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Tag: Ocean Acidification

Biology Book Review Chemistry Human impacts

Catfish sharks on catnip? Nope, just ocean acidification

Researchers from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden found that ocean acidification may cause hyperactivity in catfish sharks.
October 3, 2014October 4, 2014 Lis Henderson
Book Reviews Science Communication

Deep Blue Reads: The Sixth Extinction, by Elizabeth Kolbert

As a novelist writing about oceanography, I spend a decent amount of time parsing scientific studies. Over the past several…
August 7, 2014September 4, 2014 Elizabeth Weinberg
Biology Climate Change Fisheries

Too much acid in the mahi: Ocean acidification and larval dolphinfish

How will increased atmospheric carbon dioxide affect your dinner? Larval dolphinfish (or, 'mahi mahi') are apparently very sensitive to increased…
July 14, 2014 Lis Henderson
Biology Climate Change Physiology

The Seventh Sense: Catfish Sense pH Changes

Some catfish aren't just limited to the traditional five senses - instead, they have a unique adaptation to sense pH…
July 11, 2014July 11, 2014 Erin McLean
Biogeochemistry Biology Chemistry Climate Change Human impacts

Fight of the Century: CO2 vs. Calcifying Phytoplankton

From the very first sentence of the abstract, these scientists make clear they are not messing around, "Ocean acidification is…
July 10, 2014July 18, 2014 Sarah Fuller
Chemistry

The pH of the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre has been dropping since 1981

Has the pH of our oceans decreased significantly? Lauvset and Gruber say yes, for the North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre.
June 4, 2014June 5, 2014 Cathleen Turner
Biology Chemistry Climate Change

Is Aragonite Saturation State (Ωa) the Best Way to Describe Calcification Rate?

Nearly every scientific report concerning the effects of ocean acidification on coral reefs describes changes in calcification as a function…
December 11, 2013December 11, 2013 Caoxin Sun
Biology Climate Change

Growing Like a Seaweed: How ocean acidification is aiding the growth and expansion of macroalgae.

While calcifying organisms like corals and bivalves are projected to struggle under future levels of carbon dioxide (CO2), non-calcifying seaweeds…
November 20, 2013March 9, 2016 Gordon Ober
Chemistry

Emissions from International Shipping Vessels Contribute to Ocean Acidification

Ship emissions of sulfur and nitrogen oxides (SOx, NOx) can be deposited and form sulfuric and nitric acid in surface…
November 4, 2013March 9, 2016 Cathleen Turner
Biology Chemistry

Coral Reefs Suffering from Ocean Acidification

Researchers investigated natural trends in carbonate chemistry of the Davies Reef flat in the central Great Barrier Reef on diel…
October 16, 2013 Caoxin Sun

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