{"id":3689,"date":"2016-04-20T11:21:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T18:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/impact\/?p=3689"},"modified":"2017-01-03T13:30:41","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T21:30:41","slug":"west-coast-scientists-sound-alarm-for-changing-ocean-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/impact\/2016\/04\/west-coast-scientists-sound-alarm-for-changing-ocean-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists sound alarm for changing ocean industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Integrative Biology professor <a href=\"http:\/\/ib.oregonstate.edu\/faculty\/chanfr\/Francis-Chan\">Francis Chan <\/a>is co-chair of a 20-member panel of leading West Coast ocean scientists who presented a comprehensive report recently outlining a series of recommendations to address the increase in ocean acidification and hypoxia, or extremely low oxygen levels. The report urged the governments of Oregon, California, Washington and British Columbia to take actions now to offset and mitigate the effects of global carbon dioxide emissions, which is rapidly changing ocean chemistry along the West Coast of North America.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ocean acidification is a global problem that is having a disproportionate impact on productive West Coast ecosystems,\u201d said Chan, a marine ecologist and co-chair of the West Coast Ocean Acidification and Hypoxia Science Panel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThere has been an attitude that there is not\u00a0much we can do about this locally, but that just isn\u2019t true. A lot of the solutions will come locally and through coordinated regional efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ocean acidification and hypoxia are distinct phenomena that trigger a wide range of effects on marine ecosystems. They frequently occur together and represent two important facets of global ocean changes that have important implications for Oregon\u2019s coastal oceans.<\/p>\n<p>Among the panel\u2019s recommendations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Develop new benchmarks for near-shore water quality as existing criteria were not developed to protect marine organisms from acidification;<\/li>\n<li>Improve methods of removing carbon dioxide from seawater through the use of kelp beds, eel grass and other plants;<\/li>\n<li>Enhance coastal ecosystems\u2019 ability to adapt to changing ocean chemistry through better resource management, including marine reserves, adaptive breeding techniques for shellfish, and other methods.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_3692\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/impact\/files\/2016\/04\/FrancisChan20141-300x282.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3692\" data-attachment-id=\"3692\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2121\/files\/2016\/04\/FrancisChan20141-300x282.jpg\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2121\/files\/2016\/04\/FrancisChan20141-300x282.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"300,282\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"FrancisChan20141-300&amp;#215;282\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2121\/files\/2016\/04\/FrancisChan20141-300x282.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2121\/files\/2016\/04\/FrancisChan20141-300x282.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-3692 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/impact\/files\/2016\/04\/FrancisChan20141-300x282.jpg\" alt=\"FrancisChan20141-300x282\" width=\"300\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3692\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francis Chan, associate professor, integrative biology<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Chan said regional awareness of the impact of changing ocean chemistry started in Oregon. Some of the first impacts were seen about 15 years ago when the state began experiencing seasonal hypoxia, or low-oxygen water, leading to some marine organism die-offs. Then the oyster industry was confronted with high mortality rates of juvenile oysters because of increasingly acidified water. It turns out that Oregon was on the leading edge of a much larger problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a wakeup call for the region, which since has spread up and down the coast,\u201d said Chan.<\/p>\n<p>California responded to this call, and in partnership with Oregon, Washington and British Columbia, convened a panel of scientific experts to provide advice on the issue. The panel worked with federal and state agencies, local organizations and higher education institutions to identify concerns about ocean acidification and hypoxia, then developed a series of recommendations and actions that can be taken today.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, OSU researchers completed the deployment of moorings, buoys and gliders as part of the Endurance Array \u2013 a component of the $386 million National Science Foundation-funded Ocean Observatories Initiative, created to address ocean issues including acidification.<\/p>\n<p>These and other ocean-monitoring efforts will be important to inform policy-makers about where to best focus their adaptation and mitigation strategies.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe panel\u2019s findings provide a road map to help us prepare for the changes ahead,\u201d said Gabriela Goldfarb, natural resource policy adviser to Oregon Gov. Kate Brown. \u201cHow Oregon and the West Coast address ocean acidification will inform those confronting this issue around the country and world.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWith the best scientific recommendations in hand from the science panel, we now have the information on which to base our future management decisions,\u201d added Caren Braby, marine resource manager at the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. \u201cThese are practical recommendations natural resource managers and communities can use to ensure we continue to have the rich and productive ecosystem Oregonians depend on for healthy fisheries, our coastal culture and economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1RUtU3j\">Read<\/a> the complete article.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Integrative Biology professor Francis Chan, co-chair of a 20-member panel of leading ocean scientists, published report addressing increasing ocean acidification and hypoxia. 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