Identity theft, cancer detection among interactive demos at UH event
... 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, April 8 on the fifth floor of the Philip G. Hoffman Building at Entrance 14, off Cullen Boulevard at UH, and is hosted by the computer science department. To see all available demonstrations will take about two hours. It is being held to educate the public on the future of ...Ocean 'dead zones' trigger sex changes in fish, posing extinction threat
...looms. As these blooms die, they sink to the ocean floor where they are decomposed by bacteria and other microorganisms. Decomposition depletes most of the oxygen in the surrounding water, making it difficult for marine life to survive. Although some hypoxic areas dead zones develop naturally, scientifi...International symposium on radar altimetry in Venice, 13 to 18 March 2006
...r variations in the Earth's gravity due to the sea floor relief. Over land, radar altimetry delivers enhanced digital elevation models (DEMs), and recent improvements in processing algorithms have made it possible to monitor the levels of rivers and lakes, allowing more precise quantifying of the vast amo...Proteomics symposium looks at pediatric applications
...ey Maturation 12.00 Lunch (Karp Building, 10th floor Atrium) 1.00 Roman Zubarev (Uppsala University, Sweden) Novel Mass Spectrometry Tools in Proteomics 2.00 Judith Steen (Children's Hospital Boston) Deciphering the Cell Cycle through Quantitative Proteomics 2.30 Matthias Mann (Max-Planck...Oceans may soon be more corrosive than when the dinosaurs died
...nic acid input is modest, sediments from the ocean floor can buffer the increases in acidity. But at the current rate of input--nearly 50 times the natural background from volcanoes and other sources--this buffering mechanism is overwhelmed. Previous estimates suggest that in less than 100 years, the pH of...Phytoplankton bounce back from abrupt climate change
..., their calcium carbonate shell falls to the ocean floor to become part of the sediment. The factors that w...rvive these abrupt changes. However, on the ocean floor during these same times, mass extinctions occurred. Other extinctions, such as that at the Cetaceou...Earth Rx: A microbial biotechnology prescription for global environmental health
...on the globe, from geothermal vents on the ocean's floor to arctic permafrost. Now, uncovering and categorizing this abundant biodiversity is one of the chief goals of scientists in the field of microbial ecology and may be the key to helping the planet by putting these rich microbial communities to work ...UMaine teams with fishermen to study affects of trawling on seafloor ecology
...undfish trawling on the complex ecology of the sea floor in the Gulf of Maine. Based on the gradual increases in complexity and diversity of seafloor communities that have been protected from bottom trawling for two, four, and six years, Watling estimates that it will take roughly a decade for the surface-...2006 Ocean Sciences Meeting: Press Conference Schedule
...monitoring, management, and protection of deep-sea floor habitats. John D. M. Gordon, Honorary Research Fellow, Scottish Association for Marine Science, Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory, Oban, Scotland, United Kingdom +44 1631 559222 john.gordon@sams.ac.uk Tracey Sutton, Biological Oceanographer, Harbor Br...Antarctic krill provide carbon sink in Southern Ocean
...ansport carbon which sinks ultimately to the ocean floor an amount equivalent to the annual emissions of 35 million cars and this makes these tiny animals much more important than we thought." Krill feed on phytoplankton near the ocean surface at night but sink deeper in the water column during the day t...Journalists to discuss scientific challenges in Stevens lecture
...8, 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. in the Bissinger Room, fourth floor of the Wesley J. Howe Center. The expert panel includes Sharon Begley, science columnist, The Wall Street Journal; John Rennie, editor-in-chief, Scientific American; and Steven Petranek, editor-in-chief, Discover magazine. John Horgan, Director of th...Logging may hinder forest regeneration, increase fire risk
...ine fuels and waste wood left behind on the forest floor after trees are felled and processed. Other fuel reduction approaches besides logging would still be needed, the researchers said, with additional expense. "Surprisingly, it appears that after even the most severe fires, the forest is naturally very ...3,317 and counting (the number of marine species in the Gulf of Maine)
...g in the soft sediments that cover much of the sea floor and microscopic bacteria and viruses that live throughout the ecosystem. While most are invisible to the human eye, they are collectively major players in the web of ocean life." The Census of Marine Life is a global network of researchers in more t...Underwater listening devices yield discoveries about endangered large whales
...hat are held at different distances from the ocean floor and are equipped with disk drives able to store tens of gigabytes of data. This allows them to operate for months at a time before they are recovered and the data accessed. Acoustic surveys using the devices have been conducted in the Gulf of Alaska,...Researchers quantify more noise in gene expression
...oise is negligible." The group measured the noise floor by used genetically engineered strains of yeast with a green fluorescence marker linked to a gene involved in the metabolism of the sugar galactose. The galactose gene and 10 others were chosen because they are expressed in yeast cells in high copy n...Ability to capture large prey may be origin of army ants' cooperative behavior
...xploded out of the leaf litter covering the jungle floor in an Ecuadorean nature preserve. The worm, later measured at nearly 16 inches long, was pursued by a column of hundreds of raiding army ants that quickly paralyzed or killed it. That sighting, and another involving what turned out to be the same sp...'Fish with chips' reporting from ocean top highlights at Census of Marine Life mid-point
...CensusScientific Steering Committee. The deep-sea floor isan area of 300 million square kilometers, of whi...zed electronictags scanned by devices on the ocean floor when theypass over, like an electronic tag on a car passingthrough a highway tollbooth (see animatio...Spectacular new discoveries arising from deep ocean hot springs
...regale assembled scientists with accounts of ocean floor discoveries during the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco Dec. 6 and 7. A press conference on Monday, Dec. 5, will precede two special sessions on hydrothermal vents Tuesday morning (OS21C and OS22A) and a poster session ...Clay material may have acted as 'primordial womb' for first organic molecules
...mulated the intense heat and pressure of the ocean floor within a pressurized vessel. The reaction of the clay and methanol was monitored over six weeks. The team found that the expandable clay not only protected the methanol, but also promoted reactions that formed even more complex organic compounds. The......ied adult male rats in containers with a wire mesh floor that enabled them to deliver radiant heat to one hind paw. The heat caused no damage but was annoying enough to make the animal withdraw that paw within seconds. When the rats ate, however, they postponed retracting the heated paw for six to eigh...