{"id":365556,"date":"2010-02-26T08:51:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T13:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3154"},"modified":"2010-02-26T08:51:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T13:51:33","slug":"catlin-survey-embarks-to-study-ocean-acidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/365556","title":{"rendered":"Catlin Survey embarks to study ocean acidity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2010\/feb\/25\/catlin-arctic-survey-ocean-acidification\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Environment\/Pix\/pictures\/2009\/4\/3\/1238759769573\/Ann-Daniels-of-the-Catlin-001.jpg\" width=\"283\" align=\"left\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/eenews.net\/climatewire\/2010\/02\/26\/9\/\" >ClimateWire<\/a>: This year&#8217;s Catlin Arctic Survey will have scientists studying ocean life and chemicals in northern <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Energy_profile_of_Canada\">Canada<\/a> while a team of adventurers explores the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Sea_ice_in_the_Arctic\">sea ice<\/a> off of Greenland. Both teams will be looking into ocean acidification and its impact on sea life. Scientists will collect <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Plankton\">plankton<\/a>, sea butterflies and other life to measure rising levels of acidity.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s team will also be the first to take water samples from the sea ice in winter. The team will measure how much <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Carbon_dioxide\">carbon dioxide<\/a> passes through the sea ice into water and variations in ice thickness. Last year&#8217;s survey found that Arctic ice was thinner than originally thought.<\/p>\n<p>Acidity has risen by 30 percent from preindustrial levels in oceans around the world, posing a danger to small marine organisms. The team is hoping to measure how thinning ice is also affecting marine life. Catlin scientists are also hoping to measure the acidity of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Arctic_Ocean\">Arctic Ocean<\/a>, which has been changing faster than the rest of the seas.<\/p>\n<p>The six scientists will work on an ice base on the western shore of Ellef Ringnes Island. The base does not present ideal working conditions, thanks to constant threats of breaking ice, frostbite and polar bears. Meanwhile, Ann Daniels will lead the three explorers to Greenland, where temperatures can drop to minus 75 degrees Celsius. An analysis of the findings will be published in late 2010 or 2011 (Adam Vaughan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2010\/feb\/25\/catlin-arctic-survey-ocean-acidification\" >London <em>Guardian<\/em><\/a>, Feb. 25). <strong>&#8211; JP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3154&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_3154\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Share This<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ClimateWire: This year&#8217;s Catlin Arctic Survey will have scientists studying ocean life and chemicals in northern Canada while a team of adventurers explores the sea ice off of Greenland. Both teams will be looking into ocean acidification and its impact on sea life. Scientists will collect plankton, sea butterflies and other life to measure rising [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}