Personal project · ecology & restoration science

Flux Explorer

Reported C and N flux intensities as teaching outputs. The ecology story is restoring iron cycling impaired by anthropogenic loss of regenerative pathways — Fe, P, Si, and ligands stay functions / drivers, never competing tonne headlines.

Teaching lock · Phase B C+N headlines

Illustrative defaults from the Ocean Flux science pack (Admin Fact-spotted). Not a credit calculator, dosing recipe, or commercial fertilisation product. Reported C and N are educational inventory / stoichiometry framing — not exported sequestration, not MRV tonnes.

Iron is not optional flavouring: heme and iron–sulfur proteins drive photosynthesis, respiration, and nitrogen assimilation across ocean life. Lost regenerative Fe cycling (food-web recycle) is an ecology problem — shown here as gated C/N outcomes, never as Fe-tonne scores or credits.

Reported C + N fluxes

Fact · product lock

Headline SI: mmol CO₂ m⁻² d⁻¹ (air–sea, + into ocean) / mmol C m⁻² d⁻¹ (org C intensity) / mmol N m⁻² d⁻¹. Never credit tCO₂e. Fe/P/Si remain drivers below.

Context chips

Formula strip

Driver / function strip

Not headline

Febio, Lindex, season weight — bioavailability and guild-demand gates that scale reported C/N (heme / Fe–S enzyme story lives here as function, not tonnes). Do not read these as restoration success scores.

Ocean flux schematic

Click a compartment or arrow to highlight related inputs and outputs.

Fe schematic chart (log scale · driver)

Fe stub outputs Driver context

Fe stub formulas

Fe deficit mass-balance (driver inventory)

Function / driver — not C/N headline

Engineer numerical core — provisional methodology equations. Outputs are inventory tonnes Fe for the iron-cycling restoration story — not dosing setpoints, not credit tonnes, and not the explorer’s primary reported fluxes (those are C + N above).

Formula steps

About this tool

Built for researchers and collaborators exploring how missing regenerative nutrient fluxes reshape mixed-layer supply. Reported headlines are C and N; Fe schematic stubs live in flux-model.js; methodology deficit balance and Phase B C/N intensities live in engine.js / equations.js (Soft display layer maps optional Eng fields in flux-cn-display.js).