Terms and Definitions
This organization is often known by its acronym: IMO
What is the International Maritime Organization?
Five of these have occurred on planet earth and each was preceded by deaths of coral reef ecosystems.
What is a mass extinction event?
This potential approach suggested by the IMO is already projected to account for 0.8 Megatons of Carbon Accumulation each year in the Asia-Pacific region alone?
What is macroalgae cultivation?
Marine permaculture has been known to successfully restore this crucial function of the tropical oceans.
What is overturning circulation?
GESAMP WG 41 could be defined as this type of organization.
What is a boundary organization?
This attribute of knowledge pertains to the relevance of scientific knowledge to the needs of decision makers.
What is salience?
This is the primary cause of mass coral bleaching.
What are rising seawater temperatures?
Scientists are currently considering laying porous material on the seabed to mitigate the massive release of this gas from the sediments.
What is methane?
Coral bleaching at the Tutuila airport reef was stopped after this period of time using marine permaculture.
What is under 12 hours?
In 2009, The Climate Foundation received a grant from this agency to conduct experiments on the staghorn corals of Tutuila Island, American Samoa.
What is the US Fish and Wildlife Service?
These comprise some of the most biologically diverse and valuable ecosystems on the planet.
What are coral reefs?
This is a natural event that has been exacerbated by climate change and is commonly attributed as a cause of the 1998 massive coral bleaching event of the great barrier reef.
What is El Nino?
Microbubbles and other long-lasting foams could achieve a relative decrease in global temperature of 0.6 Degrees Celsius by increasing this phenomenon in the three subtropical gyres by 0.1.
What is albedo?
This machine physically refrigerates threatened corals during major bleaching events.
What is a thermal management system?
The IMO's report declares this quote the main aim of sustainability science.
How is the production of knowledge related to its use by decision-makers?
This is a commonly used term for a system that passes water through a titanium heat exchanger to cool a closed-loop chilled fresh water cooling system.
What is Seawater Air Conditioning?
This number is the estimated amount of people projected to die from climate change by 2030 if nothing is done.
What is 100 million?
According to the National Research Council, this practice could conceivably offset a large fraction of, or even all, anthropogenic warming while not addressing its root cause.
What is marine cloud brightening?
This range is the current estimated global economic value of coral reefs?
What is $30-$375 Billion Dollars?
These are people who could be immediately affected by any policy decision.
What are stakeholders?
This process can effectively cool coral reefs and provide key nutrients for their growth and survival?
What is Marine Permaculture?
This amount of carbon dioxide is poured into the ocean daily.
What is 30 million tons?
Seawater Air Conditioning was used to cool the ice rink at this event.
What is the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang?
The Climate Foundation intends to use a portion of the seaweed grown to perform this process.
What is reducing greenhouse gases?
This expression was used to describe increasing the legitimacy of the IMO's points of view by participating in government frameworks.
What is "dangle the carrot"?