Sherry Lippiatt, Ph.D.

Partnerships Lead, [C]Worthy

"Trustworthy, transparent accounting of atmospheric CO2 removal is essential to ensure that claims of 'low carbon' or 'carbon neutral' fuels reflect the actual climate benefit."

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Topics Sherry Covers

Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (mCDR) Direct Ocean Capture (DOC) E-Fuels & Synthetic Fuel Feedstocks Monitoring, Reporting & Verification (MRV) Ocean Science & Biogeochemistry Carbon Markets & Certification

About

Dr. Sherry Lippiatt is the Partnerships Lead at [C]Worthy, where she builds relationships across the marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) industry and drives adoption of open-source software — including the C-Star modeling platform — used to quantify atmospheric CO2 removal from ocean-based deployments. An ocean scientist with more than a decade of marine policy and commercial experience, Sherry earned her Ph.D. in Ocean Sciences from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where her research focused on the biogeochemistry of iron in seawater, and a B.S. in Environmental Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She was a 2010 Sea Grant Knauss Marine Policy Fellow and spent eleven years with NOAA's Marine Debris Program, where she served as California Regional Coordinator, launched the agency's Marine Debris Monitoring and Assessment Project, and was named a 2016 NOAA National Ocean Service Team Member of the Year. Before joining [C]Worthy, she held communications and commercial leadership roles at Scoot Science, translating ocean science for investors in the blue economy. Sherry brings a science-grounded perspective on how mCDR, direct ocean capture, and certified low-carbon CO2 can scale credibly within evolving carbon-market and e-fuel regulatory frameworks.

Articles by Sherry Lippiatt

September 8, 2025Direct Ocean Capture: A Potential Pathway to Certified Low-Carbon CO2 for E-FuelsE-fuels — synthetic drop-in replacements for fossil fuels made by combining captured CO2 with green hydrogen — offer a potential decarbonization route for hard-to-electrify sectors like aviation and shipping, but their climate benefit hinges on access to low-carbon CO2. Sherry Lippiatt examines how direct ocean capture (DOC) could become a scalable, certified feedstock for e-fuels, why the EU's Renewable Energy Directive leaves ocean-based sources in a regulatory gray zone, and what science-based MRV will be required to ensure "low carbon" claims reflect actual atmospheric drawdown.

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