Ask NCAR: Climate Change and Our Ocean
Channel: NSF NCAR & UCAR Science Education
Date: 2020-05-28

Ask NCAR! Live Q&A with NCAR experts 
What is it like to work at NCAR?! Join us to hear from a different expert each week. Learn about what they do in their work, the highlights and challenges, and how it impacts us and our world. Then ask them anything you want to know about what it's like to do their jobs!

The ocean absorbs a large amount of fossil fuel carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, helping to slow the rate of global warming. However, as it takes up more and more carbon, the ocean becomes more acidic. Holly Olivarez is an oceanographer at the University of Colorado Boulder who does research with NCAR studying the ocean's absorption of carbon dioxide. Holly will tell us how climate change motivated her to become a scientist and what she's learning in her research, and then answer your questions! *

*Want to play along on a demo with Holly?! Be ready with a small glass of vinegar, and a piece of chalk or antacid tablet (like Tums).