Project and Programs
A few past and current projects and programs on ocean acidification from around the world.
Plastic reefs could offer a buffer to climate change and protect marine life from rising acid levels
Photo credit: Chiara Lombardi (ENEA) Putting plastic into the sea may seem a strange way to address climate change, but for...
Rubber algae help create first artificial reef in Mediterranean
Photo credit: Matteo Nannini Tiny, artificial algae are being deployed in the first such effort to restore reefs in the Mediterranean...
Colour-changing T-shirts use cabbages to reveal the startling effects of climate change
The T-shirt changes colour to reflect pH water balance which is used as a physical representation of climate change. Nature doesn't have a voice. It...
Ocean Acidication Africa Network: “Let’s work together – Increasing awareness about ocean acidification”
Ocean acidification may be defined as the global decrease in ocean pH due to the absorption of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Research findings of the past decade...
Ocean acidification makes salmon lost ability to sense predators, according to researchers from the University of Washington
Ocean acidification has affected more than just the increase of pH in the ocean, but it also made salmon ability to sense predators decreasing. This...
The ocean acidification day [June 8, 2017]: call for interest
Show your support to the OA-Africa network by joining the ocean acidification day on the June 8, 2017. Ocean acidification is now identified as major...
Arctic Mission – Call for applications
Project initiator: Ms Laura Hampton, high latitude sailor and multi-media science journalist specialising in the oceans and Poles for the New Scientist and the BBC Application...
BIOACID science portrait: Ulf Riebesell (video, in German; English subtitles)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkgELHPeeSY Prof. Ulf Riebesell, marine biologist at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and coordinator of the German research network on ocean acidification BIOACID,...
High-tech mooring will measure beneath Antarctic ice
Research will provide 1st year-round record of CO2 levels Earth's oceans have soaked up about a third of the carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere...
NOAA Ocean Acidification Program meeting, join the webinar!
JOIN THE WEBINAR! Please register for NOAA Ocean Acidification Program Meeting- Scientific Findings and Accomplishments on Jan 4, 2017 8:15 AM PST at: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2885479530467946755 NOAA's Ocean Acidification...
Red Latinoamericana de Acidificación del Océano (LAOCA) – Latin-American Ocean Acidification Network (LAOCA) (video)
https://vimeo.com/196494563 Video introducing the LAOCA Network, officially launched in December last year. (more…)
OA-ICC bibliographic database updated
An updated version of the OA-ICC bibliographic database is now available online. The database contains more than 3,900 references and includes citations, abstracts and assigned...
Reminder: Scientists, contribute to the OA-ICC data compilation on the biological response to ocean acidification!
Numerous papers report the effects of ocean acidification on marine organisms and communities, but it has been difficult to compare the results since the carbonate...
Invitation to participate in an inter-laboratory comparison of carbon dioxide measurements
A second inter-laboratory comparison of seawater CO2 measurements is planned for the second quarter of 2017. The goal of this comparison is to assess the present quality of...
2017 OCB Activity Solicitation
The Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry (OCB) Program is soliciting proposals for OCB activities to begin during the 2017 calendar year. We seek proposals for OCB-relevant...
On location with ocean acidification
Photo credit: Ryan Ono Last week, two filmmakers and I went to South Florida to document how ocean acidification can touch...
Acidification of Coral reefs: proposal
TRACC is developing proposals (partners wanted) to create solutions to the acidification of coral reefs by climate change. We will take what is known from...
BIOACID – Exploring Ocean Change (video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnp8uQh6VAI&feature=youtu.be From the Arctic to the tropics, ocean acidification changes life in the sea. By absorbing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, the ocean slows...
Ausschnitt aus dem Klima-MOOC: Ozeanversauerung (video, in German)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZgAy3XNCAk Prof. Dr. Ulf Riebesell, GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel, zur Ozeanversauerung. Ein Filmausschnitt aus der Online-Vorlesungsreihe „Klimawandel und seine Folgen“. Für die Vorlesungen hat...
Missions CARIOCA – Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée – Acclimatation des coraux à l’acidification des océans (in French)
Une équipe internationale pilotée par l’IRD embarque à bord de l’Alis pour étudier en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée des espèces de coraux capables de se développer dans des...
Join the International Alliance to Combat Ocean Acidification
Join the International Alliance to Combat Ocean Acidification, a newly formed international network of governments and organizations that together will address ocean acidification and other...
Smartfin – collecting data for deeper understanding of our changing oceans
What is Smartfin? The Smartfin is a surfboard fin with sensors that measure multiple ocean parameters including salinity, temperature, location, wave characteristics, and pH (in...
Release of SOCAT Version 4 – the first annual release using automated data upload
The Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT, http://www.socat.info) is a synthesis activity by the international marine carbon research community (>100 contributors). SOCAT version 4 has 18.5...
“OceAn pH Research Integration and Collaboration in Africa – ApHRICA” project kick-off
A pilot project aiming to install and operate ocean sensors on platforms operated by colleagues in Mauritius, Mozambique, the Seychelles and South Africa to study...
UMM to lead Machias Bay acidification study
MACHIAS, Maine -- The University of Maine at Machias, bolstered by a Libra Foundation Grant, is taking the lead role in a research project to...
