Sentences with phrase «seafloor in»

For example, after discovering 9 - 10 new invertebrate species in only about 2 m2 of seafloor in the Canada Basin, MacDonald et al. [305] concluded that potentially hundreds of more new species may be found in future inventories in the Arctic basins or even in the Canada Basin alone.

Shakhova, Semiletov and collaborators from 12 institutions in five countries plan to continue their studies in the region, tracking the source of the methane emissions and drilling into the seafloor in an effort to estimate how much methane is stored there.

Postscript: Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory, analyzing seabed currents and mud movement after the passage of Hurricane Ivan in 2004, have concluded that the underwater turbulence from hurricanes could be severe enough to cause mudslides and possibly imperil pipelines on the seafloor in shallow regions of the Gulf of Mexico.

Our results overturn a 60 - year - old conclusion that the depth limit to life is in the sediment just meters below the seafloor in such regions.

Hammerheads cruise the seafloor in search of crabs, lobster, octopus, and fish, using special sensors on its head to detect faint electrical signals.

The Cathedral is aptly named, with coral spires and towers that rise up from the seafloor in large segments.

Channelkeeper also conducted a kelp monitoring project at «Bird Island,» a remnant oil pier offshore at Ellwood (in Goleta) that was removed in October 2005 along with other oil industry debris that littered the seafloor in the area.

If such a cable were used to reach the seafloor in the Mariana Trench, it would snap under its own weight.

Direct effects from depletion of O2 levels and rising water temperatures over the next century may also impact embryonic survival rates of vulnerable deep - sea oviparous (egg - laying) elasmobranchs that currently deposit their capsules at the seafloor in very narrow oceanographic niches with distinct O2, salinity and temperature conditions (Henry et al., 2016).

As head of a new Emmy Noether junior research group funded by the German Science Foundation, Dr. Florian Scholz will continue to study the fluxes of iron and other micronutrients across the seafloor in the coming years.

The team, which included other geochemists, palaeoecologists and geologists from UCL and the universities of Edinburgh, Leeds and Cambridge, as well as the Geological Survey of Namibia, analysed the chemical elemental composition of rock samples from the ancient seafloor in the Nama Group - a group of extremely well - preserved rocks in Namibia that are abundant with fossils of early Cloudina, Namacalathus and Namapoikia animals.

A coastal glacier's response to a warming climate depends heavily not only on the depth of the seafloor in front of it, as explained above, but on the shape of the bedrock below it.

The fossils, described in 2008, are attached to the seafloor in groupings that resemble the clustered pattern of today's sexually reproducing corals and sponges.

The data showed them that the landward seafloor in the trench area slipped as much as 50 metres horizontally, said Yasuyuki Nakamura, Deputy Group leader in JAMSTEC's Center for Earthquake and Tsunami Structural Seismology Group.

The new study supports the likelihood that these vertical fault zones have displaced the seafloor in the past, which means they could send out tsunami - generating pulses towards the nearby coastal mega-city of Los Angeles and neighboring San Diego.

Fishing boats have dragged nets across the seafloor in pursuit of bottom - feeding fish and crustaceans since the Middle Ages.

The researchers drilled down 1,500 meters below the seafloor in two places off the coast of Sumatra, extracting narrow cylinders of sediment.

Once that data has been collected, he will apply the techniques he developed on the Juan de Fuca in the hope of learning more about what lies beneath the seafloor in the old oceans, where mysterious undulations in Earth's gravity field have been measured.

Their collected data has allowed Rignot, Scheuchl and their team at UC Irvine to map the seafloor in the region.

Linse and colleagues» mission is to learn what was living on the seafloor in the shadow of the ice.

ABOARD THE R / V THOMAS G. THOMPSON — In the early morning hours of Saturday, May 10, we were on the seafloor in the deepest part of the Kermadec Trench when all of the video screens in the Nereus control room went dark.

Gas bubbles effervesce from a mound of muck on the seafloor in a deep submarine canyon off the west coast of Canada.

The team injected the CO2 about 40 feet below the seafloor in the Ardmucknish Bay off the coast of Scotland.

