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Solace seeking in the Southern Ocean Australian team looking for answers in marine snow. CSIRO s RV Investigator. Credit: CSIRO Australian researchers are on a 45-day mission to capture the most detailed picture yet of how marine life in the Southern Ocean stores carbon from the atmosphere.  CSIRO’s RV Investigator left Hobart early this month on the Southern Ocean Large Areal Carbon Export (SOLACE) voyage. On board were Philip Boyd, his research team and a suite of technology needed to try to find answers in the showers of dead algae and carbon-rich organic particles known as marine snow.  “The microscopic algae in the ocean are responsible for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as much as the forests on land are,” says Boyd, from the University of Tasmania’s Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS). “When they die, these tiny carbon-rich particles fall slowly to the ocean floor like a scene from a snow globe.”

Flinders universitySouth australiaPhilip boydElise tuuriAustralian national universityCurtin universityUniversity of tasmania institute for marineAustralian antarctic program partnershipSouthern oceanSouthern ocean large areal carbon exportAntarctic studiesஃப்லிஂடர்‌ஸ் பல்கலைக்கழகம்தெற்கு ஆஸ்திரேலியாபிலிப் பையன்ஆஸ்திரேலிய தேசிய பல்கலைக்கழகம்கர்டின் பல்கலைக்கழகம்