Sentences with phrase «ocean systems essential»

Topic: Ocean Systems Essential Question: How does energy from the Sun drive wind and ocean currents?

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Grassle solidified his contributions to documenting marine biodiversity by helping launch the Census of Marine Life and the Ocean Biogeographic Information System, which is an essential tool in marine conservation efforts.

Nitrogen is essential to marine life and cycles throughout the ocean in a delicately balanced system.

Currently, researchers have access to powerful tools in biology to help them understand the ocean, such as microscopy and DNA sequencing, but are lacking essential tools in genetics to make robust experimental model systems.

The deep ocean is an essential force within the Earth system and must be protected from harm.

Take action to protect one of our essential life support systems — the world's wild oceans — as a start, protect 20 % of the world's oceans by 2020 and 40 % by 2040 in marine preserves and sanctuaries;

the oceans, seas, and coastal areas together form an essential component of the global life - support system.

Indeed, as I argue in this article, I think it will be absolutely essential that we shift much of our current wasteful fossil fuel use (e.g., shipping the same goods back and forth across the ocean, driving gas - powered private automobiles, and producing disposable consumer goods) toward building new infrastructure for long - term resilience (e.g., local food economies, low - energy housing, greenspace, water catchment and storage, clean energy systems, trains, and, yes, wind - powered sea vessels!).

A large system that consists of such essential structures as continents and oceans can not ever be described well with simple models.

The Earth system is so complex and in so essential ways that model improvement is likely to remain slow and trying to build models that cover both the oceans and the atmosphere may already be a too large stretch.