A team of Oregon State University researchers is leading a three-year effort to learn more about climate fluctuations in Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary using more than 20 years of oceanographic data.
A team of Oregon State University researchers is leading a three-year effort to learn more about climate fluctuations in Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary using more than 20 years of oceanographic data.
The sanctuary is located off the coast of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. It has been named a sentinel site for ocean acidification. Monitoring of ocean conditions in sentinel sites can provide early warning of changing ocean conditions, in this case along the Pacific Northwest coast, including conditions that could impact economically and culturally important fisheries.
The researchers will collaborate with Tribal scientists and resource managers from the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission and the Quinault Indian Nation as well as researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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