Sentences with phrase «on algae as»

In 2007, Amy won the Folio Eddie for excellence in magazine editorial for her feature on algae as a feedstock for biofuel, which was published in Sustainable Industries magazine.

And for those who placed their bets (and your tax dollars) on Algae as the replacement liquid alternative fuel:

Alternatively, by allowing it to feed on algae as well as rubbish on the seabed, it could be a way to take in a range of nutrients.

And 13 - year - olds Mitchell Haverty and Angus Fung talk about their research on algae as alternative fuel.

Not exact matches

Instead, sloths outsmart predators by relying on camouflage, such as algae that grows on their fur.

As a sideline learned of how Spirulina rids the body of metals through research on blue green algae.

As in the wild, farmed shellfish (oysters, mussels, abalone) feed on plankton and / or algae and do not require fish meal in their diets.

The Group Standard on Colouring Foods for Food Industry has strict criteria for Colouring Foods; to be compliant they must be produced from natural food raw materials, such as fruits, vegetables, plants and algae by only using physical processes.

More than a few customers are hovering on the sidewalk, waiting for a table, eyeing diners as they munch on menu items like the Blue Smoothie Bowl with e3 live blue algae; the fish tacos with citrus slaw, chipotle aioli and mango herb sauce; and corn fritters with poached egg, avocado salsa and fresh greens.

But, some manufacturers use DHA and ARA extracted from laboratory - grown fermented algae and fungus and processed with hexane, known as DHASCO and ARASCO, although not identified as such on the list of ingredients.

Their study, published in the journal Limnology and Oceanography, documents a coral bleaching event in the Caribbean in minute detail and sheds light on how it changed a coral's community of algae — a change that could have long - term consequences for coral health, as bleaching is predicted to occur more frequently in the future.

The man responsible for one of the original sequences of the human genome as well as the team that brought you the first living cell running on human - made DNA now hopes to harness algae to make everything humanity needs.

Cities might become biological entities, walls hung with curtains of algae that glow at night and sequester carbon, and floors made from tweaked cellular material that strengthens like bones as we walk on it.

Interest in algae - based biofuels has blossomed in the past year, sparking major investments from Exxon Mobil Corp. and Dow Chemical Co., and it has gained steam on Capitol Hill, as well.

Hawaii even has an ongoing effort to turn ocean thermal energy conversion technology into a reality, as well as an actual algal agriculture industry — the algae are largely grown for nutraceutical purposes but have also been turned into jet fuel on the mainland by UOP.

Although many dinoflagellates can survive through photosynthesis alone, some species are able to grow twice as fast by preying on other algae — and it is this feeding mechanism that is now thought to be aided by the production of toxins.

«Both malaria and Helicosporidium started out as alga and ended up as intracellular parasites preying on animals, but they have done it in very different ways,» says Keeling, director of the Centre for Microbial Diversity and Evolution at UBC and a Senior Fellow of Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

Scientists on the Indian - German expedition, known as LOHAFEX, grew a 300 - km2 patch of algae in hopes that the plants» carbon would fall kilometers below, taking with it the atmospheric carbon it had pulled in during growth.

Important reef fish, such as parrotfish, that control these algae have largely disappeared on Caribbean reefs today due to overfishing.

Masagounder records the calories in the dried algae that he feeds to his captive carp, and then he tracks the weight of the fish, which depends as well on the temperatures maintained in the tanks.

Chapman counters that they might concentrate their diet on a blue - green algae, Microcystis, which the mussels don't eat, or turn to a clumpy, shoreline algae known as Cladophora.

Blue - green algae — also known as cyanobacteria — live in the harshest climates on Earth.

The insect also likes a party: In late winter or early spring, these bugs sometimes form huge colonies, as wide as a yard, with millions of individuals migrating together like a superorganism, devouring the algae that grow on wet, decomposing leaf litter in the melting snow, Schulz explains.

In his vision, billions of robots on the ocean floor tend tanks of compressed air that power turbines, the Southwest is known affectionately as algae country, and energy traders make their fortunes speculating on the price of chicken - manure gas.

As the LRAUVs move through the ocean, they collect information about water temperature, chemistry, and chlorophyll (an indicator of microscopic algae) and send this data to scientists on shore or on a nearby ship.

The growth of these algae depends on nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus.

In it Lovelock laid out his daring idea that our planet is a single, self - regulating system, dubbed Gaia, wherein «the entire range of living matter on Earth, from whales to viruses, and from oaks to algae, could be regarded as constituting a single living entity, capable of manipulating the Earth's atmosphere to suit its overall needs.»

