Sentences with phrase «study iron fertilization»

The federal Department of Energy, recently provided with $ 90 million in carbon sequestration research, continues to seek proposals to study iron fertilization as a carbon dioxide amelioration strategy.

Not exact matches

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If I did, I'd drop $ 200 million on Bussard (I'm sure he'd enjoy that); $ 200 million on kickstarting a vertical farming industry, the same on ocean iron - fertilization studies, another chunk on developing an agrichar infrastructure, and the rest on various projects that can't get funding because they have a low probability of success, but massive payoff if they do work.

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.»

As researchers concluded in a new study published in Geophysical Research Letters, ocean iron fertilization can only prove successful as a climate geoengineering approach if, in addition to phytoplankton bloom stimulation, «a proportion of the particulate organic carbon (POC) produced must sink down the water column and reach the main thermocline or deeper before being remineralized... and the third phase is long - term sequestration of the carbon at depth out of contact with the atmosphere.»

-- 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?

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.

Most likely in response to the recent study published in Nature about oceanic iron fertilization, The Onion has an issue of American Voices about it.

But then in 2009 a well - publicized study found that iron fertilization stored 80 times less carbon than expected, dampening enthusiasm and support around the geoengineering scheme.