Sentences with phrase «on seafloor»

Developed solutions that safely and effectively addressed challenges including ice - infested water, permafrost presence on seafloor and threats of ice gouging along pipeline route.

There are many different radionuclides that scientists use as «clocks» to measure how fast the ocean mixes different water masses and sediment accumulates on the seafloor.

To prevent potential prey from spotting its shadow on the seafloor, the bobtail squid emits just enough light to match the moonlight shining upon it.

It'll fall on taxpayers, on Gulf Coast residents who need new jobs, on the poisoned wildlife on the seafloor.

Information garnered on the seafloor and sub-seabed conditions will support the design of the wind farm's monopiles.

In a new study, researchers claimed that a group of methane - munching microbes that live in rocky dwellings on the seafloor could be preventing large amounts of greenhouse gas from reaching the surface of the ocean and the atmosphere, where it could contribute to rising global temperatures.

Some could be oxidised [broken down] in the water by bacteria, and some could remain in the sediments on the seafloor.»

Methane hydrates that are on the edge of stabilization can be disturbed by global warming in two additional ways, temperature and pressure: Warming of the Earth's crust as heat penetrates sediments on the seafloor.

They want to ask questions that cross scientific boundaries, such as how does ocean chemistry affect biology or how does the geology on the seafloor affect the physics of flowing water.

Scientists are in the early stages of building a fiber optic network on the seafloor for observing, in real time, deep - sea hydrothermal vents — places where super-heated water and minerals spew from Earth's crust offering clues about how life on the planet may have began.

Scientists at Columbia's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory have found evidence of hydrothermal vents on the seafloor near Antarctica, formerly a blank spot on the map for researchers wanting to learn more about seafloor formation and the bizarre life forms drawn to these extreme environments.

Marine acoustic surveys have pinpointed locations on the seafloor where natural gas seepages, some quite violent, have occurred.

The aim is to establish the past history of ice advance and retreat, to look for old grounding lines - the locations where Larsen's feeding glaciers have previously rested on the seafloor.

Once on the seafloor, Earle untethered herself from the vehicle and went exploring at a depth no human had done before — or has since — for more than two hours.»

Postscript: Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory, analyzing seabed currents and mud movement after the passage of Hurricane Ivan in 2004, have concluded that the underwater turbulence from hurricanes could be severe enough to cause mudslides and possibly imperil pipelines on the seafloor in shallow regions of the Gulf of Mexico.

The persistent gap between the company's public statements on the flow of oil and its internal estimates illustrates the value of having independent assessments — and independent eyeballs on the seafloor, perhaps.

The National Research Council described dispersant use in 2005 as «a conscious decision» to direct hydrocarbons to one part of the marine ecosystem, «decreasing the risk to water surface and shoreline habitats while increasing the potential risk to organisms in the water column and on the seafloor.»

An ice - free ocean, and the extra sunlight implied by that, would have a significant impact on the microfossils that are deposited on the seafloor.

Although you'll work as part of a team on board a ship you'll be free to jump into the water, swim towards lost shipwrecks on the seafloor and follow the lure for hidden treasure on many of the world's islands.

Price TBC Description: Survival, horror at the sunless depths of the pacific: Stranded on the seafloor with low light and few tools, an industrial diver takes desperate steps to surface before his dwindling oxygen — and sanity — give out.

On the seafloor you'll come across several brick blocks.

There is also a glowing spot on the seafloor.

You will also spot marine iguanas as they dive underwater to graze on the seafloor.

The ocean water is also known for its clarity, and a wide array of sea turtles, schools of angelfish, butterfly fish, parrot fish, eels, coral on the seafloor, and more!

As Captain Mitch yanked it aboard, I was intrigued by its alien - like bulbous eyes situated unevenly on its head — apparently there's not much to look at on the seafloor — and its scaly, green body, nothing like I imagined it would look like having eaten plenty of the delectable white fillets at respectable restaurants throughout my life.

