Katherine Kirk
Growing marine algae to solve society's food, energy and climate change problems and a revolutionary tool to track marine fish populations are two topics Cornell oceanographer Charles Greene will discuss during presentations at the Ocean Sciences Meeting, Feb. 23-28 at the Hawaii Convention Center, Honolulu. The first presentation is a tutorial talk about the challenges facing society due to man-made climate change and ocean acidification, both fed by the accumulation of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels. Greene will review some of the recent impacts of climate change, including Superstorm Sandy and a misbehaving polar vortex. He will discuss ideas for meeting the world's hydrocarbon fuel needs, without fossil carbon, while simultaneously removing CO2 from the atmosphere. "Society will only be successful in averting dangerous climate change and ocean acidification by directly removing CO2 from the atmosphere," said Greene. Using data from a demonstration facility in Hawaii, Greene will show that growing marine algae industrially in an area three times the size of Texas can produce enough biopetroleum to meet the world's total hydrocarbon fuel demands.
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