Polar and Marine Research, have discovered in a recent study that Ocean Acidification can negatively affect diatoms of the southern polar ocean. In laboratory experiments, they observed that diatoms under [...] deep ocean. Thus, the CO 2 is removed from the global carbon cycle for a couple of thousand years. Dr. Sebastian Rokitta has explored during the past three years how the advancing Ocean Acidification affects [...] Helmholtz-PhD Awards who have been awarded for the very first time this year. Consequences of Ocean Acidification for calcareous algae (Youtube, 17.4.2013) The calcareous microalga Emiliania huxlyei is distributed