Discerning the roles of ocean acidification, eutrophication, and river alkalization in driving long-term pH trends in the Chesapeake Bay

• Main Author: Guo, Yijun
• Other Authors: Li, Ming, Digital Repository at the University of Maryland, University of Maryland (College Park, Md.), Marine-Estuarine-Environmental Sciences
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Environmental science; Chesapeake Bay; Climate Change; Eutrophication; Modeling; Ocean acidification; River alkalinization; Gam; Lower Bay
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1903/28812; https://doi.org/10.13016/mavd-f8in

Rising anthropogenic CO2 in the atmosphere and oceanic uptake of CO2 have led to a gradual decrease in seawater pH and ocean acidification, but pH changes in estuaries and coastal systems are more complicated due to a multitude of global and regional environmental drivers. Increasing global fertiliz...