Fresh Brew Fertilizing the Ocean with Iron: Should we add iron to the sea to reduce greenhouse gases in the air? and 5 other Oceanus articles in a series on the topic of Ocean Iron Fertilization Ocean Iron Fertilization Symposium, September 26 and 27, 2007 » August 2007 - An assessment of the use of sediment traps for estimating upper ocean particle fluxes, comprehensive report from SCOR Working Group #116, published in Journal of Marine Research. »April 2007 - Revisiting Carbon Flux Through the Ocean's Twilight Zone published in Science. Press Release: Ocean's ‘Twilight Zone' Plays Important Role in Climate Change » DSRII volume in progress-Understanding the Ocean's Biological Pump.

Overview
Café Thorium is not really a cafe although we have been known to serve espresso & latte throughout the worlds major ocean basins. In fact, we are a serious scientific research team in the Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Thorium is just one of many radioactive elements we measure. We analyze samples for both natural and man made radionuclides.

» For a fun article about our work, check out this short piece on serving espresso and science on the high seas (PDF).

» Here’s a short course in how Thorium helps us learn about how the ocean works.

People
Meet the gang of scientists, students and associates of the Café Thorium and find out how to contact us to learn more or simply tell us what you like and use on our web site

Services & Facilities
While our T-shirt sales have been temporarily halted, the Café Thorium does provide radioanalytical services for the detection of natural and man-made radionuclides in environmental samples. We also have an archive of large volume (50 liter) seawater samples from the 1950’s-1980 that can be available for the right scientific project.