Research Notes from the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences now online A website has been developed to serve as a portal for information on active research on ocean acidification within the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences at the University of Washington. Project highlights are provided with occasional posts found
Month: May 2012
Pre-dinosaur extinction killed 95% of sea species
Posted on EPOCA: 02 May 2012 — By Alanna Mitchell THE NEW YORK TIMES Healthy branching and soft corals. Painstaking analyses by researchers of fossils from the Permian extinction, which killed off about 95 percent or marine species 252 million years ago, is providing startling new clues to the behavior
Attention heroes: who will save the world’s oceans?
Posted on EPOCA: 02 May 2012 The planet has five major oceans. A lesser known fact is that the acidity in the ocean is contributing to the die-off of shellfish populations and the bleaching of coral reefs. Imagine no shells at the beach. Or no oysters and salmon — other species currently