WBUR: To Slow Climate Change, Some Want to ‘Engineer the Ocean’

University Distinguished and Snell Professor of Engineering Akram Alshawabkeh’s lab is working with Sr. Scientist Ken Buesseler of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to see if a simple, solar-powered battery attached to a small float might be able to deliver a constant, low-dose of iron in the ocean to address climate change.

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Related Faculty: Akram N. Alshawabkeh

Related Departments:Civil & Environmental Engineering