La surpêche dans les eaux du Sénégal a reçu beaucoup d’attention, mais des menaces tout aussi importantes pèsent également sur les ressources marines dont les effets pervers peuvent s’avérer irréversibles pour nos sociétés. L’acidification des océans et les autres problèmes liés au dioxyde de carbone (CO2) représentent en effet un risque pour la biodiversité marine, […]
University of Miami students and researchers are blogging during a month-long expedition in the Gulf of Mexico to study ocean acidification. An interdisciplinary and international team of scientists and students set sail aboard the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) ship Ronald H. Brown on Tuesday, July 18 for a 36-day expedition in the Gulf of Mexico. […]
Oceans cover 70 percent of the earth’s surface and account for 97 percent of its water. They play a vital role in the natural carbon cycle and provides a home for over one million species of plants and animals, with another estimated nine million living in the depths left unexplored by humans. Billions of people rely on the ocean’s rich diversity […]
Global warming and ocean acidification are increasingly affecting coastal ecosystems, with impacts that vary regionally depending upon local biogeography. Ocean acidification drives shifts in seaweed community dominance that depend on interactions with other factors such as light and nutrients. In this study, we investigated the photophysiological responses in the brown macroalgae species Cystoseira tamariscifolia (Hudson) Papenfuss with […]
Marine and estuarine ecosystems are highly productive areas that often act as a final sink for several pollutants, such as cadmium. Environmental conditions in these habitats can affect metal speciation, as well as its uptake and depuration by living organisms. The aim of this study was to assess cadmium uptake and depuration rates in the […]
The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) was launched in 1987 to coordinate international research on global-scale and regional-scale interactions between Earth’s biological, chemical and physical processes and their interactions with human systems. IGBP’s international core projects Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research (IMBER), Surface Ocean–Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS), Past Global Changes (PAGES) and Land–Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ) study ocean acidification. Contact: Wendy Broadgate, Deputy Director, Natural Sciences, IGBP, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Box 50005, SE 104-05 Stockholm, Sweden, Tel. +46 8 6739 559.
Established by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 1960, the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC-UNESCO) promotes international cooperation and coordinates programmes in marine research, services, observation systems, hazard mitigation, and capacity development in order to understand and effectively manage the resources of the ocean and coastal areas. Contact: Kirsten Isensee, Tel: +33 (0) 1 45 68 40 08; Jorge Luis Valdes, Tel: +33 (0) 1 45 68 40 11; IOC-UNESCO, 1, rue Miollis, 75732 Paris cedex 15, France.
The Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) was established by the International Council for Science (ICSU) in 1957 and is a co-sponsor of the international projects IMBER and SOLAS. Contact: Ed Urban, Executive Director, SCOR, College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA, Tel: +1-302-831-7011, e-mail: secretariat(at)scor-int.org.
The Ocean Acidification International Coordination Center (OA-ICC) is operated by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)’s Environmental Laboratories in Monaco. An advisory board, including members of the SOLAS-IMBER Ocean Acidification Working Group (SIOA WG), provides recommendations to the project. The OA-ICC works in close collaboration with the Ocean Acidification international Reference User Group (iOA-RUG), a forum for dialogue between researchers and stakeholders. Contact: IAEA-Environment Laboratories, 4a Quai Antoine 1er, MC-98000 Principality of Monaco, Tel: +377 97977272, e-mail: OAICC.Contact-Point@iaea.org.
By the end of 2015 IGBP and its projects will be merging into a new international research initiative on global sustainability, Future Earth. Future Earth is a 10-year international programme that will provide critical knowledge required for societies to face the challenges posed by global environmental change and to identify opportunities for a transition to global sustainability. E-mail: contact@futureearth.info.
We acknowledge financial support from the Korean Institute of Ocean Science & Technology (KIOST) to build this site.
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