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Tag: biogeochemistry

Archaeology Methodology

How we broke radiocarbon dating

CO2 from fossil fuel burning doesn’t contain C-14. That’s bad news for the future of radiocarbon dating.
December 26, 2015 Michael Philben
Biogeochemistry

Sailing the Southern Ocean for science

Hear about my adventures living on an icebreaker on the Southern Ocean, deploying ocean robots to understand the chemistry and…
December 19, 2015December 18, 2015 Veronica Tamsitt
Biogeochemistry

Estimating carbon sequestration from plankton poop

Copepod fecal pellets—plankton poop—transport carbon from the ocean surface to the deep where it is stored for thousands of years.…
October 29, 2015October 29, 2015 Michael Philben
Biogeochemistry

Ocean eddies suck carbon out of the atmosphere, thanks to plankton

When phytoplankton sink into the deep ocean, they take carbon with them, storing CO2 away from the atmosphere. This new…
October 21, 2015October 21, 2015 cael
Biogeochemistry

Microbes foil attempts to increase deep ocean carbon sequestration

Most carbon emitted to the atmosphere ends up in the ocean, much of it in organic molecules. While most is…
September 28, 2015 Michael Philben

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