Sentences with phrase «ocean twilight zone»
The ocean twilight zone teems with life, from the microscopic to the gargantuan.
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He adds: «This twilight zone acts as a gate for the transfer of carbon to the deep ocean.»
By using the manned submersible Curasub for exploration of the deep reefs around Curacao and documenting their discoveries in major scientific journals, marine biologists from all over the world have helped this Caribbean island in rapidly earning a reputation as a destination where exploring the twilight zone of the ocean is producing dynamic results.
The twilight zone plays a prominent role in transferring the atmosphere's excess carbon dioxide (from fossil fuel burning) into deep ocean storage.
In 2013, researchers with Britain's National Oceanography Centre explored the twilight zone near Ireland from top to bottom, measuring carbon and ocean life at all points.
The results also reveal that twilight zone bacteria and zooplankton have a special synergy that plays a prominent role in how much carbon reaches the deep ocean.
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But the new study, detailed in the April 27 issue of the journal Science, finds that not all of this carbon makes it past the region of the ocean known as the mesopelagic or «the twilight zone» — roughly 300 to 3,000 feet below the surface where there isn't enough light for photosynthesis — which acts as a gateway to the deep ocean below.
On its way to being stored in the darkest depths of the ocean, carbon may be consumed and recycled by marine organisms as it enters... the twilight zone.
«The twilight zone is a critical link between the surface and the deep ocean,» said Ken Buesseler of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts, co-author of the new marine twilight zone study.
The researchers found that only 20 percent of carbon in the ocean surface made it past the twilight zone off Hawaii, and only 50 percent passed through the gateway near Japan.