Posted on EPOCA: 12 Dec 2012 Using a new and rapid NanoSIMS-based method, we quantified the sensitivity of skeletal Sr/Ca in coral to the aragonite saturation state of seawater (ΩSW). Skeletal Sr/Ca is a common proxy for temperature while ΩSW is a parameter that varied in the past ocean and is
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Acidification of the oceans need world attention
Posted on EPOCA: 12 Dec 2012 — Summit attendees urged to tell how ocean life is being affected, what can be done LONG BEACH, Wash. — Remember what it’s like to hold your breath, your lungs demanding fresh air with increasing urgency? That awful sensation isn’t about lack of oxygen,
Ocean acidification
Rutger University (Vimeo), 12 December 2012 — Whiskey Creek Hatchery owners Mark Wiegardt and Sue Cudd relate the challenges of producing oyster larvae in a high CO2 world Rutger University (Vimeo), 12 December 2012. Video.
Can the oyster industry survive ocean acidification?
Posted on High Country News: From the December 10, 2012 issue — By Brendon Bosworth Infographic Oceanic calcium carbonate saturation levels For four frustrating months in 2007, Mark Wiegardt and his wife, Sue Cudd, witnessed something unsettling at their Oregon oyster hatchery: tank bottoms littered with dead baby oysters.
The biological pump in a high CO2 world
Posted on EPOCA: 10 Dec 2012 — Passow U. & Carlson C. A., 2012. The biological pump in a high CO2 world. Marine Ecology Progress Series 470: 249-271 The vertical separation of organic matter formation from respiration can lead to net carbon sequestration within the ocean’s interior, making the biological