Joan Bernhard (green jacket), of WHOI's Geology and Geophysics Department, and Kurt Buck of Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) carefully remove cores of seafloor sediment from the MBARI robotic vehicle Tiburon. Bernhard and colleagues injected carbon dioxide hydrate directly into cylinders pushed into the deep sea floor sediment and incubated them in place for a month to learn whether benthic single-celled organisms called foraminifera could survive the high-CO2, high-acidity method of carbon capture and sequestration known as "direct injection of CO2." (Photo by Erin Ricketts, University of California, Santa Barbara)[back]
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