Trouble in the Frigid Waters

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TROUBLE IN THE FRIGID WATERS

Climate Change and the Antarctic

Cecilia

Jasmin

Sylvia

Antarctica

Southern Ocean

Antarctica

Kevin’s subtitle? And presentation follows…

…..eventually

Ocean Acidification in the Polar Seas

By Cecilia P. An interpretation of Ocean Acidification At High Latitudes: The Bellwether (Fabry et al 2008)

www.oceanleadership.org

www.blogs.smithsonianmag.com

www.marinespecies.org

www.awi.dewww.blogs.smithsonianmag.com

www.awi.de

www.news.sciencemag.org

www.awi.de

www.news.sciencemag.org

Fabry et al 2008

Southern Ocean

Southern Ocean40%CO2

Crabs – First to invade, but will they be the last?

By Sylvia - based on Climate Change and Invasibilty of the Antarctic

Benthos

THE Antarctic

Unique – Giant Sea Spiders

Unique – Nermateans

Unique – Giant Isopods

Unique

The invasion has begun

REFERENCES – Picture Credit

Alfred Wegener Institut fuer Polar und Meeresforschung http://www.awi.de/en/news/images_video_audio/image_galleries/picture_gallery_antarctic_benthos/

Ice shelf picture: http://www.swisseduc.ch/glaciers/earth_icy_planet/glaciers08- en.html?id=5)

Picture of Blue King Crab http://www.seafoodblog.net/?p=326

Picture of King Crab with raised claw http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/king-crabs-invade-antarctica-for-first-time-in-40-million-years.html

Picture of Arctic Fox http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/arctic-fox/

Arctic Map http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/polar/arctic.htm#.UZ08AbWsh8E

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/weddell-seal/

Picture of Anarctic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic

Picture of Walrus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walrus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaskan_king_crab_fishing

Isopod picture http://www.oikonos.org/apfieldguide Spider Crab http://fwallpapers.com/view/spider-crab Waving King Crab

http://avrilmarieives.wordpress.com/2011/06/29/alaska-the-last-frontier/alaska-june-2011-663/

The End

References – Original Scientific Literature

Aronson, R. B., Thatje, S., Clarke, A., Peck, L. S., Blake, D.B., Wilga, C. D. and Seibel, B. A. (2007). Climate Change and Invasibility of the Anarctic Benthos. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 38:129-54.

Bintanja, R., van Oldenborgh, G. J., Drijfhout, S. S., Wouters, B. and Katsman C. A. (2013). Important role for ocean warming and increased ice-shelf melt in Antarctic sea-ice expansion. Nat Geosci DOI: 10.1038/NGEO1767

Fabry, V. J., McClintock, J. B., Mathis, J. T. and Grebmeier J. M. (2009). Ocean Acidification at High Latitudes: The Bellwether. Oceanography 22(4): 160-171.

Pritchard, H. D., Ligtenberg, S. R. M., Fricker, H. A., Vaughan, D. G., Van Den Broeke, M. R. and Padman, L. (2012). Antarctic ice-sheet loss driven by basal melting of ice shelves. Nature 484: 502-505.

SPECIAL THANKS TO The Evergreen State College and Trisha Towanda

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