Our Plan

ExOIS forums

To accomplish these goals, we hold monthly virtual “forums,” normally on the third Monday of each month to explore different topics, lasting roughly 90 minutes.  The topics are proposed by individuals and organized by the ExOIS steering committee.  Led by one or more from our group, each date/topic below is linked to materials that came out of those presentations and post forum feedback.  We hope over time to build up a resource that can be shared on these web pages covering many aspects of ocean iron fertilization and the latest research priorities, governance issues, and public policy needs that are integral to this CDR research agenda.

Rather than wait to complete all of these forums, the links to each topic below should be viewed as a “work in progress” not a finished research plan, report, or publication.  You can find published materials and reports in our bibliography tab (under Our Plan), however the links below take you to a growing set of resources that we are developing and making available.  Note the views in each are not necessarily shared by all members of the ExOIS team, and one forum may be followed by another that reaches different conclusions or sets out different priorities. In other words, this is a window to ongoing scientific debate on the approaches, value and risks of OIF.  The goal here is to learn from each other, define  what we think we know and challenge us to seek out the answers to what we don’t know.

Please do not share any of these materials for any purpose without contacting us first. They contain unpublished data and information that may have changed since posted here. And note some of these forums may not yet, or may never result in shared materials, and that the topics for future forums are still being decided.  We are always looking for new forum topics and volunteers to present.