Posted on Pasadena Star News: 28 Aug 2014 — By Paul Rogers/San Jose Mercury News and Will Houston/The Times-Standard In a troubling new discovery, scientists studying ocean waters off California, Oregon and Washington have found the first evidence that increasing acidity in the ocean is dissolving the shells of a
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Ocean acidification impacts mussel control on biomineralisation
Posted on OA: 20 Aug 2014 — Fitzer S. C., Phoenix V. R., Cusack M. & Kamenos N. A., 2014. Nature Scientific Reports 4:6218 Ocean acidification is altering the oceanic carbonate saturation state and threatening the survival of marine calcifying organisms. Production of their calcium carbonate exoskeletons is dependent not
Moss Landing study eyes impact of increasingly acidic ocean
Posted on Santa Cruz Sentinel: 18 Aug 2014 — Researchers awarded $330,000 to explore future of fisheries — By Donna Jones Moss Landing Marine Labs Assistant Professor Scott Hamilton tends to his research subjects — hundreds of captured, juvenile rockfish he’s studying with a 330,000 National Science Foundation grant
Tailpipes, smokestacks outproduce volcanoes
Posted on SFGate: 15 Aug 2014 — By Ken Caldeira Shorelines like this one at Bodega Bay face increasing threats from pollutants that come out of the world’s tailpipes and smokestacks. Photo: Ken Caldeira The sun sets over the Pacific as powerful waves crash on the rocky shore. We
The effects of ocean acidification on the development and calcification of the larval shells of the red abalone Haliotis rufescens swainson, 1822
Posted on OA: 14 Aug 2014 This study focuses on the effects of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide and decreasing pH on the development and calcification of larval red abalone shells. Experimental bowls were inoculated with 2 mL of a homogenous mixture of red abalone embryos. Six replicate bowls were placed