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Human-driven climate change inherently affects people and the environment at regional
and local scales. The coastal boundary between the land and the sea will be especially
vulnerable to ongoing and future climate change, ocean acidification, and pollution.
This talk will focus on two coastal ocean examples for the US Northeast. The first case
study examines the interplay of climate warming, nitrogen loading, and wastewater-
treatment discharge on near-shore coastal water quality in Buzzards, Bay MA. The
second case study presents regional analyzes of warming and acidification on the
continental shelf and possible impacts on commercial fisheries such as lobster and
scallops. 

Biography

Scott Doney?s expertise spans oceanography, climate, and biogeochemistry, with
particular emphasis on the application of numerical models and data analysis methods
to local to global-scale questions. He has a BA in chemistry from University of
California, San Diego, and a PhD in chemical oceanography from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in
Oceanography. He was a postdoctoral fellow and later a scientist at the National Center
for Atmospheric Research and then was a scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution. He joined the University of Virginia in Fall, 2017 as the first Joe D. and Helen
J. Kington Professor in Environmental Change

Contact

[[marjy,Dr. Marjy Friedrichs]]

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• VIMS Internal Events
• Departmental Seminars