Methane Tipping Point Early Warning System and Electromagnetic Mapping of Hydrate Fields.
I was downloading the relevant papers from the U.of C. library and found this 08 PhD dissertation on mapping hydrate fields. http://escholarship.org/uc/item/61x1136v?query=ocean%20methane%20hydrate#page-150 I think this is extremely important for this issue on two counts. First is the ability to use this method for locating Sea Worm buoy deployment in general. However, *If we focus in upon key environmental factors and use this method to locate actual vents/fields within the key "hot spots", we may be able to see the early stages of a methane tipping point.* Low oxygen, high temperature, shallow waters, possibly continental shelf edge potential landslide areas, new arctic thaw areas all add up to the perfect hallmarks of a "weak point". I would also throw in the "trawler" wild card (areas of current or past bottom drag net use). Using our best resources to develop a list of sites that meet that criteria would let us focus immediate resources on mapping and getting monitoring equipment on site. By going the weakest of the weak sites, we can basically develop an early warning system for a methane tipping point. I think this might be a good focus for this summer. Any thoughts or comments? Thanks, Michael <http://escholarship.org/uc/item/61x1136v?query=ocean%20methane%20hydrate#page-150> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en.
