Texas Louisiana Carbon Management Community

Principal Investigator
James Gibeaut, Ph.D.
Research
Community Resilience

Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (TAMU-CC) will apply its leadership in resilience and community dialogues to engage diverse local experts in building knowledge exchange and co-producing equitable pathways related to carbon storage and management. The Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies (HRI) and College of Science at TAMU-CC will lead this work as part of the Regional Resilience Partnership (RRP). Administered between HRI and the Coastal Bend Council of Governments, RRP works with community partners to build resilience to anthropogenic and environmental change and has launched the Coastal Bend Community Equity Dialogues as part of its work.

Carbon management is coming in the context of broader industrial growth, and much work remains to be done to co-create (co-produce) a safe and inclusive space for dialogue that is not tied to traditional regulatory agency-led public meetings. Developing projects that integrate TAMU-CC expertise provides a capability to open this dialogue across all parties involved with the RRP. This project will enable RRP to deepen and fast track the Dialogues to meet the following project objectives:

  1. Gather community perspectives as well as local data and knowledge across local partner types, including individuals and community representatives, interest groups, project developers, landowners, regulators, consultants and policy makers on key concerns, priorities and questions related to carbon management;
  2. Facilitate two-way dialogue between local partners and CCUS experts to co-produced shared understandings;
  3. Unite diverse expertise to co-produce equitable and alternative pathways to CCUS development in the Corpus Christi MSA;
  4. Inform participants at all level about the future plans for land, shallow coast and deep ocean geologic carbon storage and management planning and
  5. Provide contextualized data through an existing geospatial platform (GeoRED.org) as tailored data layers and a story map that demonstrates how the data and information might be used for various partner information needs.