Posted on EPOCA: 14 Oct 2011 Coccolithophores are unicellular phytoplankton that produce calcium carbonate coccoliths as an exoskeleton. Emiliania huxleyi, the most abundant coccolithophore in the world’s ocean, plays a major role in the global carbon cycle by regulating the exchange of CO2 across the ocean-atmosphere interface through photosynthesis and calcium
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The Third International Symposium on the Ocean in a High CO2 World will take place in Monterey, California from September 24th to 27th, 2012.
Registration, Abstract submission and Hotel reservations are all open as of October 12, 2011. Ulf Riebesell. Lophelia pertusa, a cold-water coral building extensive reefs in the deep ocean, will be one of the first habitat-builders exposed to waters turning corrosive due to ocean acidfication. The Third Symposium on The Ocean
NSF ocean acidification research funding opportunuty
Posted on EPOCA: 06 Oct 2011 CONTACTS Name Dir/Div Name Dir/Div David L. Garrison GEO/OCE Candace O. Major GEO/OCE Henrietta Edmonds OD/OPP Peter Milne Donald Rice GEO/OCE William E. Zamer PROGRAM GUIDELINES Solicitation 12-500 DUE DATES Full Proposal Deadline Date: January 6, 2012 Regular Proposals, Research Coordination Networks (RCN), and
Ocean acidification – Curtis Deutsch, University of California, Los Angeles
Posted on EPOCA: 06 Oct 2011 Ocean Acidification – Curtis Deutsch, University of California, Los Angeles from Kavli Frontiers of Science on Vimeo. The rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from human activities has been significantly slowed by the oceans, which have absorbed almost half of all the industrial
Q&A On The Release Of Climate Science 2009-2010
Posted from WRIInsights — WRI releases Climate Science 2009-2010, the latest installment in our periodic review of the state of play of the science of climate change. Photo credit: flickr/NASA Goddard Photo and Video Today, WRI releases Climate Science 2009-2010, the latest installment in our periodic review of the state