Sentences with phrase «ocean movements»

When deployed in large numbers, the robots can capture a 3D picture of the interaction between ocean movements and the affect they have on marine life.

In spring 2005, above - average ocean temperatures and reduced ocean movement resulted in a 20 to 30 percent drop in juvenile marine salmon populations.

The Scripps researchers realized that by studying plankton and their movements to solve this mystery, they could also find out a lot about internal ocean movements in general.

The drifters flowed along the Gulf of Mexico currents for several months post deployment to capture a multidimensional picture of the upper - ocean movements in the presence of wind and waves at DeSoto Canyon, the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Powerful ocean movements collect mud just off our shore in the intertidal areas, where we recover and gently prepare it.

The activity in the Greenland Sea is part of a global pattern of ocean movement, known as thermohaline circulation, or more commonly the «global conveyor belt.»

Marine ecosystems such as the Giant Kelp forests off the coast of California are dependent upon certain ocean movements — the kelp receives nutrients from the passing waves, which then creates habitat for a multitude of other species from urchins to abalone to the iconic sea otters.