Sentences with phrase «of marine»

Marc Lammers, a biologist at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology in Kaneohe who studies cetacean communication and behavior, says dopamine release is a novel way to explain these emotive calls.

The scientists, led by Eric Oliver of Dalhousie University in Canada, investigated long - term heat wave trends using a combination of satellite data collected since the 1980s and direct ocean temperature measurements collected throughout the 21st century to construct a nearly 100 - year record of marine heat wave frequency and duration around the world.

They are working on a paper arguing that the fossil is probably a dolichosaur, an extinct genus of marine lizard.

ONE tough fish seems to be plumbing the depths of a marine «dead zone» off the coast of Namibia.

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.

Bay muds often have a high organic content, consisting of decayed organisms at lower depths, but may also contain living creatures when they occur at the upper soil layer and become exposed by low tides; then, they are called mudflats, an important ecological zone for shorebirds and many types of marine organisms.

To find out which, if any, of these carnivores were better at solving a problem they'd never previously encountered, Borrego devised a large, rectangular box of marine - grade polymer that could be opened only by pulling a rope away from the box at a 180 ° angle.

The team chose silicateins — proteins that build the silica skeletons of marine sponges — as the basis for their work.

To top it off, Mersa Gawasis was a sort of marine oasis.

I wanted to learn what other people in this area of marine microbiology were doing.

A University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science research team is studying sea spray to help improve forecasting of hurricanes and tropical cyclones.

All of the limestone in the quarry formed in a shallow sea basin, as evidenced by the large number of marine fossils such as snails, mussels and sea urchins.

There are only eight known naturally occurring transmissible cancers: one in dogs, two in Tasmanian devils, and five in various species of marine bivalves, so to see two such cancers appear in such a short time in a single species was quite surprising.

«The ocean seems like a featureless place,» says David Sims of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.

Now an analysis of 20,181 genera of marine fossils over 50 time periods by John Alroy of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, contradicts this principle.

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.

That was the key message of a new study recently published in the journal Science, in which American and German biologists defined the first universal principle on the combined effects of ocean warming and oxygen loss on the productivity of marine life forms.

She is now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities where she investigates the microbiome of the marine worm Capitella teleta.

So, for example, marine organisms: A lot of marine organisms may have these sorts of antibacterial properties.

October marked the completion of the ambitious, decadelong Census of Marine Life.

The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, evaluated existing peer reviewed studies on the impact of marine reserves around the world.

Dune - shaped mountains display 520 - million - year - old gray limestone, formed from the remains of marine organisms that once filled a shallow ocean covering the western United States.

In 2006 Larry Brand, an expert on phytoplankton and a colleague of Mash's at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science at the University of Miami, started gathering more evidence in the case against BMAA.

«Tracking data reveal the secret lives of marine animals: Seals, whales, sharks, turtles, seabirds, and other marine vertebrates show similar patterns of movement in marine environments.»

Pyenson et al. report that the site, Cerro Ballena, dates to the Late Miocene period and consists of over 40 skeletons of marine vertebrates, including rorqual and sperm whales, seals, predatory fishes, and fascinating, now completely extinct, species such as walrus - whales and aquatic sloths.

Efforts to monitor the ocean are getting bigger and more sophisticated, but vast swaths of the marine world remain unknown.

The new research is the first to document handedness in blue whales and the first evidence of a marine mammal favoring a different side of its body depending on feeding depth, the researchers say.

Stuart Sandin, a professor of marine ecology at Scripps, who is Edwards» PhD advisor and senior author on the paper, says the mosaic technology can help scientists» understanding of marine ecology catch up with their knowledge of terrestrial ecology.

A first - ever effort to gauge the ecological status of all 11 species of marine mammals living in the Arctic reveals a mixed picture — and a lot of missing information.

And it's most likely that some combination of factors, including poisonous algae perhaps, helped wipe out 90 percent of all marine life some 250 million years ago, for example.

Among the NSF - funded programs facing potentially severe reductions are clean energy research and development and the Ocean Observatories Initiative, an array of marine and seismic sensors scattered across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans that is expected to provide some of the most detailed ocean measurements to date (SN: 10/19/13, p. 22).

The newcomers on the evolutionary scene, the oxygen - hungry bony fish, then out - competed the ammonites (Journal of the Marine Biological Association, vol 72, p 313).

Berkelmans, a research scientist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science in Townsville, blames rising temperatures.

And so a team of marine sediment experts has set up shop on the Nathaniel B. Palmer, hoping to sink great hollow cores deep into the ocean off Antarctica.

The Australian Institute of Marine Science has been promised extra funding, totalling nearly A$ 31 million over the next four years.

«The charge on us is to get her built, and once she's built we feel very confident that users will pay the operational costs,» says Chris Cooper, vice president of SeaBase1 and the son of the project's founder Richard Cooper, a former Sealab and Tektite aquanaut and a longtime University of Connecticut professor of marine sciences who died last year.

They hope that unearthing more Jurassic vertebrates in this region could provide further insights into the evolution of marine reptiles in this part of the globe.

So the team hopes that the robot and its camera can be deployed elsewhere to help us peer into the lives of marine animals — to better see how they move, what they're eating, and who they're swimming around with.

«The 1000 tonnes of CO2 we found are emitted from Sydney Harbour each year is significant — but it's a small amount for an estuary of that size,» said Ms Tanner, who will receive her PhD this year and is the Sydney Institute of Marine Science project manager of the World Harbour Project.

They are also the key factors that permit us to tackle some of the vexing, even life - threatening global problems we face — climate change, loss of biodiversity, and the destruction of our marine environment (see Next Wave's recent feature for further information).

Anna Ling, a Ph.D. candidate in UM Rosenstiel School's Department of Marine Geosciences, catalogs core samples aboard the research vessel JOIDES Resolution.

«This correlation tells us this is the same water and that this is what's causing the melting of the glacier, which could influence sea level rise,» said Muenchow, an associate professor of oceanography in UD's School of Marine Science and Policy, which is housed in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment (CEOE).

Based on his group's observations, Moss argues that the increase in body size of marine bivalves throughout the Phanerozoic, the current geologic eon stretching back more than 540 million years, should be accompanied by a shift to faster growth and a shorter lifespan.

Instead of creating a «struggle over a shrinking pie, you make [fishermen into] stakeholders, and that generates an incentive to be better stewards,» says Frank Alcock, director of the Marine Policy Institute at the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Fla..

Goss completed a 6 - month tour at the beginning of the war as part of a Marine reserve unit out of Little Rock, then returned to his studies at Harding.

«More and more imagery is being collected across the field of marine sciences, and the pace and scale of the effort will only increase — but more data doesn't automatically mean more, or better science,» Petrovic said.

Although as much as 80 % of this marine plastic is emitted by rivers to the oceans, not a single great river has yet been scientifically studied for the microplastics load over its length.

Yoshizaki and his colleagues at the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology have been searching for a method to preserve endangered fish species for years.

The research team — which utilized 34,000 data records from 2010 and 2011 — concluded that melting sea ice is diluting seawater and reducing the concentrations of the carbonate minerals critical as building blocks for the shells of marine life.

And across all scales, from very small controlled studies of marine plots to those of entire ocean basins, maintaining biodiversity — the number of extant species across all forms of marine life — appeared key to preserving fisheries, water filtering and other so - called ecosystem services, though the correlation is not entirely clear.