Sentences with phrase «how seawater»

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.

Years ago I read an article about how seawater sprays are broken down into H2 and O2 by the interaction of salt and UV.

The detailed process will also give forensic scientists valuable insight into how seawater affects deceased bodies, as they examine people of all ages and nationalities who died at the exact same moment under the same conditions.

Not exact matches

It's hard to articulate how major a f — up this is, but Kyle Mizokami does a good job at Popular Mechanics: Indian authorities ordered the pipe replacement because they «likely felt that pipes exposed to corrosive seawater couldn't be trusted again, particularly pipes that carry pressurized water coolant to and from the ship's 83 megawatt nuclear reactor.»

The team used samples of seawater to determine how nitrogen is removed from the oceans.

The researchers exposed baby corals from the Great Barrier Reef to acidified seawater for varying lengths of time and investigated how they responded at a molecular level.

Chemical clues in the mangroves and algae can also tell how salty the water was, which shows whether or not El Niño was raising the local sea level and causing more seawater to seep into the coastal wetlands.

The scientist describes how thousands of years of soaking in seawater have rendered the precious remains fragile.

By separating the different atomic masses («isotopes») of the element boron in the foraminifera shells, they tracked how the pH of seawater changed during the PETM.

«They hardly ever come onto land, and they don't swim in seawater either,» he says, which helps explain how a distinct species arose, in the case of the Suwannee alligator snapping turtle, in just one river.

Researchers put a number on how much seawater the world has, based on new data about the shape of the ocean floor.

Its goal is to find out where and how fast seawater is melting the glacial ice.

One question that has long and intensively been discussed in research is: Where and how deep does seawater penetrate into the seafloor to take up heat and minerals before it leaves the ocean floor at hydrothermal vents?

This guarantees further research into the topic, especially on the Mg - calcite solubility to further understand how organisms cope with these seawater conditions.

The scientists hope to gain more insight into this by exploring how past changes in seawater pH have impacted these organisms, but also through further field and laboratory studies testing the effect of ocean acidification on these calcifiers.

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.

«Once the ocean - atmosphere system was isolated, we could systematically probe how changes in the seawater due to biological activity affect the composition and climate properties of the sea spray aerosol,» said Prather, a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry who holds a joint appointment at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

The study examined 27 years worth of satellite data for sea surface temperatures, previous coral bleaching events, and studied how corals responded to different seawater warming conditions.

How the researchers determined this was a neat trick, involving balancing the vent site's CO2 budget by measuring the amount of CO2 in seawater in the vent fluid; analyzing the isotopic makeup of the CO2; and radiocarbon dating the CO2.

The researchers knew how much oxygen should have diffused down into each section of sediment from the seawater, so any «missing» oxygen meant microbes had consumed it.

Seawater sulfate is a problem for methane in two ways: Sulfate destroys methane directly, which limits how much of the gas can escape the oceans and accumulate in the atmosphere.

Kinetic studies uncovered factors that control how fast uranium in seawater binds to the adsorbent.

«Understanding how the adsorbents perform under natural seawater conditions is critical to reliably assessing how well the uranium adsorbent materials work,» Gill said.

To measure the amount of salt in seawater, for instance, they might measure how well the solution conducts electricity, since the higher the level of dissolved salt, the higher the electrical conductivity of the water.

Scientists are studying this mound to gain an understanding of the interaction of crustal rocks and seawater, and to learn how sulfide mounds on land were formed millions of years ago.

How much salt is in seawater?

How do communities in the nutrient - poor, so - called oligotrophic open ocean react, if the seawater gradually acidifies due to the uptake of human - induced carbon dioxide (CO2)?

About BIOACID: Since 2009, more than 250 BIOACID scientists from 20 German research institutes have investigated how different marine organisms respond to ocean acidification and increasing carbon dioxide concentrations in seawater, how their performance is affected during their various life stages, how these reactions impact marine food webs and elemental cycles and whether they can be mitigated by evolutionary adaptation.

Learn how to make your own Seawater Lobster, and how that lobster can quickly become a sumptuous Lobster Corn Chowder.

There is of course a lot of uncertainty about the details, that affect the melt rates, we just don't know how quickly warmer seawater will undercut floating glaciers, and buildup of darker older snow / ice layers will increase the amount of absorbed sun light.

All of these, as well as CO2 sequestration as is (just taking CO2 and burying it in old oil reservoirs, aquifers, etc.), would be attempts to grasp the «big control knob» (see Hank Roberts» 670), and in such a way as to have the same or nearly the same (depending on seawater chemistry and how carbonate dissolution works in buffering pH relative to sequestering CO2 from the atmosphere) effect as reducing anthropogenic CO2 emissions.

How dare you hunt such creatures to near extinction when no one needs to eat this meet that tastes like old steak soaked in seawater for a hundred years anyway?»

In a report published in Scientific Reports, researchers describe how they exposed herring and pink salmon embryos for a short period to levels of oil contaminants similar to the «safe» levels detected in samples of Prince William Sound seawater after the spill cleanup.

Iris Hendriks of the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies recently analyzed data from a wide sample of research into how individual organisms respond to increased carbon dioxide in their seawater.

Rain washes it into the seawater = depends how often rains.

The seawater contains phytoplankton, which is the foundation of the food chain in the ocean and the catalyst that begins the process of how sea spray aerosol particles can change global climate.

However, in the past measuring how productive coral reefs are has been time - consuming and expensive, requiring ongoing measurement as scientists need to trace the changes in the dissolved oxygen of seawater as it moves over the reef.

For example, how is absorption of radiation in the atmosphere or evaporation of seawater a cooling process?

I know, carbonate levels in seawater probably were much higher too, but is remains to be seen in how far the theory describes reality...