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Ocean Acidification Research Center
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Ocean Acidification Research Center - College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences - University of Alaska Fairbanks
https://www.uaf.edu/cfos/research/oarc/
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Is next week the Holiday Greetings show?
December 11, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Even this morning over Troth Yeddha! 🙌
December 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Super! 🙌

We reached out at the time and if I remember correctly, your project was collecting discrete seawater samples to analyze carbonate chemistry. Can you let us know if we have this right?
December 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Leads: University of Alaska Southeast and Fairbanks and the Southeast Alaska Tribal Ocean Research #SEATOR.

Advisors: Skagway Traditional Council, Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, and the Alaska Fisheries Development Foundations.

Team: NOAA, UAF, and AOOS.
December 2, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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The Strait Science Series lectures are presented by @uafairbanks.bsky.social Northwest Campus and #Alaska Sea Grant to promote understanding between citizens of the Bering Strait region and the researchers who frequent the Seward Peninsula. #AlaskaSky 🧪🌊🦑
December 2, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Before marine carbon removal scales up, build the science and guardrails to govern it | Alaska Beacon
Coastal Alaskan communities can offer valuable insights as to whether a method of marine carbon dioxide removal is feasible or futile.
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December 1, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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There have been a few letters to the @alaskabeacon.com about #mCDR in Alaska. We look forward to new and continued discussions.

alaskabeacon.com/2025/11/06/a...
Alaska’s coastal communities deserve a say in geoengineering of our oceans | Alaska Beacon
The idea behind marine carbon dioxide removal, also known as mCDR, is to increase the ability of the ocean to take up carbon dioxide.
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December 1, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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And for all our fellow observers out there, here are the upcoming @socatco2.bsky.social deadlines. 🧪🌊🦑🗓️

Request for accounts: 11 Dec 2025
Data submission: 15 Jan 2026
Quality control: 20 Mar 2026

Scheduled SOCATv2026 release: 2 Jun 2026

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Data Submission and Quality Control – Surface Ocean CO₂ Atlas
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December 1, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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We are grateful for support to monitor surface ocean CO₂ in Alaska's large marine ecosystems and hopeful that it will continue.... 🧪🌊🦑
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We use commercial and research ships, surface vehicles, gliders, and floats. ⛴️🤖🛟
Figure 4.1 Visualisation of how different observing systems contribute to the multi-scale monitoring required for MRV for mCDR, adapted from Andrea Fassbender (NOAA PMEL). Ocean carbon monitoring platforms (top row) each have their own respective observational coverage across spatial (metres to global scale), temporal (hours to decades), and depth (surface to >4 km) dimensions (bottom 3D graph).
December 1, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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The new European Marine Board report highlights the work done by @socatco2.bsky.social and the unfortunate reality that surface ocean carbon dioxide CO₂ observations are going down. 🧪🌊🦑

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Figure 8.1 Global Ocean CO2 observations for the period 1970-2024. (A) Number of sub-surface (> 10m) total dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) measurements, and (B) their depth distribution over time from the GLODAP database (Source: Lauvset et al., 2024). (C) Surface Ocean CO2 measurements, and (D) their latitudinal distribution from the SOCAT database (Source: Bakker et al., 2016). Colourbars show the observation year, and 3-year mean in black line in (A) and (C). For (B) and (D), the colouring indicates the observation count.
December 1, 2025 at 10:17 PM