Sentences with phrase «deep ocean studies»

Your excellent comment sent me off on various journeys where I was able to re appraise my (jaundiced) opinion of Reading University, read about Ted Shepherd and his past career, follow up on the Hawaii connection and best of all read up on Sarak Purkey who as you rightly say is involved with deep ocean studies.

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Ocean turbulence stirred up by multitudes of creatures such as krill can be powerful enough to extend hundreds of meters down into the deep, a new study suggests.

Previous studies have zeroed in on the effect in the deep ocean, the study said, but not as close to shore.

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.

SHAKY GROUND Researchers drag sensors across the ocean near New Zealand to study ocean floor vibrations, adding data to the debate about how the Earth moves deep underground.

The researchers also studied variables related to other ocean plant groups, like diatoms, which build glass shells that carry carbon to the deep sea, sequestering it from the atmosphere.

«Ocean ridges are the most dynamic places on our planet, and this is the first cabled observatory that goes out to one,» says oceanographer Peter Rona, who uses NEPTUNE to study the dynamics of the deep - sea volcanoes from his lab at Rutgers University in New Jersey.

«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.

Last year, a study published in Science Advances found that the oceans have been steadily storing more heat since the 1980s and that deeper layers of the ocean are starting to warm up, as well.

The smoke, from fires deep in Africa, is nearly invisible to satellites in space, and because the southeast Atlantic Ocean has few islands, the layers are hard to study from below.

And tropical deep reefs are not barren landscapes on the deep ocean floor: they are highly diverse ecosystems that warrant further study.

«It's estimated that 95 percent of the livable space on our planet is in the ocean,» said Carole Baldwin, curator of fishes at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, lead author of the study and director of the Smithsonian's Deep Reef Observation Project (DROP).

Bierman and four colleagues — from UVM, Boston College, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, and Imperial College London — studied deep cores of ocean - bottom mud containing bits of bedrock that eroded off of the east side of Greenland.

«We need to do more studies to be able to determine if this new species, which we are yet to name, only lives in the shallow waters of the western Mediterranean or if it is also found in other deep water basins in the eastern Mediterranean or Atlantic Ocean, for example,» highlights Conxita Àvila.

A salty ocean more than 100 kilometers deep might lurk beneath Pluto's icy heart, a new study suggests.

A study described here today at the American Geophysical Union's biennial Ocean Sciences Meeting shows that RNA's chemical building blocks fall apart within days to years at temperatures near boiling — a finding that poses problems for some origin of life theories, especially ones picturing that life arose in scalding settings such as deep - sea 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.

More perplexing still, seismic studies have shown no evidence that ocean crust is being subducted — thrust down into the hot mantle underlying the trench — which is the process that results in quakes at other deep - sea trenches.

For much of the global ocean the coarser resolution is okay, but when you are studying a unique location like the Gulf of Maine, with its complex bathymetry of deep basins, channels, and shallow banks combined with its location near the intersection of two major ocean current systems, the output from the coarser models can be misleading.»

Researchers studied the Cayman reefs, which are 80 miles south of Cuba and surrounded by deep ocean water, in part because of their remoteness and negligible impact from a small nearby human population, Frazer said.

A new study led by the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics has found that wind over the ocean off the coast of East Antarctica causes warm, deep waters to upwell, circulate under Totten Ice Shelf, and melt the fringes of the East Antarctic ice sheet from below.

As a cofounder of ORCA, devoted to scientific inquiry about the health of the world's oceans, she recognizes that time is of the essence for studying as much of the deep - sea ecosystem as she can right now.

Other papers in the issue examine how deep sea sediments may affect seismic wave readings, and evaluate how the Cascadia Initiative's data collection from ocean bottom seismometers has improved over the first three years of the study.

A new study has found that turbulent mixing in the deep waters of the Southern Ocean, which has a profound effect on global ocean circulation and climate, varies with the strength of surface eddies — the ocean equivalent of storms in the atmosphere — and possibly also wind spOcean, which has a profound effect on global ocean circulation and climate, varies with the strength of surface eddies — the ocean equivalent of storms in the atmosphere — and possibly also wind spocean circulation and climate, varies with the strength of surface eddies — the ocean equivalent of storms in the atmosphere — and possibly also wind spocean equivalent of storms in the atmosphere — and possibly also wind speeds.

A March study shows that one large swath of the ice sheet sits on beds as deep as 8,000 feet below sea level and is connected to warming ocean currents.

The first chapter of Deep Thinkers shows just how hard it is to study even very large mammals in a place as huge and complex as the ocean.

The study, «Picocyanobacteria and deep - ocean fluorescent dissolved organic matter share similar optical properties» appeared in the May 17 issue of Nature Communications.

Trenbeth and others have used simulation - based studies to suggest that the ocean is continuing to warm, but the deeper layers have been warming up more in the last decade.

A new study found that vulnerability of deep - sea biodiversity to climate change's triple threat — rising water temperatures, and decreased oxygen, and pH levels — is not uniform across the world's oceans.

A new study shows that these whales and outsized land mammals — as well as seabirds and migrating fish — played a vital role in keeping the planet fertile by transporting nutrients from ocean depths and spreading them across seas, up rivers, and deep inland, even to mountaintops.

The finding, in combination with evidence from previous studies, suggests that these molten regions deep below, near the core - mantle boundary of the Earth, may cause basaltic ocean island chains to form along the surface.

The Hubble study suggests that the ocean can be no deeper than 330 kilometers below the surface.

A new study led by The Australian National University (ANU) has found seawater cycles throughout Earth's interior down to 2,900 km, much deeper than previously thought, reopening questions about how the atmosphere and oceans formed.

The researchers can assess how much carbon can be captured and stored in the deep oceans by studying the amount of carbon that gets recycled back to the surface.

The Earth is more than 75 percent water, but only 1 percent of the oceans have been studied due to technological limits of going deep under water.

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

The study marks the first time that human influence on the climate has been demonstrated in the water cycle, and outside the bounds of typical physical responses such as warming deep ocean and sea surface temperatures or diminishing sea ice and snow cover extent.

Pabst adds that the new study was possible only because of new tagging technologies, which were developed by the U.S. Navy to measure pressure deep in the ocean.

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.

Just as on land, we learn about ocean volcanoes by studying vibrations to see what is happening deep inside as plates separate and magma rushes up to form new crust.

«A huge difficulty in all of this is that the Southern Ocean is big, deep, complex, hard to study, and in general less known than most of the world ocean,» he Ocean is big, deep, complex, hard to study, and in general less known than most of the world ocean,» he ocean,» he said.

As for Dione, the new study finds it harbors a deep ocean between its crust and core.

Atmospheric forcing, which is known to have a strong influence on surface ocean dynamics and production, is typically not considered in studies of the deep sea.

«The deeper [dolphins] go into the ocean, the smaller the volume of gas or air in the lungs gets,» said study lead author Andreas Fahlman, a professor of biology at Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi.

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.

The Nereus team is preparing for a six - week voyage — funded by the National Science Foundation to the tune of about $ 1.4 million — beginning in February 2014 to study the Pacific Ocean's Kermadec Trench, which is about 10 kilometers deep.

Commenting on the latest study, which he was not involved in, he says the findings represent «excellent news» for the possibility of detecting microbial life deep in the ocean.

A new study led by researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science found that even in the absence of oxygen, the chemical and biological processes occurring in the Black Sea resemble those in the oxygenated deep ocean.

Van Dover has studied the deep ocean floor for years and made many dives in Alvin.