Ocean acidification

When: Wed, Mar 6, 2019 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM CET

Description: In this webinar, Francis Chan of Oregon State University and Charlie Plybon of Surfrider Foundation, will share their motivation for and experiences with developing an educational video on local actions and solutions to address ocean acidification. Using a series of stories of citizen science-based monitoring, industry innovations, and the search for local mitigation solutions, they will share the experiences of Oregonian’s rolling up their sleeves to act locally against a global challenge.

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Thursday, February 14, 2019 – 11:00am – 12:00pm

Event Location Schmidt Conference Center

Speaker: Alex Lowe, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Pre-registration Required No

Description: Ocean acidification from rising atmospheric CO2 poses serious threats to coastal ecosystem services. Seawater pH can impact physiological processes of many aquatic organisms, including valuable aquaculture species like Pacific oysters. Yet increasingly, researchers are finding that local ecological processes may be altering some of these global trends.

Ecologists have started to realize that that not only does pH affect organisms, but that organisms also affect pH. This discovery is changing the way we view coastal ecosystems. Understanding 1) how environmental factors or ecological processes drive variation in seawater pH; 2) whether this results in spatial variation of long-term ocean acidification; and 3) the effects of this pH variation on coastal organisms are critical research needs for climate change adaptation and management of important natural resources.

In this talk, Alex Lowe will discuss research that explores these questions at different scales in the Salish Sea, Washington, where scientists found that biological processes were the key driver of pH variation at daily, seasonal and decadal scales. In this system, seawater pH changed with phytoplankton and suspended detritus composition, seagrass cover and, to a lesser extent, temperature and salinity. Using experiments with native and aquaculture oysters as examples, Lowe will discuss the potential for integrating observations of carbonate chemistry into coastal ecological studies.

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Event organizer: Jeff Fetterer

Event Date & Time: March 25, 2019 5:30 pm until March 25, 2019 6:30 pm

Contact email: keeper@cascobay.org

For more information: https://www.cascobay.org/casco-bay-matters/

Location: Southern Maine Community College, Fort Road, South Portland, ME, USA

We are seeing the impacts of climate change in our coastal waters. Friends of Casco Bay invites you to “Ocean Acidification, Climate Change, and You,” three community events. Staff scientist Mike Doan will talk about the warning signs we see in our monitoring data. Casco Baykeeper Ivy Frignoca will inspire the audience to help us respond to these threats to Maine’s coastal environment and marine economy. Learn more. https://www.cascobay.org/casco-bay-matters/

This is such an important issue that we will offer this presentation at three locations around the Bay in the coming weeks. Come to the event nearest to you, or all three! Free and open to the public.

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Time: Tuesday 5 February at 16h00 Eastern Time (ET)

Description: The second webinar of the Community of Ocean Action on Ocean Acidification will take place on Tuesday 5 February at 16h00 Eastern Time. Jessie Turner, OA Alliance Coordinator, will present the International Alliance to Combat Ocean Acidification (VC15195). The presentation will be followed by a discussion about opportunities for the COA on OA to work together to advance progress on SDG 14.3.

For information on how to join the webinar, please contact the OA-ICC: OAICC.Contact-Point@iaea.org

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Time: Thu, Oct 18, 2018 12:00 AM – 1:00 AM CEST

Description: What is ocean acidification? And how could it affect the future of Dungeness crab, one of our favorite seafoods? Join us as we walk through a new educational toolkit to equip you for teaching others about what ocean acidification could mean for the ​Dungeness crab, how this is currently being investigated, and resources to get more involved.

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