! #EW #CDR

Efficacy of seaweed-based carbon dioxide removal reduced by iron limitation and nutrient competition with phytoplankton – CDRXIV Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is a crucial component of climate change mitigation strategies, and ocean afforestation via seaweed cultivation has been touted as a promising marine CDR (mCDR) approach d...

Efficacy of seaweed-based carbon dioxide removal reduced by iron limitation and nutrient competition with phytoplankton. cdrxiv.org/preprint/385

Introducing CDRXIV: A preprint server and data repository for CDR – CarbonPlan We are launching a new platform for openly sharing research results on carbon dioxide removal.

Introducing CDRXIV, a central hub for preprints and data on carbon dioxide removal (CDR). Our goal is to make it easier for CDR research to be shared and discovered by researchers in academia and industry. CDRXIV was built by @carbonplan.org. Read more about it here: carbonplan.org/blog/cdrxiv-...

Soil cation storage is a key control on the carbon removal dynamics of enhanced weathering – CDRXIV Significant interest and resources are currently being channeled into techniques for durable carbon dioxide removal (CDR) from Earth’s atmosphere. A particular class of these approaches — referred to ...

Soil cation storage is a key control on the carbon removal dynamics of enhanced weathering. cdrxiv.org/preprint/351

Direct measurement of carbon dioxide removal due to enhanced weathering – CDRXIV Enhanced weathering (EW) is a durable carbon removal strategy with clear pathways to produce significant global supply on a decadal scale. Despite increasing interest and investment in this process, t...

Direct measurement of carbon dioxide removal due to enhanced weathering. cdrxiv.org/preprint/352

Cost of cooling: The value of reversible carbon storage in a zero-emissions world – CDRXIV Atmospheric carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is required to stabilize global temperature and can be achieved via ecosystem (e.g., soil and forest management) and geological (e.g., direct air capture) carb...

Cost of cooling: The value of reversible carbon storage in a zero-emissions world. cdrxiv.org/preprint/348

New accounting rules blur the line between decarbonization and carbon dioxide removal – CarbonPlan Isometric’s new protocol for wastewater alkalinity enhancement risks counting decarbonization as carbon dioxide removal. The rules could reshape how carbon removal is defined in other pathways, as wel...

A new wastewater alkalinity enhancement protocol can be used to issue CDR credits to activities that don’t increase the amount of carbon removed from the atmosphere. We wrote about how this breaks with other CDR protocols, and what it could mean moving forward.
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A Framework for Integrating Spatial Uncertainty into Critical Zone Models: Application to Enhanced Weathering – CDRXIV Spatial heterogeneity introduces uncertainty when characterizing the Critical Zone, especially when sampling is sparse or requires repeated measurements at the same locations. Here, we layout a probab...

A Framework for Integrating Spatial Uncertainty into Critical Zone Models: Application to Enhanced Weathering. cdrxiv.org/preprint/334