Plan Sea: Ocean Interventions to Address Climate Change

About Plan Sea: Ocean Interventions to Address Climate Change

Plan Sea is hosted by Wil Burns, Co-Director of the Institute for Responsible Carbon Removal at American University, and Anna Madlener, Senior Manager for monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) at the Carbon to Sea Initiative. As co-hosts, Wil and Anna invite guests to the podcast each episode to discuss potential ocean-based climate solutions, particularly approaches that lead to carbon dioxide removal (CDR) from the atmosphere. The podcast scrutinizes risks and benefits of these options, as well as matters of governance, community engagement, ethics, and politics.

Publisher

Wil Burns and Anna Madlener

Category

science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 Dec 2022

Latest episode

10 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

49 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   10 Sept 2026

   Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici on the ReSCUE Oceans Act and Bipartisan Support for mCDR

   In this special video episode of Plan Sea, host Wil Burns and guest host Priyanka Hooghan, Senior Manager of Policy at Carbon to Sea, sit down with Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) on Capitol Hill to discuss growing federal support for marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) research. As co-chair of the Bipartisan Oceans Caucus, Congresswoman Bonamici discusses her sponsorship of the ReSCUE Oceans Act, bipartisan legislation that would establish a federal framework for responsible mCDR rese...

2. 

   28 May 2026

   Indigenous Leaders Fawn Sharp, Francesca Hillery, and Ken Paul on the Role of Indigenous Knowledge in Ocean Climate Solutions

   In this episode of Plan Sea, hosts Anna Madlener and Carbon to Sea’s Senior Manager for Communications Danny Gawlowski record from Carbon to Sea’s 2026 Annual Convening in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. They sit down with Fawn Sharp, and Francesca Hillery, and Ken Paul for a conversation on Indigenous knowledge systems, ocean climate solutions, and the future of ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE). In this episode, Anna and Danny explore how Indigenous knowledge can shape ocean-based carbon dio...

3. 

   2 Apr 2026

   Coastal Resilience and oCDR with Carbon Removal Standards Initiative’s Dr. Gabby Kitch and Anu Khan

   In this episode of Plan Sea, hosts Anna Madlener and Dr. Wil Burns sit down with Dr. Gabby Kitch and Anu Khan from the Carbon Removal Standards Initiative (CRSI) — a nonprofit organization using science and policy to unlock carbon dioxide removal (CDR) opportunities — to break down their recently published roadmap, Our Coasts, Resiliency, and Carbon Dioxide Removal. The report identifies three coastal resilience pathways that offer possibility for alignment with ocean-based carbon...

Who has been a guest on Plan Sea: Ocean Interventions to Address Climate Change

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• Kyla Westphal
• Mallory Ringham
• Dr Lennart Bach

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

8 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

17 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 26 / 100

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Quality

21

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

77

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