Posts Tagged ‘Iron’
Hot off the Press: Next steps for assessing ocean iron fertilization for mCDR
On Monday September 9th, 2024 a new paper was published in Frontiers: Climate: Next steps for assessing ocean iron fertilization for marine carbon dioxide removal. This important paper is a collaboration by ocean scientists across many ocean-related specialties who are members of ExOIS, Exploring Ocean Iron Solution group who endorse and are planning for an…
Read MoreOcean Iron Fertilization: Assessing its potential as a climate solution
Hot off the press November 2nd, 2022 a new white paper by authors with the Exploring Ocean Iron Solutions (ExOIS) group including steering committee member Ken Buesseler. You can either review the report online, or download our PDF. ExOIS is an umbrella organization that strives to foster partnerships for scientific research as well as with…
Read MoreThe danger of creating a designer planet
In a guest blog, Ken Buesseler from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, calls for better understanding of the ocean’s biological processes before attempting to geoengineer climate solutions. It is natural in the face of an impending emergency to look for something—anything—that will avert the crisis. So it is understandable that in the absence of a…
Read MoreBoyd et al. paper awarded the 2019 John H. Martin Award by ASLO
Read about Boyd and co-authors including Ken Buesseler who received the 2019 John H. Martin Award from ASLO. 2019 Martin Award Recipients The Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography presents the John H. Martin Award to one paper each year that has led to fundamental shifts in research focus and interpretation of a…
Read MoreDispatch 12 – Studying iron on a rusty ship
Here’s a problem for you. How do you collect and study water from the ocean for iron, when you are surrounded by rust? By most laboratory standards, ships are dirty places, rusting, greasy, and bathed in diesel fumes. Stopping the rust is nearly impossible, as seawater is a perfect medium for accelerating corrosion of metallic…
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