Turns out about 15-20% of the methane is destroyed by the atmosphere at the ocean surface (the bulk is destroyed by hydroxyl reactions over the land). There are some other natural processes that catalyze those reactions. So we are working on augmenting the supply of catalyst over the deep ocean (far away from land). The reason for the open ocean is that it is remarkably free of topographic features :-) and much more uniform. Close to shore there are all sorts of other things going on, from runoff to life activity and it makes predicting anything quite hard. Doing it on the other 75% of the earth's surface is a lot easier.

If you go to our crappy web site (www.bluedotchange.com) and click on the science you can read some refereed papers on the subject.

We are looking for some MEs and ChemEs and a couple of EEs and software people if you're interested.