Oceans & marine

Ocean

Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia.

Year: 2020


Photographer: Giorgia Doglioni (edited by Frameworks)


Coastal Archipelago Park of the South Coast ("Sørlandet") of Norway, colors at the shoreline (1)

The Coastal Archipelago Park of the South Coast ("Sørlandet") of Norway covers an area of the Skagerak coast between Grenland in Telemark and Lindesnes in West Agder, including many hundreds of islands and skerries. The Sørland coast is one of the most important recreation areas of Norway and hosts a unique coastal ecosystem with special habitats and a rich biodiversity. 

Year: 2016


Photographer: Peter Prokosch

Artificial downwelling

Artificial downwelling (AD) is an idea to pump upper layer water deeper down into the ocean.

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A seagrass seascape view

Year: 2012


Photographer: Dimitris Poursanidis

Enhancing oceanic light availability below the photic layer

Ocean bioproductivity through photosynthesis stops beyond the photic layer as no more energy from the sun can penetrate beyond that point.

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Fishermen in Zanzibar

Fishermen in Zanzibar, Tanzania

Year: 2016


Photographer: Rob Barnes

Promoting ocean calcifiers to sequester atmospheric carbon

Biotic processes play an important role in oceanic carbon uptake, with most attention going  to carbon-consuming photosynthesising organisms. Moore et al. (2023) argue that the potential role of shellfish and other calcifiers in carbon sequestration is significantly overlooked in the CDR literature.

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Green river

Seagrass Meadows in Greece

Year: 2017


Photographer: Dimitris Poursanidis

Re-oxygenating the Baltic

The deep waters in the Baltic are severely deoxygenated. Although the causes of the current state are complex, this is mainly a result of increased eutrophication from sewage and agricultural runoff from surrounding lands, which leads to extreme bioproductivity (Rolff et al. 2022). Some species manage to survive in the upper water layers, but many organisms living on the seafloor are severely impacted by the hypoxia, thereby influencing the health of a wide network of ecosystems and biochemical processes. There are attempts to reduce nutrient runoff into the Baltic (see for example: https://helcom.fi/baltic-sea-action-plan/). However, some argue these will be insufficient and argue for engineering solutions to the issue.

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Chumbe Island Coral Park Drone Fly-over

Chumbe Island Coral Park Ltd. (CHICOP) is an award-winning private nature reserve that was developed from 1991 for the conservation and sustainable management of uninhabited Chumbe Island off Zanzibar, one of the last pristine coral islands in the region.

Year: 2016


Photographer: Rob Barnes

Ocean fertilization

Ocean fertilization schemes seek to increase the amount of available nutrients in the top layer of the ocean to stimulate the growth of phytoplankton.

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