Domoic Acid

http://www.climos.com/imo/Climos/Climos_Response_to_Greenpeace_OIF_May2008_Final.pdf

If phytoplankton capable of making DA are common in open ocean phytoplankton blooms, do they express this gene and make DA? There have been few measurements published related to the expression of the gene for DA in open ocean phytoplankton. Wells and coworkers [Wells et al., 2005] are one of the few groups who have studied Pseudonitzschia in the open ocean. They indicate that DA plays an important role, together with copper, in ensuring that Pseudonitzschia can survive under very low iron conditions in the open ocean. “This system may explain why Pseudonitzschia spp. are persistent seed populations in oceanic HNLC regions, as well as in some neritic regions. Our findings also indicate that in the absence of an adequate copper supply, iron-limited natural Pseudonitzschia populations will become increasingly toxic.” (p. 1998). We know from studies of Pseudonitzschia strains from coastal waters that they are more likely to make DA when iron-stressed than when growing under iron-replete conditions: “Our findings suggest that DA production during exponential growth of these two toxigenic Pseudonitzschia species is directly induced by Fe-deficient or Cu stress conditions and that 95% of this DA is actively released into the medium.” (p.
515) [Maldonado et al., 2002].

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Nualgi contains both Iron and Copper

Ocean Fertilization

http://www.imo.org/includes/blastData.asp/doc_id=12139/15.pdf

THIRTY-FIRST CONSULTATIVE MEETING OF CONTRACTING PARTIES TO THE LONDON CONVENTION
& FOURTH MEETING OF CONTRACTING PARTIES TO THE LONDON PROTOCOL
26-30 October 2009
Report dated - 30 November 2009

REPORT OF THE THIRTY-FIRST CONSULTATIVE MEETING AND THE FOURTH MEETING OF CONTRACTING PARTIES

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

0.1 Contracting Parties to the Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter, 1972 (London Convention) and the Contracting Parties to the 1996 Protocol to the London Convention 1972 (London Protocol) met from 26 to 30 October 2009 at IMO Headquarters, London, for their 31st Consultative Meeting and 4th Meeting of Contracting Parties, respectively.

Fish kills in Australia

Summer has set in Queensland, Australia and this is resulting in fish kills due to low Dissolved Oxygen.

Burrum Heads, Fraser Coast, Queensland.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/12/04/2762233.htm?site=widebay

Dundowarn Lagoon, north of Brisbane, Queensland.
http://www.frasercoastchronicle.com.au/story/2009/11/27/weather-blamed-for-fish-kill/

Beachmere, Queensland.
http://northern-times.whereilive.com.au/news/story/independent-investigation-into-beachmere-fish-kill/

Biodiesel from Diatoms

"Note that an algal oil slick has now appeared on top of the water, as the oil-laden diatoms begin to leak oils. Oily foams, are now forming in this oil-production photobioreactor.

Note the large oily bubble that has formed at the water line at the lower right corner."
http://www.fossilfreedom.com/summer.html

Mr Patrick Ward of Richmond, VA, USA has also obtained some biofuel from Diatoms.
He has been working on this since 2006.

Biodiesel from Diatoms

http://www.jawkai.com/

Academician Jawkai Wang is one of the few people working on biodiesel from Diatoms.
The Chinese website can be translated using Google Translate.

Biofuels: Hope or Hype?

http://solveclimate.com/blog/20091202/biofuels-hope-or-hype

"Biofuels aren’t new. Henry Ford designed his 1908 Model T to run on ethanol from corn, but Standard Oil and its fossil fuel cohorts, seeing the threat biofuels presented to their business, lowered their prices and drove biofuels out of the marketplace."

Now we know why petrol has been so cheap all these years.

Carbon must be sucked from air, says IPCC chief Rajendra Pachauri

From The Times
December 1, 2009
Carbon must be sucked from air, says IPCC chief Rajendra Pachauri

...

"Dr Pachauri raised the prospect of so-called geo-engineering, whereby carbon dioxide is actively stripped from the atmosphere. A range of techniques have been proposed including seeding artificial clouds over oceans to reflect sunlight back into space, sowing the oceans with iron ore to boost plankton growth and using carbon capture and storage technology to fix emissions from power stations."

...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6938298.ece


Nualgi is a superior form of providing iron and other micro nutrients to Diatom Algae.