Latest findings on Ocean Acidification in the Mediterranean Sea

ICTA-UAB researchers Patrizia Ziveri and Sven Pallacks will participate in the Ocean Acidification Week 2023, as part of the OA Med Hub. This virtual forum will highlight ocean acidification research for sustainability initiatives around the world, and ICTA-UAB researchers will present their latest findings on this topic in the Mediterranean Sea.

 

Ocean Acidification Week 2023 – Mediterranean Hub
 

With Patrizia Ziveri and Sven Pallacks, ICTA-UAB researchers

 

Date: Thursday, November 2nd 2023
Time: 10h
Venue: Online. Register here

 

This session will give a glimpse of current OA work by a selection of OA Med Hub members. Talks will target OA in this region over a large time scale, from reconstruction of past events to current evidence of impacts on key organisms. OA Med-Hub is a network that connects Mediterranean scientists who are working and are interested in ocean acidification in the Mediterranean Sea. The hub is part of the Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network (GOA-ON), which encourages grass roots formation of regional hubs to foster communities of practice for the efficient collection of comparable and geographically distributed data to assess ocean acidification and its effects, and to support adaptation tools such as model forecasts. This OA Med-Hub session is an opportunity to gather scientists from the area and initialise discussions that might open up collaborations and fruitful exchanges.

Program

Session Organizer(s):

• Abed El Rahman Hassoun and Iris Hendriks

Moderator(s):

• Abed El Rahman Hassoun, Co-chair OA Med Hub; GEOMAR/CNRS, Kiel, Germany/Lebanon
• Iris Hendriks, Co-chair OA Med Hub; Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA, CSIC-UIB), Spain
   

Speakers:

• Patrizia Ziveri, Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals (ICTA-UAB), Spain

Vulnerability and resilience of Mediterranean Ecosystems to ocean acidification

• Sven Pallacks,  Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain

Anthropogenic acidification of surface waters drives decreased biogenic calcification in the Mediterranean Sea

• Frédéric Gazeau, CNRS, France

What is the future of shellfish farming in the Mediterranean Sea?

• Önder Kılıç, Istanbul University, Türkiye

Multistressor effect of ocean acidification, microplastic and lanthanum on sea urchin Arbacia lixula