10.8.16 | In a series of laboratory experiments headed by Prof. Dr. Justin Ries of Northeastern University in Boston, a team of scientists at ZMT has been testing the effects of ocean acidification and warming on corals from both tropical and sub-polar waters.
The research is a collaboration between the ZMT, Northeastern University in Boston (USA), Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) , Max-Planck-Institute for Marine Microbiology (MPI), and GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel.
As part of the project the US-based scientist recently held a workshop at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK ), which supports Prof. Ries’ research stay at ZMT with a fellowship.
After an overview of the project Prof. Ries presented some of the results of the experiments and assessed the methods used to measure the pH of the coral calcifying fluid (using with pH microelectrodes to measure the calcifying fluid of the corals and studying the boron isotopic composition of the their calcareous skeleton).
Scientists from ZMT, AWI, GEOMAR, MPI, IUEM Technopôle Brest-Iroise, MPI, the University of Miami and the University of St. Andrews took part in the workshop.
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