Lohafex provides new insights on plankton ecology
Monday, March 23, 2009 - 09:14
in Earth & Climate
The Indo-German team of scientists from the National Institute of Oceaonography and the Alfred Wegener Institute has returned from its expedition on research vessel Polarstern. The cooperative project Lohafex has yielded new insights on how ocean ecosystems function. But it has dampened hopes on the potential of the Southern Ocean to sequester significant amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) and thus mitigate global warming. On 17 March the scientists reached Punta Arenas, Chile, together with colleagues from five other countries. They carried out an ocean iron fertilisation experiment in the south-western Atlantic for arduous two and a half months in the notorious Roaring Forties...
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