Posted on EPOCA: 22 Jun 2012 A Willapa Bay shellfish company is shifting some of its business to Hawaii because of ocean acidification that scientists believe is killing tiny oyster larvae in shellfish farms along Washington’s coast. After 34 years rearing shellfish in Willapa Bay, Dave Nisbet was in
Month: June 2012
Sour future for Californian waters?
Posted on EPOCA: 21 Jun 2012 The waters of the California Current System contain some of the most productive ecosystems in the world. But they already have low-carbonate saturation, making them vulnerable to ocean acidification as the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere rises. Now high-resolution eddy-resolving model
Response of marine ecosystems to deep-time global warming: a synthesis of biotic patterns across the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (PETM)
Posted on EPOCA: 21 Jun 2012 This paper provides a synthesis of the long- and short-term response of various marine ecosystems (deep oceans, pelagic, pelitic shelves and carbonate platforms) to the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (PETM) and its broader paleoclimatic and paleoceanographic context. Despite the severity and sudden onset of
Ocean Acidification could negatively affect 50% of marine organisms by the end of the century
Posted on EPOCA: 20 Jun 2012 — A partnership which includes the Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the UK Ocean Acidification Research Programme, highlighted its concern about the impacts of the multiple and interacting stressors of warming, acidification and deoxygenation on ocean systems, which will occur in
Acid test for marine life
Posted on EPOCA: 19 Jun 2012 In Rio de Janeiro this week, environmental leaders from many nations are addressing one of our planet’s most serious yet still vastly under-recognized challenges: ocean acidification. Ocean acidification, a process in which seawater chemistry changes when the ocean absorbs rising levels of atmospheric carbon