Posted in Washington Post: 18 Aug 2015 Every day, the oceans absorb 22 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions, acidifying the water and threatening the marine ecosystem and the welfare of coastal communities and businesses tied to the health of the sea. Richard Feely, a senior scientist at the
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Climate change causes timing shifts in fish reproduction
Posted on PhysOrg: 7 Aug 2015 — By Christina Wu Research by Rebecca Asch, a recent graduate of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, shows a strong correlation between warmer ocean temperatures and changes in the timing of fish reproduction. The study, “Climate Change and Decadal Shifts
What oysters reveal about sea change
Posted on OA: 22 Jul 2015 — Excerpt from a New York Times article and video featuring Dr. Tessa Hill, BOAR, and Terry Sawyer, Hog Island Oyster Co. This is kind of the good news/bad news department, as so many things are: The good news is that terrific oysters
Montana team “Sunburst Sensors” takes home both top prizes in $2 million Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health XPRIZE
Posted on OA: 21 Jul 2015 Photo credit: T. Traynor New York (July 21, 2015) — XPRIZE (www.xprize.org) and Wendy Schmidt announced the winners of the $2M Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health XPRIZE, a global competition to incentivize breakthroughs in pH sensor technology to accurately and affordably measure the acidification
Lessons for Alaska: Oregon Shellfish Hatchery Tackles Ocean Acidification
Posted on Alaska Public Media: 13 Jul 2015 — By Shady Grove Oliver, KBBI – Homer Inside the Whiskey Creek Shellfish Hatchery – Photo courtesy of ceoas.oregonstate.edu A recent NOAA study pegged 2040 as the date for the potential end of Alaskan shellfish hatcheries. That is, unless serious mitigation efforts are put