Sentences with phrase «ocean iron fertilization»

From recent article «Iron fertilization enhanced net community production but not downward particle flux during the Southern Ocean iron fertilization experiment LOHAFEX», by P. Martin, M. Rutgers van der Loeff, N. Cassar, P. Vandromme, F. d'Ovidio, L. Stemmann, R. Rengarajan,... Continue reading →

Pertinent to climate geoengineering observers, Zubrin also argued that the experiment helped to demonstrate the merits of ocean iron fertilization (OIF), concluding that «since those diatoms that were not eaten went to the bottom, a large amount of carbon dioxide was sequestered in their calcium carbonate shells.»

-- 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?

According to the report, «deploying ocean iron fertilization at climatically relevant levels poses risks that outweigh potential benefits.»

They include ocean iron fertilization and sulfate aerosol spraying, each of which now has a scientific - commercial constituency.

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«I am disturbed and disappointed as this will make legitimate, transparent [ocean iron fertilization] experiments more difficult,» Smetacek says.

With Leinen as its chief scientific officer, Climos sought to perform ocean iron fertilization experiments and sell carbon credits it could show it earned.

Consortium members have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that recommends the support of open experiments, the independence of each participant, and that we will follow internationally accepted practices regulating ocean iron fertilization (OIF) research being developed under the London Convention / London Protocol.

One approach to improve our understanding is to conduct open ocean iron fertilization experiments (both in situ and with carefully designed numerical experiments) which allow scientists to study the impact of iron on marine ecosystems and to quantify its potential for CO2 removal.

The Planet Remade covers all the main proposed geoengineering techniques --(not just SAI, but also ocean iron fertilization (OIF), marine cloud brightening (MCB), bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) and direct air capture (DAC)-RRB-, outlining their history, the current state of knowledge, and expected risks and benefits (and impressively, without descending into the alphabet soup of all these acronyms).

This study closely follows a September Ocean Iron Fertilization symposium at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) attended by leading scientists, international lawyers, policy makers, and concerned representatives from government, business, academia and environmental organizations.

A second general method for cooling the planet involves removing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, either via sequestration or CO2 capture, or possibly through ocean iron fertilization to promote the growth of CO2 - consuming algae.

Olgun, N. et al. (2011) Surface ocean iron fertilization: The role of airborne volcanic ash from subduction zone and hot spot volcanoes and related iron flues into the Pacific Ocean.

Or what if ocean iron fertilization really can sequester massive amounts of carbon?

They injected 24,982 Lagrangian particles across the Southern Ocean (identified as the most propitious region for deployment of ocean iron fertilization) at a depth of 1000 meters and 2000 meters to assess water mass trajectories over a 100 - year simulation and the long - term fate of carbon that allegedly can be sequestered at great depths.

There is strong evidence for a tight relation of Southern Ocean iron fertilization to this record (30, 31).

During her half - hour of interaction with the class, McNutt said, students asked questions ranging from the feasibility of the OTEC, or Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion — a strategy for harvesting energy from the oceans — to whether deforestation in Africa «might actually have a silver lining if it leads to ocean iron fertilization.»

Ocean iron fertilization: Moving forward in a sea of uncertainty.

-- Ocean iron fertilization is an immature technology whose high costs and technical and environmental risks currently outweigh the benefits.

«Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR)-- intentional efforts to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, including land management strategies, accelerated weathering, ocean iron fertilization, biomass energy with carbon capture and sequestration (BECCS), and direct air capture and sequestration (DACS).

Note 1: the NAS study includes ocean iron fertilization, which I haven't included in the above graphic because «previous studies nearly all agree that deploying ocean iron fertilization at climatically relevant levels poses risks that outweigh potential benefits.»

However, an «inconvenient truth» for proponents of ocean iron fertilization is that stimulation of phytoplankton blooms is only the first step in any successful ocean fertilization effort.

The processes that could effectuate permanent removal carbon dioxide from Earth's atmosphere include air capture, bioenergy and carbon capture and storage, ocean iron fertilization and soil mineralization, and are usually classified as carbon dioxide removal (CDR) geoengineering approaches.

«Ocean Iron Fertilization and Climate Geoengineering: Optimizing International Governance.»

«Ocean Iron Fertilization and International Law.»

During the Ocean Iron Fertilization meeting Dr. Hauke Kite - Powell, of the Marine Policy Center at WHOI, estimated the possible future value of ocean fertilization at $ 100 billion of the emerging international carbon trading market, which has the goal of mitigating global warming.

Reuters says that the ACE CRC report estimates that ocean iron fertilization «would likely hit an absorption limit of about 1 billion tonnes of carbon» or about 15 % of total carbon emissions.