Research buoys collect sea data.

• Author: Pounds, Nancy
• Position: Inside Alaska Business

University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists installed two research buoys to help study how climate change may be affecting the pH level of northern seas. The first buoy was installed in April at the mouth of Resurrection Bay. It was assembled at UAF's Seward Marine Center. A second buoy was to be deployed in the Bering Sea in May. A third buoy will be placed in the Chukchi Sea in October. The data collected by the buoys will be sent to scientists in real time via satellite.

"This is the first dedicated ocean acidification mooring to be deployed in a high-latitude coastal sea," said Jeremy Mathis, principal investigator for the project and a University of Alaska Fairbanks assistant professor of chemical oceanography. "Other moorings have been deployed with ocean acidification sensors, but this is the first complete package in...