Researchers, including in Jacksonville, warn of perilous salinity changes in warming oceans
A Jacksonville professor is part of an international group of researchers warning of another threat from climate change: salinity levels in the ocean.
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A Jacksonville professor is part of an international group of researchers warning of another threat from climate change: salinity levels in the ocean.
Breakthrough research published reveals the pivotal yet largely unexplored factor of climate change-induced salinity changes in oceans and coastlines. Dr Cliff Ross, University of North Florida Biology Chair/Professor, and Dr Stacey Trevathan-Tackett, UNF Biology Graduate Program Alum and Research Faculty Member at Deakin University in Australia, co-authored the research.
A new study by the University of North Florida reveals that as a result of climate change, variations in salinity have a critical impact on our oceans and coastlines.
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Catlin ice base, and the conditions are pretty clear, but we're surrounded by an arctic desert. and actually standing on an ocean essentially with about five feet of ice beneath us. >> philippe, what are you doing there? what are you looking for? and what are you going to do to find out what you're out there to find? >> reporter: well, we're here for a week, ali, with the catlin arctic survey, a group of scientists looking at various different issues to understand how the arctic system works, how the ecosystem and environment works here, what's happening with the ice caps, with the uptake of c...