Sentences with phrase «deep ocean around»

He says the team's most exciting discovery was that the deep ocean around the Antarctica is changing, in particular becoming less salty and less dense.

... the deep ocean around the Antarctica is changing, in particular becoming less salty and less dense.

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Morgan asked the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP), a global collaboration of marine research, for more than $ 100 million to collect six 2 - mile - deep cores from around the crater's center to better understand peak ring formation and the impact's environmental effects.

Pohlman believed chemosynthetic bacteria, like the kinds found around deep - ocean hydrothermal vents, must be the answer.

Map of current land and ice separating the Weddell and Ross seas, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons / Wutsje / CIA Octopuses have made themselves at home in most of the world's oceans — from the warmest of tropical seas to the deep, dark reaches around hydrothermal vents.

One of the researchers» previous studies found black carbon in the remote depths of the oceans surrounding Antarctica, and Dittmar suspects that much of the black carbon eventually winds up in deep ocean deposits around the globe.

«These conditions will cause changes in phytoplankton growth and ocean circulation around Antarctica, with the net effect of transferring nutrients from the upper ocean to the deep ocean,» said lead author J. Keith Moore, UCI professor of Earth system science.

«If protective ice shelves were suddenly lost in the vast areas around the Antarctic margin where reverse - sloping bedrock (where the bed on which the ice sheet sits deepens toward the continental interior, rather than toward the ocean) is more than 1,000 meters deep, exposed grounding line ice cliffs would quickly succumb to structural failure as is happening in the few places where such conditions exist today,» the researchers point out.

Whether they are living in cold waters near the North Pole or around Antarctica or are visiting the deep ocean, these animals» blubber is vital to their survival.

One morning last August, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute's deep - sea robot, named Doc Ricketts, was snooping around the ocean floor in 1,812 meters of very cold water off the coast of northern California.

Nestor organizes each chapter around a progressively deeper level of the ocean; the farther we descend into his experience, the more we understand our aquatic origins.

Mining on the ocean floor could do irreversible damage to deep - sea ecosystems, says a new study of seabed mining proposals around the world.

A mysterious deep - ocean seaweed diverged from the rest of the green - plant family around 540 million years ago, developing a large body with a complex structure independently from all other sea or land plants.

«This implies that a very rapid transmission process must have operated, that linked rapid climate change around Greenland with the otherwise sluggish deep Atlantic Ocean circulation,» said Gottschalk.

As changes happen in the polar regions, they are carried around the world by ocean currents, both at the surface and in the deep ocean.

But in a new study in Nature, researchers show that the deep Arctic Ocean has been churning briskly for the last 35,000 years, through the chill of the last ice age and warmth of modern times, suggesting that at least one arm of the system of global ocean currents that move heat around the planet has behaved similarly under vastly different climOcean has been churning briskly for the last 35,000 years, through the chill of the last ice age and warmth of modern times, suggesting that at least one arm of the system of global ocean currents that move heat around the planet has behaved similarly under vastly different climocean currents that move heat around the planet has behaved similarly under vastly different climates.

Now, new evidence from a marine sediment core from the deep Pacific points to warmer ocean waters around Antarctica (in sync with the Milankovitch cycle)-- not greenhouse gases — as the culprit behind the thawing of the last ice age.

The team, which also involved scientists from British Antarctic Survey and engineers from the National Oceanography Centre, captured data on temperature, speed of water flow and underwater turbulence rates of the Orkney Passage, a region of the Southern Ocean which is around 4,000 m deep and roughly 500 miles from the Antarctic Peninsula.

Potential Europan habitats include deep - sea colonies based on heat - loving bacteria like those found around hydrothermal vents on Earth's ocean floor.

Although the evidence was subsequently contested, some single - celled microbial life lacking a nucleus that segregates their internal DNA or RNA («prokaryotes») from the surrounding cytoplasm may have flourished in darkness within cracks in Earth's seafloor crust and around deep, warm or boiling hot ocean springs (hydrothermal or volcanic vents, such as at Lost City or at black smokers) without a need for light or free oxygen in the oceans or atmosphere.

Europa's ocean is believed to be around 62 miles (100 km) deep, ranging mostly between 80 and 170 km (50 and 110 miles.

Microbial life, however, should have survived in or around cracks in warm ocean seafloors, deep volcanic vents, surface volcanic springs, and other warm niches.

Scientists around the world conducting research into what actually exists in ocean depths, as well as: the impacts of fishing and other human activities on these deep unknown spaces and species; and what types of improved management options may help to conserve these natural assets (and their contribution to planetary and human wellbeing) for the long term.

A great deal of deep - seas biodiversity is concentrated around seamounts which are underwater mountains that rise 1,000 meters or higher from the seabed without breaking the ocean's surface.

A new paper from the Sea Around Us Project published in the journal Nature reveals that warmer ocean temperatures are driving marine species towards cooler, deeper waters, and this in turn, has affected global fisheries catches.

Around the Antarctic Peninsula, changes in ocean currents, and in particular, changes in circumpolar deep water flowing onto the continental shelf, is melting ice shelves from below.

Colder water can hold more carbon dioxide, however, the deep ocean is already an average of 4C and will freeze (salty or not) at around -1.8 C.

