Posted on OA: 16 Sep 2016 — By Paul McElhany, The Conversation Many travelers visit the Pacific Northwest to eat the region’s famous seafood – particularly Dungeness crabs, which are popular in crab cakes or wrestled straight out of the shell. Locals also love catching and eating the feisty creatures.
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Changes in anthropogenic carbon storage in the Northeast Pacific in the last decade
Posted in OA: 8 Sep 2016 — Chu S. N., Wang Z. A., Doney S. C., Lawson G. L. & Hoering K. A., 2016. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 121:4618–4632 In order to understand the ocean’s role as a sink for anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2), it is important to quantify
Study finds increased ocean acidification due to human activities
Posted on OA: Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office, 7 September 2016. Article. Oceanographers from MIT and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution report that the northeast Pacific Ocean has absorbed an increasing amount of anthropogenic carbon dioxide over the last decade, at a rate that mirrors the increase of carbon dioxide emissions
Beyond the benchtop and the benthos: dataset management planning and design for time series of ocean carbonate chemistry associated with Durafet®-based pH sensors
Posted on OA: 7 Sep 2016 — Rivest E. B., O’Brien M., Kapsenberg L., Gotschalk C. C., Blanchette C. A., Hoshijima U. & Hofmann G. E., in press. Ecological Informatics. To better understand the impact of ocean acidification on marine ecosystems, an important ongoing research priority for marine scientists is
Habitat compression and expansion of sea urchins in response to changing climate conditions on the California continental shelf and slope (1994–2013)
Posted on OA: 6 Sep 2016 — Sato K. N., Levin L. A. & Schiff K., in press. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography Echinoid sea urchins with distributions along the continental shelf and slope of the eastern Pacific often dominate the megafauna community. This occurs despite