Solving carbon mysteries of the deep ocean
Wednesday, February 18, 2015 - 10:01
in Earth & Climate
Understanding how oceans absorb and cycle carbon is crucial to understanding its role in climate change. For approximately 50 years, scientists have known there exists a large pool of dissolved carbon in the deep ocean, but they didn't know much about it—such as the carbon's age (how long it's been in organic form), where it came from, how it got there, and how long it's been there, or how these factors influence its role in the carbon cycle.