Citation: Shultz, D. (2015), Underwater robot
tracked ocean sediment during Hurricane Sandy, Eos, 96, doi: 10.1029 / 2015EO032937.
Not exact matches
The foundation of the research involved
tracking the changes in
ocean circulation in new detail by studying three
sediment cores extracted from the seafloor of the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 during a scientific cruise.
«The data of the model simulation was so close to the deep
ocean sediment data, that we knew immediately, we were on the right
track,» said co-author Dr Laurie Menviel from the University of New South Wales, Australia, who conducted the model simulation.
So DNA from buried
sediments could be used to
track the abundance of different species over time, revealing changes in
ocean temperature.
Proxy records of climate, like those derived from ice cores and
ocean sediment cores,
track the big - picture changes well but can't provide the same level of local detail we have for the past century.