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Demystifying Ocean Acidification & Coastal Hypoxia- Public event on Oct 23, 2012

A public forum about ocean health in Oregon

Event Flyers for Posting:  Black/white.  Color.

What are the phenomena of ocean acidification and coastal hypoxia? What is causing them? What are their likely impacts on marine species and coastal communities, and what can be done to minimize these impacts?

Rockfish recruitment and Upwelling

New European Science of Marine Reserves Booklet

The European version of the Science of Marine Reserves is the fourth educational booklet in a series published by PISCO. This booklet provides the latest scientific information about no-take marine reserves, reporting peer-reviewed research from throughout Europe and globally.

MPA monitoring: Knowledge through partnerships

In a recent paper PISCO Principal Investigators Mark Carr, Pete Raimondi and Margaret McManus show that MPA monitoring must have a physical component to partner with the traditional ecological monitoring to accurately assess the effects of ecosystem change, in the coastal oceans, for example future climatic changes.

Ocean Acidification: the consortium approach

BASIC CONSORTIUM ELEMENTS FOR REGIONAL, ECOSYSTEM-BASED OCEAN SCIENCE

  1. Monitoring and interdisciplinary research at ecosystem scale: Understanding ecosystem responses; separating long-term trends from changes due to human activities.
  2. Data sharing: Delivering standardized data
  3. Outreach to public and decision-makers: Making science usable
  4. Interdisciplinary training: Producing future leaders
  5. Coordination: Integrating efforts

For more detail, see

Associated Pages: 
Basic elements of the PISCO program
Emergence of Anoxia in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem
New NSF award to study effects of Ocean Acidification
Science-to-Policy: Ocean Acidification Research
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New NSF award to study effects of Ocean Acidification

For the first time, we will be able to examine the genetics and ecology of these key organisms to see how populations that span over hundreds of miles of coastline are coping with changes in ocean chemistry.

PISCO lead PI, Dr Bruce Menge

Hypoxia affects Fish

New findings about how marine resources are affected in Oregon’s Dead Zone

PISCO collaborative, ecosystem-based research connects interdisciplinary scientific findings with policy applications. Over the coming decades, global climate change will have profound impacts on marine ecosystems worldwide. Changing wind and weather patterns will alter ocean conditions and may cause hypoxic dead zones in some of the ocean’s most productive areas.

Monitoring MPAs by SCUBA in waters off Central California

"In conjunction with ocean observations, continued monitoring of ecosystems can reveal the drivers of ecosystem change, particularly as they influence ecosystem productivity, function, resiliency and services. When combined with socioeconomic monitoring studies, ecological monitoring can identify how ecosystem effects from MPAs are both caused by and influence changes in human-use patterns.

Associated Pages: 
MLPA Central Coast Study Region baseline data collection
MLPA Marine Protected Area Monitoring
Monitoring Marine Protected Areas
Monitoring MPAs by SCUBA in waters off Central California
Science of Marine Reserves (Video)
Science of Marine Reserves: U.S. booklet versions
Select PISCO Publications and Resources: Marine Protected Areas
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MLPA Central Coast Study Region baseline data collection

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