Oceanography - mitigating climate change with ocean absorption of carbon dioxide

Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, STEM clubs and at home.

This resource links to KS4 and KS5/Grade 9-10 and Grade 11-12 geography and physics.

It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks (UK):
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers

• This teaching resource explains the work of Professor Katja Fennel, Dr Dariia Atamanchuk and Professor Ruth Musgrave, oceanographers at Dalhousie University. They are investigating whether ocean alkalinity enhancement can reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide.

• This resource also contains an interview with Katja, Dariia and Ruth and offers an insight into careers in oceanogrpahy. If your students have questions for Katja, Dariia and Ruth, they can send them through the Futurum Careers website.

• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on the team’s research and challenges them to conduct an experiment to observe what happens when carbon dioxide dissolves in water.

This resource was first published by Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).

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