Sentences with phrase «acidification research»

To date, much of the focus of ocean acidification research has been on the response of calcifiers, both algae and invertebrates, to the changing carbonate system, with a particular preoccupation on one property: the hydrogen ion concentration [H +], which is frequently reported as pH owing to the relative ease of its measurement.

Russ George, who has guested on TreeHugger recently regarding other effects of elevated atmospheric C02, comments about a recent up - tick in media coverage of ocean acidification research.

Now the UK Ocean Acidification Research Programme is funding a six - pronged effort to better define what is happening and what may happen next.

The program is the «UK's response to growing concerns over ocean acidification» according to the UK Ocean Acidification Research website.

[64] James P. Barry, Toby Tyrrell Lina Hansson, Gian - Kasper Plattner Jean - Pierre Gattuso Atmospheric CO2 targets for ocean acidification perturbation experiments pp. 53 - 66 in Guide to best practices for ocean acidification research and data reporting Edited by U. Riebesell, V. J. Fabry, L. Hansson and J. - P.

NOAA, 2010: NOAA Ocean and Great Lakes Acidification Research Plan, NOAA Special Report.

Applying organized scepticism to ocean acidification research ICES Journal of Marine Science Oxford Academic

This report, requested by Congress, reviews the current state of knowledge and identifies gaps in understanding, and provides scientific advice to help guide the national ocean acidification research program.

Socio (s): Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Project — Ocean Acidification, UK Ocean Acidification Research Programme, NOAA, Ocean Acidification Program, Washington Sea Grant

To learn about our involvement in ocean acidification research, click here.

«Everyone talks about pH, but it's not usually directly measured — one can do it very crudely,» said Phil Williamson, who coordinates the U.K.'s acidification research program and co-chairs the Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network.

Using funding from the European Space Agency, the researchers, from Europe, the U.S. and India, concluded that using satellite data in this way may be «the most efficient way to monitor the ocean surface» — yet the «potential capabilities of space - based measurements» in ocean acidification research «remain largely untapped.»

In a photo exhibition by the German research network on ocean acidification BIOACID, the two nature photographers Solvin Zankl and Nick Cobbing present BIOACID members at their work and introduce organisms that current ocean acidification research focuses on.

In a commentary in the journal «Nature Climate Change», the two internationally renowned experts reflect on the lessons learned from ocean acidification research and highlight future challenges.

To continue its striking development, ocean acidification research needs to bridge between its diverging branches towards an integrated assessment.

Richard Bellerby, head of ocean acidification research at the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) and coordinator of the ocean acidification working group in the Arctic monitoring assessment programme (AMAP), lead the papers focus on Polar Regions.

The Federal Ocean Acidification Research and Monitoring (FOARAM) Act of 2009 mandates the establishment of an «information exchange» to «make information on ocean acidification developed through or utilized by the interagency ocean acidification program accessible through electronic means, including information which would be useful to policymakers, researchers, and other stakeholders in mitigating or adapting to the impacts of ocean acidification.»

BIOACID III bridges between different branches of ocean acidification research and provide an assessment of short - to long - term responses and their underlying mechanisms at the level of organisms, populations, communities and ecosystems to multiple drivers leading up to ecosystem services.

In particular, its International Scientific Advisory Panel, with members from the US and Korea, and one of the EPOCA partners (the intergovernmental organization IOC - UNESCO) ensure that ocean acidification research being carried out through this project is coordinated with the research activities of non-EU scientists.

According to the two experts, future ocean acidification research will have to deal with three major challenges: It needs to expand from single to multiple drivers, from single species to communities and ecosystems, and from evaluating acclimation to understanding adaptation.

Scientists from six institutions leading in ocean acidification research summarized the current status of knowledge on evolution in the oceans: Which species are likely to evolve?

(2015), Lessons learned from ocean acidification research.

To make further significant progress in the future, ocean acidification research has to integrate the knowledge gained in its three diverging branches — addressing multiple stress factors, competitive and trophic interactions, and adaptation through evolution.

It is time to reflect on the successes and deficiencies of ocean acidification research and to take a look forward at the challenges the fastest growing field of marine science is facing.

A Pier2Peer Science mentor should be active and engaged in ocean acidification research while at the same time sensitive to the non-traditional views of science that some students may bring to the Network.

In a joint effort, scientists from Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK), the Cluster of Excellence LabexMER (France), Scripps Institution of Oceanography (United States), the University Pierre and Marie Curie (France), the UK Ocean Acidification research programme (UKOA) and the German research network Biological Impacts of Ocean Acidification (BIOACID) engaged with public and policymakers at COP 21.

In addition to the partnership of 14 institutions, BIOACID closely cooperates with other national and international research projects such as the UK Ocean Acidification Research Programme (UKOA) and the European project Mediterranean Sea Acidification in a Changing Climate (MedSeA), stakeholders such as the International Ocean Acidification Reference User Group (IOA - RUG) and the newly founded Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre (OA - ICC).

