ENVIRONMENT:
Ocean Iron Fertilization--Moving Forward in a Sea of Uncertainty
Ken O. Buesseler,1* Scott C. Doney,1 David M. Karl,2 Philip W. Boyd,3 Ken Caldeira,4 Fei Chai,5 Kenneth H. Coale,6 Hein J. W. de Baar,7 Paul G. Falkowski,8 Kenneth S. Johnson,9 Richard S. Lampitt,10 Anthony F. Michaels,11 S. W. A. Naqvi,12 Victor Smetacek,13 Shigenobu Takeda,14 Andrew J. Watson15
It is premature to sell carbon offsets from ocean iron fertilization unless research provides the scientific foundation to evaluate risks and benefits.
1Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
2School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA
3National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Centre for Chemical and Physical Oceanography, Department of Chemistry, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
4Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution, Stanford, CA, USA
5School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA
6Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, CA, USA
7Royal Netherlands Institute for Research, Isle of Texel, The Netherlands.
8Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
9Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, USA
10National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK
11Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
12National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, India.
13Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany.
14Department of Aquatic Bioscience, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
15School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
*Author for correspondence. E-mail: kbuesseler{at}whoi.edu
