Posted on KCET: January 9, 2013 — By Cathy Hue A plate of oysters at Dan & Louis Oyster Bar in Portland, Ore. | Credit: pingpongdeath/Flickr/Creative Commons License Our ocean is absorbing carbon dioxide at a rapid rate, and the window of opportunity to do something about it is getting
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Oysters May Offer Insight Into Our Changing Oceans
Posted on KCET: January 9, 2013 — Reporter: Madeleine Brand, Producer: Rick Wilkinson, Associate Producer: Cathy Hue, Editor: Michael Bloecher The California seafood industry supports thousands of jobs. It pours as much as $100 million into the economy and it brings us delicacies, like Pacific oysters. But all of
Disrupting the effects of synergies between stressors: improved water quality dampens the effects of future CO2 on a marine habitat
Posted on EPOCA: 04 Jan 2013 Summary Synergies among stressors drive unanticipated changes to alternative states, yet little has been done to assess whether alleviating one or more contributing stressors may disrupt these interactions. It would be particularly useful to understand whether the synergistic effects of global and local
Differences in the regulation of growth and biomineralization genes revealed through long-term common garden acclimation and experimental genomics in the purple sea urchin
Posted on EPOCA: 04 Jan 2013 — Pespeni M. H., Barney B. T. & Palumbi S. R., in press. Evolution Across heterogeneous landscapes, populations may have adaptive differences in gene regulation that adjust their physiologies to match local environments. Such differences could have origins in acclimation or in genetically fixed
Experimental evolution meets marine phytoplankton
Posted on EPOCA: 04 Jan 2013 Our perspective highlights potentially important links between disparate fields – biological oceanography, climate change research, and experimental evolutionary biology. We focus on one important functional group – photoautotrophic microbes (phytoplankton) which are responsible for ∼50% of global primary productivity. Global climate change currently results