Sentences with phrase «plankton bloom as»

Satellite images appear to confirm the claim by Californian Russ George that the iron has spawned an artificial plankton bloom as large as 10,000 square kilometres.

Not exact matches

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

A storm in Africa's Sahara Desert brought a sandy fertilizer to the Atlantic Ocean on April 8, triggering plankton blooms that show up as blue - green swirls in this photo from the European Space Agency's Envisat satellite.

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.

SCINTILLATING SWIRLS In a satellite image taken February 3, plankton blooms appear as green whorls in the Arabian Sea.

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.

Plankton blooms, particularly in rainy season can attract larger creatures such as plankton - feeding whales and manPlankton blooms, particularly in rainy season can attract larger creatures such as plankton - feeding whales and manplankton - feeding whales and manta rays.

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.

Best guess — mostly into the ocean; if we're lucky as sinking dead plankton directly into sediments; if we're not lucky, as increasing acidity, slime and toxic algae blooms.

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.

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.

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

Before, during and after stimulating this plankton bloom, our research ship and two Autonomous Underwater Vehicles known as Slocum gliders collected detailed mesoscale data of the ocean ecosystem so that scientific conclusions could be made on the merits of this endeavour.

The good news is that such air capture could be less expensive and invasive than, for instance, such measures, mentioned above, as «seeding the oceans with iron to spur plankton blooms» (which strikes me as a global ecological disaster waiting to happen if a mutation occurs or terrorists do a genetic hack.)