Report of the Joint OSPAR/ICES Ocean Acidification Study Group (SGOA)
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ICES SGOA REPORT 2013 ICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE ICES CM 2013/ACOM:31 Report of the Joint OSPAR/ICES Ocean Acidification Study Group (SGOA) 7–10 October 2013 Copenhagen, Denmark International Council for the Exploration of the Sea Conseil International pour l’Exploration de la Mer H. C. Andersens Boulevard 44–46 DK-1553 Copenhagen V Denmark Telephone (+45) 33 38 67 00 Telefax (+45) 33 93 42 15 www.ices.dk [email protected] Recommended format for purposes of citation: ICES. 2013. Report of the Joint OSPAR/ICES Ocean Acidification Study Group (SGOA), 7–10 October 2013, Copenhagen, Denmark. ICES CM 2013/ACOM:31. 82 pp. For permission to reproduce material from this publication, please apply to the Gen- eral Secretary. The document is a report of an Expert Group under the auspices of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea and does not necessarily represent the views of the Council. © 2013 International Council for the Exploration of the Sea ICES SGOA REPORT 2013 | i Contents Executive summary ................................................................................................................ 4 Opening of the meeting ........................................................................................................ 6 1 Adoption of the agenda ................................................................................................ 7 1.1 Agenda ................................................................................................................... 7 1.2 SGOA Membership .............................................................................................. 8 1.3 Feedback from OSPAR on SGOA 2012 report .................................................. 8 1.4 SGOA final report (2014) ..................................................................................... 8 1.5 Links to other working groups and ICES activities ......................................... 8 2 ToR A: Collate chemical data and information on ocean acidification in the OSPAR Maritime Area .................................................................................... 11 2.1 Monitoring in German waters (update) .......................................................... 11 2.2 Monitoring in Dutch waters (new information) ............................................. 11 2.3 Monitoring in Norwegian and Arctic waters ................................................. 12 2.4 Monitoring in Portuguese waters ..................................................................... 14 2.5 Monitoring in Spanish Atlantic waters ............................................................ 14 2.6 Monitoring in UK waters (2013 update) .......................................................... 15 2.6.1 National framework .............................................................................. 15 2.6.2 Activities by Marine Scotland Science ................................................ 17 2.6.3 Activities by Cefas (updated text) ....................................................... 18 3 ToR B: Seek information from relevant international initiatives on ocean acidification; as listed in OSPAR MIME 11/3/3 (e.g. EU, Arctic Council) ......................................................................................................................... 20 3.1 Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme Jan Rene Larsen (Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme) ......................................... 20 3.2 European MedSeA project Patrizia Ziveri (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) ....................................................................................................... 21 3.3 Other initiatives .................................................................................................. 22 4 ToR C: Finalize guidelines for measuring carbonate system .............................. 23 5 ToR D: Collect and exchange information on biological effects [of ocean acidification] on plankton, and macrozoobenthos ..................................... 24 5.1 Ecological effects of acidification around marine CO2 vents ........................ 24 5.2 KnowSeas Project ................................................................................................ 25 5.3 Cold-water Corals in a Changing Ocean ......................................................... 26 5.4 Overview of ocean acidification publications ................................................. 27 ii | ICES SGOA REPORT 2013 6 ToR E: Consider the strategy that would be required for an assessment framework appropriate for long-term assessment of the intensity/severity of the effects of ocean acidification, including any assessment criteria required ...................................................................................... 28 6.1 Background.......................................................................................................... 28 6.2 Development of Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network (GOA-ON) ........................................................................................................... 28 6.3 An OSPAR monitoring and assessment framework...................................... 30 6.4 Quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) ............................................ 38 7 ToR F: Inform the development of biological effects indicators for ocean acidification, including the identification of suitable species and key areas ................................................................................................................ 40 8 ToR G: Elaborate reporting requirements to ICES (taking account of the information in table at OSPAR MIME 2011 SR Annex 6) ............................. 44 8.1 Ocean acidification and carbonate system data; Background ...................... 44 8.2 ICES OA data management update ................................................................. 44 8.3 CDIAC Data Centre Alex Kozyr (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) ............ 45 8.4 Ocean Carbon Data Synthesis Products: GLODAP Toste Tanhua (Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel) and SOCAT Benjamin Pfeil (Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research) ................................. 46 8.5 General discussions ............................................................................................ 47 8.6 Next steps ............................................................................................................ 48 9 ToR H: Report a first assessment of all available data in the OSPAR maritime area ................................................................................................................ 50 10 Literature cited ............................................................................................................. 52 11 Identification of Terms of Reference for 2013 ........................................................ 57 12 Recommendations and actions .................................................................................. 58 13 Date and venue of the 2014 meeting ........................................................................ 60 14 Closure of the meeting ................................................................................................ 61 Annex 1: List of participants ................................................................................ 62 Annex 2: Agenda .................................................................................................... 65 Annex 3: SGOA Terms of Reference for the next meeting ............................ 68 Annex 4: Recommendations ................................................................................ 70 Annex 5: Proposal for workshop on Quality Assurance (QA) for inorganic carbon system measurements .................................................................. 71 Annex 6: Chemical monitoring activities relevant to OA in the OSPAR and HELCOM areas...................................................................................... 73 4 | ICES SGOA REPORT 2013 Executive summary The Joint OSPAR/ICES Study Group on Ocean Acidification (SGOA) held its second meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark from 07–10 October 2013. The meeting was hosted by the ICES Secretariat. The meeting was co-chaired by Evin McGovern (Ireland) and Mark Benfield (USA) and was attended by 17 scientists representing ten nations and AMAP. Two additional guest scientists and ICES DataCentre representatives joined for discus- sions on data management. A number of participants joined via WebEx conference. NOAA scientists were, unfortunately, unable to participate due to the US federal gov- ernment shutdown. The objective of the meeting was to address the Study Group’s eight terms of reference (ToRs). A final consolidated SGOA report will be prepared at the 2014 meeting. The group members provided new information on national OA monitoring and research developments. Updates were also provided on international activities, in particular the recently published AMAP Arctic OA assessment and EU FP7 MedSeA project. The meeting noted the exponential increase in the number of publications on biological effects of OA with many investigations considering the combined impacts of multiple stressors. Experimental research confirms that survival, calcification, growth, develop- ment and abundance can all be negatively affected by acidification, but the scale of re- sponse varies between taxonomic groups. Volcanic CO2 vents can provide useful proxies of future OA conditions allowing studies of species responses and ecosystem interactions