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    Terry Sawyer, founding partner, VP and chief technical officer, Hog Island Oyster Co. Tessa Michelle Hill, professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Davis

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    Terry Sawyer Tessa Hill

    @hogislandoyster @Tessa_M_Hill
    History of Hog Island Oyster Co.
    As shelled animals
    grow – oysters,
    mussels, corals, snails
    - they use CALCIUM
    and CARBONATE to
    make their shells:

    Olympia oyster
    Photo: A. Hettinger

    High pH (low CO2) Low pH and CO2


    A few views on what the future holds…

    Depth of low pH (<7.75) water in 2007 Predicted depth of low pH water in 2050
    along the CC System Hauri and Gruber 2013
    Feely et al 2008
    Our vulnerability to ocean acidification =
    oceanography + economics

    Ekstrom et al, 2015


    Why is ocean acidification important to people?
    How do we work together to approach such a
    complex problem?
    ● Integrated Lab and
    Field Investigations
    At Bodega Marine Lab, for the past decade we have
    focused on impacts on key west coast species

    ●Oysters (5x)
    ●Mussels (6x)
    ●Urchins (2x)
    ●Limpets
    ●Porcelain Crabs
    ●Barnacles
    ●Bryozoans
    ●Red Abalone (3x)
    ●Intertidal snails
    ●Foraminifera
    ●White Abalone
    Olympia Oyster
    Juvenile Olympia oyster

    • Larvae from high-CO2


    treatments: 14%
    decrease in shell growth

    • Juveniles from high-CO2


    treatments: 36%
    decrease in shell growth
    regardless of if in
    ambient or high-CO2
    conditions as juveniles
    0.2 mm

    Hettinger et al., 2012


    California Mussel

    Mussel shells raised under high


    CO2 are smaller & weaker –
    break more easily

    Photos at Bodega Marine


    Lab by L. Sommer, KQED

    Gaylord et al.
    2011
    Tiny shells:
    Base of the food web for salmon & whales

    Reduced calcification Shell dissolution under Slower growth


    & rebuilding of shell high CO2; already under high CO2
    under high CO2 considered an indicator (Cooper et al.,
    (Davis et al., 2018) of change in California 2016)
    waters (Bednarsek et
    al., 2014)
    Dungeness Crab:
    Consequences are still being
    investigated, but crabs do
    appear negatively impacted,
    especially at young stages.

    Miller et al., 2016


    What will the future hold?
    There will be winners & losers
    Partnership: Hog Island Oyster Co. & UC Davis

    Deployed sensors Fall 2012


    ● Temperature
    ● Salinity
    ● pH
    ● Dissolved oxygen
    ● CO2 (added 2014)
    www. cencoos.org
    http://www.ipacoa.org/Explorer
    Partnership: Hog Island Oyster Co. & UC Davis
    Partnership incorporates shared:
    ● Sensors

    ● Maintenance tasks

    ● Data access

    ● Research ideas

    ● Commitment to communicating

    science of OA
    Novel partnerships can maximize our
    understanding of impacts

    http://www.ipacoa.org/Explorer
    This is a time for
    problem solving & action
    Broodstock Program Partners
    ● University of Oregon
    ● University of Washington
    ● University of Maryland
    In partnership with:
    ● University of California Davis
    ● University of Washington
    ● IOOS
    ● CENCOOS
    ● NOAA
    ● CA Ocean Protection Council
    Gooseneck Barnacles

    Gracilaria Seaweed
    Sea Urchin (Served Raw) Gracilaria Seaweed Rock Scallops

    Gooseneck Barnacles Urchin Soup (cooked)

    Photo courtesy of Jeremy Koreski via depatures.com


    Coastal carbon “sinks”
    • Seagrass meadows and salt
    marshes provide an
    opportunity to remove carbon

    • We are investigating the long


    and short term impacts of
    carbon storage
    ‘Mosaic’ of pH elucidated by partnerships between
    Federal Agency & University Researchers

    We observe large variability in pH


    within this dynamic, diverse
    system

    Regions of significant stress


    already – what will the future
    hold?

    Data from: NOAA (R. Feely), NSF-OMEGAS and UCDavis;


    Feely et al., 2016; Hill et al. in prep.
    Geography matters - where and how ocean
    acidification occurs will impact our future

    New research looks at this from a


    combined oceanography-ecology-
    social science perspective
    THANK YOU!
    Tessa Hill - tmhill@ucdavis.edu
    Terry Sawyer - terry@hogislandoysters.com

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