Partner: Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL)
![Fisherman pulling up sugar kelp. Seaweed cultivation may be one avenue for marine carbon dioxide removal and mitigating ocean acidification. Credit: GreenWave/Ron Gautreau.](https://oceanacidification.noaa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/sugar-kelp-nefsc_GreenWaveRon-Gautreau.jpg)
- PI(s): Andreas Andersson
- Fiscal Year Funded: 2023
Award amount: $1,451,575Duration: 3 yearsFunding agency: NOAA Ocean Acidification Program (OAP), National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) Why we care Growing seaweed in the ocean could be one way to alleviate some..
![Breaking wave in sunlight. Credit: NOAA Ocean Service](https://oceanacidification.noaa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/NOS_waves960-768x512.jpg)
- PI(s): Burke Hales
- Fiscal Year Funded: 2023
Why we care Ocean alkalinity enhancement has the potential to capture carbon and mitigate ocean acidification. While ocean alkalinity enhancement is a promising approach for removing carbon from the atmosphere,..
![Breaking wave in sunlight. Credit: NOAA Ocean Service](https://oceanacidification.noaa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/NOS_waves960-768x512.jpg)
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![Breaking wave in sunlight. Credit: NOAA Ocean Service](https://oceanacidification.noaa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/NOS_waves960-768x512.jpg)
- PI(s): Andrew Dickson
- Fiscal Year Funded: 2023
Why we care Energy, manufacturing and deployment costs are critical to the viability of any carbon dioxide removal approach. This research project focuses on a new strategy that promises low..
![Air-Sea Interaction Spar buoy. Credit: Lt. Elizabeth Crapo, NOAA Corps](https://oceanacidification.noaa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Air_Sea_Interaction_Spar_Buoy_Lt_Elizabeth_Crapo_NOAA_Corps-jpg.webp)
![Air-Sea Interaction Spar buoy. Credit: Lt. Elizabeth Crapo, NOAA Corps](https://oceanacidification.noaa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Air_Sea_Interaction_Spar_Buoy_Lt_Elizabeth_Crapo_NOAA_Corps-jpg.webp)
- PI(s): Galen McKinley
- Fiscal Year Funded: 2023
Why we care Ocean uptake of carbon has great natural variability that accompanies rising atmospheric carbon dioxide. A major challenge for marine carbon dioxide removal will be to quantify its..
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- PI(s): Richard Feely
- Fiscal Year Funded: 2021
U.S. West coast-wide hydrographic surveys have been conducted intermittently from 2007 to 2017, providing evidence for the..
![The Coast Guard Cutter Munro from Kodiak, Alaska, sails toward the sunset during an unusually calm evening on the Bering Sea. Credit: USCG](https://oceanacidification.noaa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/USCG_CutterMunro_BeringSea_2019_USCG-768x387.webp)
![The Coast Guard Cutter Munro from Kodiak, Alaska, sails toward the sunset during an unusually calm evening on the Bering Sea. Credit: USCG](https://oceanacidification.noaa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/USCG_CutterMunro_BeringSea_2019_USCG-768x387.webp)
- PI(s): Jessica Cross
- Fiscal Year Funded: 2022
Coastal regions around Alaska experience some of the most rapid and extensive progressions of ocean acidification (OA)..
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- PI(s): Simone Alin
- Fiscal Year Funded: 2022
Underway ship measurements of ocean acidification (OA) data on ships of opportunity (SOOP) have proven to be..
- PI(s): Adrienne Sutton, Chris Sabine
- Fiscal Year Funded: 2010
- PI(s): Richard Feely
- Fiscal Year Funded: 2010
- PI(s): Simone Alin
- Fiscal Year Funded: 2010