File talk:Victim of Acidification.jpg

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Description is faulty. Was copied from Flikr text, but description is missing information and source link no longer exists. Published paper, in Caribbean location, seems to not include the image.

DescriptionVictim of Acidification.jpg	English: Too much acid in the ocean is bad news for sea life. Acid eats away at calcium carbonite, the primary ingredient of shells and skeletons that many ocean animals depend on for survival. The shell pictured here is a victim of this process. The normally-protective shell is so thin and fragile, it is transparent. To learn more about ocean acidification, visit: New Study Leads to Better Understanding of Ocean Acidification (Original source: New Study Leads to Better Understanding of Ocean Acidification)
Date	5 April 2006, 10:20:19
Source	https://www.flickr.com/photos/usoceangov/4147577833/
Author	NOAA's National Ocean Service

Issues

1. No description of the process which caused damage.
2. Source conflicts with other descriptions.
3. Several people have been credited with the image, so it is unconfirmed whether it was created by an NOAA employee on the job.

No description of process

Image is described as showing damage, but does not describe what the damage is nor how it was caused. What is the image showing?

1. Image description does not say whether damage was caused in the ocean or laboratory.
   1. Pteropods are small, swimming snails that provide food to fish, birds, and whales. Pteropods with partially dissolved shells due to ocean acidification have already been seen in waters off the US West Coast and Antarctica (Credit: NOAA, PMEL) (mention of locations conflicts which ID of this species being from Arctic)
2. No information is given about how the image was created.

Source conflicts with other descriptions

Image might not be properly identified, so the description might not be correct.

1. The study seems to be one from the Caribbean, but many copies of the image identify this as being an Arctic species.
   1. Source title is "New Study Leads to Better Understanding of Ocean Acidification".
      1. Archive.org of the missing source URL shows this image, but does not give a source nor describe its origin. [1]
         1. That leads to the issue of JGR: Oceans which was published at the end of October 2008.
         2. Ocean acidification of the Greater Caribbean Region 1996–2006 does not use this image.
   2. Image identified by NOAA as an Arctic species.
   3. Pteropods are small, swimming snails that provide food to fish, birds, and whales. Pteropods with partially dissolved shells due to ocean acidification have already been seen in waters off the US West Coast and Antarctica (Credit: NOAA, PMEL)
   4. A free-swimming planktonic mollusk, an important food source for North Pacific salmon. (Image credit: NOAA)
   5. Figure 2. Photograph of pteropod Limacina helicina. Photo: Russ Hopcroft, UAF/NOAA.

Several people have been credited with the image, so it is unconfirmed whether it was created by an NOAA employee on the job

If not created by a federal employee, then we have no copyright/licensing information for the image.

1. Original source is an NOAA press release type of article, which shows the image with no source given. [2]
2. University of Alabama shows image courtesy of Jim McClintock, who seems to be a UAB employee. [3] However, article is about Antarctica while others label the image as being of an Arctic species.
3. Pteropod Limacina Helicina. Courtesy of Russ Hopcroft, UAF.
4. Mixed ID of Hopcroft as being UAF or NOAA. [4]
5. Photo credit: Russ Hopcroft/University of Alaska, Fairbanks
6. Figure 2. Photograph of pteropod Limacina helicina. Photo: Russ Hopcroft, UAF/NOAA. SEWilco (talk) 16:50, 13 August 2022 (UTC)