Posted on OA: 29 Sep 2013 Over the next few centuries, with unabated emissions of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2), a total of 5000 Pg C may enter the atmosphere, causing CO2 concentrations to rise to approximately 2000 ppmv, global temperature to warm by more than 8°C and surface ocean pH to decline by
Month: September 2013
Shellfish woes
Posted on The Star Online: 24 Sep 2013 — By Craig Welsh — Oysters are at risk from ocean acidification, as are farmers’ livelihoods. IT appears at the end of a palm tree-lined drive, not far from piles of hardened black lava: the newest addition to the US Pacific
Oceanography students test ocean acidification effects on abalone and seaweed
Posted on Environmental Monitor: 23 Sep 2013 — By Alex Card Smith Lab oceanography students are running experiments on the effects of ocean acidification on California seaweed species (Credit: Scripps Institution of Oceanography) For student teams from two California-based research labs, custom-built bubblers, seaweed harvests and baby sea snails are
Ocean of change
Posted on the Eugene Register Guard: 22 Sep 2013 — By Diane Dietz — Changing chemistry of seawater poses lethal threat to marine life Dwight Collins, owner of Newman’s Fish Co., shucks Pacific oysters he sells at his shop in Eugene. The oysters—these from Yaquina Bay—could be the proverbial
Cantwell questions NOAA nominee about ocean acidification
Posted on OA: 20 Sep 2013 U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell on Thursday sought a commitment from the Obama administration’s nominee to head the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that she would make ocean acidification a significant priority. But the exchange briefly turned, albeit obliquely, to an issue at