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Ocean Response to COVID‐Related CO2 Emission Reductions
Saturday, March 27, 2021
New research uses PMEL observations to study how temporary emission reductions impact ocean CO2 ...
Editor's Highlight: Robot Measures Air-Sea CO2 Exchange in Southern Ocean
Monday, February 22, 2021
New paper assesses CO2 flux measured on the first autonomous circumnavigation of Antarctica. ...
Exoskeleton dissolution
Monday, May 11, 2020
Exoskeleton dissolution with mechanoreceptor damage in larval Dungeness crab related to severity of present-day ocean acidification vertical gradients. Sci. Total Environ., 716, 136610. ...
NOAA Employee of the Month
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
One of our employees received a well-deserved honor in February 2020 ...
Dungeness crab larvae already showing effects of coastal acidification
Friday, January 24, 2020
A new NOAA-funded study has documented for the first time that ocean acidification along the US Pacific Northwest coast is impacting the shells and sensory organs of some young Dungeness crab. ...
NOAA Data in the Classroom
Monday, December 23, 2019
Are you a teacher looking for resources on ocean acidification? NOAA launches Data in the Classroom: Ocean and Coastal Acidification, using PMEL Carbon Group observations! ...
Surface ocean pH and buffer capacity
Thursday, December 19, 2019
Surface ocean pH and buffer capacity: past, present and future. Jiang, L., Carter, B.R., Feely, R.A. et al. Surface ocean pH and buffer capacity: past, present and future. Sci Rep 9, 18624 (2019) doi:1 ...
Decadal variability in twentieth-century ocean acidification in the California Current Ecosystem
Monday, December 16, 2019
Decadal variability in twentieth-century ocean acidification in the California Current Ecosystem ...
Puget Sound Marine Waters See Effect of Climate Change in 2018
Monday, November 18, 2019
New Report: Puget Sound Marine Waters See Effect of Climate Change in 2018 ...
Saildrone is first to circumnavigate Antarctica, in search for carbon dioxide
Monday, August 05, 2019
The 196-day voyage was the world’s first autonomous circumnavigation of Antarctica ...
New-NOAA-partner-buoy-in-American-Samoa
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
NOAA and partners have launched a new buoy in Fagatele Bay within NOAA’s National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa to measure the amount of carbon dioxide in the waters around a vibrant tropical cora ...
New trend detection paper and a time-series data product
Friday, March 29, 2019
PMEL's CO2 buoy team and partners pu ...
Global ocean is absorbing more carbon
Thursday, March 14, 2019
Global ocean is absorbing more carbon from fossil-fuel emissions ...
Seaweed Farming
Sunday, April 29, 2018
Seaweed may be thought of as a nuisance, but an increasing number of fishermen, scientists and consumers are seeing it as a solution ...
New Chesapeake Bay OA buoy
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
PMEL in collaboration with NOAA Ocean Acidification Program, U.S. IOOS <a hre ...
NOAA buoys measuring Carbon Dioxide
Thursday, October 12, 2017
NOAA observing buoys validate findings from NASA’s new satellite for measuring carbon dioxide ...
NOAA and partners plan upgrade of global weather and ocean observing system
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Ocean observation experts met recently to plan for the redesign of TPOS ...
Human caused carbon emissions dissolving sea snail shells
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
NOAA research links human caused CO2 emissions to dissolving sea snail shells off U.S. West Coast ...
The Global Carbon Budget
Monday, December 21, 2015
Long-term surface ocean CO2 monitoring contributes to the annual Global Carbon Budget project ...
Our Deadened, Carbon-Soaked Seas
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
An October 15, 2015 New York Times op-ed on ocean acidification by Richard W. Spinrad, NOAA chief scientist, and Ian Boyd, chief scientific advis ...
Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health XPRIZE
Monday, June 29, 2015
Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health XPRIZE ...
OA in Prince William Sound
Friday, August 22, 2014
Wave Glider to study how melting glaciers in Alaska may be intensifying ocean acidification in the Gulf of Alaska. ...
The other carbon dioxide problem
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Carbon dioxide produced by human activity is acidifying the ocean at an unprecedented and alarming rate. ...
Oceanic CO2 in the Tropical Pacific is increasing faster than expected
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Natural cycles and anthropogenic CO2 combine to cause rapid change ...
