Russell and list: In my just-sent message on a new Geo-engineering overview summary e-book, I meant to add that author Risto Isomaki had not included "Bright Water." (Too new in the technical literature for a book that was updated in early 2011). But there is a section there on the albedo differences of algae.
My question on arctic algae blooms: I wonder if there is any economic possibility of harvesting the algae for energy and improved sequestration (CDR) purposes? (I found reference to a doubling time of 1 day) It took me quite a while to find the pertinent "technical" article on which the many popular press reports on Arctic phytoplankton were based. It appeared in last week's Science: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2012/06/06/science.1215065.full There is also a helpful intro to this very short article by Stanford's Dr. Arrigo, in a recent ScienceNow short section (with videos) found at: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/06/life-blooms-under-arctic-ice.html I still think there should be more of a technical report somewhere - as this seems to be a closed out project . Anyone? Ron ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russell Seitz" <russellse...@gmail.com> To: geoengineering@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 8:16:07 AM Subject: Re: [geo] CDR: Arctic phytoplankton - Nature's little geoengineers? Despite their spectacular visibility, Arctic blooms absorb light as well as backscattering it in ways more complex than microbubbles. It is by no means clear what water temperature changes the interplay of backscattering, undershine, and evolving population density will yield, for dissolved rganic matter and suspended metabolic debris levels vary from organism to organism let alone ecosystem to ecosystem. One hopes multlspectral and hyperspectral imaging will yield some correlations soon. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/geoengineering/-/S-sflYZ-ZPYJ . 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. -- 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.
