This is to encourage participation in the following approved AGU/ASLO session at the Feb 11-15 2002 Ocean Sciences meeting. Even though SoFEX investigators may ba at sea, we hope to have ways so that preliminary experiment results can be converyed at the meeting.

Important 2002 Ocean Sciences Meeting Dates
November 1, 2001 - Deadline for receipt of the Postal/Express Mail Abstracts November 8, 2001 at 1400 UTC - Deadline for receipt of the Electronic Abstract

OS37 The Science and Human Dimensions of Purposeful Ocean Carbon Sequestration The accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere could be slowed by intentionally storing additional carbon in the oceans. Proposed strategies to do this typically involve either engineered release of CO2 into the ocean interior or release of fertilizers in the surface ocean to stimulate downward transport of organic carbon. Such proposals raise a host of important and interesting scientific questions. Contributions addressing these questions are solicited, focusing on issues such as: consequences of elevated CO2 concentrations for marine biota; CO2-hydrate, droplet dissolution, and CO2-plume dynamics; relationships between fertilization and changes in export of carbon and macronutrients; long-term ecological consequences of sustained, periodic, or intermittent fertilization; experimental plans and results; controls on depth of organic carbon and nutrient remineralization; ventilation time as a function of carbon release location (remineralization or direct injection); approaches for verification of carbon sequestration and monitoring of consequences; social, economic, ethical, political, and legal dimensions.
Conveners:
Ken Caldeira, DOE Center for Research on Ocean Carbon Sequestration, (DOCS), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 7000 East Ave., L-103, Livermore, CA 94550 USA, Tel: 925-423-4191, Fax: 925-422-6388, email: kenc@llnl.gov

Jim Bishop, DOE Center for Research on Ocean Carbon Sequestration (DOCS) , Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory MS 90-111 , Berkeley, CA 94720 USA, Tel: 510-495-2457, Fax: 510-486-5686, email: jkbishop@lbl.gov

Terry Surles, California Energy Commission, Technology Systems Division, 1516 9th Street, Sacramento, CA 95814 USA, email: tsurles@energy.state.ca.us

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