Posted on Seattle Times: Story by Craig Welch, Photographs by Steve Ringman DUTCH HARBOR, Alaska — For decades, the crab piled up in fishing boats like gold coins hauled from a rich and fertile sea. But the very ocean that nursed these creatures may prove to be this industry’s undoing. New research earlier
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The Seattle Times’ series “Sea Change: The Pacific’s Perilous Turn”
Posted on The Seattle Times: Story by Craig Welch, Photos by Steve Ringman (including comments from C-CAN collaborators) Ocean acidification, the lesser-known twin of climate change, threatens to scramble marine life on a scale almost too big to fathom. NORMANBY ISLAND, Papua New Guinea — Katharina Fabricius plunged from a dive
Larval carry-over effects from ocean acidification persist in the natural environment
Hettinger, A., Sanford, E., Hill, T. M., Lenz, E. A., Russell, A. D. and Gaylord, B. (2013), Larval carry-over effects from ocean acidification persist in the natural environment. Global Change Biology. doi: 10.1111/gcb.12307 Abstract An extensive body of work suggests that altered marine carbonate chemistry can negatively influence marine invertebrates, but
$2 million in prizes offered for better tools to monitor ocean acidification
Posted on OA: 09 Sep 2013 The tools that scientists use to monitor the acidification of the world’s oceans are expected to get a major upgrade, thanks to a $2 million competition aimed at rewarding innovations that lower the cost and improve the accuracy of chemical sensors. The Wendy Schmidt
Ocean acidification in the coastal zone from an organism’s perspective: multiple system parameters, frequency domains, and habitats
Posted: 09 Sep 2013 — Waldbusser G. G. & Salisbury J. E., in press. Annual Review of Marine Science Multiple natural and anthropogenic processes alter the carbonate chemistry of the coastal zone in ways that either exacerbate or mitigate ocean acidification effects. Freshwater inputs and multiple acid-base reactions change carbonate