Posted on EPOCA: 15 Jul 2011 — Congressional Natural Resources Committee Report highlights Pacific Northwest shellfish industry The smallest organisms in the ocean have some of the greatest influence on our lives. Single celled plants called phytoplankton produce one half of the oxygen we breathe. At the surface of
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Elevated water temperature and carbon dioxide concentration increase the growth of a keystone echinoderm
Rebecca A. Gooding1, Christopher D. G. Harley, and Emily Tang Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4 — Edited by James H. Brown, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, and approved April 22, 2009 (received for review November 6, 2008) Anthropogenic climate change
[Oyster_seed_group] July 12, 2011 Willapa Bay Oyster Bulletin
From Alan Trimble Hello everyone, We finally have a small group of Pacific Oyster larvae in the water. A small spawning on July 6-7 produced viable swimmers that we detected on Friday July 8th at 80-85 microns. The maximum counts have been hovering between 20 and 35 larvae per 20 gallons pumped. They
Diversity of carbon use strategies in a kelp forest community: implications for a high CO2 ocean
Posted on EPOCA: 12 Jul 2011 Mechanisms for inorganic carbon acquisition in macroalgal assemblages today could indicate how coastal ecosystems will respond to predicted changes in ocean chemistry due to elevated carbon dioxide (CO2). We identified the proportion of noncalcifying macroalgae with particular carbon use strategies using the natural abundance
Communicating Ocean Acidification; Problems, Solutions, and Shellfish
By Shandy Buckley, MBARI Intern — Case Study 1 provides a summary of the C-CAN ocean chemistry workshop, July 2011 ABSTRACT The West Coast Shellfish industry is seeing negative changes in shellfish farming productivity, and ocean acidification is suspected to be the culprit. Scientists are seeking to understand both natural ecosystem variability