Sentences with phrase «acidification works»

Where atmospheric CO2 works on a rather abstract, global scale, ocean acidification works on the local one as well, devastating or sometimes completely destroying local ecosystems.

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.

Not exact matches

While they are on the acidification of their members, John Mahama is working and developing this country.

So this work provides a glimmer of hope that coral reefs can attenuate the effects of ocean acidification.»

Unpublished work by Gates, led by the University of Hawaii's Hollie Putnam, shows that adult cauliflower corals (Pocillopora damicornis) exposed to stress during brooding produce larvae with increased resilience to heat and ocean acidification.

«This work will help increase our understanding of climate change, carbon cycling, and ocean acidification in the Arctic, particularly as it affects marine and fishery science and technology,» added Chen.

Orly Levitan, an author of what may have been the first study of acidification boosting nitrogen fixation, says she would consider changing her seawater recipe based on the new paper if she were to revisit this work.

The study should prompt a search for pH perception in other fish, according to the researchers, though they worry that looming ocean acidification caused by greenhouse gases might ultimately stifle fish with this ability, given that the catfish's acid meter worked best in average seawater — pH 8.1.

Previous studies, including work by Cai, have shown that acidification can be particularly serious in nutrient - rich coastal waters which often contain areas with too little oxygen and high levels of carbon dioxide near the bottom.

Working out just how they do this will be important in understanding the likely impacts of ocean acidification on coral communities elsewhere, he says.

The Hobart symposium built on the successful three previous symposia and offered the worldwide community of scientists working to understand ocean acidification an opportunity to share their research results and develop new research collaborations.

The Hobart symposium will build on the successful three previous symposia and offers the worldwide community of scientists working to understand ocean acidification opportunities to share their research results and develop new research collaborations.

The work was supported by the European Project on Ocean Acidification (EPOCA), the Kiel Cluster of Excellence The Future Ocean, the German project on ocean acidification BIOACID (Biological Impacts of Ocean Acidification), and the US National Science Foundation Office for PoAcidification (EPOCA), the Kiel Cluster of Excellence The Future Ocean, the German project on ocean acidification BIOACID (Biological Impacts of Ocean Acidification), and the US National Science Foundation Office for Poacidification BIOACID (Biological Impacts of Ocean Acidification), and the US National Science Foundation Office for PoAcidification), and the US National Science Foundation Office for Polar Programs.

Riebesell has coordinated the work of the 14 partner institutions of BIOACID (Biological Impacts of Ocean Acidification) since September 2009.

In addition, ocean acidification impacts on competitive interactions and predator - prey relationships will be a focus of the upcoming work.

Exposed to simulated ocean acidification, the larvae work hard to maintain the high stomach pH values.

This work provides a foundation for further studies on how genetic variation in the identified genes could affect the fitness of oyster populations subjected to environmental changes, such as ocean acidification.

Scott Doney, who studies acidification and nutrient loading at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts and was not part of the study, said that while such work is important particularly for communicating with those outside the scientific community, «it's not the complete story.»

SOLAS and IMBER have launched, in September 2009, a working group on Ocean Acidification.

In the Nature study you state that previous work has not determined the impact of acidification on the ability of individual species to calcify because they measured net calcification (that is, gross calcification minus dissolution) thus failing to disentangle the relative contributions of gross calcification (the amount of carbonate deposited by an animal over time) and dissolution rates.

When I started to work on ocean acidification in 1995 we were less than ten people in the world looking at this.

The Interagency Working Group on Ocean Acidification is charged by the FOARAM Act of 2009 with developing an ocean acidification «information excAcidification is charged by the FOARAM Act of 2009 with developing an ocean acidification «information excacidification «information exchange».

Members of the OAIE can share resources and engage in online discussions, and, in doing so, will enhance stakeholder interactions and build well - informed communities working to respond and adapt to ocean acidification.The OAIE invites anyone working on ocean acidification to join, including but not limited to government, tribal, and academic research scientists, citizen scientists, experiential and formal educators, NGO employees, marine resources managers, policy makers, concerned citizens, aquaculturists, people in the fishing industry, technology developers, and data managers.

The Interagency Working Group on Ocean Acidification, which was formed by the FOARAM Act of 2009, includes representatives from NOAA, NSF, NASA, BIA, BOEM, EPA, NPS, Navy, Smithsonian, State, USDA, USFWS, USGS, and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy.

