Under pressure: Climate Change, Upwelling, and Eastern Boundary Upwelling Ecosystems

Understanding how upwelling is impacted by natural and anthropogenic climate change is a vital step in maintaining a productive and healthy ecosystem in the Eastern Boundary Upwelling Ecosystems (EBUE) of the world.  In this seminar we will talk about two aspects of an interdisciplinary project that investigates the past, present and future of coastal upwelling, and how its variability impacts the ecosystem.  First, we will review how upwelling favorable winds are being impacted by climate change, from the well-known Bakun hypothesis to emerging alternative mechanisms and evidence.  Second, we will explore how, through a comparative analysis between the California and the Benguela EBUE, we can investigate global climate change impacts on upwelling ecosystems.

Speaker: Marisol Garcia Reyes, Farallon Institute