Building relationships between scientists and business in ocean iron fertilization

Building Business Relationships with Negotiation

Successful negotiators prepare by determining their position along five dimensions. We introduce a negotiation model based on these dimensions and on two primitive concepts: intimacy (degree of closeness) and balance (degree of fairness). The intimacy is a pair of matrices that evaluate both an agent’s contribution to the relationship and its opponent’s contribution each from an information vie...

Southern Ocean iron fertilization by baleen whales and Antarctic krill

Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, Australian Antarctic Division, 203 Channel Highway, Kingston, Tas. 7050, Australia; Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 80, Hobart, Tas. 7001, Australia; Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, Australian Antarctic Division, Australian Marine Mammal Cen...

Open Ocean Iron Fertilization for Scientific Study and Carbon Sequestration

The trace element iron has been recently shown to play a critical role in nutrient utilization, phytoplankton growth and therefore the uptake of carbon dioxide from the surface waters of the global ocean. Carbon fixation in the surface waters, via phytoplankton growth, shifts the ocean/atmosphere exchange equilibrium for carbon dioxide. As a result, levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (a green...

Ocean Iron Fertilization: An Option for Mitigating Climate Change?

Building Relationships between Business Schools and Students: An Empirical Investigation into Student Retention

This study uses the relationship marketing theory of commitment and trust as a framework to investigate the issue of student retention in business schools. Structural equation modeling was used to examine relationships specified by Morgan and Hunt's (1994) theory of relationship marketing. Students' commitment to the business schools were determined by perceived benefits of attending the school...