Last year, a study of its gravitational field hinted at a 10 - kilometer - thick regional ocean around the south pole lying under an ice crust some 30 to 40 kilometers deep.

First, I am in love with all that deep, deep cobalt blue - I just want to fall into it and swim around, much like your ocean.

Each day offers something new and exciting to do, with guided expeditions and treks in the ocean, on the beach, around the town, and deep into the tropical jungle, learn about and explore the island while cycling, snorkeling, horse - back riding, kayaking, hiking and driving dune - buggies.

Cactuses, succulents and other desert plants add a splash of green around the resort, contrasting with the deep blues of the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Cortez.

The Gladden and Queen entrances give access to and from the deep sea, though neither have greater depth than about 8 meters, insufficient for ocean - going shipping, particularly as the bathymetry becomes complex around the cayes with numerous coral heads and shoals.

The first will consist of 72 - square metre ocean view rooms with a panoramic view suite on the top floor, complete with a plunge pool, while families can opt for a room or suite in one of three family - designated buildings featuring water slides, pool access and the brand signature Planet Trekkers Programme, which allows families to explore the world together and cultivate a deeper understanding of the world around them.

This adventure resort offers daily guided expeditions and treks in the ocean, on the beach, around the town, and deep into the tropical jungle, letting guests learn about and explore the island while cycling, snorkeling, horseback riding, kayaking, hiking and driving dune - buggies - all included in the room rate.

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By using the manned submersible Curasub for exploration of the deep reefs around Curacao and documenting their discoveries in major scientific journals, marine biologists from all over the world have helped this Caribbean island in rapidly earning a reputation as a destination where exploring the twilight zone of the ocean is producing dynamic results.

Go swimming in the turquoise waters of the Indian Ocean, sunbathe on the unspoiled beaches of white soft sand, read in a shade, walk around the island, play beach volleyball, enjoy windsurfing and deep fishing, watch birds and just walk barefoot.

Options here are a short sleep over on a reef like Hardy Reef with Cruise Whitsundays Reefsleep adventure, a liveaboard that moves around a little but stays in the same general area such as the Ocean Quest from Deep Sea Divers Den, or the full - blown liveaboard that travels across the Coral Sea and visits only the best sites on the way.

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At one point, I was a continent the size of a puddle, gliding slowly around a bustling cityscape; at another, a camel the size of a continent, wading knee - deep through the vast ocean.

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Secrets of the Deep transforms the environment to the deepest reaches of the ocean floor, complete with jellyfish and sharks swimming around, and a miniature submersible that matches the one used in the pinball machine.

They eventually settled on the concept of strange, deep - water animals living in a dark ocean space where they illuminated everything around them; a world that Kazarova ended up creating entirely with black paper.

He has held numerous solo institutional exhibitions around the world, including Florida Living at the SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah (2017), TIME, Hernan Bas: a queer and curious cabinet at the Bass Museum of Art, Miami (2013), The Other Side at the Kunstverein Hannover (2012), Hernan Bas: works from the Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2007) and Brooklyn Museum of Art (2009), and has been included in a number of important group exhibitions, including A Sum of its Parts, at Polk Museum of Art (2016), Tracing Shadows, at PLATEAU, Samsung Museum of Art (2015), Aquatopia, The Imaginary of the Ocean Deep, at Nottingham Contemporary and Tate St. Ives (2013), Nightfall, MODEM Centre for Contemporary Art, Hungary, travelling to Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague (2012), Nothing in the World But Youth, Turner Contemporary, Margate (2011), Busan Biennale, Korea (2008), Like Color in Pictures, Aspen Art Museum (2007), Ideal Worlds - New Romanticism in Contemporary Art, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2005), Whitney Biennial (2004), and The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (2002).

If the released carbon were initially in the form of methane, it would have been oxidized to CO2 within a few decades, but as CO2 it apparently stuck around, warming the deep ocean, for a long time before it went away.

Just pop around the site today and you'll see Amelia Urry's interesting piece explaining why a study finding vastly more fish in a deep ocean layer than previous estimates doesn't mean worries about overfishing are overblown.

It's always worth remembering that the other end of the AMOC involves two main factors: (1) vorticity - mixing of heat from surface waters into the deep abyssal ocean (which decreases density causing the Atlantic Deep Water to start rising above the colder Antarctic Bottom Water) and (2) the wind - driven upwelling around the Antarctic Circumpolar Currdeep abyssal ocean (which decreases density causing the Atlantic Deep Water to start rising above the colder Antarctic Bottom Water) and (2) the wind - driven upwelling around the Antarctic Circumpolar CurrDeep Water to start rising above the colder Antarctic Bottom Water) and (2) the wind - driven upwelling around the Antarctic Circumpolar Current.

Aside from the fact that 90 degrees north sits in the middle of a 2.5 - mile - deep ocean, that's quite a statement considering two things: first, no one has been routinely monitoring sea ice along both coastlines between then and now, and second, the region was clearly warmer than it is today (in summers) around 8,000 to 10,000 years ago — on both the Siberian and North American sides.

Further to Sidd, what is about the deep ocean that make it so susceptible to our eyes sliding around it?