SMEA Professor Terrie Klinger and SMEA Affiliate Professor Jan Newton, were recently featured in a UW Today article titled Fighting ocean acidification, one oyster at a time. The article discusses the impacts of ocean acidification on the shellfish industry and how the industry has adapted after scientists, shellfish growers and other partners collaborated and came up with tools to manage corrosive water.

Klinger and Newton are co-directors of the Washington Ocean Acidification Center, which was established by the Legislature in 2013 to make sure actions to address ocean acidification had a strong backbone in science.

Said Klinger in the article, “We’ve grown since our establishment and are moving from just a focus on, let’s say shellfish, also to include salmon, forage fish, harmful algal blooms and other parts of our ecosystem that are really important to the region.”

Read the complete article by Jackson Holtz here.