Can Controversial Ocean Iron Fertilization Save Salmon?

What's been described as a "rogue" geoengineering experiment is really an effort, however flawed, to restore salmon abundance

By David Biello

ADDING IRON: By adding iron to the Pacific Ocean, as pictured here, the Haida Salmon Restoration Corp. hoped to restore lost salmon abundance--and generate carbon credits too. Image: Courtesy of HSRC

In a bid to restore lost fish abundance, the Haida Salmon Restoration Corp. (HSRC) undertook to mimic the effects of a volcanic eruption by fertilizing the ocean with iron. The idea was to provide the missing nutrient for a plankton bloom that would then trickle up the food web and restore salmon?with the ancillary effects of gathering data on the ocean food web and, potentially, removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

"What if this is a means by which ocean pastures can be stewarded and brought back to health?" asks Russ George, chief scientist of the expedition as well as a controversial businessman with a history of attempting to start CO2-removal schemes ranging from reforestation to ocean fertilization. "This is a tiny village of people trying to take care of their backyard."

Old Masset village on the Haida Gwaii Islands off the British Columbia coast did this by contracting George and others to initiate the largest such intentional ocean fertilization effort to date. It authorized the release of roughly 110 metric tons of iron dust, 91 metric tons of the iron sulfate fertilizer commonly used as a lawn treatment and employed in other scientific experiments, and nearly 20 metric tons of the iron oxide found in soils around the world. "It's micronutrient enrichment," Jason McNamee, operations officer and corporate director for the HSRC, told a press conference on October 19. "We took a bag of iron, and we slapped it over one square kilometer [of ocean]."

To do that, this past July the HSRC team motored more than 300 kilometers west from the Haida Gwaii Islands to an ocean eddy in the fishing vessel Ocean Pearl. The area had previously been scouted by collecting water samples since January and lies outside Canadian territorial waters. The team also used more than 20 autonomous oceangoing robots, including two bright yellow gliders and 20 Argo drifter robots on loan from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to survey the scene?work that is ongoing. Over the course of several days the researchers then released the 110 metric tons into the fishing boat's wake in an attempt to raise the levels of iron in the water from one or two parts per trillion up to five to 10, although both concentrations are estimates.

Satellite images as well as maps of chlorophyll abundance appear to show that the iron did indeed fuel a plankton bloom in August. But questions remain: Was it the right kind of bloom to bury carbon? Will it have any effect on the salmon?

Ocean restoration
The HSRC's basic idea is born out of marine biology as well as observations of the aftermath of volcanic eruptions in the region. For example, a lack of iron limits the growth of microscopic plants in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica and elsewhere, a fact that prompted marine biologist John Martin to famously muse: "Give me half a tanker of iron, and I'll give you the next ice age."

In the summer of 2008 Mount Kasatoshi in Alaska's Aleutian Islands blew, sending volcanic minerals, including iron dust, far to sea and prompting plankton blooms across the Gulf of Alaska. At the same time, years and years of decline in returning salmon populations led researchers to expect few of the fry from 2008 to return in later years, only to find a record salmon run in Canada's Fraser River in 2010.

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Because of a new law passed by the state Legislature, local school districts across Maine are now able to seek competitive bids in providing health insurance for teachers, staff and their families. Industry professionals estimate possible savings of up to 15 percent for the second-most expensive item in school budgets behind salaries: health insurance for school employees. Expected substantial savings could be used to reduce rising local property taxes.

Local property taxes fund 79 percent of the average Maine municipal budget. According to Maine Revenue Services, property taxes have more than doubled in the past 20 years ? increasing 123 percent. These surging property taxes are making it more and more difficult for an increasing number of Maine families to hold on to their homes.

The local school budget accounts for 61 percent of the cost to operate the average Maine city or town, according to the Maine Municipal Association. For the most part, the cost of public education drives the level of local property taxes. Health insurance for school workers is estimated to cost up to 15 percent of total education expenses.

Local property taxes can be significantly reduced by addressing the high cost of health insurance for school employees.

For many years, the Maine Education Association, the public school teachers? union, has maintained a monopoly in providing health insurance to Maine teachers and staff. The Maine Education Association Benefits Trust has hired one insurance company, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, to provide health insurance for teachers, staff and their families in nearly every school unit in Maine.

