THE POLE-TO-POLE MBON NETWORK OF THE AMERICAS: A REGIONAL COLLABORATION TO ASSESS THE IMPACT OF ACIDIFICATION ON LIFE IN THE SEA

Yrene Margarita Astor, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, College of Marine Science. Institute of Marine Remote Sensing IMaRS, St Petersburg, FL, United States, Enrique Montes, University of South Florida, St Petersburg, FL, United States, Frank E Muller-Karger, University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, St. Petersburg, FL, United States, Patricia Miloslavich, Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, Australia, Gabrielle Canonico, U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System, Silver Spring, MD, United States, Sergio Cerdeira-Estrada, National Commission for Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO), Ciudad DE México, Mexico, Elva Escobar-Briones, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnologia, Mexico City, Mexico, Eduardo Klein, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela and Emmett Duffy, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Edgewater, The Tenenbaum Marine Observatories Network, Edgewater, MD, United States