Sentences with phrase «about ocean studies»

Don't worry about ocean studies, or currents, or instruments that observe the transfer of energy around the world.

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The revision process, which includes conducting environmental impact studies and taking public comments, has taken about two years in the past, said Connie Gillette, chief of public affairs for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the unit of the Interior Department that oversees the lease schedule.

Mark Bourassa, associate director of the Center for Ocean - Atmospheric Prediction Studies at Florida State University, echoed the skepticism about scale.

In the new study, the researchers found that both of these nitrogen «exit strategies» are at work in the oceans, with denitrification mopping up about 70 percent of the nitrogen and anammox disposing of the rest.

Rattus detentus, a Rodent of Unusual Size: On Manus Island, separated from New Guinea by about 100 miles of ocean, researchers found one of the largest rats known from the Melanesian archipelago, a particularly rich region for rat diversity, according to the April study in the Journal of Mammalogy.

But there's much less information out there on what people actually think about the ocean and some of the protection measures,» says California Sea Grant Extension Specialist Jennifer O'Leary, a study coauthor who is based at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo.

SHAKY GROUND Researchers drag sensors across the ocean near New Zealand to study ocean floor vibrations, adding data to the debate about how the Earth moves deep underground.

At a meeting in San Francisco in 1991, exhausted after spending six months at sea on a research expedition, Delaney remembers sitting in a bar lamenting to a colleague about the difficulties of using human - occupied submersibles to study the ocean in a meaningful way.

«For the first time, we have used a geophysical method to determine the internal structure of Enceladus, and the data suggest that indeed there is a large, possibly regional ocean about 50 kilometers below the surface of the south pole,» says David Stevenson, the Marvin L. Goldberger Professor of Planetary Science at Caltech and an expert in studies of the interior of planetary bodies.

To test that idea, they have studied ancient ocean sediments laid down during the Ediacaran and Cambrian periods, which together ran from about 635 million to 485 million years ago.

Studies of ocean sediments and lava flows show the Earth has undergone several hundred field reversals, with the most recent confirmed flip occurring about 780,000 years ago.

(Those who worry about mercury contamination in fish got some good news recently: In one study conducted in the Seychelles, a group of islands in the Indian Ocean, scientists from the University of Rochester Medical Center tracked pregnant women who ate an average of 12 fish meals a week, about 10 times the quantity of fish eaten by the average American.

«The strong impact of ocean onto Antarctic ice sheet dynamics, or the knowledge that we have about it, is reinforced by our study,» said lead study author Hannes Konrad of the University of Leeds in an interview with E&E News.

«Our study does reinforce what we know about the ocean being able to have a strong impact on ice dynamics in Antarctica,» Konrad said.

The study fuels a growing concern among scientists about the factors affecting the Antarctic ice sheet — namely, that warm ocean waters are helping to melt glaciers and drive greater levels of ice loss, particularly in West Antarctica.

The study was part of the Hawaii Ocean Time - series Program More about nitrogen fixation from the National Research Council

Another study estimated about 130 additional sharks in Mexico for less than 400 great whites in all of Mexico and California, a figure suggesting the oceans could be crumbling from above.

A new study, the most comprehensive ever on seasonal distribution patterns and historic trends in abundance of white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) in the western North Atlantic Ocean, used records compiled over more than 200 years to update knowledge and fill in gaps in information about this species.

«Study of oceans» past raises worries about their future.»

The new findings are being published in two separate studies and being presented at the 2017 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, along with additional new findings about recent Atlantic Ocean hurricanes.

Dr Jeff Hawkes, the lead author of this study, from the NOC said: «There has been a long outstanding question about whether hydrothermal vents are a source or sink of organic carbon to the oceans.

«When we talk about fisheries» catch, we're talking about what fishers are aiming to catch,» explained Rebecca Lewison, an ecology professor at San Diego State University's Coastal Marine Institute Laboratory, who led the study with biology professor Larry Crowder of Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station and Center for Ocean Solutions.

If the majority of the phosphorus found in meltwater from all of Greenland's glaciers reaches the sea, it would be equal to about 400,000 metric tons (440,000 U.S. tons) per year of phosphorus, more than Arctic rivers are estimated to contribute to the Arctic Ocean, according to the new study.

As a cofounder of ORCA, devoted to scientific inquiry about the health of the world's oceans, she recognizes that time is of the essence for studying as much of the deep - sea ecosystem as she can right now.

To study the movement of vent products, the researchers set up sediment traps and current meters near the hydrothermal vents along the East Pacific Rise, an ocean ridge located about 800 kilometers off the southern coast of Mexico and a mile and a half below sea level.

