Ocean Chemistry and Ecosystems - NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory /tag/ocean-chemistry-and-ecosystems/ Preparing the nation for change by studying the ocean, earth & atmosphere Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:39:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 /wp-content/uploads/2018/09/NOAA_logo_512x512-150x150.png Ocean Chemistry and Ecosystems - NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory /tag/ocean-chemistry-and-ecosystems/ 32 32 New study demonstrates the impacts of multiple stressors on reef-building corals /new-study-demonstrates-the-impacts-of-multiple-stressors-on-reef-building-corals/ Wed, 26 Mar 2025 19:53:01 +0000 /?p=97475 In a new study, scientists at AOML and the University of Miami’s Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (CIMAS) demonstrated how some genotypes of the reef-building coral Acropora cervicornis (Staghorn Coral), listed on the Endangered Species Act, proved resilient when exposed to high nutrient levels or disease, but not when the two stressors were […]

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]]> Scientists at AOML monitor the impacts of ocean acidification on reefs with new series of buoys  /ocean-acidification-on-reefs-with-new-series-of-buoys/ Wed, 12 Mar 2025 18:36:51 +0000 /?p=97100 Diver’s drop over the gunnel. Tanks, weights, divers, and a mesh bag full of tools all descend in emerald waters beneath grey skies. Off the vessel’s bow, a yellow beacon blinks with a red flashing light and a thin data cable stretching to the seafloor, all connected to a suite of sensors twenty feet below […]

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]]> Coral Restoration: Using ‘Omics to Strategize and Manage Restoration Efforts /coral-restoration-omics/ Fri, 21 Feb 2025 20:42:19 +0000 /?p=96994 A new study by scientists at the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) and the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (CIMAS) provides new insights for effective restoration of the crucial reef-building coral species Acropora palmata, or Elkhorn coral.  Applying ‘Omics techniques to investigate how habitat and coral microbiomes influence ongoing restoration efforts, this […]

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]]> Scientists at AOML measure ocean’s crucial buffering against rising global carbon emissions  /scientists-at-aoml-measure-oceans-crucial-buffering-against-rising-global-carbon-emissions/ Wed, 15 Jan 2025 19:03:07 +0000 /?p=95769 Every year, scientists at AOML participate in the international effort led by the University of Exeter’s Global Systems Institute in developing the annual Global Carbon Budget Report, an assessment of global carbon emissions and the progress towards achieving the climate goals set by the 2016 Paris Agreement. The 2024 Global Carbon Budget Report now indicates […]

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]]> Argo, the ‘crown jewel’ of ocean observing systems, turns 25 /argo-the-crown-jewel-of-ocean-observing-systems-turns-25/ Wed, 11 Dec 2024 16:20:44 +0000 /?p=95394 Originally published on noaa.gov on December 11, 2024. Somewhere in the middle of the ocean, a merchant mariner lowers a cylindrical robotic ocean observing instrument from a ship into the sea to record ocean temperature and salinity. Another instrument is deployed from a plane into the eye of a hurricane to take the pulse of […]

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]]> AOML Take Action Photography Competition /aoml-take-action-photography-competition/ Mon, 11 Nov 2024 15:29:38 +0000 /?p=94952 Whether flying through hurricanes, diving in urban ports to study coral spawning, or sampling deep ocean currents on oceanographic cruises, summer at NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) is filled with scientific activity. To highlight the broad and impactful research conducted at the lab and the passionate scientists driving that work, AOML launched its […]

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]]> BEAMS of Cheeca: shedding light on the resilience of a Florida Keys inshore patch reef /shedding-light-on-the-resilience-of-cheeca-rocks/ Fri, 18 Oct 2024 14:52:45 +0000 /?p=94541 The waves lap at the bow of the RV Cable while glimmers of Cheeca Rocks, a bustling inshore patch reef, ebb and flow into focus below the surface. For eleven consecutive weeks, the Coral Program  at NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) laid anchor at this long-term monitoring site to deploy and maintain Benthic […]

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]]> From Mississippi to Australia: 3 Research Cruises Depart to Improve Understanding of the Atlantic and Southern Ocean /3-research-cruises-depart-to-improve-understanding-of-atlantic-and-southern-ocean/ Tue, 13 Feb 2024 22:16:57 +0000 /?p=72633 Scientists at NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) are gearing up for a busy season at sea with three research cruises departing in the month of February. The A13.5 Global Ocean Ship-based Hydrographic Investigations Program (GO-SHIP) cruise, the I08S GO-SHIP cruise, and the Prediction and Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic (PIRATA) Northeast Extension cruise will all depart in February to collect samples from the surface to the depths of the ocean and improve our understanding of ocean circulation, carbon uptake, biological conditions, and climate variability. 

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]]> Key Study Demonstrates Buffering of Some Florida Reefs Against Ocean Acidification /study-demonstrates-buffering-of-florida-reefs-against-ocean-acidification/ Wed, 17 Jan 2024 20:30:29 +0000 /?p=71608 A groundbreaking new study spanning more than a decade and hundreds of miles of the Florida Coral Reef demonstrates the key role benthic communities play in reducing the impacts of climate change on coral reef ecosystems, specifically Ocean Acidification.

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]]> Landmark study analyzes global ocean carbon storage over two decades, indicates weakening of ocean carbon sink /ocean-carbon-sink-could-be-weakening/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 17:25:45 +0000 /?p=65204 A landmark study published last week demonstrates that the ocean’s role as a carbon sink and its ability to store anthropogenic, or human-caused, carbon may be weakening. A collaboration among international researchers led by Jens Daniel Müller, Ph.D. (ETH Zurich), this study captures a snapshot of three decades of global interior ocean measurements to determine […]

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