Sentences with phrase «of ocean movement»

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.»

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 direction.

BIBLE says that earthquakes, hurricances, floods, plagues, locusts, etc. are caused by God as punishment for sins SCIENCE explains that earthquakes are due to tectonic plate movements, hurricanes caused by ocean heat and coriolis effect, floods normal effect of weather fluctations, etc..

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.

There are also a variety of 10 melodies or ocean sounds plus a combination of gentle lights and movement to choose from.

The work uses strong nation - building references, such as referential movement depicting a group of people going towards their death, then becoming trees, ocean, and forming a strong collective out of a group of individuals; its language movement is very dramatic and places a strong emphasis on unison movement rather than individual dancers.

Having so much water might also slow or halt the movement of building blocks of life, such as carbon and phosphorus (the backbone of DNA), into oceans.

That's evidence that the relatively slow movement of the debris (2 - 4 kilometers per hour) helped species adapt to changing conditions across the Pacific Ocean, the team wrote.

It's like detecting waves on an ocean by measuring movement of a boat (Earth).

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.

The Mediterranean Sea is very nearly a discrete ocean, being connected to the World Ocean through the Strait of Gibraltar, and indeed several times over the last few million years movement of the African continent has closed the strait off entiocean, being connected to the World Ocean through the Strait of Gibraltar, and indeed several times over the last few million years movement of the African continent has closed the strait off entiOcean through the Strait of Gibraltar, and indeed several times over the last few million years movement of the African continent has closed the strait off entirely.

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 Ocean.

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.

Efforts to convert the energy of motion — from footsteps, ocean waves, wind and other movement sources — are well underway.

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.»

To model the projected impact of climate change on marine biodiversity, the researchers used climate - velocity trajectories, a measurement which combines the rate and direction of movement of ocean temperature bands over time, together with information about thermal tolerance and habitat preference.

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

«It was the biggest collapse of its kind up to that point, and it served to demonstrate how ice shelves regulate the movement of ice from the interior of the ice sheet to the ocean.»

The selective extinction of large - bodied animals could have serious consequences for the health of marine ecosystems, the scientists say, because they tend to be at the tops of food webs and their movements through the water column and the seafloor help cycle nutrients through the oceans.

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.

Acidity may impair movement Previous research has shown that when carbon dioxide is absorbed by the ocean and it becomes more acidic, concentrations of calcium carbonate drop, and that hurts shellfish and corals, which use calcium carbonate to build shells and skeletons.

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.

A glaciologist rather than a biologist, he wanted to investigate a question critical to climate change: Do subglacial rivers and lakes lubricate the movement of ice over land — and might they somehow accelerate a glacier's flow into the ocean, triggering rapid sea level rise?

By affixing DTAGs — synchronous motion and acoustic recording tags — to the whales» backs via four suction cups, the researchers could track for the first time the movements of the whales below the ocean's surface.

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.

To study the movement of vent products, the researchers set up sediment traps and current meters near the hydrothermal vents along the East Pacific Rise, an ocean ridge located about 800 kilometers off the southern coast of Mexico and a mile and a half below sea level.

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.

Gordon's idea is that the plate cooling, which makes the ocean deeper, also affects horizontal movement and that there is shortening and deformation of the plates due to the cooling.

«Our concept is to specifically design a way to turn low - frequency motion, such as human movement or ocean waves, into electricity,» said Qing Wang, professor of materials science and engineering, Penn State.

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.

He says previous predictive models of Greenland's ice loss did not adequately take into account the faster movement of its southern glaciers, which is accelerating the amount of ice entering the ocean: «Greenland is probably going to contribute more to sea level rise, and faster than predicted by these models.»

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.