Research Notes from the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences now online A website has been developed to serve as a portal for information on active research on ocean acidification within the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences at the University of Washington. Project highlights are provided with occasional posts found
News
Pre-dinosaur extinction killed 95% of sea species
Posted on EPOCA: 02 May 2012 — By Alanna Mitchell THE NEW YORK TIMES Healthy branching and soft corals. Painstaking analyses by researchers of fossils from the Permian extinction, which killed off about 95 percent or marine species 252 million years ago, is providing startling new clues to the behavior
Attention heroes: who will save the world’s oceans?
Posted on EPOCA: 02 May 2012 The planet has five major oceans. A lesser known fact is that the acidity in the ocean is contributing to the die-off of shellfish populations and the bleaching of coral reefs. Imagine no shells at the beach. Or no oysters and salmon — other species currently
Cantwell announces plan to protect Washington shellfish jobs
Posted on KIROTV.com: Sunday, April 22, 2012 SEATTLE — U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell was at a Seattle fish market Sunday morning to make an announcement in an effort to protect Washington shellfish jobs. Cantwell was at Taylor Shellfish’s new Melrose Market location in Capitol Hill, where she highlighted the
Nutrition and income from molluscs today imply vulnerability to ocean acidification tomorrow
Published today in FISH and FISHERIES , 2012, 13, 182–215 — Sarah R Cooley, Noelle Lucey, Hauke Kite-Powell & Scott C Doney Abstract Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from human industrial activities are causing a progressive alteration of seawater chemistry, termed ocean acidification, which has decreased seawater pH and carbonate ion concentration