Ocean Acidification Summary for Policymakers 2013

2013, Anoxic Event, CO2 Emissions, Dead Zones, Geosphere, Global, Greenhouse Gases, Hydrosphere, Life forms, Marine Life, Mass Extinction, Ocean Acidification, Ocean Currents, Ocean Heat Content, Ocean Stagnation, Ocean Stratification, Ocean Temperature, Oceanography, Region, Sea Ice Melt, Sea Level Rise, Sea Surface Temperature, Sea Temperature, Study, WeatheringLeave a comment

Published by IGBP November 14, 2013 This summary for policymakers reports on the state of scientific knowledge on ocean acidification, based on the latest research presented at The Third Symposium on the Ocean in a High-CO2 World, held in Monterey, California, in September 2012. Experts present the projected changes from ocean acidification for ecosystems and the people who rely on…

Abrupt Climate Change In The Arctic (And Beyond) An Update

2013, Abrupt Climate Change, Antarctica, Arctic, Arctic Circle, Biosphere, CO2 Emissions, Conflict, Cryosphere, Deglaciation, Disease, EAIS, Education, Expedition, Extreme Weather, Glaciology, Global, Greenhouse Gases, Health, History, Hydrosphere, Ice Sheets, Lecture, Mass Extinction, Ocean Currents, Oceanography, Paleoclimatology, Permian, Pleistocene, Pliocene, Precipitation, Region, Science Talk, Study, Temperature, WAIS, Younger Dryas28 Comments

AGU Fall Meeting 2013: Our understanding of future Arctic change is informed by the history of past changes, which often have been both large and abrupt. The well-known ice-age events such as the Younger Dryas show how sea-ice changes can amplify forcing to produce very large responses, with wintertime sea ice especially important. These changes…

Anoxia and Euxinia Ocean Environmental Change

2013, Anoxic Event, Hydrosphere, Marine Life, Ocean Currents, Ocean Heat Content, Ocean Stagnation, Ocean Stratification, Ocean Temperature, Oceanography, Paleoclimatology, Sea Surface Temperature1 Comment

Reconstructing the history of euxinia in a coastal sea Caroline P. Slomp, 2013 DOI 10.1130/focus0420131.1 Web http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/41/4/523.full Areas of the coastal ocean where oxygen is low or absent in bottom waters, so-called dead zones, are expanding worldwide (Diaz and Rosenberg, 2008). Increased inputs of nutrients from land are enhancing algal blooms, and the sinking of this…

Peter Ward: Our Future In a World Without Ice Caps

2013, Anoxic Event, Cretaceous, Dead Zones, Global, Hydrosphere, Jurrasic, Lecture, Marine Life, Mass Extinction, Ocean Acidification, Ocean Currents, Ocean Heat Content, Ocean Stagnation, Ocean Stratification, Ocean Temperature, Oceanography, Paleoclimatology, Region, Sea Level Height, Sea Level Rise, TriassicLeave a comment

Brown Bag Lecture Series; Center for Student Engagement & Leadership; and Arts, Culture, and Civic Engagement Apr. 11, 2013: In honor of Earth Month: Peter D. Ward, Ph.D., is a paleontologist and professor of Geological Sciences at the University of Washington. Ward specializes in the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event (the one that killed the dinosaurs), the…

Ocean Acidification in Earth’s Past: Insights to the Future – James Zachos

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Presented by James Zachos, Ph.D., University of California at Santa Cruz, at the 2013 Metcalf Institute Annual Public Lecture Series, June 13, 2013. Related Long-term legacy of massive carbon input to the Earthsystem: Anthropocene versus Eocene

Global warming could change strength of El Nino

2013, Climate Feedbacks, El Nino, Global, Hydrosphere, La Nina, Ocean Currents, Ocean Heat Content, Oceanography, Region, StudyLeave a comment

Via Phys.org September 11, 2013: Global warming could impact the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), altering the cycles of El Niño and La Niña events that bring extreme drought and flooding to Australia and many other Pacific-rim countries. New research published in Nature Geoscience using coral samples from Kiribati has revealed how the ENSO cycle has changed…

Estimating northern polar CH4 flux

2012, 2013, Abrupt Climate Change, Anoxic Event, Arctic, Arctic Amplification, Arctic Circle, Atmosphere, Chemistry, Climate Feedbacks, Climate Sensitivity, CO2 Emissions, Cryosphere, Deglaciation, Erosion, Freshwater, Geodynamics, Geomorphology, Geosphere, Greenhouse Effect, Greenhouse Gases, Hydrosphere, Methane (CH4), Methane Hydrate, Model, Nitrogen, Ocean Currents, Ocean Heat Content, Ocean Stratification, Ocean Temperature, Oceanography, Ozone Layer, Pedology, Permafrost, Polar Amplification, Region, Respiration, Science Talk, Sea Ice, Sea Surface Temperature, Seismicity, Soil, Study, YearLeave a comment

A compilation of related science with some commentary. Microbes in thawing permafrost: the unknown variable in the climate change equation David E Graham, Matthew D Wallenstein, Tatiana A Vishnivetskaya, Mark P Waldrop,Tommy J Phelps, Susan M Pfiffner, Tullis C Onstott, Lyle G Whyte, Elizaveta M Rivkina,David A Gilichinsky, Dwayne A Elias, Rachel Mackelprang, Nathan C…

A Mechanism for Shallow Methane Hydrate Dissociation

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I previously looked at the science and commercial usage of Methane Hydrate, at freshwater influx in the Arctic Circle and asked  Does Freshwater Runoff in the Arctic change Ocean Circulation to Unlock Methane Hydrate in the Deep Ocean? This post covers: Identification of possible mechanism which could eventually release vast quantities of shallow Methane Hydrate…