Sentences with phrase «seabeds with»

The OIST design is a hybrid of a kite and a wind turbine: an ocean - current turbine is anchored to seabed with a line and floats in the current while water rotates its three blades.

Studies from 55 million years ago show possibility of eruption of methane from the seabed with enormous self - sustained warming.

At the base of Alcedo Volano, we disembark at Urbina Bay, where we find four miles of its coastal seabed with marine life exposed due to a dramatic uplift in 1954 when the volcano erupted.

Studies from 55 million years ago show possibility of eruption of methane from the seabed with enormous self - sustained warming.

The commercial fishing industry began indiscriminately plowing through the seabed with scallop dredges, repeatedly passing over the same area to maximize their catch.

Not exact matches

Approximately 90 % of excavated seabed would be returned to the ocean floor along with tailings, creating a sediment plume approximately 1000 square kilometres in size.

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.

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).

British Antarctic Survey scientists placed panels equipped with heating elements on the seabed in Antarctica and warmed the devices by either 1 or 2 degrees Celsius.

It means that bacteria living in, say, seabed mud where no oxygen penetrates, can access oxygen dissolved in the seawater simply by holding hands with their friends.

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.

The wood - paneled walls around Koblick's office are filled with memorabilia that attest to his years as an undersea pioneer and a genuine player in a decades - long quest to turn ordinary divers into «aquanauts,» the name applied to those equipped to live on the seabed, much as crews launched into space get to be called astronauts.

Formed when massive slabs of seabed limestone were thrust on top of one another, the Springs are in many ways a distinct eco-island, complete with locally endemic species.

Eddie Bernard, director of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle, Wash., says one possibility is that the earthquake might not have been confined to the main fault, with additional seabed shaking coming from a «splay» fault.

A recent study in Geochemistry, Geophysics and Geosystems strongly links methane leaks from the seabed off Western Svalbard with tremors of the Earth.

Of the 963 seabed species analysed, 577 are likely to experience a reduction in thermally suitable habitat with projected warming.

According to the ECO2 consortium, additional targeted studies have to be conducted if formation water or gas seeps and if pockmarks with deep roots reaching into the storage formation occur at the seabed.

Based on its extensive field programme, ECO2 recommends that overburden, seabed, and water column should be monitored with 3 - D seismic techniques, high - resolution bathymetry or backscatter mapping of the seabed, hydro - acoustic imaging of gas accumulations and outlets, video and photo imaging, chemical detection of dissolved CO2 in ambient bottom waters.

The researchers used an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) named SeaBED that is armed with upward - looking sonar to map the underside of the sea ice floes.

With no otters to eat them, the sea urchins had multiplied explosively and eaten all the kelp, converting the seabed to a pavementlike urchin barren.

This device, which rests on the seabed 4,000 meters below the surface, combines a pressure gauge to detect changes in the water level with an electromagnetometer.

Answers are now provided in a study dealing with the effects of CO2 on the inhabitants of sandy seabeds..»

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.

The usual method, known as bottom trawling, is to drag a large cone - shaped net, weighted with 15 tons of gear, across the seabed.

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).

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

Since 2001, the ISA has granted 26 mining exploration contracts covering more than one million square kilometers of seabed, with 18 of these contracts granted in the last four years.

With the loss of ice, the seabed's natural resources become potentially more obtainable and its bordering nations more interested.

In February, Australia — with U.N. approval — expanded its seabed borders along the Kerguelen Plateau around Heard and McDonald islands, pushing into the Antarctic Treaty jurisdiction.

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.

This allowed the carbon to be stored in the seabed instead of being released into the air, and thus less oxygen was needed to react with carbon.

In the Gulf of Finland, the phosphate phosphorus content of the surface layer has increased from last winter due to the phosphate that was released from the seabed and carried to the deep water from the main basin and from the Gulf's own seabed during last spring, summer and early autumn, and then mixed with the upper water layers due to storms.

In order to solve this question, the team took samples from the seabed, from the boundary layer between the seabed and seawater, as well as from different water layers in the tropical oxygen minimum zone during the Expedition M92 with the German research vessel METEOR in January 2013.

A new study in Geochemistry, Geophysics and Geosystems strongly links methane leaks from the seabed off Western Svalbard with tremors of the Earth.

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.

But their large populations, occupying at times hundreds of square kilometers in the oceans, combined with a high sinking speed, can deliver large carbon quantities to the seabed.

Large areas of the seabed in a Norwegian fjordsystem are polluted with hazardous substances.

-RRB- project, with the aim to investigate how life on Antarctic seabeds is responding to human - caused climate change.

The trip will carry scientists from our Antarctic Seabed Carbon Capture Change (ASCCC) project, with the aim to investigate how life on Antarctic seabeds is responding to human - caused climate change.

Because Atlantis Bank has been drilled before, and its condition is known, fairly swift progress is expected on this first outing, with the hole being opened to a depth of perhaps 1.3 km below the seabed.

On the seabed, dissolved iron (II) ions have combined with the hydrogen sulphide to form iron sulphides, for example pyrite, FeS2, which is unstable when the moist wood is exposed to oxygen: FeS2 (s) + 7 / 2O2 + (n +1) H2O → FeSO4 · n (H2O)(s) + H2SO4 (aq)

Topical magnesium oil is usually made with magnesium chloride that is mined from the ancient Zechstein Seabed in the Netherlands.

Children love rhymes, but they can be tricky to construct, so this resource provides 4 structured rhyme frames on the theme «seabed», with a sheet of tips and examples to help them along.

Sea, shells, fish and seabed mystery feature in these multiple rhyme and picture - poem sheets, with guidance notes and development ideas for each part.

But a trip to French Polynesia wouldn't be complete without taking full advantage of its fauna and flora, its world - renowned natural resources like the seabeds that are so popular with divers.

Highlights: With so many unusual critters and beautiful soft corals decorating the seabed, this dive spot is a perfect location for those divers who love photography!

Below the depths, time seemed to stand still, the seabed teeming with marine life.

At 40m deep, you will see thousands of nudibranchs scattered all over the seabed as far as you can see; this, together with large schools of fish creating magnificent patterns, makes for an incredible diving experience.

Dive beneath the waves with the assistance of the divers from the hotel's Diving School and explore the stunning seabed that surrounds the island, an unforgettable experience available right on your doorstep.

Location: south of Boracay, between Boracay and Aklan in the Tabon Strait Access: about 30 minutes by boat from White Beach Experience: advanced divers Depth: 10 - 35 meters Visibility: 5 - 10 meters Current: very strong Characteristics: drift dive with canyons, rock formations, shark caves, sandy seabed, stingrays, shoals of fish, beautiful corals, sponges