High-Level Project Summary
Given the numerous impacts caused by human action, it is clear that the excess emission of gases, mainly C02, contribute to the increase in global warming and the accumulation of gas in the oceans, causing high acidification and destruction of marine biodiversity . Within this perspective, we developed an educational video that seeks to instigate humanity, showing how it directly affects certain social groups. In view of the educational proposal, we address in our video a "timeline", divided into first causes, the consequences and a proposal for a solution to this final problem.
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Detailed Project Description
It raises awareness about the polluting chain and how it affects each citizen and, in addition, we idealize a
project that seeks to alleviate the local acidification in the oceans, first the station attracts the H+ ions released in this process through a catalyst, after that the component is converted into electrical energy and a secondary system regulates the ph of the water, with this, we seek the improvement of the marine life cycle, reduction of water acidity and generation of renewable energy. For the development of this video we used the programs: Canva, Google Academy and miro.
Space Agency Data
We use data from the nasa earth observatory website: However, the slow carbon cycle also contains a slightly faster component: the ocean. At the surface, where air meets water, carbon dioxide gas dissolves in and ventilates out of the ocean in a steady exchange with the atmosphere. Once in the ocean, carbon dioxide gas reacts with water molecules to release hydrogen, making the ocean more acidic. The hydrogen reacts with carbonate from rock weathering to produce bicarbonate ions. Before the industrial age, the ocean vented carbon dioxide to the atmosphere in balance with the carbon the ocean received during rock weathering. However, since carbon concentrations in the atmosphere have increased, the ocean now takes more carbon from the atmosphere than it releases. Over millennia, the ocean will absorb up to 85 percent of the extra carbon people have put into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels, but the process is slow because it is tied to the movement of water from the ocean’s surface to its depths. In the meantime, winds, currents, and temperature control the rate at which the ocean takes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. (See The Ocean’s Carbon Balance on the Earth Observatory.) It is likely that changes in ocean temperatures and currents helped remove carbon from and then restore carbon to the atmosphere over the few thousand years in which the ice ages began and ended > https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/CarbonCycle
Hackathon Journey
Very fruitful, during this process we all learned a lot from the experiences we went through, among them, the daily challenges, research, ideas and project assembly. We acquire knowledge diverse and differentiated, such as the subject of acidification, pollution, etc. our inspirations were the perception of how the environment is affected and the suggestion of a colleague when speaking of ocean acidification. We are based on data collection and theoretical information about the theme. Throughout this process, we encountered several setbacks, to solve them we divided ourselves into tasks and focused a lot on carrying it out. We'd like to thank to the mentors who helped us a lot with ideas and suggestions and to Unijorge for all the support in infrastructure and food.
References
We use data and information from the following sources: Global carbon project (carbon emission),
Carbon brief (Carbon Emission Ranking), WRI (sources of gas emissions), Climate watch data
(responsible for generating heat) and Magazine Nature Scientific (Ocean).
Tags
#ocean, #acidfication, #future, #exploration, #biodiversity, #fisherman #change