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Is pH a Red Herring for Ocean Acidification?
2015-02-07 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: In 2007, the owners of Whiskey Creek oyster hatchery on the Oregon coast lost almost all of their larvae -- and had no idea why. The only clue was that the larval die-offs often occurred during intense upwelling events, when deep, acidic waters replace surface waters blown offshore. The next year, the hatchery owners turned to Burke Hales, a biogeochemist at Oregon State University in Corvallis, who dove into the ocean's complex carbon chemistry. Ocean acidification was clearly a growing concern....
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