Sentences with phrase «stimulating plankton»

Before, during and after stimulating this plankton bloom, our research ship and two Autonomous Underwater Vehicles known as Slocum gliders collected detailed mesoscale data of the ocean ecosystem so that scientific conclusions could be made on the merits of this endeavour.

Motion in the water — a diver, a landing craft, a submarine — stimulates plankton to glow.

Hamme says the team's preliminary analysis suggests that trying to stimulate plankton growth by adding iron to the water would have a minuscule effect on marine CO2 absorption.

Another high - profile test — of dumping iron particles into the ocean to stimulate plankton growth — failed miserably after being disrupted by protesters.

In his letter, Alec Dunn suggests that pumping nutrient - rich deep ocean water to the surface would stimulate plankton growth and...

In his letter, Alec Dunn suggests that pumping nutrient - rich deep ocean water to the surface would stimulate plankton growth and hence capture atmospheric carbon (18 August, p 32).

This is a blow to some supporters of geo - engineering, who have suggested that one way to tackle climate change is large - scale seeding of the oceans with iron to stimulate plankton to absorb more carbon dioxide.

George is convinced that by adding iron sulphate to the oceans, he can stimulate plankton blooms and so suck enough carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere to offset human emissions from burning coal and oil.

Not exact matches

What the researchers found was that the increased CO2 they introduced to the test bags stimulated the growth of plankton enough to improve the survival of these tiniest of young herring.

Such solutions could include developing the possibility of stimulating growth of plankton in the oceans; not with a sporadic and half - hearted science demonstration, but instead, a determined and continuing project to accomplish one of the largest scale real solutions.

My understanding of this work is that a negative feedback loop is put into effect by the bio-available Fe providing an essential ingredient for stimulating the growth of plankton.

By stimulating a massive growth of plankton, called a bloom, Planktos claims to be able to draw millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere into the deep oceans over the next year.

«It could stimulate growth of plankton at the base of the food web, which could impact birds, fish and marine mammals higher up the food chain,» said Dr Hawkings.

Other net negative technologies in development include fertilising the ocean to stimulate the growth of plankton and machines to remove CO2 directly from the atmosphere.

The rich concentrations of nutrients help stimulate large plankton blooms and subsequent die offs, which result in bacteria eating the decomposing plankton and consuming what little oxygen remains in the water.

Nitrogen from agricultural runoff and sewage stimulates the growth of photosynthetic plankton on the surface of coastal waters.

This story is about a proposal, by Planktos, Inc., to stimulate large - scale natural marine plankton blooms by «iron seeding», in - situ, for the purpose of scouring carbon dioxide from the air.

But the technologies that are promoted — from spraying sulphate particles into the stratosphere, to dumping iron particles into the ocean, to stimulate carbon absorbing plankton, to burning millions of [continue reading...]