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Meeting ID: 975 7992 0591
Passcode: 493251
Abstract
The largest estuary of the continental U.S. (Chesapeake Bay) is intimately linked to the country's history but is also experiencing new environmental challenges. The seminar will cover a number of ongoing research projects related to the Bay. I will first review impacts of coastal acidification (which combines global-scale increases in carbon dioxide and local drivers) on Eastern oysters in the York and Rappahannock tributaries. Then, I will go back in time to revisit 2011's Hurricane Irene with a focus not on damages from flooding, but on changes in estuarine water quality before and after the event. Finally, I will introduce a newly funded project examining the possibility of conducting ocean alkalinity enhancement and marine carbon dioxide removal in the Bay.
Biography
Pierre St-Laurent received a Ph.D in Oceanography from the Université du Québec before migrating to sunny Virginia for a postdoc at CCPO. He worked with John Klinck, Michael Dinniman, and Eileen Hofmann to model the western Antarctic continental shelf (work that continues to this day). In 2016, he was appointed Research Scientist at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science and began working on Chesapeake Bay projects in collaboration with Marjorie Friedrichs. He is now involved in diverse local research projects ranging from coastal acidification to tropical cyclone impacts.