Sentences with phrase «seafloor observatory»

Grade Level: 3 - 5, 6 - 8, 9 - 12 NeMO is a seafloor observatory at an active underwater volcano.

NSF is one of the major funders of marine research; its oceans office has spent some $ 350 million annually over the past few years, and the agency has played a major role in building costly new ships, automated seafloor observatories, and networks of instrumented buoys and floats.

Underwater, high bandwidth free - space optical communications in both high and low ambient light conditions enabling untethered remotely operated submersibles and data harvesting from seafloor observatories

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A new observatory called ABISS that can transmit video and long - term chemical measurements at broadband speeds from the seafloor using a system of flashing lights instead of a traditional tether.

Going beyond this specific demonstration, if this approach, known as acoustic seafloor geodesy, proves to be robust in the long term (in this case, three to five years are planned, within the limits of the autonomy of the batteries), it could be included within a permanent underwater observatory as an addition to other observations (seismology, gas bubble emission, etc) for in situ real - time monitoring of the activity of this particular fault, or of other active submarine faults elsewhere in the world.

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.

«People have ignored seafloor volcanoes on the idea that their influence is small — but that's because they are assumed to be in a steady state, which they're not,» said the study's author, marine geophysicist Maya Tolstoy of Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory.