Forests of the Sea is showing at University of Technology, Sydney! Follow the link to the Living Data program and read what Dr Lisa Roberts, Living Data leader, has to say about bringing a range of climate change expressions to students on campus.

Marine Plastic Pollution – EAST COAST ODYSSEY

Marine Plastic Pollution EAST COAST ODYSSEY People with a sense of adventure and a passion for preventing our oceans from becoming a ‘plastic soup’ are wanted to join a unique expedition. This nature tourism, scientific research and conservation project, East Coast Odyssey, will be the first expedition of its kind to tackle insidious micro-plastics in…

Atmospheric carbon dioxide level reaches historic high of 400 parts per million Professor Sir Brian Hoskins, Imperial College, London If you sampled CO2 in an urban area, we would have passed 400ppm some time ago, but the Mauna Loa observatory is on a volcanic island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. CO2 mixes with…

Meet Choreographer Aimee Smith and hear her talk about the background to her new work Solastalgia | Wintering And read Professor Glenn Albrecht’s response to the work at the same site.    

About 180 miles off the coast of Haida Gawaii, an archipelago on the western shores of British Columbia, Canada, the Haida Salmon Restoration Corporation decided to dump 110 tons of an iron-based compound into the Pacific waters, says the CBC. The dump was part of a $2 million bid to drive a surge in salmon populations…

  Read Nature Geoscience article: The carbonate chemistry of the surface ocean is rapidly changing with ocean acidification, a result of human activities1. In the upper layers of the Southern Ocean, aragonite—a metastable form of calcium carbonate with rapid dissolution kinetics—may become undersaturated by 2050 (ref. 2). Aragonite undersaturation is likely to affect aragonite-shelled organisms, which…

Stories from the Sea

Message from Ocean Planet: If you haven’t seen it already, Environment Tasmania has created an exciting new film series ‘Stories from the Sea’ based on interviews with 18 men and women from and women from around the state about our unique connection to the oceans, fishing, and how it has all changed in decades past. Every…

Warming World Caused Southern Ocean to Exhale

“….the Southern Ocean plays a more benign role in the global carbon budget: Its waters now take up about 50% of the atmospheric carbon dioxide emitted by human activities, thanks in large part to the so-called “biological pump.”  Phytoplankton, tiny photosynthesizing organisms that bloom in the nutrient-rich waters of the Southern Ocean, suck up carbon…

Life Blooms Under Arctic Ice

Only once the ice begins to melt each summer does life begin to bloom in the nutrient-rich waters of the Arctic Ocean—or so scientists have thought. But life may not wait for the ice to retreat, after all.   Read: Life  Blooms Under the Arctic Ice  at Science NOW.

ACE is Australia’s largest center of Antarctic and Southern Ocean climate change research. Their research extends to include climate change impacts in Australia and Pacific.  ACE has national and international extent and reach. Hear ACE experts talk about their science.