Materials derived primarily from renewable sources such as replenishable agricultural feed stocks, animal sources,
marine food processing industry wastes, or microbial sources, and can break down to produce environmentally friendly products such as carbon dioxide, water, and quality compost.
Not exact matches
The seven centers are in the areas of big data,
marine renewable energy, nanotechnology, functional
foods, photonics, drug
processes, and perinatal translational research.
Litter is a problem in the
marine environment as it can be mistaken for
food and eaten by some animals or can entangle coral and fish — a
process known as «ghost fishing.»
The grants are widely distributed between different fields: catalysis, alloys, imaging,
food processing,
marine ecology, computing and biomaterials.
Consequently, in the past 20 years his research has evolved from an early focus on prioritizing the effects that humans have on coral reefs and the role that
marine protected areas play in conserving biological diversity and ecological
processes, to developing theoretical and simulation models of coral reefs that will help predict and suggest alternatives to reduce detrimental effects, to developing practical means to restore degraded reefs through manipulation of the
food web and management.
Five thematic areas have been identified which cover the range of
processes from the base of the
marine food chain to the community and ecosystem level, and of mechanisms from the sub-cellular to the whole organism level.
In holistic veterinary medicine, one of the first things done in the treatment of chronic disease is to eliminate a commercial
processed diet in favor of a selected whole
food diet, then to implement a strategic supplementation with
marine oils BEFORE a targeted disease treatment approach is employed.
Scientists at St Andrews University say noise from the pile driving
process could affect the
marine mammals» ability to find
food or -LSB-...]
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...
Identification of abundant groups in bacterial communities is important in assessing roles in carbon cycling and ocean biogeochemical
processes, and as a component of some
marine food webs.