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Video What is OA?
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What Is Ocean Acidification? | PBS LearningMedia

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Explore how atmospheric pollution affects the chemistry of the world's oceans in this video from NOVA: Lethal Seas. The burning of fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, some of which is absorbed into the oceans. Animations illustrate how CO2 reacts with water to form carbonic acid, which releases hydrogen ions and increases the water's acidity.

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Pre-Assessment on Ocean Acidification: A Systems Approach

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Using Ocean Acidification Models to Make Predictions

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Using Ocean Acidification Models to Make Predictions

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Article
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Oceans of Acid: How Fossil Fuels Could Destroy Marine Ecosystems

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Oceans of Acid: How Fossil Fuels Could Destroy Marine Ecosystems

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Lesson Plan for student "before you read" questions, the article and "after you read" student comprehension questions, and follow up video.

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Lesson Plan includes teacher led demo, station experiments for students, resources on pH, and CER for evaluation

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Understanding Ocean & Coastal Acidification

Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is rising, but what does this mean for the world's oceans? Using data from NOAA, students will explore relationships between carbon dioxide, ocean pH and aragonite saturation state. By examining these parameters using graphs and models, students can predict whether ocean conditions support the growth and survival of shell-building marine life, both now and in the future.

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Understanding Ocean & Coastal Acidification

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Understanding Ocean & Coastal Acidification Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is rising, but what does this mean for the world's oceans? Using data from NOAA, students will explore relationships between carbon dioxide, ocean pH and aragonite saturation state.

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Decades of ocean observations show that fundamental changes in seawater chemistry are occurring throughout the world's oceans, including the process called OCEAN ACIDIFICATION. If you are a student, educator, or simply interested in learning more about ocean acidification, below are a number of educational resources that describe the changing chemistry of the oceans and the potential impacts on marine ecosystems.

Ocean Acidification Visualizations

Below is an animation showing a computer recreation of surface ocean pH from 1895 to the present and a forecast of ocean pH between now and 2100 under business as usual emission scenarios. Purple dots show cold-water coral reefs. Red dots show warm-water coral reefs. The pH scale is shown on the right. Increasing acidity is a relative shift in pH to a lower value.

Ocean Acidification on Science On a Sphere: In collaboration with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and NOAA's Environmental Visualization Laboratory, we developed animations for use on Science On a Sphere® that show computer model simulations of surface ocean pH and carbonate mineral saturation state for the years 1895 to 2094.

Ocean Acidification Impacts Coral Reefs: NOAA's Environmental Visualization Laboratory developed an animation showing model data of how the availability of calcium carbonate is predicted to decrease over the next century at a depth of 10 meters in the ocean-where most corals occur. Unfortunately this animation has been removed from this web site.

Ocean Acidification: The Other Carbon Dioxide Problem: NOAA's Environmental Visualization Laboratory produced a 4 minute video explaining what ocean acidification is and the potential impacts to marine ecosystems.

Ocean Acidification Lectures

ASLO Contemporary Issues Lectures on Ocean Acidification, including an "Overview of Ocean Acidification" by Dr. Richard Feely: Limnology and Oceanography e-Lectures are prepared by experts on particular topics and are intended to serve as a resource for member educators and researchers, to assist them in bringing the most recent and cutting edge science and non-traditional teaching techniques into undergraduate and graduate aquatic science courses. Full lectures are available to members and partial PDF versions are public.

Short Course on Ocean Acidification: The Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry (OCB) Project Office with co-sponsorship from the European Project on Ocean Acidification (EPOCA) coordinated and hosted a hands-on ocean acidification short course from November 2-13, 2009 at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA. See the OCB webpage for archived materials and video footage of lectures.

Ocean Acidification Impacts on Shellfish Workshop: This workshop was planned to bring together stakeholders from the U.S. west coast who are working to understand and address ocean acidification. Fifty participants were invited from the shellfish industry, regulatory agencies, and research institutions. They received presentations on a variety of topics and took part in discussions to address key questions related to the goals of the workshop. See the workshop website for archived presentations and the final report and recommendations.

Additional Links for Educators

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Decades of ocean observations show that fundamental changes in seawater chemistry are occurring throughout the world's oceans, including the process called OCEAN ACIDIFICATION .

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Lesson Plan inlcuding Ocean Water Map, Articles with Reading guide, Concept Map, and extension

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Acids
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Global impacts of CO2 on ecosystems and how systems thinking can help

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Global impacts of CO2 on ecosystems and how systems thinking can help

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Lesson Plan using simulations to see spatial and temporal CO2 patterns; slideshows on overview of carbon cycle and chemistry of CO2 dissolution; videos

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Ocean Acidification Awareness Game | PBS LearningMedia

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Want to learn about ocean acidification? Test your knowledge! This multiple-choice game contains four questions in each of three categories: Ocean Dynamics, Ocean Chemistry, and Life in the Ocean. Each row has increasingly harder questions. The harder the question, the more points the question is wo…