Posted on International Business Times: 23 Feb 2015 — By Maria Gallucci Ocean acidification threatens more communities along the U.S. coastline than scientists previously understood, a new Natural Resources Defense Council study found. The phenomenon could disrupt local shellfish industries from southern Massachusetts and Virginia to swampy Louisiana and southern
Month: February 2015
Vulnerability and adaptation of US shellfisheries to ocean acidification
Nature Climate Change (2015) — Julia A. Ekstrom, Lisa Suatoni, Sarah R. Cooley, Linwood H. Pendleton, George G. Waldbusser, Josh E. Cinner, Jessica Ritter, Chris Langdon, Ruben van Hooidonk, Dwight Gledhill, Katharine Wellman, Michael W. Beck, Luke M. Brander, Dan Rittschof, Carolyn Doherty, Peter E. T. Edwards & Rosimeiry Portela
An inter-laboratory comparison assessing the quality of seawater carbon dioxide measurements
Posted on OA: 17 Feb 2015 — Bockmon E. E. & Dickson A. G., in press. Marine Chemistry Seawater CO2 measurements are being made with increasing frequency as interest in the ocean’s response to changing atmospheric CO2 levels and to climate change grows. The ultimate usefulness of these measurements
Effort afoot to ramp up study of West Coast ocean’s changing chemistry
Posted on OA: 17 Feb 2015 SAN JOSE — Members of a multidisciplinary panel tackling the related problems of ocean acidification and low-oxygen zones off the western shore of the continent conceded Sunday they had little to offer yet in the way of solutions beyond what most of us
PISCO Hypoxia Research Video
This film highlights PISCO scientists Jack Barth and Francis Chan as they conduct hypoxia research along the Oregon coast. PISCO hypoxia Scientists and Policy and Outreach coordinators, at Oregon State University have recently created a short video that describes what is known about hypoxia off the coast of Oregon. On display at
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