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What Can a 19th Century Arctic Shipwreck Tell Us About the 21st Century's Most Wicked Problem?
How citizen science started at PMEL is helping us discover stories of the past.
Report: More acidic seawater poses risks in Alaska
The release of carbon dioxide into the air from power plant smokestacks to the tailpipe on your car could pose a risk to red king crab and other lucrative fisheries in Alaska, a new report says.
Arctic Warming and Increased Weather Extremes: The National Research Council Speaks
Arctic warming is happening at twice the average level of global warming in a process called arctic amplification, where more warming occurs as ice is lost because less of the sun’s energy is reflected back into space
Ocean Acidification - Effects of melting glaciers are part of PWS research
Ocean scientists who have been studying Prince William Sound for the past five years are hoping to determine by fall the maximum distribution of glacial melt water and its impact on the saturation state of carbonate minerals.
Robotic wave gliders gathering data in PWS
NOAA studying changing water parameters using unmanned vessels to study ocean acidification in Prince William Sound.