Sentences with phrase «carbon chemistry»

But the change in carbon chemistry of the ocean and ultimately the atmosphere need to be transparently documented, also, if we are to trade carbon offsets based on iron fertilization.

Hales» pioneering research in ocean carbon chemistry underlies much of what we know about the role carbon dioxide from fossil fuel emissions plays in changing the chemistry of Northwest seas.

I think at the macroscopic scale any life we discover will have evolved by Darwinian evolution; at the microscopic scale it will be based on carbon chemistry.

In her day job, Kim is a scientist with NIWA and the University of Otago in New Zealand, with a focus on marine carbon chemistry.

This detailed study of carbon chemistry dynamics highlights the need to incorporate local effects of nearshore oceanographic processes into predictions of coral reef vulnerability and resilience.

The thermodynamic formalism of how one does carbon chemistry calculations are almost fundamental laws of science.

«Our objective is to characterize the physical, chemical, and biological features of the ocean, gain some understanding of carbon chemistry nutrient chemistry, pollutant chemistry,» Spinrad said.

«By collecting information about microbial populations present in the sediments, we hope to gain information about how and when bacteria do that, and how bacteria couple subsurface carbon chemistry to uranium behavior.»

Such priorities include: 1) establishing an ocean carbon chemistry baseline; 2) establishing ecological baselines; 3) determining species / habitat / community sensitivity to ocean acidification; 4) projecting changes in seawater carbonate chemistry; and 5) identifying potentially synergistic effects of multiple stressors.

This study presents broad - scale carbon chemistry data from Great Barrier Reef (GBR) inshore coral reefs to test for regional and season differences between inorganic carbon system parameters in coastal waters.

In her day job, Kim is a scientist with NIWA and the University of Otago in New Zealand, with a focus on marine carbon chemistry.

Constraining coral reef metabolism and carbon chemistry dynamics are fundamental for understanding and predicting reef vulnerability to rising coastal CO2 concentrations and decreasing seawater pH. However, few studies exist along reefs occupying densely inhabited shorelines with known input from land - based sources of pollution.

The ocean model I used does carbon chemistry, with plankton and gas exchange and all that.

Determine status and spatial / temporal patterns in carbon chemistry, assessing the generality of response to ocean acidification.

You needed stars to grow until they exploded as supernovas, processing the material of the cosmos into those heavier elements, leading to more stars and more supernovas and more heavy elements and planets and then, with the emergence of carbon chemistry, life itself.

This shows a carbon chemistry model developed by Heidelberg University researchers.

Document and evaluate variation in carbon chemistry to infer mechanisms (including biological) driving ocean acidification.

ref Such changes in the carbon chemistry of the open ocean probably have not occurred for more than 20 million years.

Never mind that this would be easily traceable by ocean carbon chemistry, with low pH water plumes streaming from the ridge crests.

These structural defects and edges play a vital role in carbon chemistry and physics, as they alter the chemical reactivity of graphene.

The constants governing the carbon chemistry in the ocean are known to many significant digits, from nice well - behaved laboratory data.

More recently, including the carbon chemistry system in general circulation models has simply been a question of allocation of computing resources.

George Olah, 1994 Nobel laureate for carbon chemistry

The nature of carbon chemistry in seawater is such that as the ocean's carbon concentration in solution increases the seawater becomes more acidic and consequently less able to absorb additional CO2.