Ocean acidification research is strongly represented in the community and covers the detection of ocean acidification change to ecosystem responses and resilience.

The science is closely linked with a dynamic and growing ocean acidification research community in other parts of Australia and in New Zealand.

www.geomar.de GEOMAR Helmholtz - Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel www.bristol.ac.uk University of Bristol www.mba.ac.uk Marine Biological Association www.ucl.ac.uk University College London www.ox.ac.uk University of Oxford http://noc.ac.uk National Oceanography Centre www.cerege.fr Centre Européen de Recherche et d'Enseignement des Géosciences de l'Environnement (CEREGE) http://web.mit.edu Massachusetts Institute of Technology www.mbari.org Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute www.nhm.ac.uk Museum of Natural History London http://universityofcalifornia.edu University of California www.oceanacidification.org.uk UKOA (UK Ocean Acidification Research Programme)

The workshop participants (approximately 40 scientist from 10 countries) are in the process of producing a Guide to Best Practices for Ocean Acidification Research and Data Reporting.

EPOCA organised this fall, together with the International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project (IOCCP,) the US Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Program (OCB), and the Kiel Excellence Cluster «The Future Ocean», an international research workshop on best practices for ocean acidification research (19 - 21 November 2008 in Kiel, Germany; chair: Ulf Riebesell).

Ed Miles, a professor of marine studies and public affairs at the University of Washington, said the prospect of a coordinated federal ocean acidification research program is welcome news, especially given the conditions Feely observed off the California coast in 2008.

An NAS committee will release a congressionally mandated study by the end of next month that will address everything from scientific questions about how ocean acidification will affect marine life and ocean - dependent industries to recommendations for a national acidification research program.

The study, which also involved researchers from the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton and University College London, was funded by a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) studentship to Dr O'Dea and a Royal Society Research Fellowship to Dr Gibbs, Senior Research Fellow in Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton, with additional support by the UK Ocean Acidification Research Programme.

There's also a 33 % hike for ocean acidification research, to $ 30 million.

At a Senate hearing where the NRC report was unveiled, Senator Maria Cantwell (D - WA) said the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation would like to see the budget of NOAA's acidification research program nearly double next year, to $ 20 million.

The budget provides only $ 58 million for climate research instead of the requested $ 89 million, and $ 10 million for ocean acidification research rather than the requested jump to $ 30 million.

All things considered, the NOAA budget released today is «decently healthy,» says Jeff Watters, director of government relations at the Ocean Conservancy in Washington, D.C. Even some areas that weren't highly funded — for example, ocean acidification research — still received a slight boost over the previous fiscal year.

Not exact matches

In 1985 the ELA again made headlines with publication of the research, which proved that that acidification can damage a lake's food chain at a pH level of 6.0, 10 times less acidic than that previously assumed.

There are clues that these species may fare better than their stony counterparts after a disaster, but more research needs to be done to understand how storms, warming waters and ocean acidification can alter the composition of reefs and whether these changes are permanent or short - lived, Lasker says.

While the threat of coral bleaching as a result of climate change poses a serious risk to the future of coral reefs world wide, new research has found that some baby corals may be able to cope with the negative effects of ocean acidification.

«This approach not only mitigates CO2, but also potentially treats the effects of ocean acidification,» said Rau, adding that he believes more research at a larger scale is warranted.

In an unprecedented evolution experiment scientists from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and the Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries have demonstrated for the first time, that the single most important calcifying algae of the world's oceans, Emiliania huxleyi, can adapt simultaneously to ocean acidification and rising water temperatures.

The new monitoring techniques can help monitor hot spots such as the Bay of Bengal, the Arctic Ocean and the Caribbean, three places where ocean acidification could have major economic impacts but where little research has been done.

Unless the seepage rate of sequestered carbon dioxide can be held to 1 percent every 1,000 years, overall temperature rise could still reach dangerous levels that cause sea level rise and ocean acidification, concludes the research published yesterday in Nature Geoscience.

New research from the University of Alaska Fairbanks suggests Arctic waters are already seeing the effects of acidification, with potentially dire consequences to Alaska's rich crab and salmon fisheries

The research team also reported significant national percentages of non-greenhouse gas effects attributable to the healthcare sector, including acidification (12 %), smog formation (10 %), and respiratory disease from particulate matter (9 %).

Will Howard of the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre in Hobart has shown that some species of coral have a similar sensitivity to acidification as foraminifera in parts of the Southern Ocean, which are struggling to build their shells.

Having completed her PhD at the University of Exeter, Dr Kennedy's latest research involves assessing the responses of coralline algae to ocean acidification and warming.