Sentences with phrase «ocean movements in»

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.

Not exact matches

She wonders if the voluntary simplicity movement is like «a change in the geography of the ocean floor that's creating a swell on the surface but won't impact the shore.

In all fields, and in all relationships, from the ecologies of life in field, air, and ocean, to the poising and movements of the galaxies, there is a unity of control and directioIn all fields, and in all relationships, from the ecologies of life in field, air, and ocean, to the poising and movements of the galaxies, there is a unity of control and directioin all relationships, from the ecologies of life in field, air, and ocean, to the poising and movements of the galaxies, there is a unity of control and directioin field, air, and ocean, to the poising and movements of the galaxies, there is a unity of control and direction.

The culinary community plays an important role in the sustainable seafood movement, pushing producers for quality, ocean - friendly products while working to spread awareness to customers, colleagues and policy makers.

In recent years, the fight against ocean plastic pollution has gone from a preoccupation of marine scientists to a movement embraced by everyone from schoolchildren to Queen Elizabeth II, galvanized by images of trash - strewn seas and sea turtles choking on plastic straws and other consumer castaways.

Harney Sushi has, in fact, been a trailblazer in the sustainable seafood movement and was one of the first sushi restaurants in San Diego to serve only sustainable seafood, which Wikipedia defines as «seafood that is either caught or farmed in ways that consider the long - term vitality of harvested species and the well - being of the oceans.»

The movement of the ocean actually helps the aging process and there is an ever so slight impartation of ocean salt water flavor that finds its way into the cork and therefore in the wine which gives the wine an amazingly addictive salinity.

How whales use sound Sound occurs naturally in the ocean, of course — from waves, wind, precipitation, ice movement and fish, among other sources.

Instead of submerging the 45 - ton carcass in the ocean, where tidal movements and sea creatures could clean the bones — as was done with the blue whale — the museum's restoration team buried the sperm whale for three months in a 60 - ton layer cake of hay mixed with bacteria - rich horse and elephant manure, procured from local farmers and an obliging zoo.

The Earth's lithosphere is divided into several plates that are in constant motion, and today's geologists have a good understanding of what drives these plate movements: heavier ocean plates are submerged beneath lighter continental plates along what are known as subduction zones.

Conventional wisdom says the larvae float passively in ocean currents, but the research suggests they can control their movements more than has been appreciated.

The movements of marine mammals and other large animals that spend their lives in the ocean were largely unknown prior to the development of sophisticated tracking devices researchers could deploy on animals in the wild.

In 2000, Costa joined forces with Barbara Block at Stanford University and others to launch the Tagging of Pacific Predators (TOPP) program, a decade - long effort to track the movements of top marine predators in the Pacific OceaIn 2000, Costa joined forces with Barbara Block at Stanford University and others to launch the Tagging of Pacific Predators (TOPP) program, a decade - long effort to track the movements of top marine predators in the Pacific Oceain the Pacific Ocean.

In coastal areas, tracking tags revealed complex movement patterns dominated by search behavior, while in the open ocean they showed simpler, more predictable movements over longer distanceIn coastal areas, tracking tags revealed complex movement patterns dominated by search behavior, while in the open ocean they showed simpler, more predictable movements over longer distancein the open ocean they showed simpler, more predictable movements over longer distances.

Researchers from around the world have now pooled their data on the movements of a wide array of marine animals, enabling them to look for common features in how animals move throughout the world's oceans.

An ocean current is any more or less permanent or continuous, directed movement of ocean water that flows in one of the Earth's oceans.

On a visit to the Institute of Ocean Sciences in British Columbia, Delaney mentioned undersea networks to physical oceanographer Rick Thomson, who proposed adding acoustic sensors to measure the movement of schools of fish.

The findings provide new information to help predict the movements of oil and other pollutants in the ocean.

NOAA's GOES - East (or GOES - 13) and GOES - West (or GOES - 15) sit 60 degrees apart in a fixed orbit over Earth and provide forecasters with a look at the movement of weather systems in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

While there are regional differences in the poleward movement of cyclones, the fact that every ocean basin other than the northern Indian Ocean has experienced this change leads the researchers to suggest, in the paper, that this «migration away from the tropics is a global phenomenon.&rocean basin other than the northern Indian Ocean has experienced this change leads the researchers to suggest, in the paper, that this «migration away from the tropics is a global phenomenon.&rOcean has experienced this change leads the researchers to suggest, in the paper, that this «migration away from the tropics is a global phenomenon.»

So he set out sensors designed to track water flow along the ocean floor, changes in temperature, and the movement of the crust.

Your support will help us better understand the movement patterns of some of the most difficult to study animals in the ocean.

«As in the environment above the sea, we tend to think about movement in a horizontal dimension, across the breadth of the oceans, but at sea there are perhaps even greater habitat boundaries and gradients as species move vertically with depth.

