{"id":29854,"date":"2014-09-23T09:29:16","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T14:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=29854"},"modified":"2014-09-23T09:29:30","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T14:29:30","slug":"brock-professor-leads-research-on-hudson-bay-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2014\/09\/brock-professor-leads-research-on-hudson-bay-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock professor leads research on Hudson Bay warming"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_29855\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/arctic_ub_1976.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29855\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29855\" title=\"arctic_ub_1976\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/arctic_ub_1976.jpg\" alt=\"arctic_ub_1976\" width=\"320\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29855\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A team of researchers led by Brock Prof. Uwe Brand, Department of Earth Sciences, has just published a paper on the seawater composition and temperature change of Hudson Bay.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A team of researchers led by Brock Prof. Uwe Brand, <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/mathematics-science\/departments-and-centres\/earth-sciences\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Earth Sciences<\/a>, has just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0009254114004148\" target=\"_blank\">published a paper<\/a> on the seawater composition and temperature change of Hudson Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Published Sept. 10, 2014, the paper concludes that Hudson Bay seawater has been dramatically warming since the 1970s, for a total change in seawater temperature of 3.7 C. This degree of warming is about six times the 0.67 C increase observed during the past 100 years in global ocean sea-surface temperature (SST).<\/p>\n<p>It suggests that polar regions are extremely sensitive indicators of climate change, and the recorded change in Hudson Bay SST is about double the postulated 2 C increase for polar regions (IPCC, ACIA).<\/p>\n<p>According to the International Panel Climate Change (IPCC, 2001) report, &#8220;climate change in polar regions is expected to be among the largest and most rapid of any region on the Earth&#8221;, which will lead to sea surface warming, acidification, and sea-level rise.<\/p>\n<p>Seawater warming has been postulated to be about 2-3 times that of the global oceans according to Arctic Climate and Assessment (ACIA, 2005).<\/p>\n<p>The research comes out as the United Nations holds a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/climatechange\/summit\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">Climate Summit <\/a>Sept. 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers led by Brock Prof. Uwe Brand, Department of Earth Sciences, has just published a paper on the seawater composition and temperature change of Hudson Bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,3],"tags":[885,2336,2338,2043,3325,2337],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29854"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29858,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29854\/revisions\/29858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}