The work was carried out in the framework of the German project on ocean acidification BIOACID (Biological Impacts of Ocean ACIDification), and lead by GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel.

In Wignall's work, I noticed these papers on extinction events are missing the so - called evil twin of climate change, ocean acidification.

At two booths in the public and the UN area, BIOACID members inform about their work and answer questions about the problem of ocean acidification and other topics of marine sciences.

The OAiRUG is working with research projects on ocean acidification and with the Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre to examine in detail the types of data, analyses and products that are most useful to managers, policy advisers, decision makers andacidification and with the Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre to examine in detail the types of data, analyses and products that are most useful to managers, policy advisers, decision makers andAcidification International Coordination Centre to examine in detail the types of data, analyses and products that are most useful to managers, policy advisers, decision makers and politicians.

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.

They suggest that the effects on lysosomes are secondary to reduced Aβ accumulation, but I suspect the causation may work in the reverse direction, since they found that HBCD lowered cellular membrane cholesterol, and abnormally high lysosomal membrane cholesterol can impair the acidification and function of lysosomes, which are necessary for clearance of intracellular Aβ.

From the comfort of their classrooms, students can interact live with polar educators and the British science expedition team working on ocean plastics and ocean acidification in the Arctic.

She began working with the OPC as a Sea Grant Fellow focusing on climate change policy, including sea level rise and ocean acidification and hypoxia.

Other works engage with the necessary conditions of life such as soil and, more prominently, water in an era marked by water reserve depletion, acidification of the oceans, rising sea levels, and mass extinction as well as the migration of people and species.

Working from the recent Hansen paper's assertion that we have achieved a 26 % increase in hydrogen ions from pre-industrial, a better notion would equate a quarter - percent acidification to each ppm enhancement of air, or ~ six months of combustion.

This work throws light on sensitivity of species to past mass extinctions, and resilience to ongoing acidification.

Author of quite a bit of recent work on ocean acidification and biological responses over time, including paleo.

I made no contentions about ocean acidification other than that GE ain't gonna help unless some far out plan actually works (such as digging up Australia and dumping it in the ocean).

In the special arenas within a problem like climate change, you have pretty small groups of scientists working on problems like Greenland's ice or Arctic sea ice or ocean acidification.

John Dodds, your simple view of ocean acidification either mocks your inteligence or is your ironic humor at work.

Would CE work, what else should be done to address all impacts of rising GHGs (e.g. ocean acidification)?

The work in question takes measurements from one locale, and doesn't publish conclusions, rather Doney's statements are giving his opinion about what he read, «Long - term ocean acidification trends are clearly evident over the past several decades in open - ocean time - series and hydrographic survey data, and the trends are consistent with the growth rate of atmospheric carbon dioxide (Dore et al., 2009).»

«The Southern [Ocean] works well [to study this issue] as it is a region where anthropogenic CO2 uptake, and thus acidification, has progressed more than in other regions.

I was working on a brief describing the impacts of climate change in our state of Oregon, knowing that shellfish hatcheries collapsed between 2004 and 2009 due to ocean acidification and someday soon, our local supply of oysters will be gone, as those fishery operations close shop.

Dr. Mathis has worked in Alaska and the Arctic for more than 12 years and has published over 75 research articles on ocean acidification and the carbon cycle.

Kleypas now works mainly to combat — and help prevent — the effects of ocean acidification on coral reefs.

In light of such uncertainty, Eyre said, the best course of action is to continue working to slow ocean acidification, and climate change generally, before its effects grow too much worse.

Furthermore, by working in controlled areas of a natural reef community, Caldeira, Albright, and their team were able to demonstrate how acidification affects coral reefs on the ecosystem scale, not just in terms of individual organisms or species, as other studies have done.

Keep up the good work, I for one am sleeping better knowing you're debunking those climate change nutters, who, as far as I'm concerned, are probably just basing their conclusions on irrelevant things like record summer temperatures, melting ice - caps, rising sea levels, weather chaos, increasing crop failures, species extinction, ocean acidification... blah, blah, blah.

A bonus to local people who value their environment, want to see climate change and ocean acidification limited and want their grandchildren to have a future, is that they can see these graceful giants working toward that any time the wind blows.

Surfrider is at the forefront of efforts to help coastal communities adapt to a changing climate; and we are working with scientists and local communities to curb ocean acidification.