Hi Bhaskar, Thanks for this. I am too late for the seminar, but I consider this work to be of the utmost importance. If climate continues to deteriorate, as many now expect (especially those who suspect that Arctic warming has become the main driver of climate change), we are going to have to find new ways of boosting food production, with low or negative CO2 emissions. We have biochar and rock crushing on land, and use of kelp and algae at sea. We must think about scaling these techniques up massively on the CO2 removal side (aka CDR Geoengineering).
At present the international community seem to believe that food production is fine, and there is no crisis. But the food price index is already at the crisis level, and millions of people who were near starvation are being pushed into starvation. Typically this leads to civil strife as governments are overthrown for not "managing the economy", e.g. in Egypt. As climate change hits, the food crisis can only deepen. Cheers, John On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 1:09 PM, M V Bhaskar <bhaskarmv...@gmail.com> wrote: > This may be a little late, there is a webinar today, June 19th, at 11 am > PDT regarding the Haida Nation Salmon Restoration project > > https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/954116967217251074 > > This was posted on LinkedIn > > > https://www.linkedin.com/groupItem?view=&gid=1809551&type=member&item=5884430005940805634&commentID=5885322133080391680&report%2Esuccess=8ULbKyXO6NDvmoK7o030UNOYGZKrvdhBhypZ_w8EpQrrQI-BBjkmxwkEOwBjLE28YyDIxcyEO7_TA_giuRN#commentID_5885322133080391680 > > As you may know, the Haida Salmon Restoration Corporation (HSRC) conducted > a large scale Ocean Iron Fertilization (OIF) experiment in the North > Pacific in 2012. > > 100 tonnes of iron compound were deposited in the migration routes of pink > and sockeye salmon east of Haida Gwaii over a period of 30 days. The > project resulted in a 35,000 km2 plankton bloom that lasted for 8 months. > > In 2013, an all time record of pink salmon return was recorded (86% > increase compared to the 10-year average). For 2014, the Department for > Fisheries & Oceans Canada expects an all time record in sockeye salmon due > to "changed conditions in the ocean". > > The HSRC scientific team collected a massive amount of oceanographic data > using autonomous underwater vehicles (Slocum Gliders), Argon Drifter, > Multi-Spectral Sonar, Surface Seawater samples, Phytoplankton Tows and > other methods. > > A full list of the HSRC open data set is attached. > > The HSRC scientific team tried to answer the following questions: > 1. Can OIF restore ocean life and fishery stock? > 2. Can CO2 be sequestered for a long period through OIF? > 3. Does OIF have harmful effects on the environment? > > The HSRC data-set contains answers to these important questions. > > However, HSRC does not have the budget and resources to further process > and investigate this unique data-set. > > HSRC recently approached Oceanea to find out if there are people in the > scientific community that are interested to review and process the data-set. > > HSRC is willing to provide the data-set under an Open Data license free of > charge to every scientific party that is interested. > > To further inform you about the background of the project, the data set > and possible collaboration, Oceanea will organize a Webinar on Thu, Jun 19, > 2014 11:00 AM PDT. > > If you are interested to learn more, please sign-up here: > https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/954116967217251074 > <https://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Fattendee%2Egotowebinar%2Ecom%2Fregister%2F954116967217251074&urlhash=j3QK&_t=tracking_anet> > > You may also contact me directly with all your questions. > > Peter Gross > Chief Science Officer > Oceanea Environmental Solutions > 207 - 1425 Marine Drive > West Vancouver, V7T 1B9 > Canada > > http://www.oceanea.org > <https://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eoceanea%2Eorg&urlhash=2Jkn&_t=tracking_anet> > > > http://twitter.com/oceaneaorg > <https://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter%2Ecom%2Foceaneaorg&urlhash=mJ1x&_t=tracking_anet> > > > Regards > > Bhaskar > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "geoengineering" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
