Recent discussions of the warm-water "Blob" in the Pacific may have obscured previously existing concerns about ocean health.
Like the increasing level of acidity in the ocean, and the more frequent appearance of low-oxygen zones (hypoxia).
The West Coast Ocean Acidification & Hypoxia Science Panel brings together top minds from the West Coast State and British Columbia to come up with ideas for addressing the ocean issues.
The panel presents a progress update at a meeting in Sacramento next week (July 29), with several reports due this fall.
Oceanographer Burke Hales from Oregon State University is a panel member; he joins us.
