Lisa Levin, CMBC Director Emeritus – shows consequences of a warming ocean in major international report.
Lisa Levin describes deep-sea organisms to students during a recent field course. Photo: Cody Gallo
Levin, represented Scripps in co-authoriing the fifth chapter, “Changing Ocean, Marine Ecosystems, and Dependent Communities,” of the IPCC’s Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC). The chapter authors write that the ocean is exhibiting physical and biochemical changes due to carbon emissions from human activity. These emissions have led to the ocean’s warming, acidification, and oxygen loss.