Hobart

Seminar Abstract

Thursday 10 April 2008
6.00pm (Tas time) followed by food and refreshments - RSVP required
CSIRO Auditorium, Hobart

Greg Ayers
Chief
CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research

Ocean Acidification Meets Acid Rain . . . . . A Chemical Connection?

Acidification of surface ocean waters by anthropogenic CO2 is easily understood as arising from the input of additional weak acidity to the ocean in the form of carbonic acid. Perturbation of the marine carbonate equilibrium is an inevitable consequence of adding acidity. End of story? Maybe not! What if there are other oceanic acid-base equilibria of environmental significance that might also be affected. And what does anthropogenic CO2 do to marine atmospheric chemistry? Perhaps an analysis of the coupled system will yield some surprises . . .

Presented by The Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI), Tasmanian Branch
and CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research

RSVP
Monday 7 April to Jillian Moony.
Email: Jillian Moony
Tel: 6232 5320

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Location:
CSIRO = Marine Laboratories Auditorium, Castray Esplanade, Hobart

For further information, or to schedule a seminar, contact:
To schedule a seminar, contact:
Bernadette Sloyan, (Oceanographic seminars) CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (03) 6232 5152
Thomas Kunz, (Biological seminars) CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
(03) 6232 5076
Natalie Dowling, (Fisheries Modelling) CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
(03) 6232 5148
Jillian Enraght-Moony, (seminar administrator) CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (03) 6232 5320
Jess Tyler, Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems CRC (03) 6226 2265
Margaret Hazelwood, Institute of Antarctic and Southern Ocean Studies (IASOS) University of Tasmania (03) 6226 2971

Last updated 8/04/08