Posted on PhysOrg: 5 Aug 2012 — An international study to understand and predict the likely impact of ocean acidification on shellfish and other marine organisms living in seas from the tropics to the poles is published in the journal Global Change Biology. Ocean acidification is occurring because some of
Month: August 2012
How climate change is changing the oyster business
Posted on EPOCA: 03 Aug 2012 Oyster farmers have developed coping strategies for the higher levels of carbon dioxide that make it hard to grow oysters off the West Coast. But some scientists warn that the problem is only going to get worse. Austin Docter has worked at a
Ocean acidification (OA) data management
Posted on EPOCA: 03 Aug 2012 Ocean acidification (OA), the decline of seawater pH due to absorption of anthropogenic CO2, is a fast developing field of research. Currently, various research groups are collecting time-series pH observations with uncoordinated methods. We have a rare opportunity for the Network to establish a
Public invited to ocean acidification panel meeting
Posted on EPOCA: 03 Aug 2012 Olympia, WA – The public is invited to attend the next meeting of the Governor’s Blue Ribbon Panel on Ocean Acidification. The meeting is set for 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Aug. 8 at NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Building 3 in Seattle. Here
Ocean acidification and the “short term“ marine carbon cycle
Posted on EPOCA: 02 Aug 2012 The 2007 IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Synthesis Report discusses ocean acidification and its potential to harm marine calcifiers (e.g. corals) in the future. Yet a recent report in Science unequivocally states that parts of the ecosystem are already affected by the changes