Sentences with phrase «of plankton blooms»

Lightening everywhere that people actually live (another idea from the Hamwey paper) gets you 0.19 W / m ²; increasing the area of plankton blooms that seed the creation of clouds in parts of the southern ocean gives you just 0.016 W / m ² (and that may be an overestimate) and restricting yourself to just creating shinier cities gives you no more than 0.01 W / m ².

Realistically, do we know what the consequences of these plankton blooms would actually be?

Can any scientist who claims to be credible say such a thing in the face of the long, published history of plankton blooms in the open ocean?

But dictating the species composition of a plankton bloom and its aftermath remains beyond the ken of marine biology, causing one researcher involved in the successful 2004 effort, marine biologist Victor Smetacek of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany, to call it beyond control at this stage.

A team of scientists happened to be in the area on a research cruise when they detected the beginning of the plankton bloom.

So while warmer oceans and a more fertile atmosphere might accelerate some kinds of plankton bloom, the seas could become too acidic for tropical micro-organisms.

While some types of plankton bloomed 30 days earlier at the beginning of this century than in the middle of the twentieth century, other types maintained their seasonal cycles throughout that period.7 Mismatches in marine communities and disruption of the food chain are the result.

The location and timing of this plankton bloom was meant to coincide with migrating salmon, so that a large source of food would be generated within their known migration route.

Not exact matches

The iron fertilizer from glacier melt may help feed plankton blooms that, in turn, suck carbon dioxide out of the sky

Despite the size of the bloom, however, the plankton did not take in a record - breaking amount of carbon dioxide — only about 20 % more carbon than that part of the ocean sequesters biologically each year.

The plankton bloom was of larger proportion than what we did in the area.

Ocean chemist Philip Boyd of the University of Otago in New Zealand says many other researchers have tried to link an infusion of iron from volcanic ash or even dust storms to plankton blooms, but this study is the first to «verify such a massive event.»

In the summer of 2008 Mount Kasatoshi in Alaska's Aleutian Islands blew, sending volcanic minerals, including iron dust, far to sea and prompting plankton blooms across the Gulf of Alaska.

Satellite images as well as maps of chlorophyll abundance appear to show that the iron did indeed fuel a plankton bloom in August.

Do you get a different plankton bloom if you exactly mimic Mother Nature than if you exactly mimic some supplier of agricultural chemicals?

Tamara Shiganova of the Russian Academy of Sciences noted that two species — one apparently native and the other introduced from the western Atlantic — now appear in often alternating blooms, vacuuming up the plankton that feeds young fish.

Ryan's research focuses on algal blooms, the rapid and dense growths of plankton that can starve marine organisms of oxygen and cause hypothermia in seabirds.

The plankton that feed on the dust's minerals can bloom significantly, providing food for other ocean creatures, but an overgrown bloom can consume much of the dissolved oxygen in an area and create an anoxic dead zone.

Iron can fuel plankton blooms and influence how the ocean responds to climate change, while the lead images show the impact of past pollution on the ocean and continuing contamination in some parts of the world and aluminium is used as a tracer of desert dust inputs to the ocean.

«Knowing their specific prey and if they are following blooms of particular plankton would be a way for us to remotely detect places where we might find these rays.

The current problems of the bay, Jackson and his colleagues argue — above all, excessive plankton blooms that deplete the water of oxygen and kill fish — date from that decimation of plankton - eating oysters.

Iron - rich sediment from deserts feeds plankton blooms in the ocean and plants in the upper canopy of tropical rain forests.

In places like the North Atlantic, where plankton bloom lushly in the spring, oceanographers find patches of green stuff on the ocean bed, a mile or two below.

Sardines thrived here, feeding on the rich blooms of plankton fertilized by nutrients carried along by rising deep ocean waters.

The blooms, in turn, attract plankton, a favorite prey of manta rays.

Fertilizing the ocean with iron to promote plankton blooms also gets high marks for danger because of the potential for unintended ecosystem impacts.

My guess would be a vast bloom of plants possibly algea or photosynthetic plankton or something like this.

