Scientists to prototype cyberinfrastructure for research and education access to ocean observatories
... will be a prototype for the use and automation of undersea sensor networks -- both delivery of data from sensors and the control of sensors and networks from land -- and will assist in designing sensor networks for conducting research in other remote and hostile environments. The National Science Foundation ...Students build submarine to track Octopuses
... for short periods, but what's really needed is an undersea robot that will wait patiently outside the creature's den, ready to shadow its every move. UA engineering undergrads, in collaboration with students from two other universities, are building a mini-sub to answer this need. In July, they took a protot...'Anti-plume' found off Pacific Coast
...ience Center in Newport, where he uses an array of undersea hydrophones through a unique arrangement with the U.S. Navy. During the past dozen years, Dziak and his research team have recorded more than 30,000 earthquakes in the Pacific Ocean off the Northwest coast few of which have ever shown up on land-bas......lares on offshore oil platforms and even lights on undersea research vessels." They suggest more research on the effects of artificial night lighting on organisms and ecosystems.......g us has motor control the most high-tech unmanned undersea vehicle would envy, thanks to a region of the brain that allows our bodies to carry out complex maneuvers. The Office of Naval Research, which traditionally relies on the power of the human mind to achieve breakthroughs in science and technology, now...Breakthroughs in acoustic tracking shine new light on the lives of fish
...here should you put a new reserve? What types of undersea real estate must be protected to increase egg production? How many fish will stay in the reserve and how many will "spillover" into adjacent areas where fishermen can catch them? Answers to these questions are beginning to come clear. "Everyone is...Genetic master switch sends bacteria toward 'seafood dinner'
...ries have remained: How do the bacteria find these undersea meals? How do these microorganisms attach themselves to the chitin? How do they degrade the tough material and turn it into food? During the past decade, Roseman and his colleagues have made several advances in answering these questions. In the ne...NASA learning to monitor coral reef health from the sky
...ook to develop aerial coral monitoring was to take undersea light-reflectance readings of elkhorn coral with a handheld spectroradiometer, or light meter. A team of four scuba divers, from the Universities of Miami, South Florida and Puerto Rico, helped Guild take the first readings at varying depths in ...How many fish in the sea? Census of Marine Life launches first report
...ne side of the Atlantic Ocean may be using extinct undersea volcanoes as stepping stones to migrate to the other side. Exploring the Bear Seamount, the westernmost underwater peak just off Georges Bank, CoML scientists identified at least 17 species of fish, including eight from the eastern Atlantic that were...$62-million partnership to revolutionize ocean research
...one coasts of B.C., Washington, and Oregon. Thirty undersea laboratories will be connected by 3,000 kilometres of powered fibre-optic cable. Shore-based researchers around the world will use the Internet to control their remote deep-sea experiments using an array of scientific instruments. "I am very grateful...Canopy raft, canopy crane, canopy bubble, Ikos tree house in Panama
...p between habitats within the forest. Unlike the undersea world, now visited by scuba divers, submarines and remotely operated vehicles, gravity works against terrestrial explorers. Francis Hall, well known for his work on tropical tree architecture, says "it is essential that researchers experience this re......esearch Institute (MBARI) have discovered a unique undersea nursery, where groups of fish and octopus brood th...f the brooding fish and octopus on its cover. The undersea nursery was discovered and documented using MBARI's remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Tiburon. Using v...Trawlers threaten ocean's biodiversity
...e being pushed to extinction by trawlers targeting undersea volcanic mountains called seamounts. In the past two years, scientists have found that seamounts are home to an astonishing diversity of species, with 40 per cent endemic to each mountain. Thousands of new species have been discovered in recent year...Scientists with Hawaii ocean mixing experiment
...an mixing, captured intriguing phenomena including undersea waves that spanned nearly 1,000 feet. The paper in...ith vastly increased ocean mixing. They documented undersea internal wave energy that was enhanced 10 times at the Hawaiian Ridge as compared with normal open o......ong been interested in the development of unmanned undersea vehicles (UUVs)," notes ONR science officer, Tom Swean. "We use them to do pure oceanographic science, and to survey waters before amphibious naval operations are conducted. REMUS works until its batteries need recharging and is many times faster t...Hot proteins may sharpen DNA tests; help bioprocessing
...nique heat shock proteins that protect bacteria in undersea hot vents could be used to improve the sensitivity of PCR, the common technique used to amplify bits of DNA for medical and forensic sciences, say researchers with the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (UMBI). In addition, commercial ma...Volcanologist Richard S. Fiske receives award
... off the coast of Japan to explore recently active undersea craters. Besides his major research projects, Dr. Fiske finds ways to convey his enthusiasm for volcanoes to the general public. In 1986, he helped arrange the production of the motion picture, Inside Hawaiian Volcanoes, by the late volcano cinemat...Exploring the sights and sounds of a deepwater coral marine protected area off Florida
...y tree coral. The reefs will be surveyed using an undersea robot known as the Phantom SII, provided by the National Undersea Research Center at UNCW. This ROV is equipped with video and still cameras and will also be used to collect small coral samples using its robot arm in order to assess the growth and he...Flipper as Rambo: Dolphins can be great naval security tools
...on their flippers and are trained to find certain undersea objects. Once such an object, like a mine, is located, the animal is trained to relay the information back to humans and from there, Navy SEALS or other personnel can disarm the devices. For the dolphins, finding the mines is usually the easy part. ...Scientists urge managers to limit use of destructive fishing gears
... cases fishing is destroying these beautiful, wild undersea habitats before we've even had a chance to study them. "The way we fish is like hanging a huge net dragged from an blimp across a forest, knocking down the trees and scooping up the plants and animals, and then throwing away everything except the dee...