Posted on Bay Nature: 09 Oct 2013 — By Joe Eaton Tanner crabs, like this one on the floor of Monterey Canyon, are one of the bottom- dwelling marine organisms being studied by MBARI researchers, to gauge how acidification of ocean waters will impact their ability to form their calcium
News
Theme Issue ‘Ocean acidification and climate change: advances in ecology and evolution’ compiled and edited by Jasmin A. Godbold and Piero Calosi
Posted on Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: 5 October 2013 The current issue of the Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society B is all about ocean acidification. Go to (http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/current) for a list of papers.
Long-term legacy of massive carbon input to the Earth system: Anthropocene versus Eocene
Posted on OA: 29 Sep 2013 Over the next few centuries, with unabated emissions of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2), a total of 5000 Pg C may enter the atmosphere, causing CO2 concentrations to rise to approximately 2000 ppmv, global temperature to warm by more than 8°C and surface ocean pH to decline by
Shellfish woes
Posted on The Star Online: 24 Sep 2013 — By Craig Welsh — Oysters are at risk from ocean acidification, as are farmers’ livelihoods. IT appears at the end of a palm tree-lined drive, not far from piles of hardened black lava: the newest addition to the US Pacific
Oceanography students test ocean acidification effects on abalone and seaweed
Posted on Environmental Monitor: 23 Sep 2013 — By Alex Card Smith Lab oceanography students are running experiments on the effects of ocean acidification on California seaweed species (Credit: Scripps Institution of Oceanography) For student teams from two California-based research labs, custom-built bubblers, seaweed harvests and baby sea snails are