An Ocean of Climate Solutions | Peter de Menocal | TEDxBoston

The ocean not only sustains us, but is also our best hope for solving the climate crisis. By virtue of being a vast, deep, living fluid, the ocean stores 50 times more carbon than the atmosphere. If all of airborne human CO2 emissions were to be transferred by some process to the deep ocean, it would only increase ocean carbon content by 1%. Several processes for doing just this are being explored, some are even promising. But, there is presently no way to verify their effectiveness or assess unwanted ocean health impacts. To meet this urgent need, we are developing the Ocean Vital Signs Network - an ocean data cube twice the size of Texas, full ocean depth swarmed by an undersea armada of always-on, always communicating autonomous vehicles sensing, reporting, and tracking biochemical vital signs of ocean carbon flow and ecosystem health. Like a constellation of satellites, this deep ocean network will observe, monitor, and protect this hidden frontier with unprecedented resolution, driving a new era of collaborative ocean discovery and accelerating ocean-based climate solution science and technology.
Peter B. de Menocal is the eleventh president and director of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. A marine geologist and paleoclimatologist, de Menocal’s research uses deep-sea ocean sediments as archives of how and why Earth’s ocean and climate have changed in the past in order to predict how they may change in the future.
Prior to assuming leadership of WHOI, de Menocal was the Thomas Alva Edison/Con Edison Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. He served as Columbia’s Dean of Science for the Faculty of Arts & Sciences and founded Columbia’s Center for Climate & Life, a climate solutions research accelerator.
He has received numerous awards and distinctions, including Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, AGU Emiliani lecturer, a Columbia Lenfest Distinguished Faculty award, and a Distinguished Brooksian award. He earned a doctorate in geology from Columbia University and a master’s degree in oceanography from the University of Rhode Island, and was awarded an honorary doctorate from St. Lawrence University. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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