Prof. Palevsky part of new NSF-funded team to study oxygen and carbon uptake by the ocean

This National Science Foundation award supports a collaborative, interdisciplinary project entitled “Collaborative Research: Gases in the Overturning and Horizontal circulation of the Subpolar North Atlantic Program (GOHSNAP)” to investigate the uptake of oxygen and carbon dioxide gases in the Labrador Sea, a region of the North Atlantic Ocean between Canada and Greenland. In collaboration with scientists at the University of Rhode Island, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Dalhousie University, Prof. Hilary Palevsky will collect two years of continuous data to measure the rate at which these gases are absorbed from the atmosphere into the Labrador Sea and then transported southward into the rest of the Atlantic basin.