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Hello Program on Climate Change (PCC) Community, </div>
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<p class="elementToProof" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">The PCC's Actionable Community Oriented
Research eNgagement (ACORN) program is excited to share another opportunity for PCC graduate students and postdocs to collaborate with community leaders in addressing community climate and energy priorities.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In addition to supporting community goals, ACORN projects enable students
to enrich their research experience, broaden their networks, and apply quantitative, analytical, and communication skills beyond the boundaries of their primary academic focus. ACORN projects typically involve a time commitment of about 3 hours per week over
the course of a year for each graduate student or postdoc volunteer. Prior experience related to the topic of each ACORN project is a plus but is not required. Visit our
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more information on ACORN and current ongoing projects!</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Project: Passive vs Active CO2 Removal Box Analysis</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b><a href="https://homeostasis-earth.notion.site/Homeostasis-Whitepaper-8fc9369896df47f88efdeb09bcc7ee75" id="LPlnk" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://homeostasis-earth.notion.site/Homeostasis-Whitepaper-8fc9369896df47f88efdeb09bcc7ee75" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Homeostasis
Systems Corp</a></b> is an early-stage CO2 removal startup that is developing a mode of direct air capture (DAC) that does not require forced air flow. Conventional (active) DAC makes use of large arrays of fans to pump air across their contactors, expending
an additional 15-35% of energy on an already energy intensive process. A growing school of thought sees passive DAC as a more effective solution. Homeostasis would like to study the macro effects of this passive DAC paradigm on atmospheric CO2 levels, relative
to that of active DAC systems. Until multiple at-scale DAC systems are operational, quantitative comparisons can only be achieved via modeling. Homeostasis is interested in working with one or more graduate student(s) as an ACORN project team to build such
a model. They are open to the types of skill sets and knowledge bases that could assist with this effort, though imagine a background in atmospheric box modeling and/or fluid mechanics would be ideal.</span></p>
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interest in the project to </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><b>pccacorn@uw.edu</b></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
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