The ocean plays an essential role in absorbing large quantities of excess carbon dioxide released by human activities.
The ocean plays an essential role in absorbing large quantities of excess carbon dioxide released by human activities—a role critical to a healthy climate and life on earth—yet not enough is known about the rate at which absorption happens or how it will change as the ocean warms and acidifies.
A pan-Canadian research team led by the University of Victoria received $540,000 in funding to address this knowledge gap. The team will investigate the ocean’s role in slowing climate change as part of the federal government’s $4.7 million Advancing Climate Change Science in Canada initiative announced today by Minister of Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna at UVic.
Led by Roberta Hamme, a chemical oceanographer and associate professor in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, the research will help Canada measure the absorption of carbon dioxide and predict how it will change in the future in Canada’s three oceans. The team brings together university and government scientists to train students at seven universities across Canada to develop the next generation of techniques that will be used to integrate observations from new ocean technologies and computer modelling efforts.
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