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Recently retired NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) senior scientist Dr. Richard Feely was featured on a podcast called Ecoshock hosted by Alex Smith. The podcast addresses earth science issues like climate change and ocean acidification, and provides insights from subject matter experts.
Richard Feely is a pioneering researcher in carbon cycling and ocean acidification, and spent the past 51 years with NOAA. He is often called the "grandfather of ocean acidification" for his decades of research into how the ocean absorbs human-emitted carbon dioxide. His research established ocean acidification as a global environmental crisis.
Podcast and Audio file links:
"Meet the Evil Twin - Ocean Acidification" - Posted January 7, 2026, by Radio Ecoshock
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PMEL in the News
PMEL/GOBOP, Scripps Ocean Institute and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution received the Fund for Science and Technology Award from Paul G. Allen Philanthropies for expanding Deep Argo float research.
Understanding how Alaska’s vast marine ecosystems are changing requires long, consistent records — something scientists have rarely had access to in one place.
A specialized plane, camera and a crew of four are in Alaska to understand the ecosystems of the Bering and Chukchi seas. UW CICOES / NOAA PMEL scientist Jiaxu Zhang, the ArcticAIR project lead, is quoted.
Feature Publication
A researcher with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory collects samples from Sequim Bay, Washington that will be analyzed for total alkalinity and dissolved inorganic carbon measurements during the February 2025 alkalinity release experiment. Credit: Nick Ward, PNNL
Carefully enhanced wastewater could one day benefit coastal marine resources
The continual rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere isn't just changing weather patterns, it's also silently altering the chemistry of the global... more