To keep Earth safe from dangerous climate change, a significant amount of CO2 will need to be removed from the atmosphere via negative emission technologies (NETs). The idea of Wood Harvesting and Storage (WHS) proposes to collect wood residuals from forestry, fire and storm damage, and bury in anaerobic subterranean 'Wood Vaults' to preserve the carbon for thousands of years. The method accelerates and expands the carbon benefits by forests, while providing green jobs and multiple environmental co-benefits. WHS provides a low-cost, distributed and scalable carbon sequestration technology with the potential to recapture our fossil fuel emissions. Students work in a highly interdisciplinary team in conducting lab experiments, IoT sensor development, data analysis, computer modeling, as well as outreach to government agencies, NGOs and local communities. The team also works at the UMD Terfgrass site on a research Wood Vault fully equipped with sensors for monitoring air, soil and water. Students also have the opportunity to work with a UMD startup company in real world carbon sequestration projects in Maryland, Washington State, West Virginia, Canada, and Indonesia (https://carbonlockdown.net/).