Sentences with phrase «in ocean biology»

The Ekman upwelling from the wind stress curl associated with these structures plays an important role in ocean circulation theory, as well as in ocean biology from upwelling of nutrients from the deep water into the upper ocean where they can be utilized by phytoplankton.

(167) Dr.Blaine has a go at modeling the annual δ (O2 / N2) cycle due to land biology, to the air - sea heat flux, and to changes in ocean biology.

Not exact matches

«It makes sense, because the coast is a much more complicated environment, whereas the open ocean is more homogeneous and the features are more spread out in space and time,» said coauthor Daniel Costa, a distinguished professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz.

Marine biology is the scientific study of the plants, animals, and other organisms that live in the ocean.

In 2006, I flew across the ocean to study molecular biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Whipped up by surface winds and girded by the Coriolis effect (produced by Earth's rotation), eddies may grow to several hundred kilometers in diameter and are known to transport heat, chemicals and biology throughout the oceans» shallower depths.

These classes of molecules are commonly found near the ocean's surface, and they are ubiquitous in biology.

What is new in this study is it attributes the oxygen stabilisation to biology — the presence or absence of animals stirring up the ocean sediments.»

The Isthmus of Panama plays an outsized role in ocean circulation and may be a reason that our planet currently undergoes ice ages, so the new theory could rewrite not just the history of continents and biology, but also global climate.

And will mean scientists can do research for more of the year, can reach areas they've never been able to penetrate before, and will be able to bring back huge amounts of data on the ocean and marine biology,» Osborne said during a speech in Cambridge, according to a ScienceInsider post by Daniel Clery.

If the heat is intense enough (center), it might melt the ice almost all the way to the surface; in that case, organic matter and sunlight from above could reach the ocean, creating promising conditions for biology.

Ocean biology alters the chemical composition of sea spray in ways that influence its ability to form clouds over the oOcean biology alters the chemical composition of sea spray in ways that influence its ability to form clouds over the oceanocean.

Richard Thomson, a physical oceanographer at the Institute of Ocean Sciences in British Columbia who also did not take part in the work, says that deep - sea currents could be the driving factor behind the extreme variations in biology.

She graduated with a bachelor's in biology from Yale University and received a doctorate in ecology and evolutionary biology and a master's in ocean sciences from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she examined the effects of ocean climate change on seabird populations.

«The deeper [dolphins] go into the ocean, the smaller the volume of gas or air in the lungs gets,» said study lead author Andreas Fahlman, a professor of biology at Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi.

«This study confirmed that ocean circulation physics and K. brevis biology are equally important and that both immediate and short term prediction may be achieved using a combination of circulation models supported by in situ observations of physical, biological and chemical variables and satellite imagery,» concluded the researchers.

To achieve such integration, Tara Oceans is driven by researchers with expertise in biological and physical oceanography, ecology, microbiology, systematics, molecular, cellular and systems biology, bioinformatics, data management, and modeling.

The rapid technology development is expected to lead to more exciting discoveries of the ocean and its physics, chemistry, and biology, which may result in breakthrough in earth system science.

Researchers carry out innovative basic and applied research programs in coral reef biology, ecology, and geology; fish biology, ecology, and conservation; shark and billfish ecology; fisheries science; deep - sea organismal biology and ecology; invertebrate and vertebrate genomics, genetics, molecular ecology, and evolution; microbiology; biodiversity; observation and modeling of large - scale ocean circulation, coastal dynamics, and ocean atmosphere coupling; benthic habitat mapping; biodiversity; histology; and calcification.

However, my interest in reproductive behaviors and fishes can be blamed on George Barlow, my undergraduate advisor whose excitement about science, teaching and mentorship shifted my plans from veterinary school to graduate study in evolutionary biology at the University of California Santa Barbara with Robert Warner (bringing me even closer to the ocean!).

Currently, researchers have access to powerful tools in biology to help them understand the ocean, such as microscopy and DNA sequencing, but are lacking essential tools in genetics to make robust experimental model systems.

The quantitative population ecology of zooplankton with emphasis on zooplankton small - scale distribution and abundance, organic matter transport into the deep - sea, the biology of Gulf Stream Rings, zooplankton associated with deep - sea hydrothermal vents, dynamics of populations on Georges Bank and on the continental shelf region of the Western Antarctic Peninsula, acoustical determination of zooplankton biomass, abundance, and size, and the census of holozooplankton biodiversity in the worlds oceans.

The new name also more accurately reflected the broad - based academic training in mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology as well as specialized curricular elements related to understanding the oceans as a unified dynamic system and the study of its living components and resources.

The JCVI teams are focused on a variety of genomic research areas including continued work in synthetic biology; sampling and analysis of the world's oceans, fresh water and soils to better understand the microbes living in these environments; and new analysis on the human genome in the hopes of discovering new insights into disease prevention and treatment.

The award is open to scholars in eight scientific and technical fields — chemistry, computer science, economics, mathematics, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, neuroscience, ocean sciences, and physics.

You can have a differential impact on biology and chemistry, so if you really want to assess what will be the status of calcifying organisms in 2100 there is one part, the chemistry, for which the organisms have no control but for the biology they can perhaps adapt and there might be a way for the organisms to mitigate the negative impacts of ocean acidification.

