A commercial fishing boat heads out of Morro Bay. A study released Monday found that waters off the California coast are acidifying faster than the rest of the ocean. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) Waters off the California coast are acidifying twice as fast as the global average,
Month: December 2019
Quantifying the effects of nutrient enrichment and freshwater mixing on coastal ocean acidification
Jennie E. Rheuban | Scott C. Doney | Daniel C. McCorkle | Rachel W. Jakuba First published: 07 November 2019 https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JC015556 Abstract The U.S. Northeast is vulnerable to ocean and coastal acidification because of low alkalinity freshwater discharge that naturally acidifies the region, and high anthropogenic nutrient loads that lead to
Attributing ocean acidification to major carbon producers
R Licker1, B Ekwurzel1, S C Doney2,3, S R Cooley4, I D Lima3, R Heede5 and P C Frumhoff6 Published 11 December 2019 • © 2019 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd Environmental Research Letters, Volume 14, Number 12 Abstract Recent research has quantified the contributions of CO2
Rate of ocean acidification may accelerate, scientists warn
Last summer, scientists met at the University of Washington to address alarming findings concerning the rapid acidification of the world’s oceans. Experts at that symposium warned that wildlife in the Salish Sea, from salmon to shellfish, may start to see significant effects from changing water chemistry within the next 10
Decadal variability in twentieth-century ocean acidification in the California Current Ecosystem
Oceanic uptake of CO2 can mitigate climate change, but also results in global ocean acidification. Ocean acidification-related changes to the marine carbonate system can disturb ecosystems and hinder calcification by some organisms. Here, we use the calcification response of planktonic foraminifera as a tool to reconstruct the progression of ocean