Nov 02 2007
Global Warming and Ocean Acidification: Double Trouble for Marine Ecosystems
If you’re in the Tucson neighborhood on the 6th (unlikely for most of you 
), this talk should be interesting.
Public Lecture about Global Warming on 11/06
Koffler building room 204 on 11/06 starting at 6:30 pm.
The department of geosciences is hosting a free public lecture by Dick Feely, principal oceanographer at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle and affiliate faculty member in the department of oceanography at the University of Washington.
The talk, titled “Global Warming and Ocean Acidification: Double Trouble for Marine Ecosystems,” is open to the public.
Feely’s major research areas are carbon cycling in the oceans and ocean acidification processes. He is a member of the U.S. Science Steering Committees for the U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program, the U.S. Ocean Carbon and Climate Change Program and the U.S. Carbon and Biochemistry Program. Feely has authored more than 150 refereed research publications.
For more information,visit http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/co2/personnel/feely.html.
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I have been interested in this topic for several years; I watched the acid crews putting acid in oil/gas wells in 2002, and wondered what the purpose was for using acid to stimulate the wells…
National Geographic did a story about acid-filled caves, that I found online without too much trouble:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0105/feature4/
It describes how acid turns rock formations into gel, which makes it easier to get the oil and gas to flow. I will visit the web site that you mention and see if NOAA experts are reporting that sea water, salt and organic decay of carbon life forms are making the oceans more acidic…Any thoughts on this subject about how sea water, trapped underground converts into methane deposits, and why the process is accelerating?