Juan-
I am a high school science teacher in Colorado and read your March 21st journal entry and am fascinated with the overall direction that the study will take in the future on measuring Iron, aerosols, and dust in the oceans and atmosphere. I have a couple of questions for you:
- Is it possible that these high nutrient-low chlorophyll areas can be triggered with iron, aerosols, or dust to become alive with phytoplankton which will reduce CO2 in the atmosphere?
If this is true, I am concerned with the idea that if we changed the chemistry of the ocean that we could change the balance of the ocean to which there are many variables that are connected in which we couldnt predict. So a second question would be wouldn't introducing phytoplankton to those high nutrient-low chlorophyll areas be detrimental to the overall balance of the ocean?
Matt Thomas