Sentences with phrase «from ocean»

«Approximately half of the oxygen on Earth comes from the ocean,» said Vladimir Ryabinin, executive secretary of the International Oceanographic Commission that formed the GO2NE group.

What's sitting in the the Larsen C iceberg's wake is a treasure trove of scientific data waiting to be collected from the ocean surface to the sea floor.

Ecologists implanted tiny, battery - powered tags smaller than a pencil eraser into more than 8,159 fish migrating down the Columbia, the nation's fourth - largest river, and released those fish at one of four sites anywhere from about 140 to 245 miles upstream from the ocean.

Those silicate grains must come from the ocean deep inside Enceladus, Kempf realized.

SEE ALSO Carbon Dioxide in the Ocean and Atmosphere; Climate and the Ocean; Geospatial Technologies; Ocean Currents; Ocean - Floor Sediments; Oceanography, Biological; Oceanography, Chemical; Oceanography, Geological; Oceanography, Physical; Petroleum from the Ocean; Submarines and Submersibles.

But if they are, they could provide a much easier way of determining just what conditions are like in the Europan ocean below the ice cover, since they would likely originate from that ocean, like they do on Enceladus.

For one thing, the fit neglects lags in the system (such as those resulting from ocean heat uptake) and it also neglects changes in albedo and other radiative factors.

It is thought that water from the ocean below has made its way to the surface in these areas, depositing various minerals or salts, etc..

Paleoclimate: I don't know for sure, but this record is too long (1 million years) to be an ice core, so I'm guessing it's a stacked sediment core, showing delta - O18 from ocean foraminifera.

It was also recently reported on AmericaSpace that substances from the ocean below have been detected on Europa's surface, in regions known as «chaos terrain.»

Werdell, P. J., et al. (2018), An overview of approaches and challenges for retrieving marine inherent optical properties from ocean color remote sensing, Prog.

Each of them — from the human gut microbiome to the soil's; and from the ocean's to the atmosphere's — is distinct, made up of organisms that are uniquely adapted to that environment.

21 Peter Ward: RE your other book, «Under a Green Sky», how do you know the sulfur came from the ocean rather than from volcanoes?

Europa may have geysers of water vapor erupting from the ocean below, as in this artist's conception.

When comparing between four size classes, two microplastic < 4.75 mm and meso - and macroplastic > 4.75 mm, a tremendous loss of microplastics is observed from the sea surface compared to expected rates of fragmentation, suggesting there are mechanisms at play that remove < 4.75 mm plastic particles from the ocean surface.

Some 5C of warming appears to make the Oceans less dense allowing methane calthrates to be released from the Ocean floor en masse.

Sponsors will be from the ocean observing field: scientific agencies, governmental organizations, private sector companies, and civil society actors looking to maximize exposure at the conference.

Climate change is thus inseparable from ocean change, and our ability to understand these changes relies heavily on our understanding of ocean ecosystems and, more specifically, the role of iron in regulating ocean productivity and hence the global carbon cycle and climate.

These Scottish woodlands, consisting mainly of Scots pines with some broad - leaved species, are remnants from an ocean edge of the boreal forests that once stretched across Eurasia and Northern America.

The researchers found that the twistron could harvest power directly from ocean waves or — when sewn into a shirt — from the wearer's breathing motion, they report today in Science.

Based on global simulations, however, they found the most dramatic effects stemmed from ocean acidification.

the Arctic has shown a pattern of strong low - level atmospheric warming over the Arctic Ocean in autumn because of heat loss from the ocean back to the atmosphere....

Repeat spawners make the dangerous journey from the ocean to their freshwater spawning grounds multiple times throughout their lives, while single spawners take the risk only once.

Short - lived bromine compounds naturally released from the ocean surface, however, have a more pronounced impact on ozone than their short - lived industrial cousins.

Some of this naturally released methane comes from the ocean, a phenomenon that has long puzzled scientists because there are no known methane - producing organisms living near the ocean's surface.

A study of the 15 - mile length of Coos Bay, from the ocean to the city of the same name, finds the bay is free of toxic levels of reduced oxygen that often affect other Oregon locations.

«To get relatively uncontaminated material from the ocean floor is quite difficult.»

«The ability to adapt to changing conditions is going to become even more important as humans impact the environment, whether it's from ocean acidification or increasing temperatures or other types of global changes that are occurring.»

Samples collected from the ocean floor reveal how the mantle's convective forces shape the earth's surface, create its crust and perhaps even affect its rotation

For this, scientists rely on proxies — traces of climate's imprint contained in sediment collected from ocean beds or from the shells of creatures that lived back then.

Professor Drijfhout added: «When a similar cooling or reduced heating is caused by volcanic eruptions or decreasing greenhouse emissions the heat flow is reversed, from the ocean into the atmosphere.

Each year, a huge amount of water evaporates from the ocean, then falls over land as rain or snow, and returns to the ocean through runoff and river flows.

Plumes of water thought to be spewed into space from the ocean would make the search easier — but now it seems these plumes could just be warm rocks.

Methane hydrates, after all, were largely responsible for corrupting the containment dome intended to stop the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill rising from the ocean bottom; the viscous mixture clogged the dome and a redirection pipe intended to take leaking oil to a tanker waiting above.

A LITTLE more than 600 million years ago, you could have drunk from the ocean.

And the Reef Life Survey, begun in Tasmania by Stuart - Smith and marine ecologist Graham Edgar in 2007, has trait records for more than 5,000 species from all ocean basins.

Instead, they found that Greenland's deltas are largely shielded from the ocean's waves by the presence of large, steep - cliffed fjords.

It makes enough to power a sensor from ocean waves (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.aam8771).

Dr Samantha Gibbs, from Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton, who was Dr O'Dea's PhD supervisor and co-author of the study, says: «A key objective was to record calcification in fossil coccolithophores in a way that enabled direct comparison with measurements from living specimens.

At Enceladus's south pole, plumes of water spurt up from an ocean hidden under a thick sheath of ice.

All this talk about astrophysics momentarily distracts Still from the jetliner's precarious position above the Atlantic, but it doesn't take long for him to remember that he's but a short fall from the ocean.

In the first state - level action of its kind, the governor of Washington today announced that her state will try to protect valuable shellfish industries and marine life from ocean acidification.

Over the past 2 years, pirates operating out of conflict - riven Somalia have severely disrupted research, says Ann Thresher, an oceanographer at the Wealth from Ocean Flagship program of CSIRO, Australia's national science agency.

That could allow heat from the ocean to be released into the atmosphere — causing a jump in atmospheric global warming, Trenberth says: «This could be a very important year.»

Launching on four legs, the pterosaur would have flapped its wings till it caught these small pockets of warm air rising from ocean or hot land, and then coasted easily on these for several hours.

Dr Sarah O'Dea, from Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton and lead author of the study, says: «Our results show that climate change significantly altered coccolithophore calcification rates at the PETM and has the potential to be just as significant, perhaps even more so, today.

Christian Laurent, from Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton, lead author of the study, says: «We started looking at the shape of the rachis and how it changes along the length of it to accommodate different stresses.

Without the fog from the ocean, Weathers and her colleagues suggest, the rain forest of Fray Jorge might starve to death.

This moves water away from the coast, causing upwellings that bring cold, nutrient - rich water from the ocean floor to the surface, where it feeds innumerable microorganisms and algae.

Juvenile salmon that enter the ocean this year amid the gradually improving conditions will not return from the ocean to spawn in the Columbia and other rivers for another two years or more, so fishermen should not expect adult salmon numbers to improve much until then.