Predicting Animal Responses to Ocean Deoxygenation Using Novel Combinations of Data and Models
Channel: Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS)
Date: 14/04/2017

BIDS Data Science Lecture Series | April 14, 2017 | 1:10-2:30 p.m. | 190 Doe Library, UC Berkeley

Speaker:  Allison Smith, Postdoctoral Fellow, eScience Institute and the School of Oceanography, University of Washington

Oxygen concentrations are hypothesized to decrease in many areas of the ocean as a result of anthropogenically driven climate change, resulting in habitat compression for pelagic animals.  Tolerances for low oxygen vary among animals, and the method for determining tolerance thresholds needs to be applied to animals of different sizes, morphologies, and activity levels.   An approach, using blood oxygen affinity as a measure of low oxygen tolerance will be used to assess the potential impacts for tuna species.