Sentences with phrase «seabed for»

So far the oil and gas gushing from the well drilled nearly four miles into the seabed for BP has confounded all efforts by the company to put the genie back in its bottle.

And yet this may be just the beginning with emerging activities such as mining the seabed for mineral and biological resources rising high on international political agendas (2).

Now he's trawling the seabed for wrecks from the Roman Empire

A converted oil exploration ship probes the seabed for clues to climate change and the inner workings of the earth.

Notothenia coriiceps, informally known as Antarctic cod, cuts its metabolism by two - thirds and burrows under the seabed for days at a time during dark Antarctic winters.

Designed for deepwater diving, autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) DEDAVE is capable of diving down to depths of 6000 meters to explore the seabed for sources of oil or minerals.

Not exact matches

To reach the oil, it has had to drill horizontally up to 8 miles out below the seabed, setting one world record after another for the longest wells ever drilled.

However, a lot more seabed mapping and sampling is required for them to understand the real hazard of tsunamis posed by these landslides, or whether it will happen again.

Route 11 Potato Chips gains fans because of the high - quality ingredients it sources for its kettle - style chips, such as unrefined sea salt from an ancient seabed in Utah.

Swimming in warm, calm, clear waters, diving down to bright seabeds, teaming with life, building ditches and sandcastles, or exploring the coastline on a boat are unforgettable experiences for the whole family.

It is now hoping drilling for oil and gas located under the seabed will boost the Islands» economy.

It is a bit different, however, for the seabed under the international waters.

Generally, you need approval from the ISA for commercial operations affecting the seabed (with a few exceptions such as the sea cables that I already mentioned, and pipelines, too).

• Responsibility for the management of the crown estate's economic assets in Scotland, including the crown estates's seabed and mineral and fishing rights, and the revenue generated from these assets, will be transferred to the Scottish parliament.

2 Under the Ocean Floor Several teams are currently hunting for life beneath the seabed.

As for the increase in phosphorus content, it was caused by the phosphorus that in the summer of 2014 flowed in from the deep waters in the north of the Baltic Sea main basin and the phosphorus that was released from the Gulf of Finland's own seabed in the poor oxygen conditions and mixed with the surface layer during last winter.

An OBS was placed at the ocean floor at 400 - meter water depth offshore Western Svalbard, and recorded every sound from the seabed and ocean for a full year.

[audio clip] That's the sound of air gun testing for the presence of oil and gas under the seabed.

Layers of ooze in the seabed may be responsible for submarine «megaslides» that dwarf ordinary landslides and can cause tsunamis

«We have now dived on the site using high resolution DIDSON ™ acoustic imaging to examine the ruins on the seabed — a first use of this technology for non-wreck marine archaeology.

Instead of planting the base of a turbine in the seabed, researchers need only plant an anchor for the tether.

In an article published in the journal Scientific Reports, Baco - Taylor and her team document these reefs and discuss possible explanations for their appearance in areas considered impossibly hostile to reef - forming scleractinia, whose communities are formed by small, stony polyps that settle on the seabed and grow bony skeletons to protect their soft bodies.

The kite and cable model is designed to facilitate placing tidal turbines in deep water, where the stronger current has the potential for providing greater power but also makes it extremely difficult to plant a turbine in the seabed.

Professor Heath said: «Wildlife everywhere capitalizes on waste from human activity, and discarded fish are food for a wide range of seabirds, marine mammals, seabed animals and other fish.

But we shouldn't yet throw in the towel for most seabed ecosystems.

But the prospect of mining in those depths is looming: For example, the United Nation's International Seabed Authority has granted 16 exploration contracts for mining manganese nodulFor example, the United Nation's International Seabed Authority has granted 16 exploration contracts for mining manganese nodulfor mining manganese nodules.

The field study of an international group of researchers headed by Massimiliano Molari from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen and Katja Guilini from the University of Ghent in Belgium, now published in Science Advances, reveals how leaking CO2 affects the seabed habitat and its inhabitants.

