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Warming, Acidification and Deoxygenation of the Ocean
Abstract.
"The ocean plays an essential role in regulating Earth’s climate. The ocean provides many services, but two crucial ones are its ability to take up heat and carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and cycle both around the world in its vast currents, as well as store them away long term. The ocean is changing rapidly and often unnoticed by the general public. However, as the effects of climate change become more prevalent on the ocean, we will start to see a direct impact on human society. This chapter discusses three main climate change effects on the ocean: ocean warming, acidification, and loss of oxygen. [...]".
Source: Springer Nature
Authors: Helen S. Findlay
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10812-9_2
Effects of different oxygen regimes on ecological performance and bioenergetics of a coastal marine bioturbator, the soft shell clam Mya arenaria
Abstract.
"Benthic species are exposed to oxygen fluctuations that can affect their performance and survival. Physiological effects and ecological consequences of fluctuating oxygen are not well understood in marine bioturbators such as the soft-shell clam Mya arenaria. We explored the effects of different oxygen regimes (21 days of exposure to constant hypoxia (~4.1 kPa PO2), cyclic hypoxia (~2.1–~10.4 kPa PO2) or normoxia (~21 kPa PO2)) on energy metabolism, oxidative stress and ecological behaviors (bioirrigation and bioturbation) of M. arenaria. Constant hypoxia and post-hypoxic recovery in cyclic hypoxia led to oxidative injury of proteins and [...]".
Source: Science Direct
Authors: Natascha Ouillon et al.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160459
Frontiers in Marine Science special issue on ocean deoxygenation: Call for papers
Call for paper manuscripts
We would like to draw your attention to a call for paper manuscripts for a special issue on "Constraining Uncertainties in Hindcasts and Future Projections of Marine Deoxygenation" in Frontiers in Marine Science.
The paper manuscript submission deadline is 7 April 2023.
Further information: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/24190/constraining-uncertainties-in-hindcasts-and-future-projections-of-marine-deoxygenation.
ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting 2023: Registration and Abstract Submission
Call for Abstract and Early Registration closing on 23 February 2023
ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting 2023: 4–9 June 2023 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Resilience and Recovery in Aquatic Systems
Sessions on ocean oxygen, deoxygenation, anoxia, and hypoxia:
- SS015 Deoxygenation in the Past, Present and Future Ocean
- SS050 Disentangling Complex Long-Term pH and O2 Trends in Coastal and Estuarine Systems From Global and Regional Drivers
- SS107 Oxic-Anoxic Interfaces: Pathways, Dynamics and Exchanges
For further information, please visit the event's homepage, sessions list, registration information, and abstract preparation guide.
ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting 2023
ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting 2023: 4–9 June 2023 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Resilience and Recovery in Aquatic Systems
"Concepts of resilience and recovery do not only apply to aquatic ecosystems but also to societies when faced with disruptions and crises. Past events have shown that adaptability and decisiveness are important keys to resilience and recovery. Disruptions are opportune moments for setting up strategies for management and recovery. Faced with the COVID-19 pandemic, ASLO meetings have adapted by transforming the ASM 2021 Palma meeting to virtual with a positive attitude that in 2023 we will recover and meet in-person. Positivity is also an important factor. We do not dwell on problems, but we try to look for solutions and get united for whatever crisis we face.
We will incorporate the theme of resilience and recovery in aquatic systems into the plenary sessions and encourage submissions that examine these topics and invite you to contribute special sessions on topics relevant to freshwater and marine ecosystems."
Sessions on ocean oxygen, deoxygenation, anoxia, and hypoxia:
- SS015 Deoxygenation in the Past, Present and Future Ocean
- SS050 Disentangling Complex Long-Term pH and O2 Trends in Coastal and Estuarine Systems From Global and Regional Drivers
- SS107 Oxic-Anoxic Interfaces: Pathways, Dynamics and Exchanges
For further information, please visit the event's homepage and sessions list.
Start Date: 6/4/23
Euxinia and hydrographic restriction in the Tethys Ocean: Reassessing global oceanic anoxia during the early Toarcian
Abstract.
"Despite carbon-cycle perturbations at a global scale during the early Toarcian, the extent of anoxia during the ∼182-Ma Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (T-OAE) remains in debate. A common factor in the development of oceanic anoxia is watermass restriction, which is thought to have been important in the NW European Seaway, but whose influence elsewhere is relatively unstudied. Here, we analyze Mo/TOC (a proxy for watermass restriction) and redox proxies (e.g., Corg/P) in two sections of the Asturian Basin (northern Iberian Paleomargin), and we integrate these results with data from a suite of global Toarcian sections in order to reassess [...]".
Source: Science Direct
Authors: Javier Fernández-Martínez et al.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2022.104026
Metagenomics and metatranscriptomics reveal broadly distributed, active, novel methanotrophs in the Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone
Abstract.
"The northern Gulf of Mexico (nGOM) hypoxic zone is a shallow water environment where methane, a potent greenhouse gas, fluxes from sediments to bottom water and remains trapped due to summertime stratification. When the water column is destratified, an active planktonic methanotrophic community could mitigate the efflux of methane, which accumulates to high concentrations, to the atmosphere. To investigate the possibility of such a biofilter in the nGOM hypoxic zone we performed metagenome assembly, and metagenomic and metatranscriptomic read mapping. Methane monooxygenase (pmoA) was an abundant [...]".
Source: Oxford Academic
Authors: Kathryn L. Howe et al.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiac153
Marine osmium‑uranium‑sulfur isotope evidence for the interaction of volcanism and ocean anoxia during the Middle Pleistocene
Abstract.
"Before the Quaternary, the Earth experienced a series of environmental perturbations. The causal links between large volcanic events, extreme climatic change, and ocean anoxia have been examined in the context of these perturbations. However, to date, the correlation between oceanic anoxia and large volcanic activity in the Pleistocene remains poorly constrained. Identifying the physical processes that can control changes to the marine osmium, uranium, and sulfur isotope ratios is critical to understanding how volcanic activity, climate changes, and ocean anoxia have coevolved throughout the Quaternary. [...]".
Source: Science Direct
Authors: Wenlong Pei et al.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.111360
The effects of seawater thermodynamic parameters on the oxygen minimum zone (OMZ) in the tropical western Pacific Ocean
Abstract.
"The continuous expansion of the oxygen minimum zone (OMZ) is a microcosm of marine hypoxia problem. Based on a survey in M4 seamount area of Tropical Western Pacific Ocean, the effects of thermodynamic parameters on OMZ were discussed. The study showed thermodynamic parameters mainly affect the upper oxycline of OMZ. The increase in temperature aggravates seawater stratification, which not only shallows oxycline but also increases the strength of DO stratification, promoting the expansion of OMZ. [...]".
Source: Science Direct
Authors: Jun Ma et al.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.114579
Temporal and spatial variability in hydrography and dissolved oxygen along southwest Nova Scotia using glider observations
Abstract.
"Dissolved oxygen (DO) in the global ocean is on the decline, resulting in the degradation of coastal habitats. As aquaculture production occurs in these regions, proper understanding of coastal DO dynamics is important for improved farm management (e.g. site selection). The main objective of this study was to quantify along-shore and cross-shore variability in DO dynamics, as well as onshore advection of offshore waters to the bays that could contain aquaculture farms. [...]".
Source: Science Direct
Authors: Meredith Burke et al.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2022.104908
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