Posted on UC Davis News: 28 Jun 2016 — By Kat Kerlin — Acidic Waters Dull Snails’ Ability to Escape from Predatory Sea Stars Black turban snails escape predation by sea stars by crawling out of tide pools. Experiments at UC Davis’ Bodega Marine Laboratory show that the snails lose
Month: June 2016
Experiments with Seasonal Forecasts of ocean conditions for the Northern region of the California Current upwelling system
Posted on OA: 24 Jun 2016 — Siedlecki S. A., Kaplan I. C., Hermann A. J., Nguyen T. T., Bond N. A., Newton J. A., Williams G. D., Peterson W. T., Alin S. R. & Feely R. A., 2016. Scientific Reports 6: 27203. doi: 10.1038/srep27203 Resource managers at the state,
Ocean forecast offers seasonal outlook for Pacific Northwest waters
Ocean forecast offers seasonal outlook for Pacific Northwest waters Posted on EurekAlert / AAAS: 23 Jun 2016 — Public Release from University of Washington The Pacific Northwest summer oxygen, chlorophyll, temperature and pH are compared between past modeled values (top), January forecast (middle) and April forecast (bottom) for the summer
Biodiversity response to natural gradients of multiple stressors on continental margins
Posted on OA: 17 Jun 2016 — Sperling E. A., Frieder C. A. & Levin L. A., 2016. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 283(1829). Sharp increases in atmospheric CO2 are resulting in ocean warming, acidification and deoxygenation that threaten marine organisms on continental margins and their ecological
Climate: California mussel shells thinning as oceans acidify
Posted on OA: 11 Jun 2016 — Biologists create historic record of climate change impacts The shells of California mussels have thinned dramatically in the modern era, probably as a result of ocean acidification, a direct result of increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere resulting from fossil fuel combustion, say
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