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INTERVIEW: Rutgers University Uses Slocum Glider for Ocean Acidification Study For me personally, it was the first project that Ive worked with gliders. As a biologist, it was a lot of fun, but also the partnerships made and the opportunities provided to students has been amazing. Theyve been able to work with this technology. Theyve learned a lot about chemistry just through working with the sensor. So it iss providing a lot of STEM education to our graduate and our und...

 E-Mail Credit: © Aileen Devlin/Virginia Sea Grant. The excess carbon dioxide responsible for global warming also increases the acidity of seawater, challenging the growth and survival of oysters and other shellfish. A team led by researchers at William & Marys Virginia Institute of Marine Science is now helping oyster growers and restoration specialists better manage their future responses to acidification in the Chesapeake Bay. The team, funded by the NOAA Ocean Acidification Program, is l...

 A team of researchers from the University of Maine Darling Marine Center in Walpole, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay and Maine Department of Marine Resources in West Boothbay Harbor recently published their research on the effects of ocean warming and acidification on gene expression in the earliest life stages of the American lobster. The work was published in the scientific journal Ecology and Evolution with collaborators from the University of Prince Edward Island a...

 E-Mail IMAGE: This close-up image of two pteropods of the species Limacina helicina provides a sense of how fragile the carbonate shells of the tiny sea snails are. view more  Credit: Credit: NOAA Ocean Acidification Program Shelled pteropods, microscopic free-swimming sea snails, are widely regarded as indicators for ocean acidification because research has shown that their fragile shells are vulnerable to increasing ocean acidity.  A new study, published in the journal Scientific...