Posted on CBC News: 17 Jul 2012 — Vancouver Island researchers use artificial tide pools to study threat UBC marine biologist Chris Harley says it is ‘highly likely’ we are in a period of mass extinction. (CBC) The Pacific Ocean is growing more acidic at a much faster rate than
Month: July 2012
Open comment period for US OA Strategic Research Plan
Posted on EPOCA: 16 Jul 2012 The Federal Register Notice notifying the public of an open comment period for the US OA Strategic Research Plan (written by the Interagency Working Group on OA) was posted last week. Comments must be received on or before September 10, 2012. Summary: We are
Rising Acidity Brings an Ocean of Trouble
Posted on Science 13 July 2012: Vol. 337 no. 6091 pp. 146-148 DOI: 10.1126/science.337.6091.146 — By Robert F. Service — Carbon dioxide emissions have changed the chemistry of the world’s oceans in ways that are already harming shell-building organisms and could lead to broad impacts on marine ecosystems. Tip of
Ocean Acidification Hits Home in Marshall
Posted on On Air – KWMR Radio: 12 Jul 2012 — From the West Marin Report At Hog Island Oyster Company, Bay Area Teachers Get Real Life Examples of the Effects of Ocean Acidification. Hog Island Oyster Company’s Terry Sawyer tells teachers what he is doing in light of uncertain seed supply due
Ocean acidification threatens NW oysters
Posted NWCN.com: July 10, 2012 — By King 5 News The world’s top marine scientists are meeting this week in Australia to discuss what many are calling the greatest threat so far to the survival of our oceans – acidification. It’s a problem that’s already attacking one the Northwest’s