Sentences with phrase «deep seafloor»

«Satellite radar data have given us a detailed picture of where natural seeps are concentrated across deep seafloor of the Gulf of Mexico,» said co-author Ian MacDonald, an oceanographer and professor at Florida State University.

Scientists have been bowled over by the diversity that has turned up in unexpected places, from crustaceans and worms on the deep seafloor to carnivorous sponges in the Antarctic Ocean.

But naturally as we explore more environments (the deep seafloor, for example), we discover organisms we have never encountered.

Those that don't end up beached, sink down to the deep seafloor providing a unique ecosystem for various communities of organisms.

Macdonald says the process of continental plates spreading apart and filling in with magma is analogous to what happens on the deep seafloor at mid-ocean ridges, which are difficult to study because they lie a few kilometres under water.

This indicates that the deep seafloor may be the ultimate sink for marine litter,» Bergmann suggests.

In fact, the litter density on the deep seafloor of the Fram Strait is 10 to 100 times higher than at the sea surface.

Most important, the work simulated the movement of dye — not viscous oil — injected in the upper layers of the ocean — not the deep seafloor — for a total of two months — not the ongoing no - end - in - sight disaster.

Giant larvacean houses: Rapid transport to the deep seafloor.

A new paper by MBARI researcher Ken Smith and his colleagues shows that population booms of algae or animals near the sea surface can sometimes result in huge pulses of organic material sinking to the deep seafloor.

The deep seafloor is perfectly dark — sunlight is completely extinguished at a depth of 3,000 feet — and so it has no plants.

She focused on the deep seafloor, well beyond the ice shelves and the continental shelf that were her compatriot Julian Gutt's targets.

However, during 2011 and 2012, the researchers observed three dramatic events that delivered huge amounts of relatively fresh food to the deep seafloor.

Angel claims that «there are almost without exception no living resources worth exploiting» on the deep seafloor.

This photomontage shows some of the small animals that colonized bundles of acacia wood that sat on the deep seafloor, 3,200 meters below the surface, for five years (note penny for scale).

Thus, this study adds to the growing body of evidence that, although the deep seafloor may look flat and uniform, its animal communities often vary considerably over both space and time.

Since their last report from the U.K. research vessel James Clark Ross off the coast of Antarctica, the team of 22 scientists has been working in 4 - hour shifts around the clock to study the rocky slope that connects the continental shelf with the deep seafloor.

Reduced Atlantic Ocean overturning circulation will initially lead to lower O2 levels at the deep seafloor, and may alter the intensity of Pacific and Indian Ocean OMZs (Schmittner et al., 2007).

Beer cans, plastic bags and other types of human litter are scattered across the deepest seafloor.

With no part of the deep seafloor beyond our reach, it's exciting to think of the discoveries that await.»

The team will also document previously unmapped areas of the sanctuary's deep seafloor.

In April 2017, a team of NOAA - led researchers will explore the deep seafloor environment of Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary (CINMS) aboard NOAA ship Bell M. Shimada.

On April 27, 2017 the NOAA research ship Bell M. Shimada will embark with a team of scientists to explore the deep seafloor environment of Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary.

Primary production will change in the surface layers according to sun exposure, water temperature, major stratification of water masses, for example, and this will affect the food chain down to the deep seafloor, which will be subject to differences in quantity, quality, and timing of organic matter input.

Research programs at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) encompass the entire ocean, from the surface waters to the deep seafloor, and from the coastal zone to the open sea.