Posted on EPOCA: 01 Jul 2011 Department of the Interior The U.S. Department of the Interior’s (DOI) marine and coastal responsibilities include 84 marine and coastal National Parks and 180 National Wildlife Refuges, numerous threatened and endangered species that depend on the ocean for survival, and some marine mammals including
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CO2 induced seawater acidification impacts sea urchin larval development I: elevated metabolic rates decrease scope for growth and induce developmental delay
Posted on EPOCA: 01 Jul 2011 Anthropogenic CO2 emissions are acidifying the world’s oceans. A growing body of evidence is showing that ocean acidification impacts growth and developmental rates of marine invertebrates. Here we test the impact of elevated seawater pCO2 (129 Pa, 1271 μatm) on early development, larval
Ocean acidification: setting the record straight
Posted on EPOCA: 01 Jul 2011 In recent years, ocean acidification has gained continuously increasing attention from scientists and a number of stakeholders and has raised serious concerns about its effects on marine organisms and ecosystems. With the increase in interest and the number of scientific investigations of this environmental
Ocean chemistry: Cushion against acidification
Posted on EPOCA: 27 Jun 2011 When sulphur and nitrogen gases from ship fuel and other local sources of combustion end up in coastal waters, they strongly diminish ocean acidification by carbon dioxide. Keith Hunter at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, and his colleagues used a simple
World leading Australian marine scientists feature in new online education resources
Posted on EPOCA: 24 Jun 2011 What is ocean acidification? What causes ocean acidification? How does ocean acidification impact on coral reefs? Are today’s conditions very different from the past? Can we predict how ocean acidification will impact on coral reefs in the future? World leading Australian marine scientists Professor