New research tools are opening the 'black box' of coastal ecosystems
...uter-based mapping tools make it possible to place layers of ecosystem information into an accessible geographic context, using global information satellite (GIS) databases. By using such new research tools to open the black box of the near-shore underwater world, scientists hope to better assess the array...New studies reveal connections between oceanographic processes and rockfish populations
...s that provide detailed information about distinct layers and movements of ocean waters along the coast are ...e often concentrated in previously undetected thin layers of ocean water that extend for miles and persist for days at a time. "We have found concentrations ...Scientists crack the black box of coastal ecosystems
...s surroundings, new acoustic tools can detect thin layers of larvae in the water. This novel oceanographic t...al fish such as rockfish, may be clustered in thin layers in the near-shore environment. Particularly during periods of La Nia, the larvae of some fish may be...Polymers promote nerve regeneration
...to develop thin film polymers that bulk degrade in layers over a period of time ranging from a few days to almost a year. To put the microscale grooves in the polymers, she has used both laser etching and reactive ion etching, relying on the Ames Lab's Environmental and Protection Sciences Program and the ...Ozone may provide environmentally safe protection for grains
... possibly sealing of grain storage facilities with layers of ozone, much the way a jelly jar is capped with wax. The USDA National Research Initiative provided funding for this study....Rutgers explorer describes sea floor hot springs as teeming with valuable minerals and microbes
...es downward through the crust. When it reaches hot layers in the mantle, the water heats and rises with force, dissolving metals from surrounding rocks and blasting out of the sea floor at 650 degrees Fahrenheit. Often the jets are so dense with minerals we call them 'black smokers.'" When the hot jets rea...Arthropods of Tropical Forests
...es yield excellent access to canopy and understory layers at a dry forest site on the Pacific slope and at a rainforest site near the Atlantic entrance of the Panama Canal. This program has inspired a worldwide network of eleven forest canopy cranes managed by a variety of institutions. Construction cranes ...Animal study demonstrates carbon monoxide may help heart patients
...uations develop when lesions appear in between two layers of cells the vessels' endothelial cells and smooth muscle cells," explains the study's senior author, Miguel Soares, Ph.D., of the Immunobiology Research Center at BIDMC and Instructor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School (HMS). "When this happens t...Crop producers go high-tech with GPS technology
...oil sampling approach based on various information layers may not provide better information than the denser...tions. Zone sampling uses a variety of information layers (such as yield maps, aerial crop canopy images, digitized soil survey maps, and electrical conductiv...Prehistoric NW Indians hunted fur seals of sustainable basis
...buried by mudslides. The bones were recovered from layers dated between A.D.1100 and 1800. The Alaskan sample of seal bones was smaller and less stratified, but it extended over a 3,000-year period. By examining teeth and jawbones, Etnier was able to measure the age composition of the seals with an empha...Biologist unlocks secrets of winter survival
...gid Northeastern winters are unbearable even under layers of GorTex? Imagine the challenges that 30-below temperatures bring to the tiny gold-crowned kinglet, which weighs in at a fifth of an ounce. Or how the snapper turtle can exist at the bottom of ponds for the duration of the season without coming up f...USC researchers use gene therapy to prompt mouse cells to produce human collagen
...he skin to the dermis." Without these fibrils, the layers of the skin can separate like layers of pastry, blistering and sloughing off at the slightest insult or injury. And that is why people wi...Rain will take greater toll on reindeer, climate change model shows
...the thick snowpack," Putkonen said. "Even when ice layers are not impenetrable, the warmer soil surface temperatures promote the growth of fungi and toxic molds among the lichens, so the animals avoid those areas." In addition, the top of the snow can be covered with a layer of ice that the animals can't pe...Ultrasound shown to be potentially safe, effective way to kill bacteria
...rate cardboard and other wrappings just as they do layers of skin and tissue when used to image internal org...e is dependent on the properties of the transition layers on the piezoelectric material which create the high acoustic pressure ultrasound waves in air. This...Coral layers good proxy for Atlantic climate cycles
...ll. Greer uses a dental x-ray to locate the coral layers in a very thin slice taken from the core. In mode...she then counts down from the top to associate the layers with actual years. The sample she reported on was taken in 1994 and went back to 1935. Once the la...UC Berkeley scientists detail neural circuit that lets eye detect directional motion
... a signal that cascades unaltered through the cell layers to the ganglion cell, and then into the brain. But other cells, called amacrine cells, weave among the bipolar cell axons and alter their output. This is what makes some ganglion cells respond to motion in one direction only. Fried, Mnch and Werblin ...GSA release 02-55: Dec. Geology & GSA Today media highlights
...rock units interpreted to contain more impermeable layers (e.g., volcanic ash). Gully formation is therefore...d water and the presence of impermeable subsurface layers to collect the groundwater. Gullies may mark the distribution of subsurface impermeable layers globa...New nanoparticle coating mimics dolphin skin
...ut of science fiction: man-made ships protected by layers of synthetic dolphin skin. Mother Nature, it seems, may have some competition....Asian dust storm causes plankton to bloom in the North Pacific
...ded the rapid growth of phytoplankton in the upper layers of the North Pacific Ocean after a passing storm had deposited iron-rich dust from the Gobi Desert. The carbon measurements, reported in the October 25 issue of Science, are the first direct observation of wind-blown terrestrial dust fertilizing the ......alyzed. "In each of the cores we looked for sandy layers of sediment that were washed into the lakes during rainstorm-induced floods," Noren explains. During "nor'easters," cyclones and hurricanes, material stored in upland streams and basin hill slopes is eroded and transported to lake basins. "By getting...