Sentences with phrase «living in the ocean at»

Organisms, including the single - celled bacteria living in the ocean at that early date, need a steady supply of phosphorus, but «it's very hard to account for this phosphorus unless it is eroding from the continents,» says Aaron Satkoski, a scientist in the geoscience department at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

Not exact matches

Otherwise, there's the nearby and ever - entertaining New York City, a hundred - plus miles of Atlantic Ocean coastline, a smallish mountain range or two, a major amusement park, a half dozen professional sports teams (most of them mediocre at best), small - time skiing, a pretty Ivy League campus by the name of Princeton University, a wealth of black bear in exclusive suburban communities, the early homes of such celebrity types as Martha Stewart, Jack Nicholson and Bruce Springsteen, the site of the Hindenburg disaster, and (for visionary types) the ghosts of Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison, who lived and worked in the state for awhile.

... and, it's no one person or post or thing, and its not that I have all the answers, or that I live my beliefs the way that I aspire to... I just see lots of really great - hearted people tying themselves in knots, feeling shame and guilt and depression and anger... and at times it seems it is because they are trying to differentiate between seas and lakes and rivers and oceans... instead of just going for a swim.

Also, that does not address the fact that you would need 5 times the water on the planet to flood thae earth to the level the myth says, Noah could not have built a watyer tight craft using the stone tools he would have had at that time, the salinity of the oceans would change enough to kill all life in the oceans, so that would end the food chains, ending all life for a very long time.

To act and know that we are acting, to come into touch with reality and even to live it,... such is the function of human intelligence... From the ocean of life, in which we are immersed, we are continually drawing something, and we feel that our being, or at least the intellect that guides it, has been formed therein by a kind of local concentration.

Otherwise, it seems we BOHEMIANS are pretty close to agreement about having more natural and loving lives, which are even possible in McMansions and megachurches in the suburbs of our South (or at a university with a bizarre name in Malibu with a stunning view of the ocean and fit California girls).

The design of Fish at The Cove, by Spanish firm Capella Garcia, is meant to give guests the impression that they are diving into an underwater world — immersed in the marine life, the rocks, the sand and the flora and fauna that inhabit the ocean.

The 30th Anniversary Gala was held in the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life at the American Museum of Natural History.

In speaking with Lizette Sanchez, Director of Public Relations at Hotel Coral & Marina, she cited many elevated amenities available with the opulent top - tier suites, such as a wraparound ocean - view balcony, chic bar, modern living area, Jacuzzi, hydro - massage shower, dining table and wine fridge.

Being able to breastfeed in public I was able to get out and do chores, live my social life, entertain my older child at the park, museum or library, go out and have lunch with my husband, even travel across the ocean few times.

Celebrate with us the unbelievable beauty living in our oceans, lakes and rivers in a new special exhibit at Shedd Aquarium: Underwater Beauty, opening May 25.

Celebrate with us the unbelievable beauty living in our oceans, lakes and rivers in a new special exhibit at Shedd Aquarium: Underwater Beauty.

The event was held under the blue whale display in the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life at the American Museum of Natural History, according to the museum.

«This gravity map hinting at a much larger ocean is a more favourable model for having some sort of life in Enceladus's interior.»

«At the heart of the investigation is the question about whether life in the ocean, as it moves about the environment, does any important «mixing,»» says William Dewar, an oceanographer at Florida State University in TallahasseAt the heart of the investigation is the question about whether life in the ocean, as it moves about the environment, does any important «mixing,»» says William Dewar, an oceanographer at Florida State University in Tallahasseat Florida State University in Tallahassee.

Overall, the animations will help stewards of ocean life think about underwater sound in three dimensions, says Greg Silber, coordinator of recovery activities for endangered large whales at the National Marine Fisheries Service of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Atmospheric events occurring at the ocean surface may sound the dinner bell for creatures living in the dark depths.

Cesium - 134 has a half - life of a little over two years, and so any found in the ocean could come only from the reactors at Fukushima.

The Congressional briefing, «Living at the Extremes: Geoscience Research at the Coolest Places on Earth,» planned by AAAS in collaboration with the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in celebration of National Oceans Month, explored the implications that the Earth's poles have for our natural environment, oceans, and national secOceans Month, explored the implications that the Earth's poles have for our natural environment, oceans, and national secoceans, and national security.

The organisms likely survive using mechanisms similar to the ever - increasing parade of creatures that have been discovered living in the total darkness of hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean, deriving energy from minerals in seafloor rocks.

That's just one question marine researchers hope to answer through the Census of Marine Life, a decade - long initiative to tally global ocean life that today released its first figures at a conference in Washington, DLife, a decade - long initiative to tally global ocean life that today released its first figures at a conference in Washington, Dlife that today released its first figures at a conference in Washington, D.C..

«What makes this discovery particularly noteworthy is that we mapped out a landscape of bioessential elements in the ocean that was far more perturbed than we expected, and the impacts on life were big,» said Timothy W. Lyons, a professor of biogeochemistry at UCR, Owens's former advisor and the principal investigator on the research project.

Scientists have found that about half of the organisms at Cuatro Cienegas are most closely related to marine life, even though the oases here have not been in contact with the ocean for tens of millions of years.

