Biomass Carbon Removal and Storage (BiCRS)

Corinne Scown is the Deputy Director for Research of the Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts (EAEI) Division at LBNL, Vice President and founder of the Life-cycle, Economics, and Agronomy Division (LEAD) at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), and Head of Sustainability at the Energy and Biosciences Institute (EBI). She holds a secondary appointment in the Biological Systems and Engineering Division at LBNL. Scown’s expertise includes life-cycle assessment, technoeconomic analysis, biofuels and bioproducts, air quality impacts of vehicle electrification, strategies for atmospheric carbon removal, and co-management of energy and water. She has led projects funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, California Energy Commission, California Air Resources Board, and Energy Biosciences Institute. She has led the development of online tools for TEA, LCA, and bio-based feedstock assessment, including BioC2G and the Biositing tool. Scown was awarded the ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Lectureship in 2022 for her work on TEA and LCA of emerging technologies and served as a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on Current Methods for Life Cycle Analyses of Low-Carbon Transportation Fuels in the United States. Scown earned a B.S. in civil engineering with a double-major in engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University, and she received her Ph.D. and M.S. in civil and environmental engineering at UC Berkeley.

Sarah has worked toward developing materials for climate change mitigation since 2010. Early work was focused on using advances in manufacturing to realize improved mass transport in carbon capture and conversion materials.  Recently, her research has broadened in scope and includes systems level analysis to identify opportunities for carbon removal, as well as developing scientific capabilities to de-risk scaleup for promising climate change mitigation technologies. She currently enjoy a fulfilling mix of management/mentorship, program development and scientific /individual contributor roles at LLNL.

Dr. Andrew ‘Drew’ Wong is a Materials Engineer in the Materials Engineering Division (MED) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), where his research encompasses the analysis, development, and maturation of energy and climate technologies. At LLNL, Dr. Wong works with teams inventing new energy generation, energy storage, and electrochemical conversion technologies, particularly in the vein of scale-up and de-risking, and with teams exploring carbon capture, utilization, and storage solutions from conceptual designs to roadmaps for future deployment. His graduate research focused on organic flow batteries for grid-scale energy storage and materials processing for solar photovoltaics. Dr. Wong has co-authored over 15 publications with over 450 citations and has been awarded several patents. Dr. Wong has a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Harvard University (2019), an M.S. and B.E. in Engineering Science from the Dartmouth Thayer School of Engineering (2014), and a B.A. in Engineering Science from Dartmouth College (2012).