Uploaded May 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
As greenhouse gasses warm our planet, our ocean plays a significant role in regulating heat and absorbing carbon dioxide - absorbing a third of the carbon and more than 90% of the extra heat we add to our atmosphere. There are consequences to this, as scientists track warming temperatures, depleting oxygen zones, a more acidic ocean, and rising sea levels. The ocean can also be a potential solution if we can leverage the ocean’s existing ability to remove carbon dioxide. In this panel from SXSW 2023, leading ocean experts will discuss the ocean’s role in climate, the potential for ocean-based carbon dioxide removal, and a code of conduct for CO2 removal that could maximize collective societal and environmental benefit for our ocean planet.
Featured panelists:
Margaret Leinen, Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego
Ken Buesseler, Senior Scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Susan Lozier, Dean of the College of Sciences and Professor in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Institute of Technology
Ashley Strickland, Space and Science Writer for CNN
0:00 Panel Starts
0:48 Ashley Strickland introduces the SXSW Panel
1:52 Ken Buesseler on the ocean's ability to sequester carbon
7:40 Overview on marine-based carbon dioxide removal strategies under consideration
9:29 Exploring Ocean Iron Solutions group dedicated to assessments of ocean iron fertilization (more at oceaniron.org)
10:01 Susan Lozier discusses ocean currents and global ocean conveyor belt
12:40 Role of oceans in absorbing anthropogenic carbon dioxide and concern of potential changes
17:26 American Geophysical Union (AGU) picking up development of an ethical framework for carbon dioxide removal
18:28 Margaret Leinen shares IPCC recommendation to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
20:20 Ethical concerns from recombinant DNA addressed at the Asilomar Conference in 1975
23:35 International conference at Asilomar in 2010 developed principles for research in climate geoengineering
24:10 Recommendations on principles for research in climate geoengineering
27:00 What would make people follow a code of conduct for ocean-based CDR?
29:14 What advances in technology and exploration can make these CDR strategies possible?
32:08 Ashely Strickland asks about conservation for the ocean, what the ocean needs from us
34:36 What are panelists hopes for the future looking at these potential CDR solutions?
38:03 Strickland asks the panelists about their experience as oceanographers and what moments stand out to them from their unique experiences
42:25 Audience questions begin
#SXSW #CarbonDioxdeRemoval #ClimateSolutions #OceanTalks
As greenhouse gasses warm our planet, our ocean plays a significant role in regulating heat and absorbing carbon dioxide - absorbing a third of the carbon and more than 90% of the extra heat we add to our atmosphere. There are consequences to this, as scientists track warming temperatures, depleting oxygen zones, a more acidic ocean, and rising sea levels. The ocean can also be a potential solution if we can leverage the ocean’s existing ability to remove carbon dioxide. In this panel from SXSW 2023, leading ocean experts will discuss the ocean’s role in climate, the potential for ocean-based carbon dioxide removal, and a code of conduct for CO2 removal that could maximize collective societal and environmental benefit for our ocean planet.
Featured panelists:
Margaret Leinen, Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego
Ken Buesseler, Senior Scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Susan Lozier, Dean of the College of Sciences and Professor in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Institute of Technology
Ashley Strickland, Space and Science Writer for CNN
0:00 Panel Starts
0:48 Ashley Strickland introduces the SXSW Panel
1:52 Ken Buesseler on the ocean's ability to sequester carbon
7:40 Overview on marine-based carbon dioxide removal strategies under consideration
9:29 Exploring Ocean Iron Solutions group dedicated to assessments of ocean iron fertilization (more at oceaniron.org)
10:01 Susan Lozier discusses ocean currents and global ocean conveyor belt
12:40 Role of oceans in absorbing anthropogenic carbon dioxide and concern of potential changes
17:26 American Geophysical Union (AGU) picking up development of an ethical framework for carbon dioxide removal
18:28 Margaret Leinen shares IPCC recommendation to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
20:20 Ethical concerns from recombinant DNA addressed at the Asilomar Conference in 1975
23:35 International conference at Asilomar in 2010 developed principles for research in climate geoengineering
24:10 Recommendations on principles for research in climate geoengineering
27:00 What would make people follow a code of conduct for ocean-based CDR?
29:14 What advances in technology and exploration can make these CDR strategies possible?
32:08 Ashely Strickland asks about conservation for the ocean, what the ocean needs from us
34:36 What are panelists hopes for the future looking at these potential CDR solutions?
38:03 Strickland asks the panelists about their experience as oceanographers and what moments stand out to them from their unique experiences
42:25 Audience questions begin
#SXSW #CarbonDioxdeRemoval #ClimateSolutions #OceanTalks
