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You have been hired fresh out of college by a geoengineering consulting firm, Geoengineering Real Solutions. You are put on a team evaluating ocean fertilization with iron as a way to sequester carbon from the atmosphere. The idea is that iron is a limiting micronutrient for a number of phytoplankton in the oligotrophic open oceans. Fertilizing large areas of ocean by dumping iron filings off of tanker ships should cause phytoplankton to bloom, fixing more CO2 out of the atmosphere, resulting in more carbon getting buried in the deep sea due to sinking particles. How would you use your logic to evaluate whether this solution is likely to be successful, and what additional pieces of information might you need to help your team decide? Explain your rationale and provide with accordant references if any.