"Floating debris" refers to any objects or materials that are floating in the air or water, usually after an accident, disaster, or when something breaks or falls apart.
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They will also experiment with collection techniques,
gathering floating debris with nets and bringing it back to shore for recycling or conversion into fuel.
Using mathematical simulations of ocean currents, researchers at the University of New South Wales in Sydney show that plastic garbage may take circuitous cruises before joining patches
of floating debris in distant oceans.
The insects, for instance, likely make quick meals for many marine crabs, which themselves raft
on floating debris in the North Pacific.
Ocean currents have been carrying
floating debris into all five of the world's major oceanic gyres for decades.
In the bow the lookout watches the water
for floating debris; in the stern the lookout watches for the rare man (or woman) overboard.
Cuomo urged boaters on Lake Ontario and the Saint Lawrence River to be aware of
floating debris such as logs and other items that can be encountered during spring run - off conditions and high water.
Using an oceanographic model of
floating debris dispersal calibrated by our data, and correcting for wind - driven vertical mixing, we estimate a minimum of 5.25 trillion particles weighing 268,940 tons.
The graceful wire twists and suspended aluminum elements of Birds on the Road (2014) trace more suggestive patterns of winged flight, while the resolved feminine features of the driftwood carving Root Mama (2014), adorned with shells and a headdress of lichen - coated branches, when viewed from an oblique angle, disappears into a loose bundle of
faceless floating debris.
Males and females would need to arrive
on floating debris to begin to repopulate the species here, which Jurgens said is unlikely to happen very often.
An image that appeared on Imgur showed concept art
of floating debris that appears to be swallowed up by some large creature or ship.
In Eliot's poems, «the confusion of life will be reflected in the disorganized flux of images; its lack of clear meaning in the obscurity of language; its defiance of creeds in a license of metrical form; its dislocated connection with the past in
the floating debris of allusion; while its flattened emotions will be reproduced realistically, without comment.»
They all formed from
the floating debris that is our solar sytem, which likely is made up of previous solar systems.
There,
floating debris — from microscopic particles of plastic to large pieces like ropes and fishing nets — is carried by currents and accumulates.
Scientists involved in the discoveries have been cautious, saying that the features could also be
floating debris or bubbles.
Hatchlings and young sea turtles are particularly susceptible to getting tangled up in lost or discarded fishing gear or
floating debris.
A tiny ocean surfing crab adapts its mating systems to its home, opting for a promiscuous lifestyle on
floating debris and a single mate when riding a turtle
No official cause of the spill had been determined as of last November, but flood conditions in the river may have stirred up
floating debris that damaged the pipeline.
According to a new study, the virus disguises itself as junk so that it will be gobbled by cells cleaning up
floating debris.
The observations support two of the possible explanations the team thinks are most likely — that the features might be waves or
floating debris.
You must navigate your way down the river, avoiding rocks, rapids, and
floating debris, and find places to moor your raft while you scavenge for supplies.
A dog that can't surmount obstacles on land can't swim around obstacles (trees, seaweed, reeds, floating ice,
floating debris) in water.
Changes in color (dark or light), cloudiness, or particulate matter (
floating debris) are most often associated with bladder or kidney conditions.
Other recent findings by Dr. Seguel's team include
a floating debris survey and the role of sea gulls on the health and welfare of South American fur seal pups on Guafo Island that also was funded in part by Morris Animal Foundation.
At its heart Cepinas is a simply, yet interesting concept; you pilot a star - ship in a top - down 2d view against enemy ships and must capture planets to win the game, all the while shooting an enemies and avoiding asteroids and anything else determined to turn you into
floating debris.
The Earth is in pieces, and the Steambots now live either on fragments of
floating debris, or in their own spaceships.
Murphy's works are created using a technique that involves suspending widely - spaced individual shapes or fragments of imagery that, when viewed from side angles resemble nothing more than
a floating debris field, but when viewed head - on combine to form a single, unified image.
There are a number of potential hazards out on the water, from rocks,
floating debris and reckless boaters to extreme weather conditions.