Ocean Acidification

Description: The California Current Ocean Acidification Network (C-CAN) and Washington Sea Grant will host a webinar to help industry stakeholders and natural resource managers and partners understand the mechanisms of Pseudo-nitzschia australis bloom formation and toxicity during seasonal upwelling and marine heatwave scenarios. Kyla Kelly will be the presenter.

When: Wednesday, August 17, at 1 p.m. (PST)

Link: Zoom

Register in advance here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Following the presentation, there will be a few short informational announcements for the C-CAN community.

Topic: GOA-ON Webinar: Ocean Acidification Monitoring and Scientific Research in the the PI-TOA Region

Description: Please join GOA-ON for this month’s webinar, “Ocean Acidification Monitoring and Scientific Research in the PI-TOA Region” on August 25 11am Fiji. The webinar will be moderated by Dr Kim Currie with presentations by Dr Antoine De Ramon N’Yeurt, Associate Professor Patila Amosa and Ms Luia Taise. The three speakers will span topics such as establishing a pH time-series on the Suva reef, the effects of ocean acidification on organismal calcification such as corals and bryozoans, and the impacts on the photosynthetic physiology of a green seaweed. These research topics are important in understanding the impact of ocean acidification on coastal ecosystems of the Pacific.

Time: Aug 25, 2022 23:00 UTC

Registration: Webinar Registration – Zoom

Description: As capabilities for biogeochemical forecast modeling improve, it is important to understand how stakeholder and end users might engage with and use potential model outputs. Here, we present the results of stakeholder focus groups with oyster growers who use upweller systems, mussel growers and water quality specialists who actively monitor nearshore water quality. We draw stakeholder-derived insights into how outputs from biogeochemical forecast models might be most effectively used in the NECAN region. 

This presentation is the result of research funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science Competitive Research Program and the NOAA Ocean Acidification Program under award NA18NOS4780178 to the Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems.

Time: Aug 2, 2022 01:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Registration: Link

Description: “What natural analogues can teach us about the future of coral communities and their understudied biodiversity.”

Time: Jul 21, 2022 09:00 AM CEST

Registration: Link

Speakers:

Dr. Sylvain Agostini, Assistant Professor @Shimoda Marine Research Center, University of Tsukuba

Dr Agostini is studying the effects of climate change and ocean acidification on the ecophysiology of corals. Dr Agostini especially focuses on research of coral ecosystems in marginal areas, where communities are exposed to multiple stressors, taking advantage of natural analogues and gradients in CO2, pollutants, latitudinal temperature gradients, etc. He initiated the use of the Shikine Island CO2 seep and led the creation of the ICONA network.

Dr. James D. Reimer, Associate Professor @University of the Ryukyus

Dr Reimer is a leading scientist in the field of coral reef biodiversity. His research focuses on understudied groups, primarily benthic cnidarians including zoantharians and their endosymbionts, as well as octocorals, from shallow tropical coral reefs to the deep sea. Dr Reimer is interested in how climate change and anthropogenic stressors will affect coral reef and marine biodiversity into the future, particularly from the viewpoint of understudied “minor taxa”, which may not be so “minor” in the future.