The third U.S. Ocean Acidification Principal Investigators' Meeting was held at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, MA on June 9-11, 2015.
Ocean acidification (OA) is an important research focus both nationally and internationally. While acidification of the oceans in response to rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations is now irrefutable, the details of the chemical, geological, and biological consequences of OA require much further study. Over the past 6 years, NSF and other US agencies have invested millions of dollars in ocean acidification research. As the numbers of OA projects and investigators have grown, it has become increasingly important to help build and strengthen scientific collaborations and discuss short- and long-term research priorities through a series of regular Principal Investigator (PI) meetings. This three-day meeting brought together primarily NSF-funded investigators of the OA research community to share new scientific results and identify knowledge gaps and opportunities for collaborations that will accelerate OA research in the future. The primary goal of this PI meeting is to highlight important new findings coming out of agency-sponsored OA research and maximize exchange among PIs to share new ideas, build new collaborations, and discuss future research directions. The meeting organizers include members of the OCB Ocean Acidification Subcommittee and OCB Project Office staff. A report of this PI meeting was published in the Fall 2015 OCB Newsletter (pp. 47-49).
This 3-day OA PI meeting was immediately followed by a NOAA OA PI meeting on Friday, June 12th. Contact Erica Ombres for more information.
See conversations about this meeting on Twitter: #OAPI2015 (@us_ocb, @NSF, @OA_NOAA)
Meeting Archive
- Agenda with Talks
- Participant Information
- Poster Information
Agenda with Talks
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Welcome and Introduction, Jeremy Mathis (NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory), Heather Benway (Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.)
Tutorial 1. Can we infer organismal physiology from geochemical proxies?, Bärbel Hönisch (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory)
Session 1. Paleo-Responses and Geochemical Proxies
Chair: Andreas Schmittner (Oregon State Univ.)
Research talk. Proxy relationships for carbonate chemistry: applications in Washington State marine waters, Simone Alin (NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory)
Research talk. Development of geochemical proxies to evaluate larval pH-exposure history: Progress, pitfalls, and future directions, Achim Herrmann (Louisiana State Univ.)
Research talk. Boron constraints on the magnitude of surface ocean acidification during the PETM, James Zachos* (Univ. California, Santa Cruz) *given by Bärbel Hönisch (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory)
Session 2. Single/Multiple Species Response to Ocean Acidification and Cross-Ecosystem Comparisons
Chair: Rusty Brainard (NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center)
Overview talk. Deconvolving the impact of ocean acidification from the impact of everything else: What we've learned from field studies, Anne Cohen (Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.)
Research talk. Dose-dependent impacts of ocean acidification conditions and potential resiliency in young squid, Aran Mooney (Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.)
Research talk. Field and laboratory studies of pteropod ecology and physiology, Gareth Lawson (Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.)
Research talk. Calcification, transparency, and color of shrimp under reduced pH conditions, Jennifer Taylor (Scripps Inst. Oceanography)
Session 3. Carbonate Chemistry
Chair: Bob Byrne (Univ. South Florida)
Overview talk. Ocean acidification - Carbonate dissolution kinetics; laboratory vs. field rates, Will Berelson (Univ. Southern California)
Research talk. Field observations of acidification-driven carbonate mineral dissolution, Jessica Cross (Univ. Alaska, Fairbanks/NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory)
Research talk. The effect of ocean acidification on the availability of ambient iron in upwelling waters, Mark Wells (Univ. Maine)
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Tutorial 2. Finding resiliency: Evolution and adaptation to ocean acidification on different time scales (Donal Manahan, Univ. Southern California)
Session 4. Multiple Stressor Responses
Chair: Marguerite Koch (Florida Atlantic Univ.)
Research talk. Ocean acidification, hypoxia and warming: Investigations into multiple stressor effects on a benthic foraminiferal community (Joan Bernhard, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.)
Research talk. Effects of CO2 and co-stressors on marine and estuarine fish species (Beth Phelan, NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center)
Research talk. Response to ocean acidification varies by genotype in the deep-sea coral Lophelia pertusa, Erik Cordes (Temple Univ.)
Research talk. A multidisciplinary approach to investigating the scleractinian coral response to ocean acidification, Justin Ries (Northeastern Univ.)
