Reports and Newsletters
Non-peer reviewed reports on ocean acidification, newsletters from ocean acidification focused organizations, and related announcements
Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre
Within less than a decade, ocean acidification has gone from a science without a label involving few scientists to a research topic studied by many...
Effects of ocean acidification on phytoplankton in upwelling areas influenced by river discharges
Barbara Jacob is currently a post-doctoral associate at the Aquatic Ecosystem Functioning Lab (LAFE) under the sponsorship of Dr. Cristian A. Vargas at the Environmental...
Marine phytoplankton can adapt to ocean acidification
Kai Lohbeck is a PhD student in the BIOACID project at GEOMAR (Kiel, Germany). His interdisciplinary work combines biological oceanography and evolutionary biology to investigate...
Effects of ocean acidification on iron availability to marine phytoplankton
Dalin Shi is currently a professor at the State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen University, China. His research focuses on the biogeochemical cycling...
Annual meeting of the SOLAS-IMBER Working Group on Ocean Acidification and the International Coordination Centre on Ocean Acidification Advisory Board, 13-14 May 2013
The advisory board of the newly formed Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre, based at the International Atomic Energy Agency Laboratory in Monaco, met for the...
Second Workshop to develop a Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network (GOA-ON)
St. Andrews, UK, 24-26 July 2013 To continue the progress started by last year’s Seattle workshop on developing an ocean acidification observing network, a second...
The Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS) enters its twentyfifth year of ocean observations in the North Atlantic that illustrate changes in ocean carbon
The Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS; 31°40'N, 64°10'W) project has entered its twenty-fifth year of ocean time-series observations in the subtropical North Atlantic Ocean southeast...
Charting the course: securing the future of America’s oceans
Ocean acidification is highlighted in a new report by the Joint Ocean Commission Initiative. The report calls on President Obama and Congress to improve the...
Turn down the heat: climate extremes, regional impacts, and the case for resilience
A new World Bank report in the series "Turn down the heat" released on 19 June discusses ocean acidification in several places. (more…)
Report of the SNOMS Project 2006 to 2012, SNOMS SWIRE NOCS Ocean Monitoring System. Part 1: Narrative description
The ocean plays a major role in controlling the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. Increasing concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere are...
Ocean acidification top ranked in “Research Fronts 2013”
"Ocean acidification and marine ecosystems" is identified as #1 research front in Ecology and Environmental Sciences in "Research Fronts 2013: 100 top-ranked specialities in the...
Joint OSPAR/ICES Ocean Acidification Study Group (SGOA) report
The final report by the Joint OSPAR/ICES Ocean Acidification Study Group (SGOA) is now out. The study group met in Copenhagen, Denmark 11-14 December 2013...
Aleutian and Bering Sea Islands Landscape Conservation Cooperative – Strategic Science Plan Workshop
Ocean acidification was one of six stressors discussed on 25 January 2013, when the Aleutian and Bering Sea Islands Landscape Conservation Cooperative held a workshop...
Ocean acidification reduces fishes’ ability to respond to sound
Researchers have found that ocean acidification leads to changes in the ways that clownfish normally respond to sound. As many species rely on hearing for...
The next challenge: how do multiple environmental drivers influence ocean biota?
Introduction The summer OCB meeting in July 2012 featured for the first time a special session on “Multiple stressors in marine ecosystems” that was chaired...
Ocean acidification investigations in the Kiel Fjord
Continuous, reliable and direct pCO2 measurements since 2012 Greenhouse gases, and in particular carbon dioxide (CO2), are one of the most discussed topics in society...
Climatological mean distribution of pH and carbonate ion concentration in global ocean surface waters in the unified pH scale and mean rate of their changes in selected areas
Climatological mean monthly distribution of pH and the degree of aragonite saturation have been determined for the surface water of the global oceans using a...
EPOCA, the first international project on ocean acidification came to an end
Ocean acidity has increased by 30% in the past 250 years and could increase by at least another 100% by the end of this century....
Que faire face à l’acidification des océans ? (in French)
Ce Policy Brief est une synthèse d’un article proposé en juillet 2012 à la revue Environmental Management, en cours d’évaluation. (more…)
Understanding ocean acidification – and what we can do about it
Carbon dioxide does not just stay in the atmosphere and warm the planet. About one third of the carbon dioxide produced through human activities since...
UNDP report: Catalysing ocean finance
The world’s oceans and coastal areas are an integral part of life on earth. They are under significant threat, whether that be from pollution, overexploitation,...
Ocean acidification – no enemy to anemones
Many are deeply concerned about how ocean acidification will affect marine life. But if some organisms will be badly hit, the work of David Suggett...
The United States National Climate Assessment—Alaska Technical Regional Report
The Alaskan landscape is changing, both in terms of effects of human activities as a consequence of increased population, social and economic development and their...
The future on acid
The Great Barrier Reef is slowly – almost imperceptibly – being eroded by the interaction of seawater with a greenhouse gas: carbon dioxide. (more…)
Scientific summary of ocean acidification in Washington state marine waters
Appendix 7 to the Blue Ribbon Panel on Ocean Acidification report released on Tuesday (see this post) is a scientific summary report. (more…)
