Polar species like this Arctic cod are most sensitive to changes in temperature and oxygen availability. Credit: Shawn Harper, University of Alaska Fairbanks/NOAA
June 28, 2022
Recent research has found that under a business-as-usual emissions scenario, marine ecosystems are likely to experience “mass extinctions on par with past great extinctions.” The reason? Ocean warming and depleted levels of dissolved oxygen.
The work of AOS Faculty Member Curtis Deutsch, professor of geosciences and the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI), and Justin Penn, a Geosciences postdoc, is highlighted in Eos.