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.
(2015), Lessons learned
from ocean acidification research.
Not exact matches
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 temperat
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 temperat
ocean acidification and rising water temperatures.
Prior
research has largely focused on the negative impacts of
ocean acidification on reef growth, but new
research this week
from scientists at the Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB), based at the University of Hawai'i — Mānoa (UHM), demonstrates that lower
ocean pH also enhances reef breakdown: a double - whammy for coral reefs in a changing climate.
The
research, published in Nature Communications, examined preserved fossil remains of coccolithophores
from a period of climate warming and
ocean acidification that occurred around 56 million years ago — the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)-- and provides a much - needed long - term perspective of coccolithophore response to
ocean acidification.
In an unprecedented evolutionary experiment, scientists
from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for
Ocean Research Kiel and the Thünen Institute of Fisheries Ecology demonstrated that the most important single - celled calcifying alga of world's oceans, Emiliania huxleyi, is only able to adapt to ocean acidification to a certain ex
Ocean Research Kiel and the Thünen Institute of Fisheries Ecology demonstrated that the most important single - celled calcifying alga of world's
oceans, Emiliania huxleyi, is only able to adapt to
ocean acidification to a certain ex
ocean acidification to a certain extent.
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.
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 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.
BIOACID - Biological Impacts of
Ocean Acidification (the German research network on ocean acidifiction, 20 partner institutes from Ger
Ocean Acidification (the German
research network on
ocean acidifiction, 20 partner institutes from Ger
ocean acidifiction, 20 partner institutes
from Germany)
Michigan State students note how Willie Soon now refutes
research indicating adverse impacts
from ocean acidification, a global crisis that is married to climate change (both problems stem
from humans burning fossil fuels and releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere).
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.
From his own research in chemical oceanography, along with data from a number of recent studies, Weber points out that some negative consequences of greenhouse gas emissions and warming «are manifesting faster than previously predicted,» including ocean acidification and oxygen loss, which are expected to affect «a large fraction of marine species if current trends continue unchecked.&ra
From his own
research in chemical oceanography, along with data
from a number of recent studies, Weber points out that some negative consequences of greenhouse gas emissions and warming «are manifesting faster than previously predicted,» including ocean acidification and oxygen loss, which are expected to affect «a large fraction of marine species if current trends continue unchecked.&ra
from a number of recent studies, Weber points out that some negative consequences of greenhouse gas emissions and warming «are manifesting faster than previously predicted,» including
ocean acidification and oxygen loss, which are expected to affect «a large fraction of marine species if current trends continue unchecked.»
Scientists
from the universities of Gothenburg (GU) and Kiel (CAU), as well as GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for
Ocean Research Kiel and Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) found that ocean acidification leads to reduced rates of digestion in larvae of the ecologically important green sea urchin Strongylocentrotus droebachie
Ocean Research Kiel and Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine
Research (AWI) found that
ocean acidification leads to reduced rates of digestion in larvae of the ecologically important green sea urchin Strongylocentrotus droebachie
ocean acidification leads to reduced rates of digestion in larvae of the ecologically important green sea urchin Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis.
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?
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.
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.
The U.S.
Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry (OCB) Project Office with co-sponsorship from the European Project on Ocean Acidification (EPOCA) is coordinating and hosting a hands - on ocean acidification short course that will convene members of the biological and chemical oceanography research communities to gain mutual insights on optimal ocean acidification experimental de
Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry (OCB) Project Office with co-sponsorship
from the European Project on
Ocean Acidification (EPOCA) is coordinating and hosting a hands - on ocean acidification short course that will convene members of the biological and chemical oceanography research communities to gain mutual insights on optimal ocean acidification experimental de
Ocean Acidification (EPOCA) is coordinating and hosting a hands - on ocean acidification short course that will convene members of the biological and chemical oceanography research communities to gain mutual insights on optimal ocean acidification experim
Acidification (EPOCA) is coordinating and hosting a hands - on
ocean acidification short course that will convene members of the biological and chemical oceanography research communities to gain mutual insights on optimal ocean acidification experimental de
ocean acidification short course that will convene members of the biological and chemical oceanography research communities to gain mutual insights on optimal ocean acidification experim
acidification short course that will convene members of the biological and chemical oceanography
research communities to gain mutual insights on optimal
ocean acidification experimental de
ocean acidification experim
acidification experimental design.
