Posted on EPOCA: 01 Oct 2012 (Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– UC Santa Barbara is part of a West Coast network of researchers that has received a grant of nearly $1.1 million from the National Science Foundation to analyze the ecological and biological response to ocean acidification in the California Current
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Plenary presentations from the Third symposium on the ocean in a high-CO2 world
Posted on EPOCA: 01 Oct 2012 The presentations from the plenary sessions of the Third symposium on the ocean in a high-CO2 world, held in Monterey CA last week, are available online. International Geosphere Biosphere Programme, September 2012. Presentations.
Ocean acidification emerges as new climate threat
Posted on The Washington Post: 30 September 2012 — By Juliet Eilperin HOMER, Alaska — Kris Holderied, who directs the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Kasitsna Bay Laboratory, says the ocean’s increasing acidity is “the reason fishermen stop me in the grocery store.” “They say, ‘You’re with the NOAA lab, what
Acidifying ocean threatens ecosystems and US economy – congress learns about the potential impacts of ocean acidification
Posted on EPOCA: 28 Sep 2012 In a briefing hosted by Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Representative Norm Dicks (D-WA), and Representative Don Young (R-AK), scientists shared their research about the impending ecological and economic consequences of increasing ocean acidity. Acidification is caused by the ocean absorbing increasing amounts of carbon
Hot, sour, and breathless
Posted on EPOCA: 28 Sep 2012 This week [Sep 24-27], 572 scientists gathered in Monterey for the Third International Symposium on the Oceans in a High CO2 World. The numbers mark a sharp increase from the first symposium in 2004 in Paris where the community of ocean acidification scientists numbered