Lead author, Professor Rus Hoelzel, in Durham University's, Department of Biosciences, said: «The oceans represent vast expanses across which there are few obvious barriers to movement.

With so many instruments on the Yahtse, researchers have a unique opportunity to monitor changes along the length of the glacier and discover how, for example, local changes in ocean temperature and currents relate to movement further up the glacier.

Most important, the work simulated the movement of dye — not viscous oil — injected in the upper layers of the ocean — not the deep seafloor — for a total of two months — not the ongoing no - end - in - sight disaster.

The movement of water in the ocean is determined by many factors including tides; winds; surface waves; internal waves, those that propagate within the layers of the ocean; and differences in temperature, salinity or sea level height.

The researchers took measurements of small - scale temperature and velocity fluctuations, to measure the diapycnal movements in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) across the Drake Passage region of the Southern Ocean.

Thomson contends that atmospheric forces are well known to influence movement in the deep ocean, but that the key new idea here is that surface - generated eddies can be a transport mechanism for vent products.

Then they applied a set of mathematical models to estimate the movement of nutrients vertically in the oceans and across the land — and how this movement changed with extinctions and declining animal populations.

Any movement of carbon between — or in the case of the ocean, within — these reservoirs is called a flux.

But the process of its formation and outward movement aids in our understanding of how Saturn's icy moons, including the cloud - wrapped Titan and ocean - holding Enceladus, may have formed in more massive rings long ago.

Zehner says that the agency plans to build and launch at least five «sentinel» satellites to monitor not only trace gases that indicate pollution in the atmosphere, but also the surface temperature of the oceans, the movement of ice and the shifting of land masses.

Much like an ocean wave, sound waves are generated by the vibration or movement of an object in a medium.

«This isn't a surveillance system that monitors vessel movements across the oceans in real time, like radar tracking of aircraft in the sky; instead we have proposed a system which records images every time a satellite passes over specific points of the sea.

These same clouds are vital in the movement of large amounts of sulfur from the oceans to land, making the production of DMSP and DMS a critical step in the global sulfur cycle.

Inspired by dynamic shifts in pH due to upwelling — the movement of nutrient - rich water toward the ocean surface — the researchers took urchins from the Santa Barbara Channel and brought them into the lab.

Ocean circulation drives the movement of warm and cold waters around the world, so it is essential to storing and regulating heat and plays a key role in Earth's temperature and climate.

The researchers reached that conclusion by capturing more than two dozen polar bears, implanting temperature loggers and tracking their subsequent movements on shore and on ice in the Arctic Ocean's Beaufort Sea, north of Alaska and Canada, during 2008 - 2010.

Then, they looked at satellite data that measures variations in Earth's gravitational field to track the long - term and seasonal movements of water between the oceans and the continents.

Field research on marine mammals is one of the most challenging of biological studies, primarily because scientists are often unable to follow ocean - going species such as whales across their full range; the humpback whale in particular undertakes some of the longest migratory movements of any mammal.

Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus)-- which grow more than 30 feet long — are the largest fish in the world's ocean, but little is known about their movements on a daily basis or over years.

Previous studies have hypothesized that the North Pacific atmospheric ridge is caused by increased ocean surface temperatures and movement of heat in the tropical Pacific.

«This study shows for the first time that the oxidation of hydrogen sulfide and ammonia from the bottom waters could be a major contributor to lower pH in coastal oceans and may lead to more rapid acidification in coastal waters compared to the open ocean,» said Cai, the paper's lead author and an expert in marine chemistry and carbon's movement through coastal waters.

An analysis of satellite data yielded further clues about the plane's final movements, indicating it went down in the Indian Ocean

This gives more accurate and more easily available information about the movements of ocean basins and contents back in time — and the interaction between the Earth's crust and the mantle.»

The researchers have now succeeded in modelling how Antarctic icebergs drift through the Southern Ocean, and in identifying the physical factors behind their movement and their melting.

Instruments on the glider will provide scientists back on shore with a near - real - time view of fine - scale mixing processes in the upper ocean that play an important role in the movement of carbon, nutrients, and other chemicals through the marine system.

By examining variations in the depth of the ocean floor, the researchers were able to construct the mantle's movements.

LAB NOTEBOOK By Allison Lee, ISB Research Associate In a collaborative research effort, chief scientist Dennis Hansell invited four co-chief scientists (Alexander Bochdansky, Jack DiTullio, Rob Dunbar, and ISB's Mónica Orellana) to be part of a grant looking at the origination, utilization, and movement of carbon in the oceans, specifically the Ross SeIn a collaborative research effort, chief scientist Dennis Hansell invited four co-chief scientists (Alexander Bochdansky, Jack DiTullio, Rob Dunbar, and ISB's Mónica Orellana) to be part of a grant looking at the origination, utilization, and movement of carbon in the oceans, specifically the Ross Sein the oceans, specifically the Ross Sea.