Attached below are slides from:
2011 Meet Alaska Energy Conference — January 21, 2011
Editor’s Note: The following is from CRE Brazil
One of the main scientific projects in Brazil in the following years is the creation of an oceanic laboratory to be constructed on the high sea. The idea was announced by economist Aloizio Mercadante, new Minister of Science and Technology. He explained that in the future research center, studies on the relationship between sea life and oil exploration will be developed.
“I have already talked to the Navy, Petrobras and some private companies about constructing the first oceanic laboratory on Brazil’s high sea. We are going to be located at the limit of the continental shelf, researching oceanic currents and sea life,” stated Mercadante.
Editor’s Note: The following article is from CRE Brazil.
It is not just large deposits of oil discovered at the bottom of the ocean that are gaining the interest of large companies in Brazil. In the search for potassium, phosphate, limestone, iron and many other minerals, the number of requests to explore the areas have increased. From the beginning of 2009 through September 2010, the National Department of Mineral Research (DNPM) received 637 requests, compared to 56 in the two previous years for searches.
The research occurs throughout the 4.5 million square kilometers of the Brazilian continental shelf, areas called Amazônia Azul (Blue Amazon), depending on the richness of its biodiversity. The main uses for these minerals are for manufacturing fertilizers and for construction.
From: Crosscut.com
Some see the ocean as a trove of resources there to be harvested, others as a vast habitat inadequately protected. Now comes a quest for new data to inform their debate.
By C.B. Hall
January 06, 2011.
In the wake of President Barack Obama’s July executive order establishing a National Ocean Council, the eyes of environmentalists, researchers, and other interest groups throughout Washington state and beyond are turning towards the sea, with the realization that it remains the planet’s last frontier, where a vast trove of resources remains unexploited — and, in the view of many, a vast array of life forms remains inadequately protected.
To some, the primary problem is a dearth of knowledge about what happens on and below the 71 percent of the earth’s surface that consists of oceans. The closer one gets to shore, the more intense the range of often competing human uses of the sea becomes. With all their maritime traffic, recreational users, fisheries, and pollution sources, the waters that lap the shores of western Washington constitute a case in point.