{"id":1224,"date":"2009-10-03T03:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T03:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2009-10-03T03:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-03T03:57:00","slug":"australian-soil-becomes-food-for-marine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/australian-soil-becomes-food-for-marine.html","title":{"rendered":"Australian Soil Becomes Food for Marine Algae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/\">Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>The storms that engulfed Sydney in orange and yellow clouds last week may be a boon for sea life and lower carbon dioxide levels after as much as a million tons of dust were dumped into Australia\u2019s oceans, providing a rich supply of food for algae.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The gale-force winds that ripped through Sydney may have dumped the iron-rich topsoil from Australia\u2019s drought-ridden Outback into the Tasman Sea and Pacific Ocean, where it would have been absorbed by algae, said Craig Strong, a coordinator for DustWatch, a research and monitoring agency.<\/p>\n<p>The infusion of so much soil into the ocean may prove a veritable feast for plankton that feed on algae and are then eaten by fish, crabs and krill.\u201cIt\u2019s been pretty well established that if iron is available, then it will lead to phytoplankton blooms,\u201d said Heiko Daniel, a lecturer in agronomy and soil science at the University of New England in New South Wales. \u201cAnd they take up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601081&amp;sid=aAMJXqRFMLNE\">See more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the way, have you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/feed\/rss.xml\">subscribed to the Oilgae Blog?<\/a>; How about <a href=\"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/mlist\/user\/subscribe.php\">joining the Oilgae mailing list?<\/a>; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/forum\">our forum to discuss on with others<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: Oilgae Blog. The storms that engulfed Sydney in orange and yellow clouds last week may be a boon for sea life and lower carbon dioxide levels after as much as a million tons of dust were dumped into Australia\u2019s oceans, providing a rich supply of food for algae.\u00a0 The gale-force winds that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-co2-capture","category-algae-cultivation-marine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}