However, even closed systems have their challenges: on 27 October Marine Harvest announced that they had decided to conclude the second growth phase after the fish suffered damage to their gills as a result of poisonous algae and a subsequent outbreak of amoebic gill disease.

Their skin is also coarse in texture, making it impossible for any animals, bacteria, or algae to latch on — unlike, say, a whale, whose skin acts as a magnet for a variety of hitchhikers.

Whale shark diets vary both seasonally and geographically, but they are thought to feed mainly on zooplankton as well as algae, small fishes, fish eggs, and cephalopods.

Many of the organisms that wound up living on the panels are known as fouling species — microorganisms, algae, and invertebrates that anchor to boat hulls, jetties, and aquaculture facilities and wreak havoc for both humans and local marine communities — so lighting up marinas and harbors may not be in our best interest.

Just as in algae biofuel production on land, the floating OMEGA bags use water, solar energy and carbon dioxide — which in this case is absorbed through the plastic membrane — to produce sugar that algae metabolize into lipids.

But organisms from humans to algae also have another clock that doesn't rely on rhythmic gene expression to keep time, but instead uses the rise and fall of the reactive oxygen molecules that are formed as natural byproducts of metabolism.

These marble - sized gelatinous sacs quickly turn green (bottom left and top right images) as photosynthesizing algae grow around the developing embryo and feast on its waste.

Much attention has been given to migration of vermin on board ships, and the transport of larger organisms such as algae and jellyfish in ballast water.

There's no question that algae blooms are on the increase as Arctic ice thins.

On oxygenated seafloors, the first multi-cellular lifeform (possibly an eukaryotic alga) appears to have evolved by Year 2.4 billion as the 12 - centimeter or 4.7 - inch protoctist, Grypania (more from BBC News and New Scientist).

Scientists have generally believed that more algae — more specifically, the type known as phytoplankton — would be good for the climate, since they thrive on CO2 while alive, then carry the carbon they've absorbed down to the sea bottom when they die.

The algae uses CO2 from air or industrial emitters with sunlight and saltwater to create fuel while dramatically reducing the carbon footprint, costs and water usage, with no reliance on food crops as feedstocks.

Given at least nine meters (roughly 30 feet) of water on the planet, photosynthetic microbes (including mats of algae, cyanobacteria, and other photosynthetic bacteria) and plant - like protoctists (such as floating seaweed or kelp forests attached to the seafloor) could be protected from «planet - scalding» ultraviolet flares produced by young red dwarf stars, according to Victoria Meadows of Caltech, principal investigator at the NASA Astrobiology Institute's Virtual Planetary Laboratory.

Eventually, however, terrestrial red and green algae and the first lichens developed on land and the final big rise in oxygen may have been caused by the «greening of the continents from around 800 million years ago,» when these simple early lifeforms on land steadily spread and broke down rocks that sustained a higher rate of erosion and led to the release of more nutrients into the oceans that stimulated even more photosynthesis by more newly evolved algae as well as older cyanobacteria (Nick Lane, New Scientist, February 10, 2010).

An interdisciplinary team from the UGA Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Engineering collaborated on the research, which used total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy to analyze moving protein particles inside the cilia of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, a green alga widely used as a model for cilia analysis.

Most of the time, the Pfiesteria dinoflagellate is a nontoxic predator that feeds on small organisms such as algae, bacteria, and small animals.

Mount's anti-fouling peptide could be the answer to deterring marine biofouling, which is the unwanted accumulation of marine organisms, such as barnacles and algae, on submerged structures and ships.

As algae on the water surface also eventually die, bacteria will break them down.

4/26/2007 UCSD to Participate in Nationwide Trial to Assess Impact of Omega - 3 Fatty Acid on the Progression of Alzheimer's Disease Nutritionists have long endorsed fish as part of a heart - healthy diet, and now some studies suggest that omega - 3 fatty acids found in the oil of certain fish and algae as well as human breast milk may also benefit the brain by lowering the risk of Al...

By genetically inserting light - activated biological molecules such as channelrhodopsins, a family of proteins found in algae, into neurons, scientists can instantaneously turn them on using beams of blue light with millisecond precision.

Farmed fish raised on grain - based diets and vegetable oils, as opposed to algae, have less of the good fats and more of the bad saturated fat — much like grain - fed livestock.

As I mentioned above, this beneficial algae is gram for gram one of the most nutritious foods on the planet.

The exact amount of protein in a serving of chlorella depends on how the algae was processed, but there can be as many as 5 grams in two teaspoons of chlorella powder.