• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Ken Buesseler

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)

Sr. Scientist, Marine Chemistry, Geochemistry

Ken Buesseler is a marine radiochemist and member of the Ocean Twilight Zone Project at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). He is best known for work using natural and manmade isotopes in the ocean to study processes such as the movement of carbon and iron from the surface to deep ocean, as well as studies of the fate and transport of radioactive contaminants in the ocean. Dr. Buesseler participated in two ocean iron fertilization (OIF) experiments, leading one of three research vessels during the last major US OIF experiment off Antarctica. He is author on more than 175 research publications with 10 papers focused on OIF.  In addition to research, he has organized international conferences on the scientific, economic, legal and political challenges of OIF. He also launched a citizen scientists campaign, “Our Radioactive Ocean”, that enlists the public to help collect and fund the analyses of Fukushima radioactive contaminants in seawater, thereby engaging the public in a deeper discussion of our radioactive world. He obtained a PhD from MIT and WHOI in 1986 and has been a scientist at WHOI ever since, currently working as a Senior Scientist and Director of the Center for Marine and Environmental Radioactivity.

Sessions With Ken Buesseler

Thursday, 12 March

  • 12:30pm - 01:20pm (CST) / -

    Nature-based Solutions: Answer to carbon mitigation?
    Climate & Sustainability Clean Tech

    The energy transition is putting companies under intense pressure to reduce carbon emissions, so many players are looking for innovative ways to cut back on their businesses’ emissions. Natural solutions, including innovative shifts in reforestation, agricultural practice, and mangrove conservation, are helping to mitigate carbon footprints from energy production and consumption, while promoting a healthy, biodiverse ecosystem. What is the carbon-mitigation potential and cost? How do nature-based solutions connect to new climate policy targets to achieve net zero emissions? How can energy companies develop nature-based, non-energy assets?