Healing Earth by John Todd

Author:John Todd
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781623172992
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2018-10-25T16:00:00+00:00

There is still another path to solving the problem. It occurred to me that boat moorings might be redesigned to serve double duty as micro-marine restorers. There are tens of thousands of moorings along the East Coast and most of them are located near the most heavily impacted zones. With my friend Matt Beam, I have been designing micro-marine restorers, in which everything is conceived in miniature. The technological challenge is to find ways they can be designed to circulate water in small spaces using only natural currents. Life-support surfaces must be designed for species from all of the kingdoms of life to reside within. Photosynthetic organisms, grazers, filterers, decomposers, and detritus eaters as well as predators must all be on board, literally. Fungi adapted to saltwater will also be needed.

The drawing below is a schematic of a micro-marine restorer adapted to moorings. I have not given any of the details, but it is possible to see the basic concept. The subunits are attached to a central boat mooring chain. From studying the colonization of surfaces in inshore marine waters, I have learned that systems like these quickly attract a diverse range of organisms on a variety of types of surfaces. In some mooring based-restorers, we will intentionally add organisms, especially bivalves or shellfish. All these organisms, in one way or another, will aid in removing excess nutrients and in some cases to convert nitrogen compounds to gases to be released into the air. Hopefully they will function in concert as a powerful tool for nutrient removal at mooring sites.

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