Major themes in the Ocean Climate lab:

Ocean Acidification & coastal carbon flux

GEOSPATIAL PATTERNS OF OCEAN ACIDIFICATION AND CLIMATE CHANGE: Ongoing work aims to understand the geographic patterns of ocean acidification, and how they will impact human communities along the coast. This includes our work to connect oceanographic & ecological insights about ocean acidification and hypoxia to decision making, and the establishment of “big data” approaches to ocean change.
COASTAL HABITATS & CLIMATE CHANGE: Research focuses on seagrass ecosystems and how they modify estuarine geochemistry, store carbon (e.g., "blue carbon"), and ameliorate ocean acidification. This work also includes research to understand the impact of aquaculture farms as a potential carbon storage hotspot.

COASTAL ARCHIVES OF CLIMATE: This includes our lab focus on recent geologic intervals as key time periods to understand how ecosystems respond to change. Work in this realm includes efforts to understand impacts of environmental change on benthic and planktonic foraminifera, understanding bivalve archives of recent climate and environment.
PALEO APPROACHES TO CONSERVATION: Research in the lab focuses on understanding the past distribution of important coastal species, like the Olympia oyster, using paleoecological records. This research also uses microfossil assemblages and geochemistry to reconstruct conditions under which oysters are in abundance in the paleo record.

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