-- Southern Ocean Iron Fertilization Experiment (SOFeX)-- The basics of the most recent expedition — Penny Chisholm's site, which lists many professional papers — Paul Falkowski's article (PDF document)-- DOE article: Climate Change Scenarios Compel Studies of Ocean Carbon Storage — Government site for carbon sequestration research — An earlier piece Williams wrote on sequestration —
Will Ocean Fertilization To Remove Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere Work?
Not exact matches
«I am disturbed and disappointed as this
will make legitimate, transparent [
ocean iron
fertilization] experiments more difficult,» Smetacek says.
Oceanographers have long recognized that iron
fertilization in the Southern
Ocean will drive phytoplankton blooms.
Of course a small amount of
ocean fertilization will not hurt, but the problem comes with any over-
fertilization of the
ocean.
Based on a century of
ocean plankton science and the 10 international experiments on iron
fertilization over the last 15 years we are confident that the scale, methods and technologies of the work we are planning
will have positive impacts on all fronts, improving water quality, buffering surface water acidity, recharging the marine food chain, and safely sequestering enormous amounts of CO2 to help slow climate change.