Oregon Sea Grant

Coastal upwelling ecosystems around the world are defined by wind-generated currents that bring deep, nutrient-rich waters to the surface ocean where they fuel exceptionally productive food webs. These ecosystems are also now understood to share a common vulnerability to ocean acidification and hypoxia (OAH). In the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem (CCLME), reports of marine life

Ocean acidification (OA) has had significant negative effects on oyster populations on the west coast of North America over the past decade. Many studies have focused on the physiological challenges experienced by young oyster larvae in high pCO2/low pH seawater with reduced aragonite saturation state (Ωarag), which is characteristic of OA. Relatively few, by contrast, have evaluated these impacts upon fitness traits across multiple larval stages and between discrete oyster populations.

In this exploratory and qualitative study, the researchers aimed to understand the teenagers’ experience in science museums in a visit out of the school context. In particular, we present the analysis of the visit of five groups, aged between 14 and 17 years, who study in public schools, to the exhibition “Past and Present - science, health and public life”, located in the Castelo Mourisco do Museu da Vida, from Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, in Rio de Janeiro.

Citizen science is a growing phenomenon across many branches of environmental science facilitating both increased science literacy and the collection of highly rigorous, longitudinal data.  Understanding the motivations of adults to join and remain active in citizen science programs is important as the diversity and abundance of opportunities for public participation in science grow.