The vents exist on the seafloor as much as 1.5 miles below the surface and support a rich ecosystem that includes fish, shrimp, tubeworms, mussels, crabs and clams.

There are also some really cool underwater shots where the skeleton pirates are seen walking on the seafloor.

Instead of drilling into ice, the new cubic kilometer neutrino telescope will sit on the seafloor, and aim to compliment IceCube in the collective hunt for high energy neutrinos.

In fact, the highest mountain on Earth is actually a seamount — Hawaii's Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano that is more than 30,000 feet tall measured from its base on the seafloor 18,000 feet beneath the surface.

And much of the money for research comes from energy companies, which search for places to drill for oil at shallow sites on the seafloor.

The researchers think these conditions may exist on the seafloor of Enceladus, where hot water from the interior meets the relatively cold water at the ocean bottom.

Along with other organisms, the BUM showed fascinating shots of tiny corals kissing, fighting and dancing on the seafloor.

The catastrophic event buried a thick mat of organic matter — from large clams to single - celled algae — on the seafloor, which today is a major source of oil.

They want to ask questions that cross scientific boundaries, such as how ocean chemistry affects biology or how the geology on the seafloor affects the physics of flowing water.

Throughout the night and day that the hydrophones were on the seafloor, they picked up what Rountree describes as «drumming» and «duck - like» noises.

However, if degassing is more dependent on seafloor pressure and regassing mainly dependent on mantle temperature, the degassing rate is relatively large at late times and a steady - state between degassing and regassing is reached with a substantial surface water fraction.

Therefore, to be buried in limestone, the animal must lie on the seafloor — unusual for a dead bird.

They were found in 1986 by Jean Just at the Natural History Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen and his colleagues, on the seafloor off south - east Australia at depths of 400 and 1000 metres.

Even though all of the bundles contained exactly the same type of wood and were placed on the seafloor at the same time, within a few tens of meters of each other, there were huge differences in the numbers and types of animals from one bundle to another.

After reading Russian filings to UNCLOS, Margaret Hayes, of the Office of Ocean and Polar Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, indicated that «the U.S. view of Arctic geology is changing,» specifically about the meaning of certain stones found on the seafloor.16

Reviewing surveys of the seafloor conducted by Japanese scientists before and after the earthquake, the scientists found signs of a large slump on the seafloor — a rotational landslide 40 kilometers by 20 kilometers in extent and 2 kilometers thick that traveled down the slope of the Japan Trench, leaving a horizontal footprint the size of Paris that could only have been created by a 100 - meter uplift in the seafloor.

Now, a team of researchers has investigated whether noise pollution also affects the behavior of critters that live on the seafloor.

The paper from researchers with the Cassini mission, published in the journal Science, indicates hydrogen gas, which could potentially provide a chemical energy source for life, is pouring into the subsurface ocean of Enceladus from hydrothermal activity on the seafloor.

After multiple dives, the research team made two significant discoveries — hundreds of skate egg cases on the seafloor, and in bundles on the rocks surrounding a catshark nursery area.

They found that more than half of all the fishes living on the seafloor get their energy from animals that otherwise go back to the surface, and not from settling particles.

Creatures that live on the seafloor play vital roles in marine ecosystems, but human - made noise can alter their behaviors.

On the seafloor, dozens of unique marine bacteria, worms and crustaceans make their homes within rotting bones of dead whales.

Lost Nucleotides Although Alexander S. Bradley's article «Expanding the Limits of Life» provides a fascinating account of the discovery of microbes in a previously unknown kind of hydrothermal vent ecosystem on the seafloor, it does not substantiate his claim that the findings hint that life may have originated in an environment like the Lost City hydrothermal vent.

There's other collateral damage, too: Trawling and bottom - set gillnets (which are left on the seafloor and then hauled up) can contain up to 20 % «bycatch» of unwanted species, such as deepwater sharks.

A seismic instrument (long black cylinder, right) installed in 2013 on a level triangular metal plate on the seafloor atop Axial Volcano.