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Variability and drivers of carbonate chemistry at shellfish aquaculture sites in the Salish Sea, British Columbia
Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Debby Ianson
Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Institute of Ocean Sciences, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Sidney, British Columbia, Canada
Karen E. Kohfeld
Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
School of Environmental Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Ana C. Franco
Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Paul A. Covert
Institute of Ocean Sciences, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Sidney, British Columbia, Canada
Marty Davelaar
Institute of Ocean Sciences, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Sidney, British Columbia, Canada
Yves Perreault
Little Wing Oysters, Lund, British Columbia, Canada
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We provide new winter sea ice and summer sea surface temperature estimates for marine core TAN1302-96 (59° S, 157° E) in the Southern Ocean. We find that sea ice was not consolidated over the core site until ~65 ka and therefore believe that sea ice may not have been a major contributor to early glacial CO2 drawdown. Sea ice does appear to have coincided with Antarctic Intermediate Water production and subduction, suggesting it may have influenced intermediate ocean circulation changes.
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Shellfish aquaculture operates in nearshore areas where data on ocean acidification parameters are limited. We show daily and seasonal variability in pH and saturation states of calcium carbonate at nearshore aquaculture sites in British Columbia, Canada, and determine the contributing drivers of this variability. We find that nearshore locations have greater variability than open waters and that the uptake of carbon by phytoplankton is the major driver of pH and saturation state variability.
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