Through the years, the MEABT has declined to disclose the medical claims data experienced by the individual school districts. (It is, of course, unlawful to identify any individual in the release of such information.) Without having this ?loss claims data,? no other insurance company will blindly bid for a school district?s health insurance business. If a competing insurance company does, it might grossly overbid the price to provide coverage for a healthy group of school employees filing few medical claims. Or, the competing insurance company might greatly underbid a policy for an unhealthy population filing many expensive medical claims.

After many years of trying, last year 18 Maine state senators and 83 representatives passed a new law requiring the teachers? union to share this medical claims data with their school unit clients. Seventy-five legislators voted against LD 1326, sponsored by Rep. Ralph Sarty, R-Denmark.

Shortly after the new law was passed, the union?s Benefits Trust continued to prevent the release of this basic health insurance loss information by filing suit against the Maine Superintendent of Insurance, the Maine School Board Association and four local school districts. The MEABT lost the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Portland. The MEABT then appealed the decision to the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston. After losing the appeal last week, the teachers? union finally gave up trying to conceal the medical claims data experienced by its Maine school district customers.

Now, school boards across the state will be able to seek competitive bids from insurance companies interested in providing health insurance to their school employees.

Industry professionals estimate that local taxpayers pay $400 million per year to buy health insurance for Maine public school teachers, staff and their families. This cost has contributed to escalating property taxes during the past two decades.

Insurance professionals project possible savings of roughly 15 percent for school districts that put their health insurance needs out to bid. For example, the Regional School Unit 18 school budget is $32 million for 2013. Approximately $4.8 million is directed to pay for employee health insurance. Inviting insurance companies to compete for this business might save Belgrade, China, Oakland, Sidney and Rome taxpayers nearly $720,000 per year, according to insurance company workers. That?s real money that could be used to lower smothering property taxes.

During the teachers? union monopoly in providing health insurance to school employees, Anthem has returned to the union?s Benefits Trust part of the insurance premiums paid by local taxpayers. Those excess premiums sitting at the MEABT have recently reached approximately $86 million. Who ?owns? those excess funds collected from local taxpayers?

Soon, more than 50 Maine school districts will receive for the first time their own employee health insurance loss information. Finally, transparency and free market competition will potentially save boatloads of school-budget dollars. It?s sad that it took a new law to help struggling Maine families reduce their property taxes in order to help them stay in their homes.

Bruce Poliquin is treasurer of the state of Maine. His comments are as state treasurer, not as a trustee of the Maine Public Employees Retirement System.

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Report: Most women need Paps every 3 or 5 years

Most women can wait three to five years between checks for cervical cancer, depending on their age and test choice, say guidelines issued Monday.

Many medical groups have long recommended a Pap test every three years for most women. The new advice from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says that's true for women ages 21 to 29 whose Paps show no sign of trouble.

But for healthy women ages 30 to 65, the preferred check is a Pap plus a test for the cancer-causing HPV virus, the group concluded. If both show everything's fine, they can wait five years for further screening.

The guidelines from the nation's largest OB-GYN organization agree with advice issued earlier this year by a government panel, the American Cancer Society and other medical groups ? showing growing consensus that it's safe for the right women to wait longer between Paps.

Cervical cancer grows so slowly that regular Pap smears, which examine cells scraped from the cervix, can find signs early enough to treat before a tumor even forms.

Certain strains of HPV, the human papillomavirus, cause most cervical cancer, but the infection has to persist for a number of years to do its damage. HPV is a super-common virus in young women, whose bodies usually clear the infection on their own. Thus, health groups don't recommend routinely testing 20-somethings for HPV because it would cause too many false alarms.

A Pap averages around $40; HPV tests can add another $50 to $100.

The guidelines also say:

?Women 30 and older still can choose a Pap alone every three years.

?Screening shouldn't begin before age 21.

?Women over 65 can end screening if prior testing hasn't found problems.

