Sentences with phrase «by seawater with»

Fig 3: Healthy phytoplankton; same species with malformed shell plates as a result of damage by seawater with simulated end of century chemistry.

Not exact matches

Over 200 pristine cayes (islands) are scattered along Belize's coastline — each surrounded by crystal clear, turquoise seawater that teems with brilliant fish, coral, and sponges.

Aequorin gives out blue light when it binds with calcium in seawater; this light is absorbed by GFP, which then emits an intense green glow.

Tide pools (also tidal pools or rock pools) are rocky pools by the ocean that are filled with seawater.

It means that bacteria living in, say, seabed mud where no oxygen penetrates, can access oxygen dissolved in the seawater simply by holding hands with their friends.

Callahan, a naval architect and experienced sailor, survived by catching fish with a makeshift spear and drinking from his raft's solar stills — inflatable plastic tents that captured one pint of evaporated freshwater from seawater each day.

One hint of weak coupling at a subduction zone is the presence of serpentinite — a mineral formed when seawater carried down by a descending plate reacts with mantle rock.

Biologist Eva Egelyng Sigsgaard at the Natural History Museum of Denmark at the University of Copenhagen and her team collected seawater containing skin cells — along with cells from urine and feces — naturally shed by the whale sharks and other animals.

A Cologne working group involving Prof. Carsten Münker and Dr. Elis Hoffmann and their student Sebastian Viehmann (working with Prof. Michael Bau from the Jacobs University Bremen) have managed for the first time to determine the isotope composition of the rare trace elements Hafnium and Neodymium in 2.7 - billion - year - old seawater by using high purity chemical sediments from Temagami Banded Iron Formation (Canada) as an archive.

An increasingly common feature of reefs worldwide, it is brought on by thermal stress resulting from seawater temperature anomalies associated with climate change.

Steel panels with cerium oxide coatings can be exposed to seawater for weeks on end without becoming covered by bacteria, algae, mollusks, or barnacles.

For their investigation, an improved indicator (ΩMg - x) that reflects the saturation state of seawater with respect to the Mg - content of specific organisms was calculated by the scientists.

At present, the ocean takes up a quarter of the CO2 - released to the atmosphere by human industrial activities — with long - lasting consequences for the chemical composition of seawater and marine habitats.

The study should prompt a search for pH perception in other fish, according to the researchers, though they worry that looming ocean acidification caused by greenhouse gases might ultimately stifle fish with this ability, given that the catfish's acid meter worked best in average seawater — pH 8.1.

Engines are cooled with closed - loop freshwater systems that, in turn, are cooled by adjacent closed loops of seawater.

And it had a large set of teeth with no evidence of the comb - like fringes used by other baleen whales to filter their food from seawater.

By Year 1.1 billion, deep - sea hematite - bearing rock found in the Marble Bar chert formation of northwestern Australia indicates that iron - rich water gushed from volcanically heated seafloor vents were able to mix with cooler oxygen - rich seawater (Ohmoto et al, Nature Geoscience, March 15, 2009; PSU press release, and in EurkaAlert; and Sid Perkins, ScienceNews, April 11, 2009).

This will be achieved by exposing the coral to seawater with high calcium concentrations to induce an alteration in gene expression profiles, identified using a DNA microarray analysis.

These videos produced by Plymouth Marine Laboratory provide information about ocean acidification and raises awareness of the implications associated with increasing levels of carbon dioxide and changes in seawater pH levels.

The sinking process was observed and filmed in large transparent cylinders filled with seawater at OceanLab Bremen by Dr. Pedro de Jesus Mendes.

About a quarter of the carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere is currently taken up by the oceans, where it reacts with seawater and forms carbonic acid.

The CDR potential and possible environmental side effects are estimated for various COA deployment scenarios, assuming olivine as the alkalinity source in ice ‐ free coastal waters (about 8.6 % of the global ocean's surface area), with dissolution rates being a function of grain size, ambient seawater temperature, and pH. Our results indicate that for a large ‐ enough olivine deployment of small ‐ enough grain sizes (10 µm), atmospheric CO2 could be reduced by more than 800 GtC by the year 2100.

This task can be achieved by providing proxy - based reconstructions of seawater pH, carbonate ion concentrations, and pCO2 along with the response of the marine calcifiers during key intervals of the Late Quaternary.

Chef April Bloomfield tags along with Jacobsen Salt founder Ben Jacobsen in Oregon to discover the process by which salt is extracted from actual seawater.

The government of Bali Province has established Tanjung Benoa Beach as Marine Sport Center because it is blessed by the beautiful white sandy beach with calm seawater.

Xel - Ha Park may remind you of Sea World in some ways, but with its unique ecosystem created by a subterranean mix of freshwater and seawater, most visitors will truly find much to explore here.

Peanut - shaped, with a brackish seawater lake towards its western coast, this arid island is ringed by a good selection of places to stay and is the most affordable of the three islands.

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He found that by passing an electrical current through seawater, the salty water electolyzes causing calcium carbonate to to combine with magnesium.

(A point made with a vivid irony by Arthur C. Clarke at the end of one of his «Tales From The White Hart» (paraphrased): «It's quite probable that even now, molecules of the late professor are passing through the very seawater filter that he devised...»)

Sea - level rise threatens the long - term viability of island communities by exacerbating the impacts of coastal storms, flooding infrastructure and ecosystems, and contaminating freshwater supplies with seawater.

They will be filled with seawater, which gets thrown against the walls by centrifugal force, producing a smooth, vertical surface on which the ripples can be generated.

High winds inflict damage by blowing down objects, creating choppy waves and high seas, and by inundating coastal areas with seawater.

As reported by Don Perovich aboard the Healy, there is widespread refreezing of surface ice meltwater as it runs through, then underneath, the ice and comes into contact with colder, more saline seawater, adding on layers of newly formed ice to the bottom of floes during the melt season.

Some of these shells are shielded from direct contact with seawater by a special coating that the animal makes (as is the case in mussels).

For any temperature in the oceans, there is a steady state level with the atmosphere, as dictated by Henry's law for the solubility of CO2 in seawater.

QUOTE:» For any temperature in the oceans, there is a steady state level with the atmosphere, as dictated by Henry's law for the solubility of CO2 in seawater.

When atmospheric CO2 exchanges across the air — sea interface it reacts with seawater through a series of four chemical reactions that increase the concentrations of the carbon species: dissolved carbon dioxide (CO2 (aq)-RRB-, carbonic acid (H2CO3) and bicarbonate (HCO3 ---RRB- Hydrogen ions (H +) are produced by these reactions.

This study specifically considers the role of Antarctic sea ice in shaping deep ocean circulation and stratification, by driving surface buoyancy loss associated with brine rejection (when sea ice forms, salt is pushed into the surrounding seawater, making it denser).

The basalts are thought to contain porous, rubbly layers with plenty of interstices where CO2 could fit, simply by displacing seawater.

pCO2 in water is a mix of temperature, pH, bio life and total carbon (DIC) content... In general measured by mixing seawater with air till equilibrium and measuring the CO2 level in the air.

Ken Caldeira: «Melting in Antarctica is strongly influenced by interactions involving the circulation of seawater, and its interaction with glacial ice, sea ice, surface winds and temperature, sunlight and so on.

The Surfrider Foundation filed appeal today of Superior Court Judge Judith F. Hayes» ruling siding with the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board's determination to allow «open ocean» intake to withdraw seawater for an ocean desalination facility on the Carlsbad coast, the largest ever planned in the United States, and the first to be scrutinized by the California courts.

It also warned of a fast drop in dissolved oxygen in seawater — with predictions of a 1 - 7 per cent decline by 2100 caused by the effects of global warming and nutrient runoff into the sea from agricultural fertilizers and sewage.

Accordingly, upwelling of waters acidified by anthropogenic CO2 has led to a further decrease in surface pH, as reported in the eastern Pacific Ocean along the west coast of North America, from central Canada to northern Mexico, where shoaling of the layer of seawater undersaturated with aragonite increased the frequency and magnitude of coastal acidification associated with upwelling events (Feely et al. 2008, 2010).

Im agree some mitigation is needed as well but the example they are now discussing eg of correcting the SA end of the Murray by flushing it with seawater does nothing to address the overallocation of water rights (and excessive extraction of water at the upper end).

In contrast, the revised paradigm of anthropogenic impacts on seawater pH accommodates the full range of realized and future trends in pH of both open - ocean and coastal ecosystems and provides an improved framework to understand and model the dynamic pH environment of coastal ecosystems, with observed daily fluctuations often exceeding the range of mean pH values estimated for the open ocean as a consequence of OA during the twenty - first century by GCMs (Price et al. 2012; Tables 1 and 2).

We have ice melting to water with no CO2, absorbing 300 ppm by the time it is seawater, and you are saying that the release of CO2 is only a miserable 16 ppm per degree??

As a smaller fraction of the excess CO2 goes into the oceans, a larger fraction may remain in the atmosphere, and the chemical changes in seawater that can affect organisms will continue to grow in lockstep with the relentless increases in the excess CO2 in the overlying atmosphere caused by human activities.

But also, over time, most of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is absorbed by the ocean, where it reacts with seawater to form an acid that is corrosive to coral reefs, shellfish, and other marine life.