Primary Convener:
Catherine Davis, North Carolina State University

Convener:
Rachel Alcorn, North Carolina State University
Alexis Berger, George Mason University
Adina Paytan, University of California Santa Cruz, Institute of Marine Sciences

Early Career Convener:
Alexis Berger, George Mason University

Chair:
Rachel Alcorn, North Carolina State University
Adina Paytan, University of California Santa Cruz, Institute of Marine Sciences

Oxygen in the ocean is decreasing while the extent and intensity of low oxygen marine environments are growing. In order to contextualize our present and make reasonable and meaningful projections into the future, we must develop a better understanding of present forcing, past relationships between ocean oxygen and global climate, and the impacts of changing ocean oxygen on marine life, geochemical cycles, and the blue economy. This session invites submissions that advance an understanding of present, past, and future ocean oxygenation with diverse approaches including measurements, modeling, and the development and application of paleoproxies. We welcome research across all temporal and spatial scales as well as that exploring the relationships between ocean oxygenation and life from the organismal to the community level. We especially encourage studies that benefit from synergies between modern and paleo-oceanography, geochemistry, sedimentology, and modeling.

Index Terms
4802 Anoxic environments
4834 Hypoxic environments
4912 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling

Suggested Itineraries:
Climate Change and Global Policy
Biochemistry

Neighborhoods:
3. Earth Covering

Cross-Listed:
OS - Ocean Sciences