Sentences with phrase «study ocean floor»

As one of the few African - American oceanographers, Dawn Wright, associate professor in Oregon State University's geosciences department, uses geographic information systems (GIS) to map and study the ocean floor.

SHAKY GROUND Researchers drag sensors across the ocean near New Zealand to study ocean floor vibrations, adding data to the debate about how the Earth moves deep underground.

Not exact matches

A new study in Marine Biology Research tackles this issue by comparing the physical characteristics of two similar octopus species that live on the ocean floor, as deep as 9,500 feet (almost 2,900 m) below the water's surface.

As the pressure on the ocean floor eases, magma erupts more readily at the spreading centers, thickening the plates and creating the abyssal hills, say the authors of two new studies, one published online this week in Science (http://scim.ag/JCrowley) and another posted online in Geophysical Research Letters.

And tropical deep reefs are not barren landscapes on the deep ocean floor: they are highly diverse ecosystems that warrant further study.

However, central surface waters of the oceans may not be the final destination of plastic debris since, as indicated by the study performed by the Malaspina Expedition, large amounts of microplastics could be passing to the marine food chain and the ocean floor.

«Below the Ross Sea is one of the most remote parts of the ocean floor, and is largely unmapped,» said Matt Siegfried, Scripps postdoctoral researcher and a co-author of the study.

In a previous study she showed that marine snow can reach depths of several hundred meters within a few days, which contradicted previous theories suggesting that it might dissipate and dissolve long before reaching the ocean floor.

New measurements will be needed within the young parts of the plate to confirm this study's predictions, either on very remote islands or through sensors on the ocean floor.»

With the methods used, it is now possible to study not only ore particles on the ocean floor in the range of millimetre to nanometre, but also the smallest fossils and living organisms, such as micro-organisms.

The study is the first to demonstrate this kind of teleconnection between the sea floor, subsea floor and microbial processes in the upper ocean, said Andy Juhl, an aquatic ecologist at Lamont and coauthor.

The island, which had detached itself from the ice shelf on Ellesmore Island in the Canadian arctic archipelago, was used as a laboratory for seismic studies of the Arctic Ocean floor, as well as charting currents, pollution, winds and ice structure.

Mining on the ocean floor could do irreversible damage to deep - sea ecosystems, says a new study of seabed mining proposals around the world.

A hotspot on the ocean floor could become a living laboratory where marine scientists can study underwater volcanoes and the weird life that clusters around the plumes of superheated water spurting from hydrothermal vents.

Another reason to study the AMOC in the subpolar North Atlantic is that the rugged ocean floor in this region carves the current pathways up into tortuous tributaries, unlike the relatively smooth flows at 26 ° N. OSNAP's stationary moorings can not trace these meandering pathways, so the array is supplemented by drifting floats.

The present study shows that these archaea can be found in many more environments, and not just in the ocean floor as thought before.

In 2015, Thijs Ettema and colleagues published a breakthrough study in which genomic data was described of «Loki», an archaeon living in the ocean floor that represented the closest living micro-organism of complex cellular life.

The currents caused by large, swirling eddies at the ocean's surface may reach all the way to the sea floor, a new study suggests.

New technologies allow us to study our region from space, to map the adjacent ocean floor, to look deeply into the Earth's interior, and to pinpoint the location and magnitude of earthquakes with great precision.

Van Dover has studied the deep ocean floor for years and made many dives in Alvin.

In a new study out last month in the journal Nature, a team of scientists from Cambridge and Sweden point to evidence from thousands of scratches left by ancient icebergs on the ocean floor, indicating that Pine Island's glaciers shattered in a relatively short amount of time at the end of the last ice age.

Whoever you are, whatever you do, your job is almost certainly boring as hell compared with the researchers who spent the last six weeks diving beneath Antarctica's sea ice to study alien life forms on the ocean floor.

Douglas Fudge (at right) studies the slime produced by hagfish, a sea creature that eats dead animals on the ocean floor.

Their relationship intensifies as each prepares for a dangerous mission — she's in an undersea capsule studying life on the ocean floor, while he's trying to root out a terror cell in Somalia.

During such virtual tours, the students, along with teachers, can immerse themselves into the surroundings of the studied subject, varying from the ancient pyramids, or the ocean floor to the outer space.

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For her solo exhibition at form & concept, Rutstein has moved away from her studies of the ocean floor in a return to broader geologic explorations.

I should have said that the paleoclimatologists who study sea floor sediments are pretty confident that the high lattitude arctic ocean has not been ice free for many hundreds of thousands of years.

Every Ice Age high amounts of H2 18 O are found in ceratain shellfish in ocean core studies on the ocean's floor.

Foraminifera shells in Schneider's studies were retrieved from the sediment cores from the ocean floor at Vestnesa Ridge north west of Svalbard.

The broader implications of this study suggest that carbon budgets of the deep ocean in the past and thus climate relationships may have been much stronger affected by these processes near the sea floor than previously thought.

James Hansen, adjunct professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University and former Head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies claims the melting ice could lead to the point where ocean floor warming triggers massive release of methane hydrate, i.e., methane molecules trapped in ice crystals, which would become a «tipping point.»

But it's not limited to the gyres; studies estimate there are 15 — 51 trillion pieces of plastic in the world's oceans — from the equator to the poles, from Arctic ice sheets to the sea floor.

However, instead of digging into the soil, they look for clues about our planet's climate history by studying coral reefs, digging into ocean and lake floor sediment and drilling deeply into glaciers and ice sheets.

Challenging this predominant theory, findings from a completed study show how differences in mid-ocean ridge magma - induced activity produce distinctly different types of ocean floor faulting.

Studies range from documenting bloom dates of trees and flowers to extracting mud cores from the ocean floor.

Other studies using only single - domain basalt glass from the ocean floor have found a similar time - averaged intensity, but they did not have samples to test the polar - to - equator ratio.

In recent years there have been many studies collecting data from ice cores in Greenland, sediments drilled from the ocean floor and from continental lakes, and so forth.

The obvious ethical restrictions to releasing large amounts of methane (which contributes 25 times more greenhouse effect than carbon dioxide) into the ocean has complicated study of how seepage of natural gas at the ocean floor contributes to global warming.

A recent study discovered active volcanoes on the floor of the Arctic Ocean, and some people have wondered if they are causing sea ice to melt.