Posted on the EPOCA blog, May 2, 2011 During the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), 56 Mya, thousands of petagrams of carbon were released into the ocean-atmosphere system with attendant changes in the carbon cycle, climate, ocean chemistry, and marine and continental ecosystems. The period of carbon release is thought
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Northwest Science Center puts Puget Sound sea life to acid test
Biologists at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center are conducting sophisticated experiments to see how the marine world responds to a major side effect of fossil-fuel emissions: increasingly corrosive seas. The shellfish being reared in this government laboratory near the Montlake Cut will play a central role in predicting the future
“Ocean Acidification” a new book to be published by Oxford University Press
An impressive compilation of authors and topics related to OA Posted: 11 Apr 2011 07:22 AM PDT Ocean Acidification Edited by Jean-Pierre Gattuso and Lina Hansson 408 pages | 75 illustrations | 246×189 mm Publication date: September 2011 About this book Synthesizes the findings of recent national and international research efforts,
“Like headlights on a car…”
Pacific oysters gain from IOOS® data About six years ago, production at some Pacific Northwest oyster hatcheries began declining at an alarming rate, posing severe economic impact and challenging a way of life held by shellfish growers for more than 130 years. By 2008, the oyster harvest at Whiskey Creek,
Land-sea carbon and nutrient fluxes and coastal ocean CO2 exchange and acidification: Past, present, and future
Posted on the EPOCA blog, March 28, 2011 Epochs of changing atmospheric CO2 and seawater CO2-carbonic acid system chemistry and acidification have occurred during the Phanerozoic at various time scales. On the longer geologic time scale, as sea level rose and fell and continental free board decreased and increased, respectively,