Sentences with phrase «of seawater samples»

Not exact matches

A series of sampling missions aims to reveal what's happening with the trace elements in seawater.

The team used samples of seawater to determine how nitrogen is removed from the oceans.

In a recent proof - of - concept experiment, Abate and his colleagues performed single - cell genomic sequencing on a sample of seawater.

Björn Olsen of Uppsala University in Sweden and colleagues took seawater samples between 10 and 300 metres away from Chile's Antarctic research stations, Bernardo O'Higgins, Arturo Prat and Fildes Bay.

Embedded in an artificial diamond will be four hollow gold pellets, the size of BBs, containing samples of air, seawater, soil — the life - giving elements — and human blood.

Toward that goal, scientists have scooped samples of seawater from a variety of latitudes and studied the rich broth of microorganisms they contain in simulator tanks built into the decks of ships.

The new study includes those observations, collected near the end of the Washington bloom, as well as other ongoing beach monitoring and water sampling efforts that filter seawater to see the life it contains.

Oceanographic data and water samples also were collected daily to evaluate seawater chemistry, patterns of water circulation and potential connectivity between Cuban reefs and those in the U.S.

Additionally, a unique aspect of these AUVs is an integrated Environmental Sample Processor (ESP), a miniature robotic laboratory that collects and preserves seawater samples at sea, allowing researchers to capture a snapshot of the organisms» genetic material and proteins.

For the first time, scientists from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (UH Mānoa) and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) will deploy a small fleet of long - range autonomous underwater vehicles (LRAUVs) that have the ability to collect and archive seawater samples automatically.

«The combination of water and halogens found in the volcanic glasses enables us to preclude local seawater contamination and conclusively prove the water in the samples was derived from the mantle,» Dr Kendrick said.

The team analysed samples of volcanic glass from the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans that contained traces of seawater that had been deeply cycled throughout Earth's interior.

By employing a technique they developed that involves collecting methane from roughly ten thousand gallons of seawater per sample, they made a surprising discovery: ancient - sourced methane is indeed being released into the ocean; but very little survives to be emitted to the atmosphere, even at surprisingly shallow depths.

Using a process called metagenomics, DeLong catalogued all the genes he could find in a sample of seawater from the north Pacific.

Buesseler says that during his own sampling survey in waters 30 to 600 kilometres from Fukushima in June 2011, three months after the meltdown, the highest levels he found were 3 Bq of caesium - 137 per litre of seawater.

Oceanographers studying the chemistry of seawater in three dimensions need samples from various depths.

From samples of seawater, Jota Kanda of Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology estimated last year that about 0.3 terabecquerels (TBq) of radioactive material are leaking into the sea each month.

[Philip Francis Thomsen et al., Environmental DNA from Seawater Samples Correlate with Trawl Catches of Subarctic, Deepwater Fishes]

So, in April 2015 MBARI scientists sent down an SUV - size remotely operated vehicle to take footage of the vents and collect samples of the surrounding seawater, mud, rocks and animals.

Thomsen and his colleagues sampled seawater at various depths off the southwest coast of Greenland.

For example, unlike clinical samples, which contain mostly organic - based biomolecules, environmental samples such as oil or seawater contain a high complexity of organic and inorganic molecules that could greatly complicate mass spectral analysis.

Cesium - 134 was detected in samples of seawater taken from Oregon - is there reason for Americans to panic?

The studies provide much - needed information that seawater samples do not, but also present some issues of their own.

Seawater samples are prepared for extraction of marine viruses aboard the Tara Oceans vessel.

I. Measuring inorganic carbon parameters in seawater: Sample collection and measurement protocols, use of CO2SYS and seacarb programs

The shallow coral reefs off Kahekili, West Maui, are exposed to nutrient - enriched, low - pH submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) and are particularly vulnerable to the compounding stressors from land - based sources of pollution and lower seawater pH. To constrain the carbonate chemistry system, nutrients and carbonate chemistry were measured along the Kahekili reef flat every 4 h over a 6 - day sampling period in March 2016.

Environmental DNA from Seawater Samples Correlate with Trawl Catches of Subarctic, Deepwater Fishes.

In a report published in Scientific Reports, researchers describe how they exposed herring and pink salmon embryos for a short period to levels of oil contaminants similar to the «safe» levels detected in samples of Prince William Sound seawater after the spill cleanup.

Iris Hendriks of the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies recently analyzed data from a wide sample of research into how individual organisms respond to increased carbon dioxide in their seawater.

The scientists collected seawater from various depths and measured the ratios of certain oxygen and nitrogen isotopes in the samples.

Although only a small fraction of this vast volcanic terrain has been visually surveyed or sampled, the available evidence suggests that explosive eruptions are rare on mid-ocean ridges, particularly at depths below the critical point for seawater (3,000 m) 1.

Greenpeace brought its ship the Beluga II on an expedition of scientific research around Scotland, sampling seawater for microplastics and documenting the impact of ocean plastic on some of the UK's most precious marine life.

Performed trace - metal clean seawater sampling at sea (total of 8 days at sea on the RV Atlantic Explorer).