Asian dust storm causes plankton to bloom in the North Pacific
...The Carbon Observers were programmed to sample the depths and return to the surface three times every two days, regularly sending data to satellites overhead. The two floats, controlled from shore, returned a virtually unbroken stream of information for the next eight months, through December, 2001. Ocean...Brazilian shellfish may improve understanding of ancient world
...ercent of the grooved Argyrotheca are encrusted at depths of 100 to 500 meters, while fewer than 1 percent o...g at the variability in encrustation at a range of depths along the approximately 300 miles of the shelf, Rodland has determined that the amount of plankton i...Using the ocean's living light shows to fight terrorism or track the planet's most massive migration
...al and varied mass of sea creatures inhabiting the depths up to the surface for night feeding when they are not as likely to be seen and eaten. Study of the migration has been severely hampered by the general difficulty of doing research in the ocean's largely unexplored and unexamined midwaters. However, ...Six reporters named to receive 2002 AAAS Science Journalism Awards
...father, who fled Ireland's County Clare during the depths of Ireland's potato famine in 1847. The online awards category helps to promote best practices in the emerging field of Internet-based science journalism, Boyle noted. "I'm humbled and grateful to be in such august company," he added. "I hope this re...Arsenic in Bangladesh drinking wells may be linked to crop irrigation, MIT study finds
...zations, drilled between 6 and 10 million wells at depths ranging from 50 to 300 feet to provide clean, safe...nstalled 17 research wells about 4 meters apart at depths ranging from 5 to 165 meters, and collected three sediment cores, determining that the sediment was ...GSA release 02-55: Dec. Geology & GSA Today media highlights
...sting a causal relationship. We also measured the depths of the gully heads below the local surface and found that the variation in gully depths tend to correlate to rock units interpreted to contain more impermeable layers (e.g., volcanic ash)....Science picksLeads, feeds and story seeds (December 2002)
...ter-generated scenarios of flooded areas and flood depths for a specific storm. The USGS method combines high-accuracy elevation data, a new computer flow model and a geographic information system, producing maps in real-time that are then put on the Internet. Check out this new method online at http://pub...Seven-foot living 'dinosaur' lurks in Oregon
...50 million years old, and currently lurking in the depths of Oregon's Rogue River? It's the green sturgeon, the craggy, shark-like fish that has quietly eked out a living since the time of the dinosaurs. But according to a new study published by researchers from the Bronx-Zoo based Wildlife Conservation S...URI biological oceanographers test shallow marine systems' response to increased nutrients
...fic team summarized data from 30 systems with mean depths ranging from 1-12 feet and water residence times from .3-100 days. In addition the team designed and built a coastal lagoon mesocosm facility where they replicated and controlled nutrient inputs, mixing rates, and water resident time. Fed by water fr...Bugs from the deep may be window into the origins of life -- on earth and beyond
...ithin the walls of South African diamond mines, at depths between 0.8 and 3.3 kilometers. There, temperatures reach up to 60 degrees C and pressures are nearly 250 times as high as on the surface. The microbes that Onstott and his colleagues have found are unlike any living near the Earth's surface. They ma...Corals defy species classification
...hed and crust-forming colonies. The corals grow at depths varying from 2 to 70 metres. The external appearance is partly determined by the environmental conditions, such as temperature, water movements and the amount of available light. Therefore, it is difficult to determine if two coral colonies belong to...New age for Mungo Man, new human history
...wn Australian psyche. We have yet to penetrate the depths of time and cultural treasures revealed by those ancestors of indigenous Australians," he says. "The messages from the ancient Mungo people challenge us to come to terms with the history and dynamics of this strange land, especially with the rights a...50 Arctic lakes show dramatic effects of climate warming
...nmental changes in a variety of lakes of different depths and composition, within a 750-km region bordering the northern tree-line. The changes are a signal of things to come in the rest of North America, say the Queen's paleolimnologists. "We're seeing a significant, regional change in the ecology of these...Exploring the sights and sounds of a deepwater coral marine protected area off Florida
...ne hundred pinnacles, mounds, and ridges, in water depths of 150 to 300 feet underneath the Gulf Stream. These features can be as large as 100 feet high and 1,000 feet wide and are a favored target of shrimp trawlers as well as sport and recreational fishers hunting for reef fish and pelagic fish such as tu...Enzyme could overcome industrial bleaching waste problems
...st use. Taken from a microbe that thrives in the depths of a Yellowstone National Park hot springs pool, a newly discovered enzyme may be the key to transforming industrial bleaching from environmentally problematic to environmentally green. Chemical engineer Vicki Thompson and biologists William Apel an...Volcanologist Richard S. Fiske receives award
...ars, he has traveled to lofty heights and to great depths to study these phenomena around the world. His work takes him to Hawaii where he rappels deep into cracks in the Kilauea volcano to search for ash layers between lava flows. These days, he can be found in a small submersible unit in the waters off th......vel up to 60 miles at speeds between 3-5 knots at depths up to 300 feet. It is programmed using a laptop computer, and can employ sound-emitting transponders as navigational reference beacons, or its onboard computer can autonomously select another more appropriate navigation method to use. Once launched,...New imaging vehicle maps coral reefs to determine health of reef and fisheries
...d composition of the deeper coral reefs due to the depths of these insular shelf reefs, which are beyond the...t corals that need light to survive do not grow at depths greater than 90 meters (300 feet), so much of it may be in intermediate water depths, beyond the ran...Blimp ride & demo of high tech sensors
...eye that can be submerged in the water at tactical depths or land areas. Think submarines, underwater mines, whales, and other marine mammals. Steve Huett, ONR's project manager on the LASH program, and Director of Airship Advanced Development Program Office at the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), will ...Extraordinary Number of unique species discovered in Caribbean
...surprised to find that many unique species live at depths far greater than previously imagined, making them vulnerable to deepwater trawlers and other fishing activities. The depredation caused by fishing, combined with low reproductive rates common among micro-endemics at those depths, make many species vu...