Hofmann Lab research featured at AAAS annual meeting

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) will host its annual meeting this coming weekend (Feb 16-20) in Vancouver, BC. This is North America's largest meeting of scientists from all disciplines and will be well-publicized in the international media. Prof. Hofmann is co-organizing a session on ocean acidification research entitled "Acid-Washed Genes and Altered Ecosystems: Biological Tales of Ocean Acidification". Her talk is titled "Acid on Ice: Present Ocean pH Dynamics and Studies of Antarctic Marine Invertebrates", and will encompass the work being done with in-situ pH measurement and research on the sea urchin Sterechinus neumayeri.

The National Science Foundation has selected the OMEGAS project to be featured alongside other important NSF-funded projects (including PISCO) in a display booth (#501) in the Exhibitions Hall at the conference. Dr. Yu will be the OMEGAS project representative from UCSB alongside representatives from Oregon State University.