Recent interests

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Recent interests

• Discovery of hydrothermal vent
• The link between global warming ocean the
  Carbon story
• Microbial loop
• Industrialized mariculture Peter Drucker

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The Carbon Story

• Global warming carbon dioxide
• Ocean an ideal carbon sink
• Some oceans are iron limiting Southern Ocean
• Hypothesis Fertilization with Fe increases
  carbon sink

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fertilizing the oceans with iron
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Sea change a satellite image of a 200-km algal
bloom (orange) caused by iron fertilization
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Southern Ocean Iron Fertilization Experiment
(SOFeX)

• Iron sulfate Solution on the sea surface
• 200 km phytoplankton bloom
• Carbon can be transported below 100 metres by
  iron fertilization
• Fe C 1 1000
• Lab experiment predicted 1 100,000