NEW POST DOCTORATE INVESTIGATES OCEAN ACIDIFICATION

01.07.2011

A new post-doctoral fellow at NIWA is investigating ecological impacts of one of the most pressing threats to the world’s oceans: ocean acidification.  Ocean acidification has the potential to affect the basic life functions of key species, such as shellfish, and change ecosystems. It’s expected to particularly affect the cold waters of the Antarctic, but just what this threat might mean to Antarctic ecosystems is largely unknown. To read the press release go here: