Reports and Newsletters
Non-peer reviewed reports on ocean acidification, newsletters from ocean acidification focused organizations, and related announcements
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…)
Assessment of the ecological vulnerability of the East Coast Otter Trawl Fishery to climate change: a brief synthesis of information and results of an expert workshop
Assessing fisheries vulnerability to climate change is essential to prioritise systems in greatest need of intervention, understand the drivers of vulnerability to identify future research...
Science Update: loss and damage – climate change today and under future scenarios
A report prepared by Climate Analytics IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report noted that climate has changed since pre-industrial times. The changes since the mid-20th century are...
Blue Ribbon Panel report
Gov. Gregoire’s Blue Ribbon Panel on Ocean Acidification released its recommendations on 27 November 2012. (more…)
“Ocean under stress” now available in Arabic
The "Ocean under stress" guide is now available in Arabic and is currently presented at an exhibition stand at UNFCCC COP18 in Doha. (more…)
Ocean acidification – what can we do?
This policy brief is based on a more comprehensive article submitted to Environmental Management in July 2012, and currently under review. (more…)
Climate change report warns of dramatically warmer world this century
Like summer’s satellite image of the melting Greenland ice sheet, a new report suggests time may be running out to temper the rising risks of...
#OHCO2 What? New directions at the Ocean in a High-CO2 World Meeting
Five hundred and forty participants from 37 countries convened in Monterey, California this September for the third Ocean in a High-CO2 World Symposium. Presentations focused...
Queensland’s biodiversity under climate change: impacts and adaptation – synthesis report
This report is a synthesis of the existing scientific research on climate change impacts and the adaptation options for terrestrial, freshwater aquatic, coastal and marine...
Federal policy and funding relating to ocean acidification
In recent decades, we have become increasingly aware of changes to our global climate resulting from human-made emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases....
Ocean acidification – a Norwegian perspective
Worldwide combustion of fossil fuels is responsible for the steady increase of CO2 in both the atmosphere and the oceans. Changes such as global warming...
Rapid acidification of the Eastern Pacific Ocean
The CO2 concentration in the atmosphere is causing the acidity of the oceans to increase. Scientists at ETH Zurich have investigated how the acidity along...
Study finds that ocean acidification is accelerated in nutrient-rich areas
Marine resources, coastal economies put at risk September 24, 2012 Carbon dioxide released from decaying algal blooms, combined with ongoing increases in atmospheric carbon emissions,...
Ocean-based food security threatened in a high CO2 world
Emissions from human activities are changing the ocean’s chemistry and temperature1, 2 in ways that threaten the livelihoods of those who depend on fish and...
Puget Sound Marine Waters 2011
First posted on C-CAN The Puget Sound Marine Waters workgroup of the Puget Sound Environmental Monitoring Program, part of the collaborative effort of the Puget...
End of first international large-scale research project on ocean acidification
Over the past 250 years, the ocean has absorbed about one third of the carbon dioxide released as a result of human activities. The process...
Full report: ocean acidification (report and video)
http://vimeo.com/47000217# Increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration is causing increased absorption of CO2 by the world’s oceans, in turn driving a decline in seawater pH and changes...
Marine climate change in Australia – 2012 report card
This 2012 Report Card demonstrates that climate change is having significant impacts on Australia’s oceans and marine ecosystems. Many new changes have been documented since...
EPOCA data management activities: a summary
The EU FP7 Integrated Project EPOCA (European Project on OCean Acidification) was launched in May 2008 for four years. The overall goal was to advance...
Ocean Acidification at Rio+20 preparatory negotiations
Scott Doney and Sarah Cooley, both OCB scientists and Project Office staff members at WHOI, recently spoke at the United Nations as part of the...
EPOCA project ends
The four-year European Project on Ocean Acidification, or EPOCA, ended this spring. Since 2008, OCB and EPOCA scientists collaborated on a number of research projects...
Impact of ocean acidification on Mediterranean coralline algae
Coralline algae are a major calcifying component of most Mediterranean benthic coastal ecosystems. They are of particular ecological importance, inducing settlement and recruitment of numerous...
Research turns to acidification and warming in the Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea Acidification in a changing climate (MedSeA), a project funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme, assesses uncertainties, risks and...
Recent and upcoming ocean acidification workshops
The NOAA Ocean Acidification Program Office has been working with the University of Washington and the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Regional Association, the Northwest...
