Sentences with phrase «seawater samples collected»

We have applied «whole - genome shotgun sequencing» to microbial populations collected en masse on tangential flow and impact filters from seawater samples collected from the Sargasso Sea near Bermuda.

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Two paleobiologists (including Claire Allen are collecting seawater samples every 20 minutes and filtering out the diatoms (algae with silica shells).

The new study includes those observations, collected near the end of the Washington bloom, as well as other ongoing beach monitoring and water sampling efforts that filter seawater to see the life it contains.

Oceanographic data and water samples also were collected daily to evaluate seawater chemistry, patterns of water circulation and potential connectivity between Cuban reefs and those in the U.S.

Additionally, a unique aspect of these AUVs is an integrated Environmental Sample Processor (ESP), a miniature robotic laboratory that collects and preserves seawater samples at sea, allowing researchers to capture a snapshot of the organisms» genetic material and proteins.

For the first time, scientists from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (UH Mānoa) and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) will deploy a small fleet of long - range autonomous underwater vehicles (LRAUVs) that have the ability to collect and archive seawater samples automatically.

By employing a technique they developed that involves collecting methane from roughly ten thousand gallons of seawater per sample, they made a surprising discovery: ancient - sourced methane is indeed being released into the ocean; but very little survives to be emitted to the atmosphere, even at surprisingly shallow depths.

So, in April 2015 MBARI scientists sent down an SUV - size remotely operated vehicle to take footage of the vents and collect samples of the surrounding seawater, mud, rocks and animals.

The scientists collected seawater from various depths and measured the ratios of certain oxygen and nitrogen isotopes in the samples.