We are pioneering this data fusion approach so that we can observe large areas of Earth's
oceans, allowing us to quickly and easily identify those areas most at risk
from increasing
acidification,» says Jamie Shutler
from the University of Exeter, who is leading the
research.
In an experiment with organisms
from the Kiel Fjord, a team of biologists
from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for
Ocean Research Kiel demonstrated for the first time, that ocean acidification and rising water temperatures harms the fatty acid composition of copepods in the natural plankton commu
Ocean Research Kiel demonstrated for the first time, that
ocean acidification and rising water temperatures harms the fatty acid composition of copepods in the natural plankton commu
ocean acidification and rising water temperatures harms the fatty acid composition of copepods in the natural plankton community.
A two - day public meeting at the Royal Society, London on 4 - 5 June, 2015 will discuss the latest scientific findings arising
from the UK
Ocean Acidification (UKOA)
research programme and the German partnership programme, Biological Impacts of
Ocean Acidification (BIOACID).
About BIOACID: Since 2009, more than 250 BIOACID scientists
from 20 German
research institutes have investigated how different marine organisms respond to
ocean acidification and increasing carbon dioxide concentrations in seawater, how their performance is affected during their various life stages, how these reactions impact marine food webs and elemental cycles and whether they can be mitigated by evolutionary adaptation.
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.»
Marine Biologist Lydia Kapsenberg will discussed her
research project monitoring
ocean acidification at Channel Islands National Park during the March
From Shore to Sea lecture.
Recent
research has shown that coral reefs are significantly suffering
from the impacts of climate change, the
acidification of
oceans, poor fisheries management and pollution
from urban and agricultural runoff which encourages over-running of the reefs by algae and the bleaching of the reefs themselves.
An onboard team of 96 people is carrying out frontier
research on everything
from geology to
ocean acidification, chief scientist Xu Ren said.
This process is known as
ocean acidification, and it can have serious implications for marine life, says Sabine Mathesius from the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research in Kiel in Ger
ocean acidification, and it can have serious implications for marine life, says Sabine Mathesius
from the Helmholtz Centre for
Ocean Research in Kiel in Ger
Ocean Research in Kiel in Germany.
How do we get back all that money we've had taken
from us by our governments and spunked on their cronies at Solyndra and BrightSource or thrown casually into grants for junk science
research like «
ocean acidification» or squandered on shysters at tainted institutions like NASA, NOAA and the Royal Society or wasted on anti-capitalist bureaucracies like the EPA and the Department of Energy and Climate Change?
The
research found that sea urchin larvae were not impacted by levels of increasing «
acidification» of sea water that some have predicted will represent
ocean waters 100 + years
from now.
Research published in the journal Science in 2015 found that
ocean acidification from massive injections of carbon into the atmosphere was the cause of a «mass dying» about 250 million years ago which, according to Happer, «just didn't happen.»
An «inherent bias» in scientific journals in favour of more calamitous predictions has excluded
research showing that marine creatures are not damaged by
ocean acidification, which is caused by the sea absorbing carbon dioxide
from the atmosphere.
New findings
from fieldwork undertaken at the University of Sydney's One Tree Island
Research Station provide evidence
ocean acidification resulting
from carbon dioxide emissions is already slowing coral reef growth.
This document presents a summary of the state of knowledge on
ocean acidification based on the latest research presented at the Third Symposium on the Ocean in a High - CO2 World, which convened 540 experts from 37 countries to discuss the results of research into ocean acidification, its impacts on ecosystems, socio - economic consequences and implications for po
ocean acidification based on the latest
research presented at the Third Symposium on the
Ocean in a High - CO2 World, which convened 540 experts from 37 countries to discuss the results of research into ocean acidification, its impacts on ecosystems, socio - economic consequences and implications for po
Ocean in a High - CO2 World, which convened 540 experts
from 37 countries to discuss the results of
research into
ocean acidification, its impacts on ecosystems, socio - economic consequences and implications for po
ocean acidification, its impacts on ecosystems, socio - economic consequences and implications for policy.
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Research has shown that
ocean acidification and climate warming can independently affect many marine organisms in a variety of marine habitats
from tropical to high - latitude ecosystems [9,10].