Sentences with phrase «carried out to the ocean»

An estimated 80 % of the plastic trash in the ocean comes from people on land — carried out to the ocean by rivers, streams, and the wind.

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Forming in the system's colder outer regions, where volatile compounds such as water and carbon dioxide freeze out, makes it possible that the planets incorporated those ices and carried them along to a warmer place where they could melt, evaporate, and become oceans and atmospheres.

A research group comprising Project Researcher Yusuke Yamashita, Assistant Professor Tomoaki Yamada, Professor Masanao Shinohara and Professor Kazushige Obara at the University of Tokyo Earthquake Research Institute and researchers at Kyushu University, Kagoshima University, Nagasaki University, and the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, carried out ocean bottom seismological observation using 12 ocean bottom seismometers installed on the seafloor of Hyuga - nada from April to July 2013.

The ocean water draws minerals and metals out of Earth's crust and carries these back up to the seabed.

Year - round ice - free conditions across the surface of the Arctic Ocean could explain why Earth was substantially warmer during the Pliocene Epoch than it is today, despite similar concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to new research carried out at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Since the Kobe Ocean Bottom Exploration Center (KOBEC) was established in 2015, the Center has carried out three survey voyages to the Kikai Caldera, south of Japan's main islands.

My research indicates that the Siberian peat moss, Arctic tundra, and methal hydrates (frozen methane at the bottom of the ocean) all have an excellent chance of melting and releasing their stored co2.Recent methane concentration figures also hit the news last week, and methane has increased after a long time being steady.The forests of north america are drying out and are very susceptible to massive insect infestations and wildfires, and the massive die offs - 25 % of total forests, have begun.And, the most recent stories on the Amazon forecast that with the change in rainfall patterns one third of the Amazon will dry and turn to grassland, thereby creating a domino cascade effect for the rest of the Amazon.With co2 levels risng faster now that the oceans have reached carrying capacity, the oceans having become also more acidic, and the looming threat of a North Atlanic current shutdown (note the recent terrible news on salinity upwelling levels off Greenland,) and the change in cold water upwellings, leading to far less biomass for the fish to feed upon, all lead to the conclusion we may not have to worry about NASA completing its inventory of near earth objects greater than 140 meters across by 2026 (Recent Benjamin Dean astronomy lecture here in San Francisco).

Through a Memorandum of Understanding between the International Ocean Institute (IOI), and The Foundation Council of National Disaster Warning (FNDWC), in addition to many activities as outlined in the MoU, IOI - Thailand collaborates with the Thai Government and relevant organisations to carry out training programmes in ocean governance and fisheries and aquaculture governance in the Asia - Pacific reOcean Institute (IOI), and The Foundation Council of National Disaster Warning (FNDWC), in addition to many activities as outlined in the MoU, IOI - Thailand collaborates with the Thai Government and relevant organisations to carry out training programmes in ocean governance and fisheries and aquaculture governance in the Asia - Pacific reocean governance and fisheries and aquaculture governance in the Asia - Pacific region.

Through a Memorandum of Understanding the IOI Centre in the Islamic Republic of Iran will help to promote effective and wise management of ocean and coastal resources, eradicate poverty in coastal areas, organise efficient protection of the marine environment as a common heritage of mankind and facilitate exchange of knowledge and information, enhance the national scientific capabilities and carry out training and educational efforts, focusing its activities on the Persian Gulf area and cooperates with IOI Caspian Sea.

So, Smetacek argues, «Iron fertilization experiments carried out in the open ocean are the best way to find out how the ocean functions.»

To develop, carry out, and sustain key observational components of NOAA ocean observing missions.

The plan to carry out detailed scientific investigations under the ocean, would provide unprecedented knowledge of an extraterrestrial sea and expand NASA's existing capabilities in planetary exploration to include nautical operations.

Experiments and analyses carried out by more than 250 scientists from 20 German institutions clearly indicate that ocean acidification and warming, along with other environmental stressors, impair life in the ocean and compromise important ecosystem services it provides to humankind.

Starring an all - star cast that featured George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Julia Roberts and many others carrying out a heist of three different Las Vegas casinos, Ocean's Eleven was a hit that went on to earn a pair of sequels, in 2004 and 2007, although neither quite has the reputation of their predecessor.

Fraser Island has been formed over hundreds of thousands of years as winds, waves and ocean currents have carried sands from the far south - east of Australia, and from as far away as Antarctica (but before Australian and Antarctica split from each other), out to the continental shelf, and in towards the land again in a zigzag pattern, to form a string of sand islands along the Queensland coast.

Before the surf session in the ocean begins, a pre surf warm routine is carried out to stretch the muscles and joints.

The expansive Pu'ukolii General Store at the Westin Kaaanapali Ocean Resort Villas offers Hawaiian souvenirs and a wide range of sundries as well as baked goods, deli sandwiches, salads, pizzas and ice - cream to carry - out or for villa delivery.

Puerto Morelos is so easy to enjoy because is developed in a very small area, you can walk the complete town area, most of the people rent a bike because this way they can carry some things with them in other to bike, laid out in the beach some time, enjoy the ocean, take pictures and then go for a bit, a cold beer or a nice cocktail at the beach bar or some place around and back to the hotel where you are staying.

We carry on our journey through Geraldton and along the Batavia Coast, the sight of many shipwrecks, ask your guide for the stories.In season check out the wildflowers en route to the Pink Lakes and the Ocean Gorges (Pot Ally).

We carry on our journey through Geralton and along the Batavia Coast, the sight of many shipwrecks, ask your guide for the stories.In season check out the Wildflowers enroute to the Pink Lakes and the Ocean Gorges (Pot Ally).

