Posted on EPOCA: 19 Dec 2011 Young fish can suffer severe damage from the ocean acidification expected within this century. The increasing acidification of ocean water may seriously jeopardize survival in young fish, two new studies find. Until now, studies of acidification’s effects on fish focused on adults — and
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Funding opportunity: Regional ecosystem prediction program: Potential impacts of ocean acidification on fishery ecosystems
Posted on EPOCA: 16 Dec 2011 NOAA/NOS/NCCOS/CSCOR is accepting proposals which address the potential ecosystem impacts of ocean acidification to fishery ecosystems of US waters. Research should focus on the development of ecological models (linked to biogeochemical models if possible) which can be used to predict population and/or ecosystem level
Calcium carbonate production response to future ocean warming and acidification
Posted on EPOCA: 14 Dec 2011 Anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are acidifying the ocean, affecting calcification rates in pelagic organisms and thereby modifying the oceanic alkalinity cycle. However, the responses of pelagic calcifying organisms to acidification vary widely between species, contributing uncertainty to predictions of atmospheric CO2 and the resulting
Cryptic phytoplankton may hold an answer
Posted on Point Reyes Light: 13 December 2011 — Clues to Northern California Shellfish Die-off. By Ryan Jacobs Courtesy of Charles O’Kelly Once in a great while, a biologist finds herself at the confluence of a rare natural phenomenon. This often involves decades, or even whole careers, of observing and
AGU Fall Meeting: the (pH) lowdown on ocean acidification
Posted on EPOCA: 12 Dec 2011 Ocean acidification is often overlooked as a problem in favour of its more famous parent, climate change. But it’s receiving plenty of attention at the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco. Whilst most information on the effects of acidification is based on modelling or