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Wis. gunman in salon attack had history of abuse

Brookfield Police Chief Dan Tushaus briefs reporters in an evening news conference in Brookfield, Wis., on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. A man who had been accused of domestic violence and slashing his wife's tires took a gun into the spa where she worked and shot seven women, three fatally, before killing himself, Tushaus said. The shootings set off a confusing, six-hour search Sunday for the gunman that locked down a nearby mall, a country club adjacent to the spa and the hospital where the survivors were taken. (AP Photo/Carrie Antlfinger)

Brookfield Police Chief Dan Tushaus briefs reporters in an evening news conference in Brookfield, Wis., on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. A man who had been accused of domestic violence and slashing his wife's tires took a gun into the spa where she worked and shot seven women, three fatally, before killing himself, Tushaus said. The shootings set off a confusing, six-hour search Sunday for the gunman that locked down a nearby mall, a country club adjacent to the spa and the hospital where the survivors were taken. (AP Photo/Carrie Antlfinger)

This photo provided by the Brookfield Police Dept. shows Radcliffe Franklin Haughton, 45, of Brown Deer, Wis. Deputies are searching for Haughton on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012, who's suspected of wounding multiple people in a shooting at a spa near a suburban Milwaukee shopping mall. (AP Photo/Brookfield Police Dept.)

Police and swat team members respond to a call of a shooting at the Azana Spa in Brookfield, Wis. Sunday,Oct. 21, 2012. Multiple people were wounded when someone opened fire at the spa near the Brookfield Square Mall. Deputies are still looking for the gunman. (AP Photo/Tom Lynn)

Brookfield Chief of Police Steven Stelter speaks with reporters in Brookfield, Wis., Sunday , Oct. 21, 2012. The man police suspected of killing three and wounding four by opening fire at a tranquil day spa was found dead following a six-hour manhunt that locked down a shopping center, country club and hospital in suburban Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Tom Lynn)

Emergency vehicles surround the Azana Salon, the scene of a shooting in Brookfield, Wis. on Sunday , Oct. 21, 2012. Police identified the shooting suspect as Radcliffe Franklin Haughton, 45, of Brown Deer, Wis. Brookfield Police Chief Dan Tushaus said Haughton's car had been found, but he was still at large. Three people have been killed and four others have been wounded. (AP Photo/Tom Lynn)

BROOKFIELD, Wis. (AP) ? A Wisconsin man accused of opening fire at the salon where his wife worked, killing three women and wounding four others, had a history of domestic abuse, with allegations that he had slashed his wife's tires a few weeks earlier, police said.

Radcliffe Franklin Haughton damaged his wife's tires on Oct. 4, Brookfield police said. She sought court protection four days later, and a judge granted a four-year restraining order on Thursday. As part of the order, Haughton was prohibited from owning a firearm.

Brookfield Police Chief Dan Tushaus declined to elaborate on the circumstances of whether Haughton had surrendered any weapons prior to Sunday's salon rampage. Tushaus also said he wasn't immediately aware of a motive.

"I can tell you we're not seeking additional suspects," he said at a news conference Sunday evening. "The community can feel safe."

The shootings set off a confusing, six-hour search for the gunman that locked down a nearby mall, a country club adjacent to the spa and the hospital where the survivors were taken. The search froze activity in a commercial area in Brookfield, a middle-to-upper class community west of Milwaukee, for much of the day. Ultimately, Haughton was found dead in the spa after killing himself.

Authorities said it would take time to sort out exactly what happened, and emphasized they were still interviewing witnesses and rescuers and didn't have a firm timeline of events. At Sunday's news conference, Brookfield Mayor Steve Ponto called the shootings "a senseless act on the part of one person."

The chaos started around 11 a.m. at the Azana Day Spa, a two-story, 9,000-square-foot building across from a major shopping mall. The first officers on the scene found the building filled with smoke from a fire authorities believe was set by Haughton, 45, of Brown Deer, Tushaus said.

They also found a 1-pound propane tank they initially thought might be an improvised explosive device, Tushaus said. That slowed the search of the building as law enforcement agents waited for a bomb squad to clear the scene.

Tushaus said later that police didn't know whether the gunman brought the propane tank to the spa or whether a contractor left it.

The search was also complicated by the layout of the building, with numerous small treatment rooms and several locked areas, Tushaus said. While officers initially thought the gunman had fled the building, they later found his body in one of the locked areas, he said.

