Rock-Eating Microbes Could Signify Life On Mars
...k-eating microbes living nearly a mile beneath the ocean floor inconditions which suggest similar life coul...mplete the formula. Groundwater seepingthrough the ocean floor could easily provide that, he pointed out. "Under those conditions, microbes could liv......lls 40 miles high in the atmosphere and beneaththe ocean floor some seven miles deep.. In order to...he deep ocean, and the upper 10centimeters of deep ocean sediments. Soil was divided into forest and non-forest types. The researchers thenused deta...Commercial Fish: Eat Up, Despite Low Levels Of Mercury
...very man,and every child around the world who eats ocean fish." In the United States the green light a... to slash the current level of mercuryallowable in ocean fish that are sold in the United States belowthe current level of 1 part per million (ppm). Tha...USGS Finds Sea Otters At Risk From Killer Whales In A Changing Ocean
...g, said Estes, some killerwhales have shifted from ocean feeding to coastal. Their usual diet is Stellersea...ly affecting shorelife.This dramatic change in how ocean and coastal systems are being linked mayaffect numerous marine and coastal species, the authors conc......lves a largenumber of linkages connecting the open ocean and the nearshore environment,"Estes said. "There...he feels least sure about whathappened in the open ocean system to initiate the observed changes. The declinesin populations of seals and sea lions have been...North America Absorbing Carbon Dioxide At Surprisingly High Rate, Team Reports
...-based sinks contributed by Dr. Takahashi, and one ocean and twoseparate atmospheric models developed at Princeton's Geophysical Fluid DynamicsLaboratory. The team created a three-dimensional grid of the earth to model theworldwide flow of carbon dioxide. Researchers anticipated that as they movedfrom poi...AAAS Annual Meeting And Science Innovation Exposition
...stponing aging and death human health risks in the ocean lessons learned from El Nio the future of predicting earthquakes psychoanalytic perspectives on dreaming the fate of the universe keys to the Cosmos Noteworthy speakers include Author and producer Michael Crichton (Plenary lecture, Monday, January...Aquaculture: Not An Easy Answer To Overfishing
...ries, disrupting coastal ecosystems, polluting the ocean withexcess nutrients and pesticides, and using alm...n their diets. Instead of becoming asubstitute for ocean fishing, they actually draw down the ocean resources thatsupport all fish production, the report sai...University Of Hawaii, Berkeley Launch Marine Bioproduct Initiative
...obes at UH. The University'sexceptional marine and ocean research fleet will aid in acquisition of even mor...C will involve students from chemical engineering, ocean engineering andmarine microbiology to create a new, interdisciplinary curriculum to produce thenext-......nce, or if it is related to a changing climate and ocean volume, and whether or not human activities account for some part of the changes. The USGS role in sea-level research is national in scope and ranges from remote sensing and geologic mapping of wetlands to studies of coastal erosion and evidence of o...Unknown contaminant found in seabird eggs
... higherlevels than diving birds that feed at lower ocean depths." This would suggest,he believes, that the contaminant exists primarily in the surface layer of theocean. Generally, scientific thinking is that "all organohalogens that accumulate inwildlife are from industrial sources or other human activit...Study Associates Asteroid Or Comet Impact With Extinctions In Argentina
...nd red brick-like materialsfound in the high ocean cliffs of southeastern Argentina. Called escoria, ...enisotopes in sediment cores from the nearby ocean floor, Schultz and colleaguesoffer evidence of a sudden drop in both atmospheric and water tem...Swimming Proficiency Of Marine Mammals Ranks Them Among The World's Elite Animal Athletes
...rs of modern marine mammals first ventured intothe ocean some 60 million years ago, they had to adapt to a medium 800 timesdenser and 60 times more viscous than air. The spectacular success of theirdescendants illustrates the remarkable power of natural selection. According to a new study comparing the at...Vasta To Address Diseases Of Marine Environment At AAAS Meeting
...-- Diseases related to poisonous substances in the ocean can have asignificant impact on human health, the environment, and the economy. The keyto solving these problems, says Dr. Gerardo Vasts, professor of biochemistry andimmunology with the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute's Center ofMari...Bleached Coral Could Be Environment Warning
... died,suggests that lower water quality and higher ocean temperatures stress coralsand increase their susc...owing consensus among scientists worldwide that as ocean ecosystemsbecome degraded they will offer more favorable places for disease outbreaks andthe emergen...Farmers Can Afford To Clean Up Gulf Of Mexico, Analysis Shows
...o is unique. Because the Gulf of Mexico is open to ocean currents, unlike other enclosed seas, scientists think that the problem can be corrected Only a small portion of the nitrogen coming down the Mississippi is from sewage treatment plants and factories. The bulk of it is non-point nitrogen. That m...Duke Geologist Decries Using Engineering Models To Predict Natural Phenomena
... this," said Orrin Pilkey, aprofessor of Earth and ocean science at Duke's Nicholas School of theEnvironment. "I think mathematical modeling in this sense is damaging oursociety." Pilkey spoke in an interview before his talk on the same subject Mondayat the annual meeting of the American Associatio...Offshore DDT Deposit Spreading, Research Suggests
...er samples collected at various distances from the ocean floor at numerous points along the PVS. He collec...ed exponentially with increasing distance from the ocean floor. Utilizing equations that describe the tendency of a compound to go from being particulate-bo...Major $17 Million Grant To Fund Ocean Research
... How do currents, upwelling and other physical ocean processes affectphytoplankton productivity, nutrie... and how quickly can they adapt? How does ocean circulation affect the dispersal of marine life in itsearliest larval stages? ......an acoustic system for long-term monitoring of the ocean temperature and ice thickness in the Arctic Ocean ...ng to the naturally present "ambient" noise in the ocean can provide additional indications of climate change in the environment (3aAOb6). --- The Comprehen...