Posted on OA: 22 Jul 2015 — Excerpt from a New York Times article and video featuring Dr. Tessa Hill, BOAR, and Terry Sawyer, Hog Island Oyster Co. This is kind of the good news/bad news department, as so many things are: The good news is that terrific oysters
Month: July 2015
Montana team “Sunburst Sensors” takes home both top prizes in $2 million Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health XPRIZE
Posted on OA: 21 Jul 2015 Photo credit: T. Traynor New York (July 21, 2015) — XPRIZE (www.xprize.org) and Wendy Schmidt announced the winners of the $2M Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health XPRIZE, a global competition to incentivize breakthroughs in pH sensor technology to accurately and affordably measure the acidification
Lessons for Alaska: Oregon Shellfish Hatchery Tackles Ocean Acidification
Posted on Alaska Public Media: 13 Jul 2015 — By Shady Grove Oliver, KBBI – Homer Inside the Whiskey Creek Shellfish Hatchery – Photo courtesy of ceoas.oregonstate.edu A recent NOAA study pegged 2040 as the date for the potential end of Alaskan shellfish hatcheries. That is, unless serious mitigation efforts are put
Internal consistency of marine carbonate system measurements and assessments of aragonite saturation state: insights from two U.S. coastal cruises
Posted on OA: 1 Jul 2015 — Patsavas M. C., Byrne R. H., Wanninkhof R., Feely R. A & Cai W.-J., in press. Marine Chemistry. This research assesses the thermodynamic consistency of recent marine CO2 system measurements in United States coastal waters. As one means of assessment, we compared