News articles across the country reported on findings from a study conducted at Whiskey Creek shellfish hatchery in Oregon, correlating upwelling-driven acidified waters to oyster recruitment failure. Here is a compilation of some of the stories. Acidity in ocean killed NW oysters, new study says The Seattle Times Researchers said Wednesday they have
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Hatchery, OSU scientists link ocean acidification to larval oyster failure
Posted on EPOCA: 12 Apr 2012 — Oregon State University press release generated flurry of media reports across the country. Corvallis, Ore. – Researchers at Oregon State University have definitively linked an increase in ocean acidification to the collapse of oyster seed production at a commercial oyster hatchery in Oregon,
COP18: We should be paying more attention to our oceans (video)
From Qatar: COP18 UN Climate Change Conference 2012 in December 2012 Wendy Watson-Wright , UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission From Qatar: COP18 UN Climate Change Conference 2012 in December 2012 COP18 (04/12/12) – Wendy Watson-Wright, Executive Secretary, UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission talks about the importance of the oceans to the planet. She talks about
Recent and upcoming ocean acidification workshops
Posted on EPOCA: 11 Apr 2012 The NOAA Ocean Acidification Program Office has been working with the University of Washington and the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Regional Association, the Northwest Association of Networked Ocean Observing Systems (NA-NOOS), to convene two invitational workshops in 2012, one on integrating ocean acidification
The Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas, shows negative correlation to naturally elevated carbon dioxide levels: implications for near-term ocean acidification effects
Posted on EPOCA : 10 Apr 2012 — Barton A., Hales B., Waldbusser G. G., Langdon C. & Feely, R. A., 2012. The Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas, shows negative correlation to naturally elevated carbon dioxide levels: implications for near-term ocean acidification effects. We report results from an oyster hatchery on