The bodies of the victims were also found in the spa. Tushaus said investigators were still working to identify them. He said the four survivors were between the ages of 22 and 40. He didn't know if they were employees at the spa or customers, and it wasn't clear if the man's wife was among the victims.

Haughton had recently been arrested after witnesses identified him as the person who slashed his wife's tires, police said.

Haughton's father, Radcliffe Haughton, Sr., spoke to The Associated Press shortly before police announced that they had found his son's body. In telephone interviews from Florida, he said he had last spoken to his son a few days ago, but didn't have any indication anything was wrong. He begged his son to turn himself in.

After learning of his son's death, he said only: "This is very sad."

A sea of ambulances and police vehicles converged on the scene shortly after the shooting. A witness, David Gosh of nearby West Allis, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel he was returning from duck hunting with his father and a friend when he saw a woman emerge from the spa, screaming, as she ran into traffic.

"She ran right out into the street and was pounding on cars," Gosh told the newspaper. Moments later, a man with a handgun ran out. He appeared to be chasing the woman but then went back inside, Gosh said.

At the hospital where the victims were taken, staff members were escorted inside during a temporary lockdown. Officers were stationed at entrances, and critically injured patients were admitted with a police escort.

The hospital released a statement saying two women had undergone surgery, and one was in critical condition. Another was expected to have surgery Sunday night.

The shooting investigation and manhunt paralyzed a normally bustling shopping district. Inside the mall across the street from the spa, people waited patiently for updates. Gina Kralik, a bartender at Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, said people had been allowed to leave at one point but then police had decided not to let anyone come or go from the mall.

"We're just sitting watching the news and also trying to find out what's going on," she said about 3 p.m.

Austin Della, 17, was working at a department store in the mall when he heard announcements over the loudspeaker asking people to move their cars out of one parking lot. The mall was then locked down for almost three hours, he said, and customers joked about the good service they would get as the only clients in the store.

"Everyone was really calm," Della said. "If not for all the announcements, I don't think anyone would have known that anything was happening."

It was the second mass shooting in Wisconsin this year. Wade Michael Page, a 40-year-old Army veteran and white supremacist, killed six people and injured three others before fatally shooting himself Aug. 5 at a Sikh temple south of Milwaukee.

Sunday's shooting took place less than a mile from where seven people were killed and four wounded on March 12, 2005, when a gunman opened fire at a Living Church of God service held at a hotel.

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Associated Press writer Steve Karnowski in Minneapolis and researcher Lynn Dombek in New York contributed to this report.

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HTC Droid Incredible X possibly spotted with Verizon badging intact (Update: DLX is short for 'Deluxe')

It's about time. The HTC DLX has most often been rumored carrying a Verizon-style 6435LVW or Droid Incredible X name, and yet it was unveiled first in Japan as the J Butterfly; we really needed the photos just now surfacing at Android Central to remind us that the 5-inch, 1080p gigantophone could still come to Big Red. While nothing's confirmed yet, the black-with-red-trim design and all too prominent Verizon labeling make a convincing case for the DLX's ultimate US destination. A helpfully provided phone profile screen might be more interesting to some, as it hints that we might get the same quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro, 2GB of RAM and 8-megapixel rear camera as in the J Butterfly -- Verizon won't pull a Droid Incredible 4G LTE and tone down the hardware, if this is true. Without any more details, we're still left wondering just how soon Verizon could commit to launching the smartphone. There's no guarantees that Verizon will follow KDDI's schedule and ship in early December.

Update: We've been wondering whether the odd name was meant to be short for Droid Incredible X, i.e. "DIX" instead of "DLX," but our friend @evleaks on Twitter just showed us a list of device PIDs that mentions the latter. @evleaks also suggests that DLX might be short for the codename "Deluxe" for the international variant, just as "ENRC2" was short for "Endeavor C2" (One X+).

Update 2: It turns out the J Butterfly has the codename "Deluxe J" in its bootloader menu, so there you have it. Thanks again, @evleaks!

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Akared appeared and began to fight of the initial attack but he needs assistance.

Akared sent out a call to arms to the Super sentai of days past. Who will answer the call and drive out the Dark legion of destruction (DLD).

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