Sentences with phrase «data on corals»

Thus, not unlike tree rings, data on corals also can be calibrated to estimate (sea) surface temperatures (Beckman and Mahoney, 1998).

Thus, not unlike tree rings, data on corals also can be calibrated to estimate (sea) surface temperatures (Beckman and Mahoney, 1998).

For the study, researchers compiled data on coral bleaching from 1980 to 2016 for 100 coral reefs in 54 countries.

Not exact matches

The research team, led by Joshua Cinner, a social scientist who studies coral - reef systems at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia, based its analysis on data that describe conditions at more than 2,500 rcoral - reef systems at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia, based its analysis on data that describe conditions at more than 2,500 rCoral Reef Studies at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia, based its analysis on data that describe conditions at more than 2,500 reefs.

The data collected on the Palmyra reef is part of the 100 Island Challenge, the goal of which is to create a global perspective on how coral reefs are changing over time.

To select the best corals, the researchers will rely on their extensive data for the area, including growth measurements and transcriptomes — blueprints of the part of the genome that is actively transcribed into proteins.

Based on a massive amount of historical data, the index can be used to compare the bleaching responses of corals throughout the world and to predict which corals may be most affected by future bleaching events.

The global index, representing close to half the world's corals from 316 sites, is an impressive feat of data science: It emerged from a meta - analysis of all available historical records on coral bleaching from 1982 through 2006 — the «sum of human knowledge on species - specific bleaching during this period,» according to Swain.

Citizen science may be a useful and cost - effective means to increase knowledge of shark populations on coral reefs, but scientists do not yet know enough about how data collected by untrained observers compares to results from traditional research methods.

If data are available, use physiological studies of dominant corals to assess likely resistance and tolerance based on zooxanthellae type, photo - protective pigments, or tissue condition (lipid levels), and / or heterotrophic capacity.

The company recognises the importance of preserving the underwater environment and has long supported scientific research in marine biology, hosting researchers on board and collecting data to support studies on minke whales, nautilus and coral.

«We have been confident that data from Global FinPrint will catalyze conservation action to protect threatened shark and rays on coral reefs around the world.»

Hard corals on a Biorock ® structure can grow 2 - 6 times faster than in natural conditions, the corals on the Biorock ® reef are exceptionally bright colored and densely branched, heal from physical damage at least 20 times faster, have up to 50 times higher survival rate from the most severe high temperature bleaching events, and show rates of new coral growth higher than any previously recorded data.

The infographic covers data on the loss of sea life, the destruction of coral reef, and «the deadly trio.»

I would hope all those working to reduce tourism's impacts on coral would be pushing the cruise and airline industries to report their existing data on CO2 per passenger for each specific trip.

Now the locations of avaialble proxy data (tree rings, ice cores, ocean sediment records, corals etc.) are not necessarily optimally spread out, but the spatial sampling error is actually quite easy to calculate, and goes into the error bars shown on most reconstructions.

KERRY: It's a conclusion based on established physics and on evidence gathered from satellite data, ancient ice cores, temperature stations, and fossilized trees and corals.

A fair amount of the work I do relies on data from citizen volunteers that do coral reef surveys, e.g., ReefCheck.

Any lab data on sensitivity to «mean» temperature change of 0.5 deg C over a decade while the environment is oscillating over a typical temperature range that the coral would see in the sea?

This «new evidence» is based on a single analysis of «proxy» data (that is, data that do not come from thermometers but rather from sources like tree rings, ice cores, corals, and ocean and lake sediments) showing the twentieth century to be the warmest in the past thousand years.

NOAA Coral Reef Watch (CRW) thermal stress products used in this study were based on nighttime - only Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) sea surface temperature (SST) data from sensors aboard operational NOAA Polar - Orbiting Environmental Satellites (POES), produced in near - real - time at 0.5 - degree (50 - km) spatial resolution.

The map above, based on data from NOAA's Coral Reef Watch, shows areas with varying levels of heat stress.

This result is in agreement with previous data collected on scleractinian corals, coralline algae and in a reef mesocosm [note: another aquarium], even though some of these studies did not manipulate CO2 directly.

This result is in agreement with previous data collected on scleractinian corals, coralline algae and in a reef mesocosm, even though some of these studies did not manipulate CO2 directly.

In this study, the abilities of three variations of a thermal threshold index and a multivariate stress model (MSM) were used to predict coral cover and community susceptibility to bleaching based on a compilation of field data from Indian Ocean reefs across the strong thermal anomaly of 1998.

So well understood is the mechanism that satellite data on water temperature is a good proxy for coral bleaching.

They also closely matched data on ENSO captured in both living corals and ones that lived centuries ago around the Palmyra Atoll in the central Pacific.

What you did not know was that the other half of the book essay from which the post was excerpted concerned Pacific corals, and exposes scientific misconduct in the main paper (omission of data, specifically hydrogen sulfide at the Dobu Island seep with an L50 of 30ppb) on the part of Australian researchers at Milne Bay, misconduct rewarded by prominent mention in the Seattle Times Sea Change series.

In data produced exclusively for the Guardian by Mark Eakin, head of Coral Reef Watch at Noaa, we can now reveal exactly how stressful ocean temperatures have been increasing on the Great Barrier Reef over the 34 years that satellite data has been available.

«While the data is incomplete, it is clear there will be an impact on coral abundance because of bleaching - induced mortality, mainly in the far north,» the statement said in part.

They focus on two maritime sources of proxy data: coral and individual planktonic foraminifera (monocellular organisms that float in seawater at various depths).

Geological evidence, mainly coral reefs on tectonically stable coasts, was described in the review of Overpeck et al. [51] as favouring an Eemian maximum of +4 to more than 6 m. Rohling et al. [52] cite many studies concluding that the mean sea level was 4 — 6 m above the current sea level during the warmest portion of the Eemian, 123 — 119 kyr BP; note that several of these studies suggest Eemian sea - level fluctuations up to +10 m, and provide the first continuous sea - level data supporting rapid Eemian sea - level fluctuations.

The headline feature was Oceans, which enables users to see ocean floor and surface data, including information on wildlife, marine protected areas, and coral reefs.

Activist scientists and lobby groups have distorted surveys, maps and data to misrepresent the extent and impact of coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef, — according to the chairman of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Russell Reichelt.

The health of coral reefs is usually monitored by airborne and diver - based surveys, but the European Space Agency recently reported that scientists have been able to use Sentinel 2 data to identify a bleaching event on the Great Barrier Reef.

Like all other science, climatology is data - driven, and the data is constantly flooding in: measurements of change in bird - migration patterns; details of ocean temperatures and wind pro?les; measurements of the calcification of coral, the ripening of grapes, the retreat of glaciers, and so on.

This will prevent any wasted time on either end and you can simply review the Coral Gables renters insurance data responses whenever it's most convenient.