Sentences with phrase «sea bottom»

Matthew Gianni of the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition says it's «impossible to predict» how long the legislative process will take, but he estimates 8 to 12 months, which would mean a commission ban on deep - sea bottom trawling in 2015.

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Now the researchers, who reported their work in Environmental Research Letters, plan to model further the current state of subsea permafrost over the entire area of the ESAS using their original multi-year data on sea bottom temperatures and some additional data.

The eventual goal is point - and - click maps that can display data on everything from water temperature to sea bottom contours within a particular swath of ocean.

While oil - rich Kazakhstan has the resources to invest in longer - term solutions, the resource - poor Uzbeks seem more inclined to search for oil in the barren sea bottom than to finance a rescue of the sea itself.

It could be the remains of either algae thatsettled on an ancient sea bottom or oil that shot through a crackunderground.

A WORLD OFBURIED TREASURE: The East Driefontein gold mine plumbs mineral - rich reefsangling down the buried slope of a 2.9 - billion - year - old sea bottom.

«This action is a complete turning point in potential protection of deep - sea bottom communities,» says marine biologist Les Watling of the University of Hawaii, Honolulu: «One can hope that this will lead to a global ban of bottom trawling in the deep sea, but I can't say I am optimistic on that point.

The proposal would phase out licenses for deep - sea trawling 2 years after the regulation is approved, require strict quotas for deep - sea species that lack solid scientific data on the size of populations, and require impact assessments for opening new areas to deep - sea bottom fishing.

Robertson, J.D., C.R. Bentley, J.W. Clough, and L.L. Greischar, Sea bottom topography and crustal structure below the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, in Antarctic Geoscience (C. Craddock, ed.)

Other newly translated excerpts included descriptions of a calendar unique to the northern Greek city of Corinth and tiny orbs — now believed lost to the sandy sea bottom — that once moved across the instrument's face in perfect simulation of the true motion of the five known planets, as well as a mark on the dial that gave the dates of various athletic events, including a relatively minor competition that was held in the city of Rhodes.

Huge wheeled nets troll sea bottoms, with 90 % (killed «bycatch») thrown back.

Found in marine habitats with rocky or muddy sea bottoms and is frequently associated with kelp forests.

In coral, lake bottom, and sea bottom cores, δ18O is the primary temperature indicator via CaCO3.

Calculations indicate that solar heating of the upper ocean was the primary source of heat for this observed enhanced Beaufort Sea bottom melting.

Originally built for the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition, the man - made island was constructed out of dredged sea bottom poured into rock walls and covered with soil.

- could be in place.The second is that the subsequent global warming gas methane being belched from permafrost defrosting and burped up from the warming Arctic sea bottom are not included in official IPCC predictions, and researchers are discovering there's more GHGs stored in permafrost than we thought.

During an average 10 - day fishing trip, trawlers make up to five passes per day, covering 12 to 18 square miles of sea floor (the 10 French deep - sea bottom trawlers could destroy an area the size of Paris in two days).

In November 2015, France — in response to overwhelming public pressure — finally agreed to a ban on deep - sea bottom trawling below a depth of 2,600 feet (800 meters).

To members of the UN General Assembly: As concerned global citizens, we call on you immediately to implement and enforce your obligations to the UN resolutions on fishing and work to ban the destructive practice of deep - sea bottom - fishing.

Protected by the sand on the sea bottom for 1,600 years, the mostly bronze objects include idols, lamps, and several clumps of coins.

If there were such a thing as a resurrection, he'd have to collect his bits off the sea bottom with tweezers and a sponge before he could appear for judgment!

The team analysed the chemical composition of tiny shells built by organisms (foraminifera) that had lived in the water column and at the sea bottom before their shells became embedded in the seafloor sediments.

The researchers used seismic reflection imaging, which involves directing sound waves toward the sea bottom and measuring the time it takes them to return.

The fact that the radar signals could bounce off the sea bottom suggests that the seas were more transparent than expected and thus must contain mostly methane, not ethane.

In earlier extinction events, the ocean zone that animals inhabited — whether they lived in the open ocean compared to the sea bottom, for instance — also helped to predict which species would disappear.

Despite scalding - hot water and poisonous hydrogen sulfide, deep - sea clams prosper along fissures in the sea bottom.

Other plastics — including the material used to make soda or water bottles — sink, potentially influencing life on the sea bottom.

The ESRU team's goal: create a device that literally goes with the flow rather than resting on the sea bottom like an underwater windmill — a model already being developed by a handful of companies.

Certainly, for fish that spend their lives along the sea bottom, having both eyes topside confers a survival advantage.

The sea bottoms showed up in radar observations from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which arrived at Saturn in 2004.

The purpose was to create a bathymetric picture of the sea bottom and to collect reflection seismic data, which allows researchers to peer into the sediments and rocks underneath the seafloor.

«You have three superimposed trapping mechanisms to keep your CO2 below the sea bottom and out of the atmosphere,» Goldberg says.

The calcium carbonate crystals would have piled up in uneven bands along the sea bottom.

Recent surveys have found more than 2,300 - year - old colony of deep - water black coral 1,480 feet (451 meters) below the surface off Oahu — and deep - sea fishing threatens the long - lived, slow - reproducing species that inhabit the sea bottom such as the Patagonian toothfish (better known as Chilean sea bass).

By analogy to marine invertebrates today, some scientists believe that Urbilateria burrowed on the sea bottom as an adult and swam as a larva, with simple eyes like those in many living marine larvae.

The relief wells are drilled straight down into the sea bottom, parallel to the blown Macondo well for several thousand meters and then angled to intersect the original well bore at about 5,500 meters beneath the Gulf's surface (4,000 meters below the seafloor).

The DNA, from tiny, one - celled sea creatures that lived up to 32,500 years ago, is the first to be recovered from the abyssal plains, the deep - sea bottoms that cover huge stretches of Earth.

But the oldest Black Sea layers that were analyzed were similar to those at the South Atlantic site: The mud at the sea bottom had scant amounts of organic matter and had been exposed to oxygen, which, in theory, should have made it tough to scrape up any preserved DNA.

Several nations have already taken steps to restrict deep - sea bottom trawling, and Palau has banned it, but the commission is the first large fishing community to propose a ban.

The scientists jammed a large metal pipe 30 meters into the sea bottom and used a piston to suck out a long column of reddish clay.

It also wants to cap the fleet's capacity to catch deep - sea fish at current levels and has recommended banning all targeted deep - sea bottom trawling and gillnetting within a period of two years [4].

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.

BLOOM is proud to announce that its Founder and Board Chair, Claire Nouvian, will be awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize later today in San Francisco for BLOOM's fierce battle against deep - sea bottom trawling.