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Future Oceans Lab
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A marine ecology lab that explores how changing ocean environments affect ecosystems.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring the future of the ocean through fieldwork, experiments, and analysis.
The Future Oceans Lab (the Harvey Lab) uses marine ecosystem research to investigate how changing environmental conditions, namely ocean acidification, ocean warming, and marine heatwaves, are changing the ocean.
The lab is a research group based at the Shimoda Marine Research Center of the University of Tsukuba. It combines fieldwork, aquarium experiments, and desk-based analysis.
Surveys and experiments are conducted in the intertidal and subtidal zones, and the lab also carries out analyses using statistics and models.
The lab collaborates internationally with researchers around the world.
Key terms
- Ocean acidification
- A phenomenon in which increasing carbon dioxide in seawater shifts the water toward the acidic side.
- Marine heatwave
- A phenomenon in which ocean temperatures stay higher than normal for a prolonged period.
- Natural CO2 seep
- A place where carbon dioxide wells up naturally from the seafloor.
- Meta-analysis
- A method that gathers the results of multiple previously published studies and examines them together statistically.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab investigates how marine ecosystems respond to environmental change, focusing on ocean acidification, ocean warming, and marine heatwaves. By combining fieldwork, experiments, and desk-based analysis, it explores the present, past, and future of marine ecosystems.
*Illustrative imageEffects of ocean acidification and warming
The lab conducts field experiments at natural CO2 seeps in Japan, Italy, and New Zealand, and along latitudinal gradients in water temperature. These are combined with aquarium experiments in which CO2 and water temperature are controlled, and with meta-analyses of the literature.
*Illustrative imageEffects of marine heatwaves
The lab uses models to evaluate trends and patterns in marine heatwaves. It also examines the effects of marine heatwaves in aquarium experiments.
*Illustrative imageEcosystem stability and management
The lab conducts field experiments at natural CO2 seeps in Japan. It investigates how well ecosystems resist and recover from human-caused ocean acidification and from typhoons, a natural disturbance, as well as the feedback mechanisms involved.
MembersFaculty
The Future Oceans Lab consists of faculty members and doctoral and master's students.As of 2025
- Assistant ProfessorBen Harvey
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Rocky intertidal zone near Knockeen - geograph.org.uk - 7889734” David Martin / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Effects of ocean acidification and warming: “Coral Outcrop Flynn Reef” Toby Hudson / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Effects of marine heatwaves: “Colorful Coral Bleaching Event” Ryan Goehrung / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Ecosystem stability and management: “Seaweed covered rocky reef - geograph.org.uk - 745273” Eric Jones / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Aquatic Ecology Lab): “Ocean phytoplankton bloom feed by the Amazon River” NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / Public domain (cropped)
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- Related lab (Neuroethology and Evolutionary Biology Lab): “Insect predation” Polychronis Rempoulakis / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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