Sentences with phrase «how ocean chemistry»

They want to ask questions that cross scientific boundaries, such as how ocean chemistry affects biology or how the geology on the seafloor affects the physics of flowing water.

Not exact matches

Now, a 15 - year, 30 - nation research collective called Geotraces is embarking on an ambitious global survey of ocean chemistry to quantify trace elements and shed light on how chemical concentrations fluctuate in response to changing environmental conditions.

«Scientists know that there is this massive migration, but no one has really tried to estimate how it impacts the chemistry of the ocean.

Next, Doney (p. 1512) reviews how the chemistry of the oceans is changing, mostly due to human fossil fuel combustion, fertilizer use, and industrial activity.

By studying the chemistry of growth rings in the shells of the quahog clam, an international team led by experts from Cardiff University and Bangor University have pieced together the history of the North Atlantic Ocean over the past 1000 years and discovered how its role in driving the atmospheric climate has drastically changed.

The chemistry in the growth rings in the shells of the clam — which occur much like the annual growth rings in the centre of trees — can act as a proxy for the chemical make - up of the oceans, enabling researchers to reconstruct a history of how the oceans have changed over the past 1000 years with unprecedented dating precision.

Enter the toy octopus: A team of researchers in California is exploring how the changing ocean chemistry affects a hermit crab's fight - or - flight response by simulating octopus attacks in the laboratory.

By engineering breaking waves of natural ocean water under purified air in the lab, they were able to isolate and analyze aerosols from the spray and determine how life within the water altered the chemistry of the particles.

«Continued monitoring of shelf inputs to Arctic surface waters is therefore vital to understand how the changing climate will affect the chemistry, biology, and economic resources of the Arctic Ocean,» the study's authors wrote.

«Biology trumps chemistry in open ocean: How phytoplankton assimilate limited concentrations of phosphorus.»

At 3 p.m. on Thursday, join Florida State University geochemist William Burnett to chat about how radiation can affect ocean chemistry and its possible effects on marine ecology.

How are humans driving changes in the chemistry of the ocean, and what might this mean for marine ecosystems in the future?

How robust is your ocean chemistry model?

You state in the response to # 10, ``... There is no surprise that the CO2 in the atmosphere winds up partially in the oceans, nor that the amount of CO2 going into or coming out of the oceans varies in time and space — that's simple equilibrium chemistry between the liquid (that is, dissolved) and gaseous phases...» Are the buffers a part of simple equilibrium chemistry, and where can I go to read up on this and how it pertains to the Models.

Knowing, how much other factors than higher atmospheric CO2 concentration contribute may be difficult, but knowing the influence of higher atmospheric CO2 concentration when also other important quantities related to ocean chemistry are measured is not that difficult.

The audience for whom this piece is intended consists of people who know some chemistry and are uncertain about how to consider the often made claim by deniers that the oceans contain so much dissolved carbon that human production is inconsequential.

Finding a way to reverse climate change is the foremost challenge of our time and the first step is collecting ocean data in order to help us understand how seawater chemistry is changing.

They want to ask questions that cross scientific boundaries, such as how does ocean chemistry affect biology or how does the geology on the seafloor affect the physics of flowing water.

The same carbonate chemistry reactions that provide more CO2 for photosynthesis also explain how some pharmaceutical antacids work and how DIC buffers ocean pH. Bicarbonate is a common ingredient in antacids like Alka - seltzer.

A more in - depth exploration of nutrient dynamics and how they influence phytoplankton blooms on a seasonal basis can be explored by studying ocean chemistry.

I looked into this after your post about a year ago on the Argo float temperatures and how the ocean generally does not heat above 30 degrees C. My knowledge of chemistry is limited; but, I noted these things: Carbon dioxide as well as other gasses in water act like a liquid.

«Until very recently, our concept of how the upper ocean works was driven largely by studies of the physics and chemistry.

Carbonic acid is altering the chemistry of the ocean, making it difficult for some plants and animals to live how they live and do what they do.

Recent research has suggested just how significantly the ocean chemistry affects life on earth.

Gavin, it might be worth a mention in the FAQ of how climate models overlap with ocean chemistry models.

There's also the question of how the ocean's rather complex chemistry which includes a thing called «life» will respond to a less alkaline environment.

What had not been studied before was how climate change, in concert with higher concentrations of carbon dioxide, would affect ocean chemistry and biology.