The Global Affairs Center at Shoreline Community College, directed by Edmonds resident Larry Fuell, will present two events next week as part of the college’s celebration of Earth Week, which will be free to the public.
The first is on Tuesday, April 19, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., a discussion on Ocean Acidification, featuring a panel with Meg Chadsey, Ocean Acidification specialist, and Paul Williams, a shellfish management policy advisor with Suquamish Tribe. Shoreline CC biology faculty member Dina Kovarik, who chairs the college’s Biotechnology Lab Specialist Program, will moderate the discussion.
Ocean acidification decrease of the pH in the ocean is caused by increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere which dissolves into oceans, rivers and lakes. Some of this carbon dioxide reacts with the water to form carbonic acid, thereby increasing ocean acidity. Increasing acidity is thought to have a range of possibly harmful consequences, such as depressing metabolic rates and immune responses in some organisms, and causing coral bleaching, and contributing to global warming.
There is a small fee for parking on campus during the day. (…)