SEE ALSO Algal Blooms, Harmful; Algal Blooms in the Ocean; Carbon Dioxide in the Ocean and Atmosphere; El NiÑo and La NiÑA; Food from the Sea; Life in Extreme Water Environments; Human Health and the Ocean; Human Health and Water; Ocean Biogeochemistry; Ocean Currents; Plankton; Pollution by Invasive Species; Pollution of the Ocean by Sewage, Nutrients, AND Chemicals.

When the three currents mingle and rise to sunlit depths, it creates ideal conditions for massive plankton blooms, which are essential for seabirds and larger forms of marine life.

The team studied whale sharks as the animals gathered en masse to dine on plankton blooms in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea waters near Isla Holbox, Mexico, to feed from May to September.

The larger pelagic's including Whale Sharks and Manta Rays are making their annual appearances during this time, to feed on the rich plankton blooms which make this incredibly bio-diverse area so full of life.

In normal years, our schedule coincides with vast blooms of plankton that draw the hungry whales in to gorge, sometimes in great numbers.

The species is an extinct form of dinoflagellate — a group of single - celled plankton, some of which today give rise to toxic blooms known as red tides.

Plankton blooms happen naturally when dust containing iron settles on ocean waters where a lack of iron otherwise prevents plankton from tPlankton blooms happen naturally when dust containing iron settles on ocean waters where a lack of iron otherwise prevents plankton from tplankton from thriving.

We truck coal to the Sahara so we can generate a lot of electricity to run great big fans to blow dust from the Bodele Depression to cause Plankton blooms in the Atlantic to capture CO2.

I write this to you from my rubber room, where other inmates have their own ideas such as salting the oceans with iron, leading to a proliferation of algae blooms and possible destruction of plankton and with consequences for life up the food chain.

Have any studies appeared on coupling of AMOC variation and that of polar sea albedo from E. hux, Nitzschia and other plankton blooms?

The amount of carbon dioxide the plankton absorbs will be the same whether the plankton bloom is generated through iron seeding or from more «natural» occurrences.

Analyzing satellite data showing elevated chlorophyll levels (red), Peng Xiu of the University of Maine and co-authors identified a rare late summer plankton bloom associated with the 2012 iron fertilization experiment west of British Columbia.

There does need to be more study to identify exactly how much carbon dioxide is actually sequestered in the bottom of the ocean, but the use of iron as a fertilizer in naturally barren areas of the ocean to induce plankton blooms is no different from what mankind has been doing for thousands of yeas — albeit on the ocean versus on land.

A bloom of coccolithophore plankton recorded near Newfoundland in 1999 by NASA's SeaWiFs satellite.

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Maybe we can nourish massive plankton blooms in the Southern Ocean, to suck CO2 straight out of the sky.

Flying fish are abundant in most of the world's oceans, particularly in subtropical waters where plankton blooms, which they eat, are most bountiful.

George is convinced that by adding iron sulphate to the oceans, he can stimulate plankton blooms and so suck enough carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere to offset human emissions from burning coal and oil.

The iron hypothesis posits that adding iron to the oceans will trigger blooms of plankton and algae, which pull CO2 out of the air.

If our climate continues to warm at today's rate, scientists expect North Sea plankton that respond to temperature cues to bloom even earlier in the coming decades.7 With a growing mismatch in life cycles among various species of plankton, as well as further climate - induced shifts in their abundance and distribution, effects on the North Sea ecosystem — including cod — are projected to be considerable.7, 8

And then — still at sea — ships could spread that vital trace element iron across the ocean surfaces and give plankton a chance to bloom, grow, die and take all that carbon down to the seabed out of harm's way.

By stimulating a massive growth of plankton, called a bloom, Planktos claims to be able to draw millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere into the deep oceans over the next year.

According to a large scientific survey of the southern ocean (carried out by CSIRO and others), plankton blooms are created naturally in the deep ocean to the south of Australia because of a huge undersea canyon that starts below Tasmania and curves NW towards the Indian ocean.