Posted on The Daily, University of Washington, 29 April 2013: By Jack Lau The world’s oceans are always changing, and with ocean acidification adding to this process, it is unclear how these changes will affect oceanic and terrestrial life. This is what James Murray, a UW chemical oceanography professor, hopes
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Call for members for the new Ocean Acidification international Reference User Group (OA-iRUG)
Posted on EPOCA: 29 Apr 2013 The Chair and Deputy Chair of the new Ocean Acidification international Reference User Group (OA-iRUG) welcome nominations for members of this group before 6 May. The iRUG is being formed to work alongside the newly constituted Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre (ICC) based
The emergence of a scientific community with “xFOCE”
Posted on EPOCA: 19 Apr 2013 The acidity of the oceans is increasing. CO2, released in great amounts by human activity and partly captured by the world’s seas, is implicated. Scientists are now getting organised in an effort to understand the impact of this phenomenon on marine ecosystems, for they
UCSB Biologists Find Contradictory New Organism With Unique Function
Posted on The Daily Nexus: 17 Apr 2013 — By Haley Kulik E. huxleyi are ocean-regulating shell producers that create oxygen as they process carbon by photosynthesis. Researchers in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology have discovered a line of marine organisms that actually increase their calcification, or
Can Evolution Beat Climate Change?
Posted on Scientific American: By David Biello — The purple sea urchin may be able to evolve to cope with ocean acidification, but that does not mean other species will be able to mimic the trick FAST EVOLUTION: New research suggests that the purple sea urchin may be able to