Tag: climate change

  • Climate Change and Marine Communities 6: effects of acidification

    This is the sixth installment of my serialization of a new book chapter on  “Climate Change and Marine Communities” written with Chris Harley and Mike Burrows. It is for a new book “Marine Community Ecology and Conservation” that I’m co-editing with Mark Bertness, Brian Silliman, and Jay Stachowicz.  The book is more or less a followup to the best-selling…

  • Climate Change and Marine Communities 5: Population-level effects of ocean warming

    This is the fifth installment of my serialization of a new book chapter on  “Climate Change and Marine Communities” written with Chris Harley and Mike Burrows. It is for a new book “Marine Community Ecology and Conservation” that I’m co-editing with Mark Bertness, Brian Silliman, and Jay Stachowicz.  The book is more or less a followup to the best-selling…

  • Climate Change and Marine Communities 4: Individual-level effects of ocean warming: ecophysiology

    This is the fourth installment of my serialization of a new book chapter on  “Climate Change and Marine Communities” written with Chris Harley and Mike Burrows. It is for a new book “Marine Community Ecology and Conservation” that I’m co-editing with Mark Bertness, Brian Silliman, and Jay Stachowicz.  The book is more or less a followup to the best-selling…

  • Approaching 400 ppm

    Approaching 400 ppm

    The atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide is approaching 400 ppm (parts per million) for the first time in at least half a millions years.  Track CO2 concentration at a great new site, with nice graphics and understandable information here.

  • Climate Change and Marine Communities 3: Physical and chemical effects of climate change on the oceans

    This is the third installment of my serialization of a new book chapter on  “Climate Change and Marine Communities” written with Chris Harley and Mike Burrows. It is for a new book “Marine Community Ecology and Conservation” that I’m co-editing with Mark Bertness, Brian Silliman, and Jay Stachowicz.  The book is more or less a followup to the best-selling…

  • Climate Change and Marine Communities 2: What is climate change?

    This is the second installment of my serialization of a new book chapter on  “Climate Change and Marine Communities” written with Chris Harley and Mike Burrows. It is for a new book “Marine Community Ecology and Conservation” that I’m co-editing with Mark Bertness, Brian Silliman, and Jay Stachowicz.  The book is more or less a followup to the best-selling…

  • Visualizing Arctic sea ice loss

    For a book chapter I’m working on with Chris Harley and Mike Burrows, Iv’e been looking for the best graphics science has to offer that visualize Arctic sea ice loss.  Here are a few contenders.  Advice and other suggestions welcome.

  • The Feelies

  • New worries about slumping thermokarst

    That’s right.  Slumping thermokarst. Essentially thawing coastal permafrost in the arctic: A new paper in PNAS describing work by my UNC colleague Dr Rose Cory in Alaska on thermokarst slumping is shaking up the world of thermokarst experts and alarming thermokarst conservationists and collectors.  But seriously, this is just one more sign of a positive feedback of global warming; the more…

  • Drew Harvell at work in the coral triangle

    My friend, collaborator and post-doc advisor Dr Drew Harvell of Cornell University has published three articles in the New York Times Scientists at Work series about her current trip to the coral triangle. In her Feb 1 post Drew describes her visit to the reefs of Papua, some pristine and diverse, some ravaged by dynamite fishing:…