EUROPEAN Research & Environment COMMISSION Innovation Guide to best practices for ocean acidification research and data reporting projects Studies and reports EUR 24872 EN EUROPEAN COMMISSION Directorate-General for Research and Innovation Directorate I – Environment Unit I.4 – Climate change and natural hazards Contact: Paola Agostini European Commission Office CDMA 03/124 B-1049 Brussels Tel. +32 2 29 78610 Fax +32 2 29 95755 E-mail:
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[email protected] www.epoca-project.eu Cover photo: © David Luquet - http://www.davidluquet.com/ Reprint August 2011 EPOCA In cooperation with: EUROPEAN COMMISSION Guide to best practices for ocean acidification research and data reporting edited by Ulf Riebesell 1, Victoria J. Fabry 2, Lina Hansson 3 and Jean-Pierre Gattuso 4 1 IFM-GEOMAR, Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences, Kiel, Germany 2 California State University San Marcos, San Marcos, USA 3 Laboratoire d’Océanographie, CNRS-INSU and Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Villefranche-sur-mer, France 4 Coordinator of EPOCA, Laboratoire d’Océanographie, CNRS-INSU and Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Villefranche-sur-mer, France Directorate-General for Research and Innovation 2011 Environment EUR 24872 EN EUROPE DIRECT is a service to help you find answers to your questions about the European Union Freephone number (*): 00 800 6 7 8 9 10 11 (*) Certain mobile telephone operators do not allow access to 00 800 numbers or these calls may be billed LEGAL NOTICE Neither the European Commission nor any person acting on behalf of the Commission is responsible for the use which might be made of the following information.