Posted on EPOCA: 12 Dec 2012 — Summit attendees urged to tell how ocean life is being affected, what can be done LONG BEACH, Wash. — Remember what it’s like to hold your breath, your lungs demanding fresh air with increasing urgency? That awful sensation isn’t about lack of oxygen,
Month: December 2012
Ocean acidification
Rutger University (Vimeo), 12 December 2012 — Whiskey Creek Hatchery owners Mark Wiegardt and Sue Cudd relate the challenges of producing oyster larvae in a high CO2 world Rutger University (Vimeo), 12 December 2012. Video.
Can the oyster industry survive ocean acidification?
Posted on High Country News: From the December 10, 2012 issue — By Brendon Bosworth Infographic Oceanic calcium carbonate saturation levels For four frustrating months in 2007, Mark Wiegardt and his wife, Sue Cudd, witnessed something unsettling at their Oregon oyster hatchery: tank bottoms littered with dead baby oysters.
The biological pump in a high CO2 world
Posted on EPOCA: 10 Dec 2012 — Passow U. & Carlson C. A., 2012. The biological pump in a high CO2 world. Marine Ecology Progress Series 470: 249-271 The vertical separation of organic matter formation from respiration can lead to net carbon sequestration within the ocean’s interior, making the biological
Responses of marine primary producers to interactions between ocean acidification, solar radiation, and warming
Posted on EPOCA: 10 Dec 2012 — Gao K., Helbling E. W., Häder D. P. & Hutchins D. A., 2012. Responses of marine primary producers to interactions between ocean acidification, solar radiation, and warming. Marine Ecology Progress Series 470: 167-189 Anthropogenic CO2 is accumulating in the atmosphere and trapping