Under Morgan and Gulick's leadership, Liftboat Myrtle finally sinks its drill bit into the seafloor in April.

Not exact matches

Our position relied on the evaluation of our own scientists and the expertise of other organizations in assessing any potential threats from this project to the seafloor, fisheries, marine mammals, and other sea life.

The foundation of the research involved tracking the changes in ocean circulation in new detail by studying three sediment cores extracted from the seafloor of the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 during a scientific cruise.

The teams with the highest scores in seafloor mapping and high - definition digital imagery will get a total of $ 6 million.

A study published Aug. 28, 2017, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences adds a new dimension to the controversial decision to inject large amounts of chemical dispersants immediately above the crippled oil well at the seafloor during the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010.

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.

Unlike more familiar coral species, these walking corals don't grow in colonies and aren't attached to the seafloor.

Scherer would later find dozens of crushed diatom shells in his samples — possible remnants of microscopic aquatic organisms from when the site of Lake Whillans was a shallow seafloor.

Years after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil spill, oil continues to wash ashore as oil - soaked «sand patties,» persists in salt marshes abutting the Gulf of Mexico, and questions remain about how much oil has been deposited on the seafloor.

To see his subjects up close, McClain hops a ride in a submersible, a 23 - by -8-foot research vessel designed to withstand the enormous pressure at seafloor levels.

RAPID RETREAT New seafloor data reveal that Køge Bugt (shown) and other fast - retreating glaciers in southeastern Greenland sit within deep fjords, allowing warm Atlantic Ocean water to speed up melting.

Other scientists have documented true seals using their pawlike forelimbs in stereotypically terrestrial ways, too, such as using the claws to dig out lairs in ice or uncovering buried fish from the seafloor.

Headed toward an 8 F rise in warming Other such low - probability but high - risk scenarios mentioned in the report include ecosystem collapses, destabilization of methane stored in the seafloor and rapid greenhouse gas emissions from thawing Arctic permafrost.

The coolest point beneath the ridges was found near the lowest point, an area of very deep and rugged seafloor known as the Australian - Antarctic discordance in the Indian Ocean.

Possible nearest living relatives to complex life found in seafloor mud.

«If CO2 leaked from storage and reached the seafloor, then the environmental impact will be measurable, but very restricted in area and not catastrophic,» said Jerry Blackford, a marine system modeler at Plymouth Marine Laboratory and author of the paper, published yesterday in Nature Climate Change.

In fact, the cells show so few signs of life that it wasn't until 2011 that researchers confirmed that microbes in sediments below the seafloor are, indeed, livinIn fact, the cells show so few signs of life that it wasn't until 2011 that researchers confirmed that microbes in sediments below the seafloor are, indeed, livinin sediments below the seafloor are, indeed, living.

Teams of marine scientists are towing nets to scoop up plankton, tagging large predators to track their migrations, sequencing the DNA in seawater to hunt for microbes, and trawling the seafloor for bottom dwellers.

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.

«Whether it was coral reefs, the deep seafloor, or even what lives in people's backyards along the shore — so little was known.»

«We talk about finding, searching for signs of life on some of these ocean worlds, and in particular these geologically active ocean worlds with rocky seafloors like Europa.»

But an open question is whether the flood also tore through the eastern Mediterranean, over a seafloor cliff separating the shallower continental crust in the west from the deeper oceanic crust in the east.

The issue of CO2 leakage with offshore sequestration came to the forefront last year, after a Nature article raised concerns about unexpected fractures above Statoil ASA's Sleipner natural gas project in the North Sea, where 1 million metric tons of CO2 has been injected annually below the seafloor since the mid-1990s.

«We saw a connection between organisms that live almost all of their lives in the water column and those that live on the seafloor,» Juniper says.

This band of malleable ice (center) may have flowed upward between two ancient terrains on Jupiter's moon Ganymede in a process similar to seafloor spreading on Earth.

Situated at 870 meters below the sea surface in Barkley Canyon, Wally uses a camera, methane detector and current flow meter to take stock of the release of methane bubbles from the seafloor.

In Pescadero Basin, however, hydrothermal - vent fluids pass through thick layers of seafloor mud.