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Bio Clean Fuel Robots are being used to track an algae bloom in Antarctic waters to test a global warming theory.

Earth Bio Fuel Deep diving SOLO floats, equipped by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to report on biological activity in the sea, have tracked the plankton bloom for more than 200 kilometers through the stormy Southern Ocean.

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Bio Flight Fuel Green Jb100 Three times each day, two of the SOLO floats dive up and down several hundred meters to measure particulate carbon, most of it in the form of phytoplankton, or single celled algae. One of the floats dips into an algae bloom fertilized with iron, and the other, acting as a control, is deployed outside the algae patch.

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Bio Bio Fuel Less More Waste The floats return to the surface each day and, weather permitting, report their Global Positioning System (GPS) positions and data to satellites overhead.

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Make Bio Fuel "This is the cloudiest place on the planet, and the winds have been awful," said oceanographer Jim Bishop, whose group in Berkeley Lab's Earth Sciences Division designed and equipped the SOLO floats. "But the float in the center of the fertilized patch just keeps sending."

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Bio Fuel Jb100 Jet Properties The floats were launched in mid-January as part of the SOFeX experiment led by Moss Landing Marine Laboratory (MLML) and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). The purpose of SOFeX, the Southern Ocean iron (Fe) experiment, is to test the late John Martin's iron hypothesis.

Fuel Cell Bio While director of MLML, Martin proposed that phytoplankton blooms can lower global temperature by removing carbon from the atmosphere. Since phytoplankton needs iron from sources like windblown dust to grow, Martin argued, "Give me half a tanker of iron, and I will give you an Ice Age."

Bio Conversion Fuel The prospect of controlling atmospheric carbon through ocean fertilization and perhaps offsetting global warming are matters of intense interest to the Department of Energy and the other agencies and institutions participating in SOFeX. Under the direction of MBARI's Ken Johnson, a ship pumped an iron solution overboard in two regions of the Southern Ocean along 170 degrees west longitude.

Green Energy The waters of the more northerly region, at about 55 degrees south latitude are poor in the silicate that some phytoplankton need to form a shell. Plankton in that patch were expected to bloom sluggishly even after iron fertilization, while a more vigorous bloom was expected after fertilization of the silicate rich waters of the southern patch, at about 66 degrees south.

Bio Ethanol Fuel Despite expectations that growth in the northern patch would be poor, "We can confidently say that particulate organic carbon in the patch has grown to be four or five times that outside the patch," Bishop said.

Bio Clean Fuel More information about the SOFeX project is available at: http://www.mbari.org/education/cruises/SOFeX2002/index.htm

Earth Bio Fuel ENS - 2/19/2002

Topic: Climate Change

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