Sentences with phrase «sea hydrothermal»

In a recent expedition near Antartica, researchers from Oxford discovered dozens of remarkable new species thriving in one of the most extreme environments on the planet, alongside deep - sea hydrothermal vents where temperatures can reach over 750F.

Based on biological observations we also present a re-analysis of the global biogeography of the deep - sea hydrothermal vent fauna, including that of the Antarctic hydrothermal vents.

However, multivariate analyses of species present at the ESR and at other deep - sea hydrothermal vents globally indicate that vent biogeography is more complex than previously recognised.

Citation: Rogers AD, Tyler PA, Connelly DP, Copley JT, James R, Larter RD, et al. (2012) The Discovery of New Deep - Sea Hydrothermal Vent Communities in the Southern Ocean and Implications for Biogeography.

In each segment we located deep - sea hydrothermal vents hosting high - temperature black smokers up to 382.8 °C and diffuse venting.

Exploration of deep - sea hydrothermal vents in other sectors of the Southern Ocean, such as the Pacific - Antarctic Ridge [16], are likely to reveal further chemosynthetic communities.

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.

David traveled to the west coast to study the recently discovered deep - sea hydrothermal vents and received his PhD in marine biology from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego.

This snail inhabits deep - sea hydrothermal vents.

Cultivation - Independent and Cultivation - Dependent Analysis of Microbes in the Shallow - Sea Hydrothermal System Off Kueishantao Island, Taiwan: Unmasking Heterotrophic Bacterial Diversity and Functional Capacity — Kai Tang — Frontiers in Microbiology

Deep sea hydrothermal vent environments are also speculated to exist on Jupiter's moon, Europa.

The quantitative population ecology of zooplankton with emphasis on zooplankton small - scale distribution and abundance, organic matter transport into the deep - sea, the biology of Gulf Stream Rings, zooplankton associated with deep - sea hydrothermal vents, dynamics of populations on Georges Bank and on the continental shelf region of the Western Antarctic Peninsula, acoustical determination of zooplankton biomass, abundance, and size, and the census of holozooplankton biodiversity in the worlds oceans.

There are also microbes that are known to live in incredibly harsh environments on Earth such as in deep - sea hydrothermal vents, acidic lakes and the hot springs of Yellowstone.

Specific enrichment of hyperthermophilic electroactive Archaea from deep - sea hydrothermal vent on electrically conductive support — Guillaume Pillot — Bioresource Technology

«This site gives us a compelling story for a deep, long - lived sea and a deep - sea hydrothermal environment,» Niles said.

One of the most prevalent theories as to how life evolved on Earth is through chemical reactions at deep sea hydrothermal vents.

«It is evocative of the deep - sea hydrothermal environments on Earth, similar to environments where life might be found on other worlds — life that doesn't need a nice atmosphere or temperate surface, but just rocks, heat and water.»

Shannon Johnson uses robots to explore deep - sea hydrothermal vents, where science - fiction - worthy animals live in hot, acidic water and munch on bacteria that can survive in space.

In 1977, scientists and the world were shocked to discover the first deep - sea hydrothermal vent community at the Galapagos Rift in the eastern Pacific (see a great story on this at NPR here).

The remarkable density of life at deep - sea hydrothermal vents is explained by the mutually beneficial symbiosis of invertebrate animals and sulfide - oxidizing bacteria that colonize their cells

A mysterious glow from deep - sea hydrothermal vents may provide the light source for a newly - discovered bacterium.

Grassle's work ultimately revealed that a diverse community of organisms thrives along deep - sea hydrothermal vents, feasting on organic matter produced by sulfur - oxidizing bacteria instead of photosynthesis.

Finding out how methane and other organic species are formed in deep - sea hydrothermal systems is compelling because these compounds support modern day life, providing energy for microbial communities in the deep biosphere, and because of the potential role of abiotically - formed organic compounds in the origin of life.

Brightly colored 7 - foot tube worms thrive near deep - sea hydrothermal vents and derive their energy from chemosynthetic bacteria.

