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Reaching Consen ...
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The Olympic Coa ...
Olympic Coast tribes have depended on local marine species for their li ...
Tracking Ocean ...
A video journey of ocean acidification research in Puerto Rico ...
Recent Publications & News
Exoskeleton dissolution
Monday, May 11, 2020
Exoskeleton dissolution with mechanoreceptor damage in larval Dungeness crab rela ...
NOAA Employee of the Month ...
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
One of our employees received a well-deserved honor in February 2020 ...
Dungeness crab larvae alre ...
Friday, January 24, 2020
A new NOAA-funded study has documented for the first time that ocean acidificat ...
Mission
To advance our scientific understanding of the ocean carbon cycle and how it is changing over time in support of NOAA's commitment to improve the Nation's ability to anticipate and respond to climate impacts and to conserve and manage healthy oceans, coastal ecosystems, and marine resources. Our research includes documenting the evolving state of the ocean carbon chemistry with high quality measurements on ships and autonomous platforms, studying the processes controlling the role of the ocean in the global carbon cycle, and investigating how rising atmospheric CO2 and climate change affect the chemistry of the oceans and its marine ecosystems.
