Posted on EPOCA: 29 Feb 2012 The Carbon Group at NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) works to advance our scientific understanding of the ocean carbon cycle and how it is changing over time. PMEL’s research includes documenting the evolving state of the ocean carbon chemistry with high quality measurements
Month: February 2012
Oregon Sea Grant research projects
Posted on EPOCA: 29 Feb 2012 Oregon Sea Grant has committed nearly $2 million to nine research and outreach projects over the next two years, including investigations into hypoxia and ocean acidification, community tsunami preparedness, and the migration and diseases of native salmon. The competitive awards are funded by NOAA
Carbon and oxygen cycles: sensitivity to changes in environmental forcing in a coastal upwelling system
Posted on EPOCA: 26 Feb 2012 Biogeochemical cycles in the coastal ocean are changing and will continue to change in response to a changing climate. Effects on the oxygen and carbon cycles are particularly important, as either episodic or permanent shifts toward lower oxygen and/or higher inorganic carbon conditions can
Large areas of open ocean starved of oxygen
Posted on EPOCA: 22 Feb 2012 — Hypoxia findings by Professor Lisa Levin from Scripps Institution of Oceanography Large regions of the open ocean are being starved of oxygen because of warmer sea temperatures according to studies showing that fish and other marine creatures are moving into narrower habitats to
World’s oceans get an acid bath
Posted on EPOCA: 22 Feb 2012 Increasing acidity in the world’s oceans could pose a greater threat to marine life than warming waters. Among the repercussions of global climate change, the effect of ocean acidification on marine life is one of the least-understood variables. The oceans have already absorbed about
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