Partner: University of Connecticut
![Terrestrial liming at golf courses serve as testbeds for this method for carbon capture and mitigating acidification. Credit: Your Golf Travel (Creative Commons)](https://oceanacidification.noaa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/BonnetCreek_Hole18_YourGolfTravel.com_CreativeCommons-jpg.webp)
- PI(s): Jaime Palter
- Fiscal Year Funded: 2023
Why we care Terrestrial liming, or the addition of a basic (alkaline) material like calcium carbonate to crops and lawns is a common agricultural soil treatment. When applied on land..
![Methane seeps from the benthos in the Atlantic. Credit: NOAA Ocean Exploration](https://oceanacidification.noaa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Methane_vents_ATL_canyons_ROV_2017_NOAA_OceanExploration-768x432.webp)
- PI(s): Cristina Schultz
- Fiscal Year Funded: 2023
Why we care The ocean seafloor, or benthos, serves as the only long-term storage of oceanic carbon on geologic timescales. However, the interaction between ocean water and sediments and its..
![Juvenile Atlantic sea scallops in an experimental tank. Credit: NOAA Fisheries](https://oceanacidification.noaa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Juvenile-Atlantic-Sea-Scallops-_-NOAA-768x556.jpg)
- PI(s): Samantha Siedlecki and Lisa Colburn
- Fiscal Year Funded: 2020
Of the fisheries made up of calcifiers in the Northeast United States, the Atlantic sea scallop fishery is worth more than $500 million per year, is the second highest fisheries..
- PI(s): Samantha Siedlecki
- Fiscal Year Funded: 2019
- Grant Award # NA19OAR0170351
- Partners: University of Connecticut
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Publication(s):
- Impaired hatching exacerbates the high CO2 sensitivity of embryonic sand lance Ammodytes dubius
- Multiple Linear Regression Models for Reconstructing and Exploring Processes Controlling the Carbonate System of the Northeast US From Basic Hydrographic Data
- Projecting ocean acidification impacts for the Gulf of Maine to 2050: New tools and expectations
Over the past 15 years, waters in the Gulf of Maine have taken up
CO2at a rate significantly slower than that observed in the open oceans due to a..
CO2at a rate significantly slower than that observed in the open oceans due to a..