Water locked away in rocks for 1.5 billion years reveals conditions were right for complex organic molecules to form in deep sea hydrothermal vents

The results launched a hunt for life's origins that's now uncovering these building blocks in surprising places, like the surface of comets and in deep - sea hydrothermal vents.

A new study published April 29 in Science suggests that eddies may have a deeper reach than previously thought, helping to shape some of the most remote ecosystems on Earth — deep - sea hydrothermal vents.

The sub brought up a rib from the mammoth carcass, and the researchers soon discovered the fiery plumes to be the gills of two entirely new species, related to worms, that live near deep - sea hydrothermal vents.

It makes its home in the walls of deep - sea hydrothermal vents.

A study described here today at the American Geophysical Union's biennial Ocean Sciences Meeting shows that RNA's chemical building blocks fall apart within days to years at temperatures near boiling — a finding that poses problems for some origin of life theories, especially ones picturing that life arose in scalding settings such as deep - sea hydrothermal vents.

«Deep - sea hydrothermal vents have carbon - removing properties.»

Starting in the 1980s, many scientists argued that life got its start in the scalding, mineral - rich waters streaming out of deep - sea hydrothermal vents.

Deep - sea hydrothermal vents give rise to some of the most bizarre forms of life on the planet, such as blind albino crabs.

Either that it began in deep sea hydrothermal vents, or alternatively that it began on land in a version of Charles Darwin's «warm little pond.»

They are related to organisms found in deep - sea hydrothermal vents.

Deep - sea hydrothermal vents in the Pescadero Basin emit scalding liquids that form light - colored carbonate spires.

Given developing efforts to mine deep - sea hydrothermal vent fields for precious metals, the scientists involved in this research suggest that conservationists and management agencies need to consider a broader range of factors in their efforts to predict the environmental impacts and the resiliency of affected communities.

She describes her project as studying hyperthermophilic archaea, the living occupants of deep - sea hydrothermal vents that survive in extreme heat, pressure, and chemical toxicity.

We started finding the same organisms that people were reporting from deep - sea hydrothermal vents [where hot, mineral - laden fluid flows through volcanic rock into the ocean from deep within the Earth].

Not exact matches

The depths of the frigid continent hold hydrothermal vents which house a variety of pale creatures — including predatory sea stars with seven arms...

Following Wednesday's news that there seem to be hydrothermal vents churning away in the warm, alkaline seas inside Saturn's moon Enceladus, researchers announced airtight evidence yesterday that Jupiter's moon Ganymede also has a -LSB-...]

We found that the particles seen in our images, which were droplets of ocean only hours earlier, bore evidence of large organic molecules and compounds that indicated hydrothermal activity similar to that observed at deep - sea vents on Earth's seafloor.

The impact aftermath killed most life on Earth, but the crater itself (bottom)-- shown with a central peak — remained hot long after the blast, perhaps creating a hydrothermal system similar to deep - sea vents.

More than 540 international expeditions sailed to coral reefs, hydrothermal vents, seamounts, and open ocean waters to assemble a comprehensive picture of the diversity, habitats, and abundance of animals and microbes living in the sea.

Map of current land and ice separating the Weddell and Ross seas, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons / Wutsje / CIA Octopuses have made themselves at home in most of the world's oceans — from the warmest of tropical seas to the deep, dark reaches around hydrothermal vents.

The discovery of the Pescadero Basin hydrothermal field is just the latest example of how MBARI's extensive use of underwater robotics has accelerated the pace of scientific discovery in the deep sea.

Geysers and deep - sea vents are hydrothermal phenomena in which water, heated and pressurized by molten rock, is released through vents at the land surface or into the oceans.

This is only the third hydrothermal system of its type that has been sampled, yet millions of similar environments exist in the deep sea.

To study the movement of vent products, the researchers set up sediment traps and current meters near the hydrothermal vents along the East Pacific Rise, an ocean ridge located about 800 kilometers off the southern coast of Mexico and a mile and a half below sea level.

Ever since their discovery in the late 1970s, the creatures that dwell in the hot, sulfurous hydrothermal vents of the deep sea floor have captivated marine biologists.