Research talk. Impact of climate warming and ocean carbonation on eelgrass (Zostera marina L.), Richard Zimmerman (Old Dominion Univ.)
Session 5. Evolution and Adaptation
Chair: Jeff Morris (Univ. Alabama, Birmingham)
Overview talk. Plastic and evolutionary responses to ocean acidification: Navigating the difficult terrain between unfounded pessimism, optimism, and impossible tasks, Hannes Baumann (Univ. Connecticut)
Research talk. Parental effects and trans-generational plasticity in corals: Coping with rapid environmental change (Hollie Putnam, Univ. Hawaii)
Research talk. The role of respiratory plasticity in fish resilience, Andrew Esbaugh (Univ. Texas, Austin)
Research talk. Analysis of coral genomes to elucidate the basis of biomineralization, Debashish Bhattacharya (Rutgers Univ.)
Session 6. Temporal Perspectives on Ocean Acidification
Chair: Jessica Cross (Univ. Alaska, Fairbanks/NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory)
Research talk. Ocean acidification time-series observations in the California Current Ecosystem LTER region (Uwe Send, Scripps Inst. Oceanography)
Research talk. Ocean acidification observations at the Palmer LTER (Scott Doney, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.)
Research talk. Studying ocean acidification at an LTER: A coral reef example from Moorea, Peter Edmunds (California State Univ., Northridge)
Thursday, June 11, 2015
Tutorial 3. Deep vs. shallow: Responses to ocean acidification on varying spatial scales (Richard Feely, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory)
Session 7. Feedbacks between Seawater Chemistry and Organisms
Chair: Andreas Andersson (Scripps Inst. Oceanography)
Research talk. No pCO2 effect on Pleurochrysis carterae coccolith dissolution in Acartia tonsa guts (Meredith White, Bigelow Laboratory)
Research talk. Investigating why DMS production consistently decreases in acidified ocean experiments (Stephen Archer, Bigelow Laboratory)
Research talk. Molecular and cellular mechanisms for pH sensing, ion transport and regulation of metabolism in corals (Martin Tresguerres, Scripps Inst. Oceanography)
Session 8. Ecosystem Modeling of Ocean Acidification
Chair: Jeremy Mathis (NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory)
Overview talk (Scott Doney, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.)
Research talk. Modeling population-scale responses of iconic fisheries to ocean acidification (Sarah Cooley, Ocean Conservancy)
Research talk. Ocean acidification impacts future phytoplankton community structure (Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Massachusetts Inst. Technology)
Session 9. Technological Advances to Support Ocean Acidification Research
Chair: Simone Alin (NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory)
Overview talk (Todd Martz, Scripps Inst. Oceanography
Research talk. Simultaneous, in-situ measurements of seawater carbon dioxide system parameters – The development and potential application (Z. Aleck Wang, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.)
Research talk. New tools for tracking ocean acidification in the rapidly changing Pacific-Arctic region (Jeremy Mathis, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory)
Research talk. Diagnosing microbial responses to ocean acidification using targeted metaproteomics in cultures and environmental populations (Mak Saito, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.)
Research talk. Satellite tools and approaches for ocean acidification research (Barney Balch, Bigelow Laboratory)
Friday, June 12, 2015
NOAA Ocean Acidification Program PI Meeting
8:45 Webinar recap – What types of data synthesis products already exist? We will be hosting a series of webinars leading up to the meeting. This session will provide a brief recap/refresher of the webinar.
9:15 Break
9:30 What types of data synthesis products are needed?
11:30 Convene the breakout groups so that each group can go to lunch together and begin their discussions
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Regional breakouts discussing what data synthesis products are needed in each region. Regions are: global, coral reefs, California Current Ecosystem (CCE), Gulf of Mexico, North East, Alaska, and the South Atlantic. Participants can choose their breakout group but each group will be capped at 10 participants.
3:15 Break
3:30 Reconvene groups. Have each regional breakout group present to the greater group (5 mins per group). Use any remaining time to discuss any overarching themes/gaps.
5:00 Adjourn
Participant Information
OA PI 2015 Participant List
Poster Information
OA PI 2015 Poster Abstracts