Geologist John Gorter of ENI Australia was surveying for offshore oil there when he spotted the plateau on a seismic profile of the seabed in the late 1990s.

For their study, the researchers visited natural leaks of CO2 in the sandy seabed off the coast of Sicily.

Fisheries for scallops have grown dramatically over the past decade, but scientists have raised concerns over the damage to the seabed caused by the dredges and trawls normally used to catch them.

The United States has released an ambitious, climate - and conservation - focused agenda for its 2 - year chairmanship that includes pushing for more research on black carbon, which accelerates melting in the region, and on emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane from the seabed and permafrost, as well as creating a network of marine protected areas in the Arctic and equipping Arctic villages with renewable energy sources.

'» She chaired a committee convened by the International Seabed Authority to draw up recommendations for the mining of black smokers in international waters.

The paper is intended to inform upcoming discussions by the International Seabed Authority (ISA) that will set the groundwork for future deep - sea environmental protection and mining regulations.

The ISA is charged with managing the seabed and its resources outside of national jurisdictions for the benefit of humankind.

The rocks beneath the UK seabed account for 35 per cent of all European Union storage capacity.

It provides scientists worldwide with the basis for further investigations to see how much ore is actually on and in the seabed, and whether or not deep - sea mining on a large scale could ever become worthwhile.

Turbines designed for Puget Sound have no exposed blade tips, run at low speed, require no mechanical lubrication or seabed drilling, and are designed to leave the seabed undisturbed, according to the Snohomish County utility.

To escape from these seabed vents, LUCA had to adapt its membrane to pump protons out of the cell, in order for them to flow back in again to help drive ATP production.

And on the first deployment for Maksym's project, their AUV — a SeaBED - class vehicle owned by WHOI — got stuck and had to be rescued by another robot.

Kim Cobb and two team members, clad in black scuba gear, have been scouring the coral - studded seabed near the equatorial Pacific's Christmas Island here for nearly an hour.

The oxygen situation of water near the seabed is now very good, although it worsened for a time over the past year in the Bornholm basin following the lesser Baltic inflows that occurred during the winter and spring of 2014.

At the bottom of the Arctic Ocean, one sub took seabed samples, the ostensible purpose of the mission, while the other deposited a titanium capsule containing a Russian flag, symbolically claiming this undersea turf for its homeland.

No nation is likely to start investing in expensive resource exploration and extraction if it could be evicted by a neighboring country's extended seabed claim under UNCLOS, so the outer shelves will not see development for another 30 years or so, Baker points out.

By knowing where fishing activities are more intensive, it is possible for example to assess the impacts from trawling on the seabed floor and derive the indicators on fishing pressure envisaged by the Maritime Strategy Framework Directive.

And, worryingly, the research suggests that as these glaciers melt and retreat backward, the shape of the seabed will continue to expose many of them to warm ocean water for hundreds of miles as the ice moves inland.

The most recent plan provides a policy platform for the protection of marine ecosystems and the restoration of fisheries within China's exclusive economic zone — an area of coastal water and seabed to which China claims exclusive rights for fishing, drilling, and other economic activities.

In an article published today in the journal Scientific Reports, Baco - Taylor and her team document these reefs and discuss possible explanations for their appearance in areas considered impossibly hostile to reef - forming scleractinia, whose communities are formed by small, stony polyps that settle on the seabed and grow bony skeletons to protect their soft bodies.

Measurements from the seabed, the air and from land stations, along with modelling analysis, will provide the link between potential sources of elevated methane concentrations and the reason for variations.

His Medwin Prize Lecture (New York Meeting) was titled «Ocean acoustic inversion for seabed geoacoustic properties.»

Afterwards there was a discussion between Dr. Sven Petersen, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Dr. Christian Reichert, Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) and member of the International Seabed Authority ISA and Dr. Gerd Schriever from Biolab Research Institute under the moderation of Philip Bethge, «Der Spiegel».