Sentences with phrase «shelf ocean research»

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Plunging into the ocean off the west coast of Vancouver Island, the more than 800 kilometers of fiber optic cables that connect the research stations stretch across the continental shelf, plummet down the slope and across an abyssal plain, and skirt hydrothermal vents near a mid-ocean ridge where the Earth gives birth to new ocean crust.

Recording these temperatures continuously can help scientists develop a detailed picture of the physics by which the ocean melts the ice shelves from below, says oceanographer Laurence Padman of Earth & Space Research in Corvallis, Oregon.

This could have significant implications for Antarctica's ice shelves and ice sheets, with previous research showing that even small increases in ocean temperatures can substantially increase melt rates around the Peninsula.

The scientists also identified carbon fluxes where further research would be needed to reduce uncertainties, including the exchange of carbon between shelf waters and the open ocean.

The study, published in the American Geophysical Union's Geophysical Research Letters, is the first to document fine - scale changes taking place on the ice shelf that help maintain its natural balance with the surrounding ocean waters.

«Ice shelves buffer or restrain land ice from reaching the ocean,» said Peter Bromirski, a research oceanographer at Scripps Institute of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, who was not involved in the new study.

The team compiled four decades of data from research vessel surveys of fish and invertebrates conducted around the continental shelves of North America by NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries) and Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO).

So Exxon (now ExxonMobil) shelved an ambitious but costly program that sampled carbon dioxide in the oceans — the centerpiece of its climate research in the 1970s — as it created its own computerized climate models.

Development and application of ocean observing systems, bio-physical interactions, circulation processes on continental shelves, impact of these processes on marine resource management, and extension of applicable research to broader audiences that include decision - makers and the general public.

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In a new study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans in July, researchers found that phytoplankton, marine microorganisms that serve as the foundation of the food chain in the ocean, were more likely to thrive with the melting of the continent's ice shelves and ice sheets.

One reason, as other Antarctic research has shown, is that the speed of loss of Antarctic ice is to a large extent not a function of air temperature in any case, but of ocean heat intruding beneath the vast shelves of floating ice around the edges.

The new work by Minzoni and her colleagues is extremely interesting and reveals past ocean - forced melting, according to Eric Rignot, a research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of California, Irvine, who studies ice shelf thinning around the Antarctic.

The Filchner - Ronne Ice Shelf in the Weddell Sea is somewhat sheltered from the open sea, but the new research suggests that warm ocean currents could soon invade its underbelly, melting the shelf from below.

He participated in several scientific cruises both in New Zealand waters overlying the continental shelf with NZ based groups and in the southern Pacific with the big time, Ocean Drilling Program research ships funded by the U.S.

The scientists report in Geophysical Research Letters journal that they had discovered that although shelf ice could be expected to wear at the ocean edge, something else was happening in West Antarctica.