Patrizia Ziveri participates in meeting of the working group FORCIS in Montpellier to discuss the second phase
Anthropogenic CO2 emissions lead to oceanic warming, and a decrease in surface water pH. Such ocean acidification is known to affect calcifying plankton groups, a key component of the carbonate pump. Fossilized shells of planktonic foraminifera comprise a major carbonate flux to the deep sea, which makes understanding their dynamics vitally important to decipher in a rapidly changing global climate. Historical changes in planktonic foraminiferal assemblages have not yet been synthesized globally, despite numerous individual collection efforts. The FORCIS project is filling this critical gap with a global synthesis with modern digital tools of data management and analysis.
