{"id":198,"date":"2017-09-01T16:09:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T20:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/ocb-fert\/?p=198"},"modified":"2017-11-14T17:28:19","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T21:28:19","slug":"what-is-ocean-fertilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/ocb-fert\/what-is-ocean-fertilization\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Ocean Fertilization?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-277 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/ocb-fert\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2017\/09\/Buesseler-Iron-fertilization-1024x805.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/ocb-fert\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2017\/09\/Buesseler-Iron-fertilization-1024x805.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/ocb-fert\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2017\/09\/Buesseler-Iron-fertilization-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/ocb-fert\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2017\/09\/Buesseler-Iron-fertilization-768x603.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ocean fertilization is a form of geoengineering (large-scale human actions to\u00a0deliberately manipulate environmental systems) that involves adding nutrients to the upper (sunlit) layers of the ocean to stimulate phytoplankton activity (photosynthesis) in an attempt to draw down atmospheric CO<sub>2<\/sub> levels.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The carbon and nutrient cycles in the ocean are complex (as shown in the model below) and are influenced by physical, biological and chemical processes, which vary across ocean regions and depths (zones).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_231\" style=\"width: 466px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-231\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-231 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/ocb-fert\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2017\/08\/The-Ocean-Carbon-Cycle-by-Oak-Ridge-National-Laboratory.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"456\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/ocb-fert\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2017\/08\/The-Ocean-Carbon-Cycle-by-Oak-Ridge-National-Laboratory.jpg 456w, https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/ocb-fert\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2017\/08\/The-Ocean-Carbon-Cycle-by-Oak-Ridge-National-Laboratory-300x254.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ocean fertilization is a form of geoengineering (large-scale human actions to\u00a0deliberately manipulate environmental systems) that involves adding nutrients to the upper (sunlit) layers of the ocean to stimulate phytoplankton activity (photosynthesis) in an attempt to draw down atmospheric CO2 levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/ocb-fert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/ocb-fert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/ocb-fert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/ocb-fert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/ocb-fert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/ocb-fert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/ocb-fert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/ocb-fert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/ocb-fert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/ocb-fert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/ocb-fert\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}