Marine Science Faculty Publications

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Article

Publication Date

3-3-2007

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https://doi.org/10.1029/2007EO110003

Abstract

In nearly a dozen open‐ocean fertilization experiments conducted by more than 100 researchers from nearly 20 countries, adding iron at the sea surface has led to distinct increases in photosynthesis rates and biomass. These experiments confirmed the hypothesis proposed by the late John Martin [Martin, 1990] that dissolved iron concentration is a key variable that controls phytoplankton processes in ocean surface waters However, the measurement of dissolved iron concentration in seawater remains a difficult task [Bruland and Rue, 2001] with significant interlaboratory differences apparent at times. The availability of a seawater reference solution with well‐known dissolved iron (Fe) concentrations similar to open‐ocean values, which could be used for the calibration of equipment or other tasks, would greatly alleviate these problems [National Research Council (NRC), 2002].

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Kenneth S. Johnson, Virginia Elrod, Steve Fitzwater, Joshua Plant, Edward Boyle, Bridget Bergquist, Kenneth Bruland, Ana Aguilar‐Islas, Kristen Buck, Maeve Lohan, Geoffrey J. Smith, Bettina Sohst, Kenneth Coale, Michael Gordon, Sara Tanner, Chris Measures, James Moffett, Katherine Barbeau, Andrew King, Andrew Bowie, Zanna Chase, Jay Cullen, Patrick Laan, William Landing, Jeffrey Mendez, Angela Milne, Hajime Obata, Takashi Doi, Lia Ossiander, Geraldine Sarthou, Peter Sedwick, Stan Van den Berg, Luis Laglera‐Baquer, Jing‐feng Wu, Yihua Cai

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Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 88, issue 11, p. 131-132

©2007. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved.

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