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Ocean Response to COVID‐Related CO2 Emission Reductions
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Global ocean is absorbing more carbon
Thursday, March 14, 2019

Global ocean is absorbing more carbon from fossil-fuel emissions ...

Seaweed Farming
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
New Chesapeake Bay OA buoy
Tuesday, April 10, 2018

PMEL in collaboration with NOAA Ocean Acidification Program, U.S. IOOS ...

NOAA buoys measuring Carbon Dioxide
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
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
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
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
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
Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health XPRIZE
Monday, June 29, 2015

Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health XPRIZE ...

OA in Prince William Sound
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
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
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 ...