How Oregon scientists and oyster farmers are responding to ocean acidification (audio) - Ocean Acidification

How Oregon scientists and oyster farmers are responding to ocean acidification (audio) - Ocean Acidification

In the late 2000s, unexplained mass die-offs of oysters at Whiskey Creek Shellfish Hatchery in Tillamook, Oregon, helped scientists uncover a major threat to coastal ecosystems: ocean acidification. Today, Oregon’s coast remains one of the areas most affected by this phenomenon. Each summer, deep ocean waters rich in carbon dioxide and low in oxygen rise to the surface — a natural process known as upwelling — […] The post How Oregon scientists a…