This is to be expected because the spin - up of the wind - driven ocean circulation speeds up the currents (Ekman transport) which carry heat out of the tropics in the near - surface layers toward the subtropical ocean gyres.

2) Another way would be to carry out a process - oriented comparison, wherein one focuses on a set of processes or natural variabilities (e.g. ENSO, NAO or Indian Ocean Dipole) and investigate how good a particular model reproduces climatology of certain variables during those processes / variabilities (in reference to similar climatology from the satellites).

But the same paucity of ice, which Arctic climate specialists say is driven increasingly by global greenhouse warming, has made it easy for an enormous bulk carrier, the MV Nordic Barents, to achieve a new feat of northern navigation — carrying more than 40,000 tons of concentrated iron ore from Kirkenes, Norway, along the Northern Sea Route over Russia and, as of yesterday, out of the Arctic Ocean on its way to a Chinese port.

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The Festival may be one day out of the year, but celebrating oceans with a multi-faceted, exciting event has the potential to create collaborations and partnerships for positive change we can carry forward.

-- Enhanced weathering processes on land and in the ocean to accelerate natural removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere have only been carried out on a limited scale with intermediate technological readiness.

It's clear to a range of scientists that the enormous loss of old, thick ice carried on currents from the Arctic out past Greenland into the Atlantic Ocean in recent years is a major factor that has led to sharp summer melting.

An onboard team of 96 people is carrying out frontier research on everything from geology to ocean acidification, chief scientist Xu Ren said.

The oceans are themselves carrying out the same function as GHGs in the air by slowing the release of incoming solar energy back to space.

The robot ship uses no diesel fuel to perform whatever function it is programmed to carry out, such as monitoring the oceans autonomously (COLREGS compliant) 24/7 and 365 days a year - only possible with the revolutionary (patent) energy harvesting system.

«Thus, human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of the kind that could not have happened in the past... Within a few centuries we are returning to the atmosphere and oceans the concentrated organic carbon stored in sedimentary rocks over hundreds of millions of years.»

Although the work was carried out in the lab, the research is the first to show that migrating zooplankton — or any organism — can create turbulence at a scale large enough to mix the ocean's waters.

In follow - up research, such a study should be extended to a high - resolution approach to be carried out on thicker, well - dated MIS 6 / MIS 5 sequences recovered from key areas of the Arctic Ocean and adjacent marginal seas.

According to a large scientific survey of the southern ocean (carried out by CSIRO and others), plankton blooms are created naturally in the deep ocean to the south of Australia because of a huge undersea canyon that starts below Tasmania and curves NW towards the Indian ocean.

Latent heat of vaporization at the surface, especially over the oceans, carries a tremendous and not easily quantifiable amount of energy straight through the CO2 like it wasn't there and releases it much higher up where the path out the door to space has much less resistance compared to ground level.

In the former, we try to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and get it back in the ground; or we shunt CO2 aside at the smokestack before it gets to the atmosphere, and bury or store it; or we promote algae blooms that absorb CO2 at the ocean surface and then die off and carry it to the ocean floor.

With less light penetrating the ocean surface, marine plants — otherwise known as primary producers — may be less able to carry out photosynthesis.

In Part A, you will carry out a class experiment to test the effects of increased amounts of CO2 on pH. Then, you will analyze time - series graphs to search for relationships between trends in atmospheric CO2, dissolved CO2 in seawater, and changes in ocean pH. In Part B, you will review and analyze the results of research compiled by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute on the effect of ocean acidification on a variety of marine organisms.

But to arrive at credible projections of global sea level, these two activities must forge an overlap going forward to carry out an interdisciplinary comparison of coupled glacier - ocean models.

«Matt appears to have ignored the majority of papers carrying out a realistic change in future ocean chemistry and picked a single 2008 study by Herfort et al (Journal of Phycology, vol 44, p 91) that is:

«All States have an obligation to protect and preserve the marine environment and to ensure that all activities carried out under their jurisdiction and control, including marine scientific research and commercial ocean fertilization activities do not cause pollution.

A science teacher pointed out to me that those little organisms that live near the deep ocean vents will no doubt carry on living here.)

However, in August 2015, the US Coast Guard with additional support from agencies such as the Office of Naval Research and NOAA carried out a ground breaking atmosphere - ice - ocean observation flight to the North Pole.

They found that the dense, salty water from the Marmara Sea — which leads out to the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas at the other end of the Bosphorus — is flowing out of the strait and along the bottom of the Black Sea, carrying along sediment and nutrients that could be key in providing vital nutrients to remote parts of the ocean.

To answer this question, large ensemble simulations of regional climate models will be carried out for an East Asian domain for two worlds: (1) Real world condition for which the observed sea surface temperatures will be prescribed and (2) Counter-factual world condition for which we will use adjusted sea surface temperatures obtained by removing human - induced ocean warming patterns.

Among the crew members is Garen Baghdasarian, a professor of Marine Biology at Santa Monica College who's received a PhD in Biology studying coral bleaching who's collaborating with 5 Gyres carrying out a study to find out if there's a relationship between plastic pollution and the decrease in the levels of phytoplankton in the ocean.

So far, it's been easy for fishing vessels to carry out illegal fishing activities like catching more than is regulated, fishing during off - seasons, fishing in protected waters or with illegal methods because it's hard to monitor ships that are far out in the ocean, out of sight.

Then a new round of testing will be carried out in the southwestern tip of the Sea of Japan using a 60m platform with a pair of 200 kW wind lens units, and thereafter the aim is to build an offshore wind farm with giant 5000 kW «Wind Lens» turbines, located at ocean depths exceeding 100m.

Countless numerical experiments with ocean general circulation models have been carried out to investigate the stability of the AMOC.

While the company had the wherewithal to carry out the study on the oceans, it lacked the expertise.