At the 124th GRIPS Forum on May 23, 2016, Dr. Naomi Harada,?Deputy Director, Research & Development Center for Global Change, JAMSTEC gave a lecture titled “Another problem of CO2: Ocean acidification and its impact on marine organisms”.

Abstract

Recently, ocean acidification has been closed up as another CO²?problem and one of global environmental stressors. The dissolution of atmospheric CO²?with seawater reduces pH and carbonate ions, therefore it is urgently required to know the affection of ocean acidification for marine calcifying organisms for conservation of marine ecosystems. Dr. Harada will talk about what is ocean acidification and its potential impact on marine organisms.

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Speakers’ Profile:

Naomi Harada received a PhD in Organic Geochemistry from Nagoya University in 1996. She is leading the Marine Ecosystem Dynamics Research Group of RCGC, and Arctic Marine Ecosystem Research Unit of Institute of Arctic Climate and Environmental Research.She is science steering committee of Ecosystem Studies of Sub-Arctic and Arctic Seas (ESSAS), which is the regional program of IMBER, member of Science Council of Japan and Deputy president of Paleosciences Society.?

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