NECAN Ocean and Coastal  Acidification Monitoring Priorities for the Northeast US and Eastern Canada

The authors of the plan are pleased to share the NECAN Monitoring Priorities Report! Click the image below to access the full document.

The Interagency Working Group on Ocean Acidification Monitoring Prioritization Plan 2024 calls for Coastal Acidification Networks to identify the ocean and coastal acidification (OCA) monitoring needs most important for their regions. The Northeast Coastal Acidification Network (NECAN) organized a webinar series to study regional needs, which culminated with a workshop in November 2023. This workshop led to the identification of six new monitoring needs in addition to the maintenance of current monitoring efforts: 

Monitoring Needs

The NECAN Monitoring Priorities Plan dives deeper into these monitoring needs, along with eight cross-cutting themes, which act as potential intersection points for coordinated actions that will help achieve these needs.

Report Editors: Christopher W. Hunt, University of New Hampshire Austin Pugh, NERACOOS

Report Editorial Team: Jake Kritzer (co-chair), NERACOOS Samantha Siedlecki (co-chair), University of Connecticut Kumiko Azetsu-Scott, Fisheries and Oceans Canada Carolina Bastidas, MIT Sea Grant Parker Gassett, Maine Climate Science Information Exchange Office, University of Maine Christopher W. Hunt, University of New Hampshire Diane Lavoie, Fisheries and Oceans Canada Adam Pimenta, US Environmental Protection Agency Austin Pugh, NERACOOS Amy Trice, Northeast Regional Ocean Council Elizabeth Turner, NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (retired)

Suggested Citation: Hunt, C.W., Pugh, A. D., Kritzer, J., Siedlecki, S., Azetsu-Scott, K., Bastidas, C., Gassett, P., Lavoie, D., Mlsna, I., Pimenta, A., Trice, A., Turner, E. 2025. Ocean and Coastal Acidification Monitoring Priorities for the Northeast US and Eastern Canada. Northeast Coastal Acidification Network Report, https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/8023, DOI: https://doi.org/10.31223/X5XH7M

You can also download this document from the Earth ArXiv pre print server (this server currently displys an earlier draft and may take a few days to process the uploading the final plan)

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