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California's 2026 Coast and Ocean Assessment was released in March by the California Ocean Protection Council (OPC), in partnership with the California Ocean Science Trust. This coast and ocean assessment is the result of the work of more than 120 scientific experts from academic institutions, state and federal agencies including NOAA, NGOs, and Tribes.
The report features the OA (ocean acidification) indicators analysis from NOAA PMEL Carbon Program scientists Adrienne Sutton and Simone Alin (starting on page 85). NOAA OAP (Ocean Acidification Program) funded coastal time-series moorings provided the foundation for the annual "trend" analysis and indicator development, led by Adrienne Sutton. Simone Alin, a long-time co-lead of WCOA cruises, served as West Coast OA subject matter expert.
NOAA teams were key to the development of the assessment report. OAP provided long-term coastal monitoring and... more
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