A study described here today at the American Geophysical Union's biennial Ocean Sciences Meeting shows that RNA's chemical building blocks fall apart within days to years at temperatures near boiling — a finding that poses problems for some origin of life theories, especially ones picturing that life arose in scalding settings such as deep - sea hydrothermal vents.

To test the state of the ocean, researchers at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management in Makati, Philippines, assigned each major food fish a «trophic level,» depending on how high it is on the food chain.

If it turns out to be common, it might mean that the moon could be cycling life - friendly compounds between the surface and the deep, and that substantially increases the chance that its ocean is habitable, says Michael Bland, a planetary scientist at the US Geological Survey in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Foord and scientists at the University of Miami say the corals living in the shallow waters just south of Miami Beach may offer clues as to how the world's disappearing coral can survive in changing oceans.

The team is trying to understand life history traits of benthos at the initial stage and the influence of ocean currents in order to find out how these organisms expand their habitat and respond to environmental changes.

Knowing which cetaceans live where in the ocean and at what depths is important, the scientists say, in order to mitigate any problems that may occur from human activities, such as aquaculture, energy development, and Naval training exercises.

His research team envisions a series of interacting processes, or feedbacks, that maintained oxygen at very low levels principally by modulating the availability of life - sustaining nutrients in the ocean and thus oxygen - producing photosynthetic activity.

The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources wound up a week - long meeting in Hobart, Australia, considering proposals for two «marine protected areas» aimed at conserving the ocean wilderness from fishing, drilling for oil and other industrial interests.

Further analysis of these organisms may shed light on how the fauna living at hydrothermal vents to the east and west of them, in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, are genetically related.

«We can see now at true planetary scale that increasing water temperature will have a huge impact on microbial life in the ocean,» said Shinici Sunagawa, an EMBL staff scientist and a senior author on a second Tara paper.

«Although tiny, these organisms are a vital part of the Earth's life support system, providing half of the oxygen generated each year on Earth by photosynthesis and lying at the base of marine food chains on which all other life in the ocean depends.»

Deepest point in the ocean is teeming with life At the bottom of the Mariana trench, some 11,000 metres below sea level and at pressures 1100 times those at the surface, bacteria are thrivinAt the bottom of the Mariana trench, some 11,000 metres below sea level and at pressures 1100 times those at the surface, bacteria are thrivinat pressures 1100 times those at the surface, bacteria are thrivinat the surface, bacteria are thriving.

At 8.05 a.m. local time, the Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics in Jakarta issued a bulletin about a hypothetical tsunami — modelled on the one that hit Sumatra on Boxing Day 2004 and claimed more than 200,000 lives — to national focal points around the Indian Ocean.

At the time, all animal life was confined to the oceans, and as soon as the daylight flooded in, eyesight became the best trick in the sea.

Rainer Lohmann at the University of Rhode Island did a rough calculation for New Scientist and estimated that PCB levels would only rise above normal ocean concentration within 1 kilometre of the ships and are unlikely to harm marine life even in that area.

This photograph, showing plastic fragments collected in just an hour at a cove near Gloucester, Mass., hints at a lesser - known but equally disturbing story: much smaller bits of plastic that are accumulating in oceans all over the world can potentially harm marine life and possibly even human health.

«At the same time as this eclectic mix of ancient and modern - type marine mammals was living together, the marine mammal fauna in the North Atlantic and Southern Ocean were already in the forms we find today.»

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.

The other, which has gained popularity in recent years, is that deep - sea vents at the bottom of the ocean acted as a cradle for life, offering both heat and nutrition via fluids pumped up through Earth's crust.

Their slow mode of life seems insufficient to support one big reproductive event, unlike other coleoid cephalopods,» says Henk - Jan Hoving, who is working for the Cluster of Excellence «Future Ocean» at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany.

The researchers found that phytoplankton in polar and temperate regions grow best at temperatures higher than the average annual temperatures of the oceans in which they live.

To take a peak at this microscopic life in its natural habitat, a team of scientists including Hans Røy, a microbiologist at Aarhus University in Denmark, traveled to the tropical waters of the Pacific Ocean.

Iodine Source: Seaweed, milk from cows grazed on iodine - rich coastal soil Effects of deficiency: Blindness, mental impairment, goiter Who's at risk: People living in mountainous areas (the Rockies, the Alps, and the Andes), where iodine has been washed away by glaciation and flooding, or in lowland regions far from the oceans (Central Africa and Eastern Europe) Fortification options: Salt Estimated millions of people affected: 740

One of the most astounding events of my life was immediately preceded by one of the scariest: I turned out my dive light in the ocean at night.

To truly appreciate the wondrous beauty of life in the ocean, you have to see it at night.

Although the evidence was subsequently contested, some single - celled microbial life lacking a nucleus that segregates their internal DNA or RNA («prokaryotes») from the surrounding cytoplasm may have flourished in darkness within cracks in Earth's seafloor crust and around deep, warm or boiling hot ocean springs (hydrothermal or volcanic vents, such as at Lost City or at black smokers) without a need for light or free oxygen in the oceans or atmosphere.

Many of the deepest branches in Woese's tree, those that join nearest to the three - way junction of the kingdoms, turned out to belong to organisms that live at high temperatures, as in the fuming springs in Yellowstone Park or the volcanic vents that gash the ocean floor.