Sentences with phrase «seafloor environment»

Assessment of the seafloor environment, meteorological conditions, and ecological impacts calls for geologists, meteorologists, oceanographers, marine biologists, and other individuals in specialized scientific disciplines.

Woodside studied the seafloor environment of the Timor Sea as part of earlier plans to pump Sunrise's gas to an LNG plant in Darwin.

On April 27, 2017 the NOAA research ship Bell M. Shimada will embark with a team of scientists to explore the deep seafloor environment of Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary.

«The large rocky promontories of Cape Perpetua and Heceta Head, the productive ocean waters and expansive sandy seafloor environments, mark a unique transition from the nearshore rocky reefs to the north off Seal Rock and the subtidal reefs and kelp forests to south at Cape Arago.

Not exact matches

Carbon dioxide that escapes from storage underneath the seafloor is not likely to harm the environment, based on a recent experiment

But naturally as we explore more environments (the deep seafloor, for example), we discover organisms we have never encountered.

When the work is complete, researchers will piece together a systemwide view of the marine environments that cover more than two - thirds of the planet, bringing into focus the interrelationships among the seafloor, the water, and the atmosphere.

A single - celled organism lives beneath the seafloor, in rock hotter, deeper and older than any previously known sub-seafloor environment harboring life.

In the third type of vent environment, «hydrothermal seeps,» much cooler (less than 30 - 60 degrees Celsius) water trickles out of lava flows interleaved with seafloor mud.

Lead author of the study, Dr Leigh Howarth, who conducted the research as part of his PhD in the Environment Department at York, said: «We found strong evidence that protecting Lamlash Bay from fishing has allowed seaweeds, hydroids and other organisms on the seafloor to recover.

Other researchers have placed similar robots, in the form of lobsters and lampreys, on the seafloor, and Jeremijenko hopes to have still more varieties hopping, slithering, and climbing their way into the environment soon.

Lost Nucleotides Although Alexander S. Bradley's article «Expanding the Limits of Life» provides a fascinating account of the discovery of microbes in a previously unknown kind of hydrothermal vent ecosystem on the seafloor, it does not substantiate his claim that the findings hint that life may have originated in an environment like the Lost City hydrothermal vent.

Organisms that have evolved in environments that have little if any change in environmental conditions, for example, may not be able to adapt well if currents increasingly mix warm surface waters down to the seafloor.

But don't mistake the technosphere's contents for just «stuff»; it also encompasses human organizations and the environments that keep society functioning, like farmlands, seafloor excavations, domesticated animals and reservoirs.

It was developed by scientists at CAGE — Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate Environment and Climate, and shows that seafloor off Western Svalbard was covered by a large ice sheet during the last glaciation.

Scientists at Columbia's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory have found evidence of hydrothermal vents on the seafloor near Antarctica, formerly a blank spot on the map for researchers wanting to learn more about seafloor formation and the bizarre life forms drawn to these extreme environments.

Johnson said that further methane release could exacerbate the current environment effects in Washington and Oregon on local fisheries and biology, such as seafloor slopes — where gluing the sediment slopes in place is frozen methane — becoming destabilized.

«Bottom trawling repeatedly plows up the seafloor over large areas of the ocean,» said fellow presenter John Amos of SkyTruth, a digital mapping non-profit group aimed at environment issues based in West Virginia.