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Juvenile red rock crab in Puget Sound, WA, 2025. Photo by Zack Gold, NOAA PMEL.
NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL)-coauthored research article wins United Kingdom's National Champion award and is shortlisted for the Frontiers Planet Prize.
Ocean Acidification: Another Planetary Boundary Crossed, published in Global Change Biology by lead author Professor Helen S. Findlay from Plymouth Marine Laboratory, with NOAA scientists Drs. Richard Feely (PMEL) and Liqing Jiang (CISESS / NESDIS-NCEI) and coauthors Greg Pelletier and Nina Bednaršek, has been named the United Kingdom's National Champion, and has been nominated by the UK as one of 25 nominees worldwide for the international Frontiers Planet Prize. As the world's largest global science competition dedicated to planetary health, the Prize awards three scientists $1 million each per year and fast-tracks transformative research with the power to shape real-world outcomes. One national champion is selected for each participating country, and from this international pool, a jury selects three awardees for the Frontiers Planet Prize.
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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
Global carbon budgeting efforts rely on ocean biogeochemistry models to estimate the historical ocean carbon sink strength. Different model representations of surface ocean pCO2 seasonality contribute to increasing disagreements in the ocean carbon sink strength estimates over time.
The global ocean has long been recognized as a key regulator of Earth’s changing climate, absorbing about 25% of the human-produced carbon dioxide gas (CO2) released to the atmosphere each year. To monitor this oceanic “sink” for human... more