The iron hypothesis: Basic research meets environmental policy

Sallie W. Chisolm

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Department of Biology,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts

• Introduction
• Phytoplankton and the Biological Pump
• The Iron Hypothesis
• Testing The Iron Hypothesis: The First Open Ocean Fertilization Experiment
  • Making the Patch
  • The Fate of the Added Iron
  • The Response
• Science, the Press, and Public Policy
• References