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Published on: 03-15-2021
The collaborative work of scientists at La Sierra University and Walla Walla University in the United States has widened the scientific window into the potential effects of climate change and garnered international coverage of their findings.
At times using innovative equipment they engineered themselves, marine biologists Lloyd Trueblood, an associate biology professor at La Sierra University in Riverside, California, and Kirt Onthank, an associate biology professor at Walla Walla University (WWU) in Walla Walla, Washington, analyzed the East Pacific ruby octopus or
Octopus rubescens in one- and five-week studies at WWU’s collaborative Rosario Beach Marine Laboratory. It was the first analysis of octopus that compared short and long-term effects of seawater acidified through increased carbon dioxide levels. Previous short-term studies had focused on squid and cuttlefish.