HPAC Forum this week: Ocean Pasture Restoration with Russ George
rob...@rtulip.net
Please join the Healthy Planet Action Coalition this Thursday, 2 October at 5.30 pm Eastern Time, for a conversation with Russ George on Ocean Pasture Restoration.
Link is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88954851189?pwd=2OEdvleb4UpYfK4a950ryohFWcw93F.1 (passcode 662519).
The meeting will go for up to 90 minutes. Thursday 5.30 pm Eastern = 10.30pm UK = 7.30 am Friday Australia AEST
In 2012, Russ George worked with the Haida Salmon Restoration Corporation in British Columbia to add iron to the waters of the North Pacific Ocean at the point where salmon fingerlings most needed food. The project encountered criticism from scientific and environmental organisations and media.
Russ will share his perspective on the science and politics of ocean replenishment and restoration and its potential role in climate cooling and fisheries enhancement. His presentation will be followed by open discussion. Russ’s website is https://russgeorge.net/
Regards
Robert Tulip
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Here are temporary raw video, audio, chat and transcript files available for download from the HPAC discussion yesterday with Russ George.
Lucinda, please edit for upload to HPAC website.
There are many memorable comments in this discussion and it is well worth a listen and share, once edited. A superb conversation between Russ and HPAC members about iron and the ocean.
Dennis Garrity also spoke about the upcoming HPAC Online Conference - Preventing Two Degrees. Put the dates in your calendar if you can - October 15 and 16 for 2.5 hours from 8:30 am Eastern Daylight Time. Registration and information at https://www.preventing2degrees.org/
Regards
Robert Tulip
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Tom Goreau
Thanks, I logged on but was called away, and am eager to hear the link. However it says:
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Tom Goreau
Thanks, Robert, I’ve now had a chance to listen to Russ George’s talk.
Only one comment, the claim that glassy volcanic ash from explosions is completely insoluble is the opposite of the facts.
Glass is metastable, and dissolves much more rapidly than crystalline minerals both because of higher surface area and because thermodynamic instability promotes rapid dissolution.
For example glassy amorphous silica from diatom oozes is used on soils because it dissolves around 10 times faster than silica in quartz.
The same is true of the finely divided amorphous metastable iron minerals.
In fact it is very easy to grow very fine amorphous iron in both oxidized and reduced form in the ocean, but the question is if the other essential elements are present in the necessary ratios.
Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD
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Chief Scientist, Biorock Technology Inc., Blue Regeneration SL
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Books:
Geotherapy: Innovative Methods of Soil Fertility Restoration, Carbon Sequestration, and Reversing CO2 Increase
Innovative Methods of Marine Ecosystem Restoration
On the Nature of Things: The Scientific Photography of Fritz Goro
Geotherapy: Regenerating ecosystem services to reverse climate change
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Those with their heads in the sand will see the light when global warming and sea level rise wash the beach away
“When you run to the rocks, the rocks will be melting, when you run to the sea, the sea will be boiling”, Peter Tosh, Jamaica’s greatest song writer
“The Earth is not dying, she is being killed” U. Utah Phillips
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Tom Goreau
This is precisely why fine glassy volcanic ash from Kamchatka eruptions affects productivity in the Bering Sea and northern Pacific more than crystalline wind blown dust from the Gobi desert.