Sentences with phrase «through marine organisms»

«The ocean's going to take it, blast it to smithereens, it's going to cycle it through marine organisms, and sink it to the sea floor.

Sogin began collecting and sifting through marine organisms — algae, fungi, sponges, jellyfish, anemones, mollusks — cutting them up and extracting DNA, adding enzymes, concentrating the DNA and sequencing the genes, reducing them to strips of code, comparing their ribosomal RNA, and applying algorithms to measure their relationship with one another and with insects, worms, fish, birds, and mammals.

Not exact matches

However, the researchers point out that seagrass should be looked at holistically, not just through a carbon budget lens, because it also offers ecological benefits including habitat to marine organisms.

In a second piece, Wise explained how a marine ecologist is using robots (with casings made from surplus fire extinguishers) to mimic the motions of microscopic marine life, including crab larvae, as they move through ocean waters during their development into adult organisms.

«Biological oceanographers have speculated that early life stages of marine organisms might be particularly sensitive to ocean acidification, but the underlying mechanisms remain unknown for most species,» says David Garrison, program director in NSF's Division of Ocean Sciences, which funded the research through an ocean acidification competition.

While on present - day Earth the carbonate formation is dominantly through organic processes (various shell - forming marine organisms are happy to make use of the CO2 dissolved in the ocean), in the early Earth and, presumably, in other Earth - like planets with little or no life the same process can occur inorganically, but somewhat slower, in silicate rock weathering.

Funding was provided through the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) «European Project on Ocean Acidification» (EPOCA), the European Marie Curie Initial Training Network «Calcification of Marine Organisms» (CalMarO) and the project by German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) «Biological Impacts of Ocean ACIDification» (BIOACID).

Like the data used right through 0.02 to 66 My, the Freidrich et al collection comprises stable oxygen isotope ratios from the shells of tiny bottom - dwelling, deep - water marine organisms (benthic foraminifera).

Some of this exchange is mediated by microbial marine organisms through photosynthesis, in which carbon dioxide is converted into organic matter, and respiration, in which the latter is metabolized.