Barrows, who has been studying microfiber pollution in oceans for more than five years, wanted to learn more about what's happening upstream in freshwater.

As Dr. Mackey cited in the published article Sea Change: UCI oceanographer studies effects of global climate fluctuations on aquatic ecosystems: «They would tell us about upwelling and how the ocean wasn't just this one big, homogenous bathtub, that there were different water masses, and they had different chemical properties that influenced what grew there,» she recalls.

Improved data about the oceans from the Argo floats caused a splash this week as two studies in Nature Climate Change challenged conventional thinking.

It is perfectly possible that sponges came before, and helped bring about, fully oxygenated oceans, says Timothy Lyons at the University of California, Riverside, who studies the variation in oxygen levels on early Earth.

A new study led by The Australian National University (ANU) has found seawater cycles throughout Earth's interior down to 2,900 km, much deeper than previously thought, reopening questions about how the atmosphere and oceans formed.

To study the animal, Cary goes on cruises to hydrothermal vents like the one located in the Pacific Ocean's Mid-Oceanic Ridge, about 1,200 miles off the coast of Costa Rica.

Study co-author Heye Freymuth of the University of Bristol explains: «Although uranium was incorporated into the oceanic crust since the initial rise in atmospheric oxygen about 2.4 billion years ago, the ocean crust did not incorporate higher amounts of uranium - 238 as the oceans did not yet have adequate supplies of oxygen.»

Monnett, who works for the department's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE), will be grilled next week about an ongoing study, «Populations and Sources of Recruitment in Polar Bears,» being conducted by the University of Alberta.

Just as on land, we learn about ocean volcanoes by studying vibrations to see what is happening deep inside as plates separate and magma rushes up to form new crust.

Sharks were a tolerant bunch some 50 million years ago, cruising an Arctic Ocean that contained about the same percentage of freshwater as Louisiana's Lake Ponchatrain does today, says a new study involving the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Chicago.

An NAS committee will release a congressionally mandated study by the end of next month that will address everything from scientific questions about how ocean acidification will affect marine life and ocean - dependent industries to recommendations for a national acidification research program.

«We found that where ocean temperatures warmed beyond a certain point as we neared the equator, at about 29 degrees, the pace of larval development slowed,» says study lead author, Dr Ian McLeod.

Additional factors could be taken into consideration for future studies to provide more information about why this swimming pattern exists, to further explore turtle ecology in ocean currents.

The new findings are being published in two separate studies and being presented in a press conference today at the 2017 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, along with additional new findings about recent Atlantic Ocean hurricanes.

The Nereus team is preparing for a six - week voyage — funded by the National Science Foundation to the tune of about $ 1.4 million — beginning in February 2014 to study the Pacific Ocean's Kermadec Trench, which is about 10 kilometers deep.

However, my interest in reproductive behaviors and fishes can be blamed on George Barlow, my undergraduate advisor whose excitement about science, teaching and mentorship shifted my plans from veterinary school to graduate study in evolutionary biology at the University of California Santa Barbara with Robert Warner (bringing me even closer to the ocean!).

Learning more about Europa's tectonics and the ocean below will require follow - up missions such as the proposed Europa Clipper, which would make repeated flybys of the moon while studying its surface and interior.

A new study shows that nitrogen - feeding organisms exist all over the deep ocean, and not just in large oxygen - depleted «dead zones,» changing the way we think about the delicate nitrogen cycle.

A new study looked at haddock and cod, two commercially important fish species, to find out more about how fish are managing in an increasingly noisy ocean.

A surge of undersea volcanic activity about 93 million years ago sapped the oceans of oxygen, triggering a mass extinction of marine life, a new study finds.

Permafrost outgassing is similarly a major issue — and what about all the studies on the Southern Ocean sink saturation — they don't matter either?

Geared toward elementary school social studies teachers, the lesson has students create museum exhibits about ocean exploration using poster board.

Of course, much of what I was studying was my own life, the life of my city as I'd known it, the culture which surrounded me like an ocean surrounds a fish and about which I felt so much already, even if I understood very little.

«You can find its cousins in caves, on your skin, at the bottom of the ocean and just about anywhere,» said study co-author Amy Smith of Oregon State University.

This four - year, $ 32 million transformation has considerably improved our ability to care for and study marine mammals, provides a collaborative work environment for staff and volunteers, and now offers the public the opportunity to learn about the interdependence they share with marine mammals and the ocean through exhibits and open viewing of animal care and work areas.