Elizabeth D. Crook

TL;DR: A compilation of continuous, high-resolution time series of upper ocean pH, collected using autonomous sensors, over a variety of ecosystems ranging from polar to tropical, open-ocean to coastal, kelp forest to coral reef, reveals a continuum of month-long pH variability with characteristic diel, semi-diurnal, and stochastic patterns of varying amplitudes.

TL;DR: It is concluded that the Porites corals at the field site were not able to acclimatize enough to prevent the impacts of local ocean acidification on their skeletal growth and development, despite spending their entire lifespan in low pH, low Ωarag seawater.

TL;DR: In-situ chemical and biological data indicate that both coral species richness and coral colony size decline with increasing proximity to low-saturation, low-pH waters at the ojo centers, and may indicate that today’s more complex frame-building species may be replaced by smaller, possibly patchy, colonies of only a few species along the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef.

TL;DR: In this paper, a combination of tracer mass balances and analytical solutions was used to estimate SGD from ojos using 223Ra and used a salinity mass balance to estimate the freshwater discharge at the beach face.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used radium (Ra) isotopes and salinity to investigate SGD and associated nutrient inputs at five coastal sites and Paopao Bay on the north shore of Moorea.