Reports and Newsletters
Non-peer reviewed reports on ocean acidification, newsletters from ocean acidification focused organizations, and related announcements
OCB Newsletter: Impressions of the summer 2011 ocean acidification course at UW Friday Harbor labs
The graduate course at the University of Washington’s Friday Harbor Laboratories on Experimental Approaches to Understanding Ocean Acidification took place in June–July 2011. In an...
OCB Newsletter: Spreading the word about ocean acidification: A journey to the Cape Cod Sea Camps
With a carload of cups, straws, seawater, red cabbage juice, bleach, lemon juice, seashells, yeast packets, and other miscellaneous items, I drove to the Cape...
OCB Newsletter: Climate variability and Southern Ocean carbon uptake
Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) have increased atmospheric CO2 concentrations, driving increases in global atmospheric temperature. Only...
OCB Newsletter: Improving model predictions of ocean biogeochemistry
The global cycles of the major biologically active elements are strongly shaped by physical climate. In turn, the primary greenhouse gases are largely regulated by...
EGU, AOGS and JpGU joint position statement on ocean acidification
"Impacts of ocean acidification may be just as dramatic as those of global warming (resulting from anthropogenic activities on top of natural variability) and the...
Increased acidity not an even test for coral reefs
Coral reefs can both positively and negatively influence the acidity of their surrounding seawater. That is the take-home message of two papers recently published in...
UKOA at climate change talks
The UK Ocean Acidification Research Programme (UKOA), with support from Plymouth Marine Laboratory and the European Project on Ocean Acidification (EPOCA), has sent a team...
UN agencies are launching a plan to improve the management of ocean and coastal areas
The Blueprint for Ocean and Coastal Sustainability sounds the alarm about the health of the ocean, and explains how it influences our everyday life by...
IPCC report on “Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Marine Biology and Ecosystems”
The report of the IPCC WGII/WGI Workshop on "Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Marine Biology and Ecosystems is now published. This report is the outcome...
Benthic calcification in the Dutch Coastal zone and effect on ocean acidification on the growth of commercially important bivalve species
In the frame of this study, it has been shown that benthic calcifiers (dominated by bivalves) have a very important contribution to the local carbonate...
CO2SYS for MATLAB updated to v1.1
An update of CO2SYS for MATLAB has been uploaded to CDIAC at http://cdiac.ornl.gov/ftp/co2sys/. (more…)
Opportunity to develop US-UK collaborations between ocean acidification researchers
The Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Project’s ocean acidification subcommittee would like to call your attention to an opportunity for building collaborations between scientists in the...
Inter-laboratory comparison for sea water CO2 measurements planned for 2012
The goal of this inter-laboratory comparison is to assess the present quality of sea water CO2 measurements for total alkalinity, total dissolved inorganic carbon, and...
Ocean acidification research in Antarctica
While the debate surrounding climate change has become mainstream news over the past few years, ocean acidification has only recently started to gain media attention....
Earth’s acidity rising — Major causes and shifting trends examined to guide future mitigation efforts
Human use of Earth’s natural resources is making the air, oceans, freshwaters, and soils more acidic, according to a U.S. Geological Survey – University of...
24 students awarded to participate at the Acidification Workshop in Tromsø on 27 and 29 September 2011
In the frame of the Acidification Workshop in Tromsø on 27 and 29 September 2011, 24 PhD students have been awarded to meet and discuss...
First life may have arisen above serpentine rock, say Stanford researchers
Stanford Earth scientists lend geophysical support to a theory of life's origins – but show that, if it's accurate, the first organisms could only have...
Synthesis of European research on the effects of climate change on marine environments
It is now commonly accepted that climate change poses one of the main challenges faced by society in the coming decades. Changes in patterns of...
CO2 Trouble, Ocean Acidification, Dr. Everett, and Congressional Science Standards
Imagine, if you will, that you and your friends are on a picnic, in the woods perhaps during some pleasant late spring weather. You're happily...
The current and future impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on the Great Barrier Reef
Report prepared for an objections hearing in the Land Court of Queensland regarding the proposed Wandoan Coal Mine INTRODUCTION 1. I have been asked by...
Dr Malte Meinshausen report on the contribution of the Wandoan Coal Mine to climate change and ocean acidification
INTRODUCTION 1. I have been asked by the Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) on behalf of Friends of the Earth – Brisbane Co-Op Ltd to provide...
Scientist creates new hypothesis on ocean acidification
A researcher at the Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology, an organized research unit in the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa’s School of Ocean and Earth...
Warming of the Mediterranean Sea hampers the resistance of corals and mollusks to ocean acidification
Some calcifiers (mussels, gastropods and corals) protect their shell or skeleton from the corrosive effects of increasing ocean acidification. They can therefore resist some of...
L’augmentation de la température de la mer Méditerranée diminue la résistance des coraux et des mollusques à son acidification (press release in French)
Certains organismes calcificateurs (moules, coquillages et coraux) protègent leur coquille ou leur squelette de l'action corrosive de l'eau de mer. Cela leur confère une extraordinaire...
COMPASS Webinar: CGBD polling results re: public perception of ocean acidification
Many of you who attended the OAPI meeting at WHOI in March of this year heard a brief yet thought-provoking presentation by Lisa Dropkin of...
