Under the Sea with Scott Doney

Episode 101

Scott Doney - Under the Sea

Conversations That Matter features Scott Doney of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts on the state of the world’s oceans. According to Doney everything you’ve heard about the oceans is true, the temperature is rising, acidification is increasing and sea levels are up.

He says, the speed that it’s happening poses the biggest challenge because it is causing havoc with the cycle of life. It’s called, “phenology and it basically just means seasonality. Most organisms have adapted so that if their young need prey, they're going to breed in time so that their young are there right when the prey come out. And if the prey have shifted in time, so the prey are coming too early, you know, the salmon might breed, release their young, or other fish might breed, and the young come and there's no food.”

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