Blog Post Image: New Study Reveals How Sensitive U.S. East Coast Regions May Be to Ocean Acidification

Wang and his colleagues sampled the waters off the U.S. east coast aboard the R/V Ron Brown. Starting in the waters off Galveston, Texas, they worked their way around the Louisiana and west Florida coasts, past the Florida Strait, and up the eastern seaboard, collecting samples along nine different transects that ran from the coast to deep ocean off the shelf break, up to 480km (300 miles) offshore. (Image courtesy of Z. Aleck Wang)