Ocean Iron in the News

Press Releases

February 24, 2011, University of Maine: UMaine Researcher Joins Group Examining Potential Iron Fertilization Of Oceans

February 22, 2011, NOC: International consortium to study impacts of iron fertilisation

February 22, 2011, URI, international consortium to study iron fertilization of oceans

February 22, 2011: ISIS Consortium Press Release

October 10, 2007: Can a Dose of Iron Supplements Improve the Health of the Ocean and Climate? Colloquium will allow public to pose questions and comments about geo-engineering the seas

Newspaper/Web

October 4, 2011, Group Urges Research Into Agressive Efforts to Fight Climate Change, The New York Times
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October 4, 2011, Polar Oceans in Transition, Eurasia Review News and Analysis
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July 7, 2011, Natural Iron Fertilization Influences Deep-Sea Ecosystems Off the Crozet Islands, Science Daily
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February 28, 2011, Should scientists trap carbon dioxide? Boston Globe
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February 25, 2011, Can geoengineering put the freeze on global warming? USA Today
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February 23, 2011 Ocean fertilization: Could a greener ocean stop climate change? Climatide WCAI Blog
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February 22, 2011, International consortium will study seeding the sea with iron, Beth Daley, Boston Globe
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Lane, E. (2010). Experts at AAAS Forum Explore Controversial Geoengineering Ideas for Cooling the Planet
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October 29, 2010: Sparks Fly Over Theory That Volcano Caused Salmon Boom, Nature News
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October 22, 2010: Climate Science Round-Up: Ocean Fertilization (or Climate Liposuction), Huffington Post
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October 6, 2010: How Volcanoes Feed Plankton, Science Now
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September 23, 2010: Why ocean scientists can't ignore geoengineering, Deep-Sea News
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August 2010: Technically Speaking: Hacking the Planet, IEEE Spectrum
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June 16, 2010: Fecal attraction: Whale poop fights climate change, Inquirer.net
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April 23, 2010: In the long run, all that ash can be a good thing, Los Angeles Times
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February 26, 2010: Measuring iron's importance to ocean life, Scientific American
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January 18, 2010: A Search for Rules Before Climate-Changing Experiments Begin, New York Times
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Radio

December 13, 2007, Interview with Ken Buesseler on Iron Fertilization, Mindy Todd, WCAI, The Cape and Islands NPR Station, The Point, 7:30 p.m. EST
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October 12, 2010: Whales help fertilize the ocean with floating dung (NPR)
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Journal Papers

October, 2011, Fertilizing the Seas with Iron, Richard Blaustein, BioScience, 61(10): 840, doi:10.1525/bio.2011.61.10.2011.

Last updated: November 8, 2011