Deep below the ocean surface, the light fades into a twilight zone where whales and fish migrate and dead algae and zooplankton rain down from above. This is the heart of the ocean’s carbon pump, part of the natural ocean processes that capture about a third of all human-produced carbon dioxide and sink it into the deep sea, where it remains for hundreds of years.
Thursday evening, guest Peter de Menocal will lead Vail Symposium’s free Zoom meeting, “Exploring Our Oceans with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.” Though the topic of climate change is nearly as vast as the ocean,.