The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's Ocean Acidification Program – Funding Studies of Species' Responses to Ocean Acidification Since 2012

NOAA’s Ocean Acidification Program (OAP) was created as a mandate of the 2009 Federal Ocean Acidification Research and Monitoring (FOARAM) Act and has been directly funding species response research since 2012.    Although OA species response is a relatively young field of science, this program built on research already underway across NOAA.  That research platform included experimental facilities in the Fishery Sciences Centers of the National Marine Fishery Service (NMFS), ‘wet’ labs of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), and the coral reef monitoring studies within the National Ocean Service (NOS).  The diversity of research across NOAA allows the program to make interdisciplinary connections among chemists, biologists and oceanographers and creates a more comprehensive and robust approach to understanding species response.  To date, the program has studied a range of taxa including phytoplankton, molluscs, crustaceans, and fish.  This poster describes representative results from the collection of OAP-funded species at nationwide NOAA facilities.