An information outlet on ocean acidification provided by EPOCA, the European Project on Ocean Acidification
Saturday, Feb 19 (2011) 12:00p to 12:45p at Highline Community College Marine Science & Technology Center, Des Moines, WA.
People for Puget Sound’s Director of Science Doug Meyers presents the ways that increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere affects basic ocean chemistry and what that means for the Puget Sound.
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A user-friendly, stand-alone application for the calculation of carbonate system parameters was developed by the U.S. Geological Survey Florida Shelf Ecosystems Response to Climate Change Project in response to its Ocean Acidification Task. The application, by Mark Hansen and Lisa Robbins, USGS St. Petersburg, FL, Joanie Kleypas, NCAR, Boulder, CO, and Stephan Meylan, Jacobs Technology, St. Petersburg, FL, is intended as a follow-on to CO2SYS, originally developed by Lewis and Wallace (1998) and later modified for Microsoft Excel® by Denis Pierrot (Pierrot and others, 2006). Besides eliminating the need for using Microsoft Excel on the host system, CO2calc offers several improvements on CO2SYS, including:
