Sentences with phrase «deep ocean research»

The National Oceanography Centre develops technology for coastal and deep ocean research.

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And new research shows how genetic alterations in this odd - colored blood have helped the octopus colonize the world's wide oceans — from the deep, freezing Antarctic to the warm equatorial tropics.The iron - based protein (hemoglobin) that carries oxygen in the blood for us red - blooded vertebrates becomes ineffective when faced with low - oxygen levels.

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.

NRL research staff members developed the concept of nuclear - powered submarines, the world's first satellite - tracking system, and the Deep Ocean Search System used to uncover the wreck of the Titanic, among other innovations.

A new study in Marine Biology Research tackles this issue by comparing the physical characteristics of two similar octopus species that live on the ocean floor, as deep as 9,500 feet (almost 2,900 m) below the water's surface.

«The undersides of glaciers in deeper valleys are exposed to warm, salty Atlantic water, while the others are perched on sills, protected from direct exposure to warmer ocean water,» said Romain Millan, lead author of the study, available online in the American Geophysical Union journal Geophysical Research Letters.

But research published yesterday in the journal Nature rebuts this idea, suggesting that it was changes in ocean circulation, not winds, that predominantly led the deep water to surface near Antarctica and exhale carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

«I never considered that weather events tens of kilometers high in the atmosphere significantly influence the decadal - to century - scale circulation kilometers deep into the ocean,» says climatologist Judah Cohen of Atmospheric and Environmental Research in Lexington, Massachusetts, who did not take part in this study.

Research begun at Princeton University found that the numerous small sea animals that migrate from the surface to deeper water every day consume vast amounts of what little oxygen is available in the ocean's aptly named «oxygen minimum zone» daily.

The centre's research focuses on the mid-ocean-ridges and plate tectonic processes, the deep ocean (emphasizing biological and geochemical processes), the upper ocean (emphasizing the chemical and biological processes), and the management of the coastal environment.

Scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute sent an aquatic robot on a test run deep below the Pacific Ocean this summer

New research suggests that surface - generated eddies help distribute heat, chemistry and life at deep - ocean hydrothermal vents

«These results show that the effect of ocean acidification on deep - water corals may not be as severe as predicted,» said David Garrison, a program director in the National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences, which funded the reseocean acidification on deep - water corals may not be as severe as predicted,» said David Garrison, a program director in the National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences, which funded the reseOcean Sciences, which funded the research.

This enabled the research team to reconstruct, for the first time, a detailed picture of the environmental conditions at the ocean's surface, as well as in deeper water layers, over the last 30,000 years.

It was «just regular deep - sea research — going to the big wide cold ocean,» Boetius says now, as one who has left all that behind.

«We need international agreements and an entity that can develop and oversee deep - ocean stewardship,» said Levin, «We also need multiple sources of research funding that can help provide the scientific information that we need to manage the deep sea.

«These surprising observations show us how a deep - sea animal reproduces,» says Barbara Ransom, a program director in the National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences, which funded the research.

One question that has long and intensively been discussed in research is: Where and how deep does seawater penetrate into the seafloor to take up heat and minerals before it leaves the ocean floor at hydrothermal vents?

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.

Onboard our research vessel, the RV Sally Ride, are eight containers, each as large as a compact car, filled with sediment dredged from the deep Pacific Ocean floor.

A team of Spanish researchers, coordinated by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), has started to sequence the genome of the global deep ocean.

A deep well into the ocean floor northwest of Spitsbergen was the basis for this research.

They were more abundant than any other marine reptile and were the first group to conquer the deep oceans, as Motani demonstrated through research into the optical properties of their eyes.

This research not only provides the first clear evidence that microorganisms were directly involved in the deposition of Earth's oldest iron formations; it also indicates that large populations of oxygen - producing cyanobacteria were at work in the shallow areas of the ancient oceans, while deeper water still reached by the light (the photic zone) tended to be populated by anoxyenic or micro-aerophilic iron - oxidizing bacteria which formed the iron deposits.

A young polar bear stands on pack ice over deep waters in the Arctic Ocean in October 2009, during a major research project headed by the University of Wyoming.

The team sailed from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California to a well - studied part of the ocean known as Line 67, where the water is deep yet poor in nutrients.

In his research published in the December issue of the journal Geology of the Geological Society of America, Czaja and his colleagues Nicolas Beukes from the University of Johannesburg and Jeffrey Osterhout, a recently graduated master's student from UC's department of geology, reveal samples of bacteria that were abundant in deep water areas of the ocean in a geologic time known as the Neoarchean Eon (2.8 to 2.5 billion years ago).

The DEEPSEA CHALLENGER submersible is the centerpiece of DEEPSEA CHALLENGE, a joint scientific project by explorer and filmmaker James Cameron, the National Geographic Society and Rolex to conduct deep - ocean research.

A new type of deep - sea robotic vehicle called Nereus has successfully reached the deepest part of the world's ocean, reports a team of U.S. engineers and scientists aboard the research vessel Kilo Moana.

The research also supports a theory that a parallel pause in air temperature rise in recent years may result from storage of heat in the deep ocean.

This fabulous new graphic from the Deep Sea News crew and several other scientists represents * a lot * of research to find out the true largest sizes of 25 ocean creatures of giant repute.

The dive was part of DEEPSEA CHALLENGE, a joint scientific expedition by Cameron, the National Geographic Society and Rolex to conduct deep - ocean research.

Researchers carry out innovative basic and applied research programs in coral reef biology, ecology, and geology; fish biology, ecology, and conservation; shark and billfish ecology; fisheries science; deep - sea organismal biology and ecology; invertebrate and vertebrate genomics, genetics, molecular ecology, and evolution; microbiology; biodiversity; observation and modeling of large - scale ocean circulation, coastal dynamics, and ocean atmosphere coupling; benthic habitat mapping; biodiversity; histology; and calcification.

It was a small fraction of Exxon Research's annual $ 300 million budget, but the question the scientists tackled was one of the biggest uncertainties in climate science: how quickly could the deep oceans absorb atmospheric CO2?

As an undergraduate, he specialised in the biogeography and evolution of deep - sea corals with Oxford's ocean research group.

Research cruises such as Tara Oceans and the Global Ocean Sampling Expedition have begun to sample, sequence and analyze the ocean microbiome, from the sunlit surface waters that are mixed by the wind to dark deep layers that relatively unpertuOcean Sampling Expedition have begun to sample, sequence and analyze the ocean microbiome, from the sunlit surface waters that are mixed by the wind to dark deep layers that relatively unpertuocean microbiome, from the sunlit surface waters that are mixed by the wind to dark deep layers that relatively unperturbed.

Even in the absence of oxygen, the research team found that the respiration of organic carbon occurring in the anoxic waters of the Black Sea is not as different from that occurring in the deep ocean.

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.

Research on development of the Ocean Biogeographic Information System, synthesis activities of the first Census of Marine Life in 2010, and benthic research on the New Jersey continental shelf, and deep - sea benthos in the HudsonResearch on development of the Ocean Biogeographic Information System, synthesis activities of the first Census of Marine Life in 2010, and benthic research on the New Jersey continental shelf, and deep - sea benthos in the Hudsonresearch on the New Jersey continental shelf, and deep - sea benthos in the Hudson Canyon.

I have been privileged to explore the world's deepest oceans alongside amazing teams of researchers, and with this new polar research ship they will be able to go further and discover more than ever before.

But new research indicates that this missing heat is trapped deep in the Atlantic Ocean.

Here we provide an overview of several technical developments by scientists and engineers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) that have enabled and enhanced deep - sea exploration and experiments to assess the effects of changing ocean conditions on benthic marine animals.

June 2, 2009A new type of deep - sea robotic vehicle called Nereus has successfully reached the deepest part of the world's ocean, reports a team of U.S. engineers and scientists aboard the research vessel Kilo Moana.

Here, we report on advances made in methane hydrate research and deep - ocean Raman spectroscopy, and on proposals for fossil fuel CO2 sequestration and on controlled ocean acidification studies.

During a postdoctoral fellowship at MIT, Cambridge USA, his research interest focused on the interaction between ocean eddies and deep convection regions and their respective heat and density transports.

The findings, described in the journal Science, present an important step toward designing robots that may one day be able to build research facilities in the deep ocean, buildings on Mars or even levees at a flood zone during an emergency — jobs that are far too hazardous or expensive for human workers to do.

Southern Ocean deep convection as a driver of Antarctic warming events, Geophysical Research Letters, 43, p. 2192 - 2199.

According to new research by Thomas Weber, an assistant professor of Earth and environmental sciences at the University of Rochester, small microenvironments in the deep ocean may hold key clues to the global cycling of nitrogen in seawater.

Deeply researched and compellingly presented, Deep Water is as much about one man's misadventures on the ocean as it is about loneliness, desperation and the danger of dreams.

To do that, I not only needed to research deep into the twins» conjoined life itself, but also reveal their real connections with history, whether it is a cataclysmic event like the Civil War or a quotidian occurrence like an ocean voyage.