A big thank you to all seafarers @ Stolt Tankers!
Amongst others, thanks to your efforts and intrinsic drive we have sampled over 500 flasks of air in the North Atlantic in the past 6 months. Launching one of the biggest sampling campaigns ever!
And we’re just getting started…
Xploration Seafarer & Scientists unleashes the collective potential of our seafarers and scientists for global impact.
The atmosphere and it’s natural sinks for methane (and carbon) still hold a lot of mysteries. Xploration Seafarers & Scientists provides unique data, collected by seafarers, to scientist to enhance and validate global climate models.
In this case the sampling is part of the Iron Salt Atmospheric Methane Oxidation (ISAMO) project – to better understand the natural methane oxidation (depletion) process catalyzed by the interaction of the iron rich Sahara dust with the salty maritime boundary layer under the influence of sunlight. https://www.sparkclimate.org/methane-removal-approaches/iron-salt-aerosols
Interested to hear more about Xploration Seafarers & Scientists?
Join Berend at the Ocean North Sea Summit https://oceannorthsea.nl/ during the stopover of the Oceanrace.
Stolt-Nielsen Limited Stolt Tankers Københavns Universitet – University of Copenhagen Utrecht University Spark Climate Solutions Edo van der Velde Matthew Johnson Maarten Herpen, van Thomas Roeckmann Carina van der Veen Chloe Brashear David Joan Bonell Fontàs Getachew Agmuas Adnew David Mann Erika Reinhardt John Bowey Phoebe Barnard
Let’s keep Xploring our collective human potential…
A big thank you to all seafarers @ MAERSK!
Amongst others, thanks to your efforts and intrinsic drive we have sampled over 500 flasks of air in the North Atlantic in the past 6 months. Launching one of the biggest sampling campaigns ever!
And we’re just getting started…
Xploration Seafarer & Scientists unleashes the collective potential of our seafarers and scientists for global impact.
The atmosphere and it’s natural sinks for methane (and carbon) still hold a lot of mysteries. Xploration Seafarers & Scientists provides unique data, collected by seafarers, to scientist to enhance and validate global climate models.
In this case the sampling is part of the Iron Salt Atmospheric Methane Oxidation (ISAMO) project – to better understand the natural methane oxidation (depletion) process catalyzed by the interaction of the iron rich Sahara dust with the salty maritime boundary layer under the influence of sunlight.
https://www.sparkclimate.org/methane-removal-approaches/iron-salt-aerosols
Interested to hear more about Xploration Seafarers & Scientists?
Join me at the OceanNorthSeaSummit https://oceannorthsea.nl/ during the stopover of the Oceanrace https://www.theoceanrace.com.
A.P. Moller – Maersk Stolt-Nielsen Limited Københavns Universitet – University of Copenhagen Utrecht University Spark Climate Solutions Rune Jørgensen Daae Philip Lewin Nynne Norman Scheuer Matthew Johnson Maarten Herpen, van Thomas Roeckmann Carina van der Veen Chloe Brashear David Joan Bonell Fontàs Getachew Agmuas Adnew David Mann Erika Reinhardt
Let’s keep Xploring our collective human potential…
Xploration ISAMO has achieved another significant milestone, advancing climate science with a remarkable publication this week in the authoritative PNAS journal for high-impact and original research.
The published study explores the effects of Saharan dust clouds on atmospheric methane and indicates Sahara dust can enhance removal of methane. Its findings have potentially far-reaching implications for understanding the global methane budget and reasons behind the accelerating increase in atmospheric methane.
This accomplishment owes its success to a shared commitment to leverage collective human potential and collaborative exploration towards a common goal, combining the invaluable contributions of passionate seafarers, atmospheric observatories and dedicated scientists in Europe and the US, helping advance research by collecting and analyzing over 500 air samples across the North Atlantic.
With: Crews of Stolt Tankers and Maersk Tankers, Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Utrecht University, CSIC, OceansX, Acacia Impact Innovation BV, Cornell University, Spark Climate Solutions, Matthew Johnson, Maarten Herpen, van, Qinyi Li, Jesper Baldtzer Liisberg, Thomas Röckmann, Carina van der Veen, Chloe Brashear, Alphonso Saiz Lopez, Jan-Berend Stuut, Berend van de Kraats, Steen Sander Jacobsen, David Mann, Erika Reinhardt, Hans Bouchier, Alex Wong, Natalie M. Mahowald, Peter Hess, Daphne Meidan, Carlos A. Cuevas, Rafael P. Fernandez, John E. Mak
Read the full publication on “Photocatalytic chlorine atom production on mineral dust–sea spray aerosols over the North Atlantic” here: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2303974120
OceansX – Xploring our collective human potential