Performances by Tris Vonna - Michell, Olivia Plender and a film screening by
Otolith Group.
The scientists anticipated that the fish would experience problems with bone formation, in particular with the growth
of otoliths, the stone - like ear bones that help fish orient themselves in the water.
«I want more life, father,» says the boy
in Otolith III, a film that contains fragments of other films and is intended as a kind of prequel to legendary Indian director Satyajit Ray's unmade The Alien.
On the big screen a film called
Otolith III takes an unreleased film project by Satyajit Ray, and partially realises it through an ever - shifting sequence of archival images.
Their
film Otolith III explores the idea that a work of art exists in memory and the imagination even if it doesn't exist in visual form.
When they
examined otoliths from adult brown trout caught near the Swedish island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea, Limburg and her colleagues found that most trout don't lead textbook lives.
The newly analyzed ancient totoaba
otoliths show the species once spent its early years in brackish water, the lightly salty mix found where a river empties into the sea.
Scientists often
study otoliths because they grow in layers that can reveal the age of a fish just as tree rings mark the age of a tree.
Environmental influences on the recruitment process inferred from
otolith stable isotopes in Merluccius merluccius off the Balearic Islands.
«If fish can do just fine or better with
larger otoliths, then there's no great concern,» Dr. Checkley said in a statement.
Similar 3 - D images were used by researchers to obtain the first measurements larval
fish otoliths while still inside the skull.
Strontium leached from the bedrock becomes incorporated into the backbones of young fish, and in older fish
bony otoliths, or «ear stones,» absorb the strontium.
This is micro-CT imagery of a cobia larva head that has been filtered to view the entire skull (top image) and the more
dense otolith (ear stone) structures (bottom image).
The study also reports a significant increase in
otolith size at the most mild acidification conditions reported to date.
However, research on this topic is still limited and if our findings on
otolith formation are any indicator, then these fish are not entirely resistant to acidification,» said Bignami, a Marine Biology and Fisheries PhD candidate at UM.
Marine water has a higher concentration of the element strontium, so a spike in strontium on a fish's
otolith means it migrated to the ocean that year.
Meanwhile, researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry are examining
shad otoliths, or ear bones, which provide a detailed history of a fish's travels that can be matched to local river chemistry.
Her master's research focused on the causes and consequences of vaterite deformations in the
sagittal otoliths of farmed salmonids, and was primarily conducted at the Institute of Marine Research field station in Matre, Norway.
High - latitude climate variability and its effect on fisheries resources as revealed by fossil
cod otoliths.
Otolith O and C Stable Isotope Compositions of Southern Bluefin Tuna Thunnus maccoyii (Pisces: Scombridae) as Possible Environmental and Physiological Indicators.
Marble River Hatchery incubation includes fifty - seven Heath tray stacks with chilled water capacity for
otolith marking.
Otolith projects take the form of mixed media installations, of single and multiple channelled projections, visual and non-visual essays, of curated exhibitions and programmes, lectures and performances.
In
Otolith II (2007), tackles subjects as diverse as feminism around the world, extreme gravity, and the effects of capitalism.
Only the
multi-disciplinary Otolith Group, founded in 2002 by Londoners Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun, and named after the part of the inner ear that helps us to balance, might sound baffling and pretentious.
Before ET, there was The Alien Tehelka; January 21, 2012; 700 + words...
Otolith Trilogy - a good starting point to understand the Turner Prize - nominated artists.
On screen you can
watch Otolith III, a film initially inspired by one that was never made, Satyajit Ray's 1967 The Alien.
Zarina Bhimji Artforum International; June 22, 2012; Jumabhoy, Zehra; 700 + words... Delhi based Amar Kanwar as well as the verbose London -
based Otolith Group, who give the conventional idea of documentary - as - truth... and installations.
«Jean Luc Gordard said one of the most important things and one of the most difficult things film can do is show somebody reading,»
says Otolith Group's Kodwo Eshun.
Otolith Group are the only winners - their work is brilliant and complex and reflect the politics of the moment.
As the narrator
of Otolith 1 (2003) puts it: «For us, there is no memory without image.
When cross-sectioned,
otoliths show a growth ring for each year of life, providing the age of the fish.
U.S., Environmental influences on the recruitment process inferred from
otolith stable isotopes in Merluccius merluccius off the Balearic Islands.
Sean Brennan of the University of Alaska Fairbanks and his colleagues wondered if they could use the traces of the element strontium
in otoliths to track where salmon had been.
«The neat thing about it,» team member Brian Kennedy says, «is the chemical information is laid down in
the otoliths on a daily basis, and they can be read much like tree rings, but on an even finer scale.»
The team reared cobia in tanks with different levels of CO2 saturation looking for effects on growth, development,
otolith (ear stone) formation, swimming ability, and activity level during the vulnerable larval stage of these fish.
They age salmon much as they age trees, by counting rings on their ear bones, or
otoliths.
The researchers observed this pattern by looking at the ear bone, called
an otolith, of more than 300 Dolly Varden fish.
To test that scenario's accuracy, fisheries ecologist Karin Limburg of the State University of New York, Syracuse, studied the animals»
otolith, a little bone under the brain that is part of its hearing and balance system.
«
The otoliths are telling us that they're doing these things — but we don't know why yet,» Limburg says.
Because
the otolith keeps growing throughout the animal's life, its chemical composition mirrors a fish's journey: Parts grown at sea have a higher strontium to calcium ratio than parts grown while the fish was in fresh water.