«One opinion in the scientific community has been, «If the ice shell is thick, that's bad for biology — that it might mean the surface isn't communicating with the underlying ocean»,» says Dr. Britney Schmidt, a research scientist at the University of Texas and lead author of the study.

We also have modellers that project future changes of ocean chemistry and biology in the next decades and century.

In Hawaii, students learn biology with the sky as their ceiling and the ocean as the classroom.

Juli Berwald fell in love with the ocean during her junior year abroad in Israel, when, on a whim, she signed up for a weeklong marine biology course, snorkeling amid the coral reefs of the Red Sea.

The Ocean Diamond collection includes books in multiple languages covering subjects like wildlife, history, marine biology, ecology and geology.

She taught biology and administered international schools in the Netherlands for 14 years and, since returning to BC, has also been the local Department of Fisheries and Oceans Education Coordinator, Communications Director for the SOS Marine Conservation Foundation and Community Liaison for the «Namgis First Nations KUTTERA Closed Containment Salmon Farm.

The Expedition team will start its series of introductory lectures about wildlife, biology, life in the ocean and the ecosystems of coral reefs, also known as the rainforests of the sea.

In the end, such fights can distract from the clarity of the long - term picture of a world in flux for centuries to come under a building human influence on climate (and biology, oceans, and landscapesIn the end, such fights can distract from the clarity of the long - term picture of a world in flux for centuries to come under a building human influence on climate (and biology, oceans, and landscapesin flux for centuries to come under a building human influence on climate (and biology, oceans, and landscapes).

There is a potential for both positive and negative feedbacks between the ocean and atmosphere, including changes in both the physics (e.g., circulation, stratification) and biology (e.g., export production, calcification) of the ocean.

Other than telling us that coral reefs (and Pelagic ecosystems) are in trouble — I have already kissed the coral reefs goodbye due to temperature increases alone — no firm conclusions were drawn about ocean acidification and its affects on ocean biology.

Physical chemistry is a combination of chemistry and physics, it is fine that you derived the equation, but it relates to thermodynamics just the same; chemists make those lasers work, those DVD's play, and I have taken calculus physics, modern physics, (multi variable calculus physics) which means technically I too have a degree in physics, but my focus has been chemistry, biology, and I took a few graduate courses dealing with meteorology, ocean dynamics, geology, atmospheric science and my undergraduate courses were filled with earth science related material and after all the math needed for Pchem engineering mathematics is not difficult nor is graduate physics:) so the derivation you just made is discussed in math classes before, even calculus one, so I am not sure what you are trying to prove.

CO2 is taken up in higher latitudes, mostly in the Southern Ocean, but while the uptake rate is a non-linear function of the chemistry, ocean biology and circulation, it isn't going to «saturate» any time soon (though it may slow over the next few decaOcean, but while the uptake rate is a non-linear function of the chemistry, ocean biology and circulation, it isn't going to «saturate» any time soon (though it may slow over the next few decaocean biology and circulation, it isn't going to «saturate» any time soon (though it may slow over the next few decades).

Changes in the ocean, ocean chemistry and biology on land and ocean need a lot of study.

They lead international research in climate change, natural hazards and volcanology, geography, atmospheric and ocean sciences, geochemistry, natural resource management, ecology, biodiversity conservation, environmental biology, environmental policy, environmental economics, sustainability and geographical information systems.

The system has a large number of interacting parts — cloud, ice, biology, dust, ocean and atmospheric circulation — that together result in climate variation at all scales.

(A) who have expertise in fish, wildlife, plant, aquatic, and coastal and marine biology, ecology, climate change, ocean acidification, and other relevant scientific disciplines;

According to Gobler, «People have traditionally assumed that the problems of fossil fuel burning will manifest themselves at some distant time in the future... The truth is that the 30 % increase in atmospheric and ocean CO2 levels which has occurred since the 19th century has already significantly impacted the chemistry and biology of our oceans.»

This sets up wind and current responses — in a resonant ocean — that influence global temps, hydrology and biology.

It is seen in regime changes in cloud, ice, ocean and atmospheric circulation, hydrology and biology that are evident in climate records and that are best described as shifts in state space on the multi-dimensional climate strange attractor at 20 to 30 year intervals.

They involve changes in ocean and atmospheric circulation, ice, cloud, dust and biology.

As Pekka points out, there is considerable uncertainty associated with the magnitude of projections, but paleoclimatologic data indicate that they are likely to be sufficient to impair the calcification processes essential for the integrity of many marine species involved in the food chain, and thus of concern to us to the extent that our civilization is linked to the welfare of ocean biology...

That there seems to be a global pattern of variability in ocean and atmospheric indices — and biologies — with a similar temporal signature suggests the existence of a black swan.

The HadGEM3 family includes a coupled atmosphere - ocean configuration, with or without a vertical extension in the atmosphere to include a well - resolved stratosphere, and an Earth - System configuration which includes dynamic vegetation, ocean biology and atmospheric chemistry.

Though turtled aren't known for their expressive features, it doesn't take a degree in marine biology to see that the gentle ocean denizen is none too happy to have bumped into the commercial diver — almost as if it knows of the dangers brought about by such oil and gas platforms.