Census of Marine Life historians detail collapse of bluefin tuna population off northern Europe
...4 to 27 degrees Celsius and where the slope of the shelf is steep. Even a relatively small change in the distribution of sea surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico will likely cause a change in the timing and location of spawning, the authors say. Companion research says the tags recorded remarkable...Waters off Washington state only second place in world where glass sponge reefs found
...n says. The glass sponge reefs on the continental shelf west of Grays Harbor appear to be thriving on spec...ters. The field discovered on the open Washington shelf is very exposed to winter storms, which makes it much more likely that other reef-building glass spo...New tool for marine conservation
...ic classification of the worlds marine coastal and shelf areas, Marine Ecoregions of the World, that is exp...e useful out to a depth of 200 meters. Coastal and shelf waters have greater species numbers and higher productivity than the adjacent deep ocean, and are bi...Deprived bacteria grow up meaner
...d, especially the highly processed foods with long shelf lives that are popular breeding grounds for Listeria....Origins of nervous system found in genes of sea sponge, report scientists at UC Santa Barbara
...tion, said Kosik. Evolution can take these off the shelf components and put them together in new and interesting ways....Origins of nervous system found in genes of sea sponge
...tion, said Kosik. Evolution can take these off the shelf components and put them together in new and interesting ways....Satellites shed light on global warming
...f extended melt water streams and ponds on the ice shelf surfaces," Rott said. The sections of Larsen-A,...arctic Peninsula that previously nourished the ice shelf retreated many kilometres above the previous grounding line. Altogether about 250 square kilometres ...AGU Journal Highlights -- April 16, 2007
...ogical productivity of the southeastern Bering Sea shelf is modulated by seasonal sea ice cover, Jin et al. developed an ecosystem model of the area which correctly reproduced blooms observed in 1997 and 1999. The model suggests that blooms, seeded by algae released from melting sea ice, can thrive if melt...Blood's clotting cells harbor 'ticking time bombs,' finding may help extend blood supply
...fectively set those clocks back might increase the shelf life of donated blood platelets, which expire after just five days under the storage conditions now required. The researchers discovered that platelets characteristically short life span, which for humans is 10 days, is set by the amount of a prosu...Antarctic marine explorers reveal first biological changes after collapse of polar ice shelves
...nvironmental impact of history's largest known ice shelf collapses. Polarstern's team set out to find what ... able to colonize the Larsen B area only after ice shelf broke in 2002. Very slow-growing animals called glass sponges were discovered, with greatest densit...Climate changes, Cod collapse have altered North Atlantic ecosystems
Ecosystems along the continental shelf waters of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean, from the L...ecoming increasingly clear that Northwest Atlantic shelf ecosystems are being tested by climate forcing from the bottom up and overfishing from the top down,...Changes in west coast marine ecosystems significant
...t least 3,000 square kilometers of the continental shelf along the Oregon coast were affected. "This latest hypoxic event," he added, "was off the charts." Nature threw a different wrinkle at the California Current system in 2005, when the spring upwelling was delayed by a month. Winds that normally caus...Wanderlust -- deep-sea fauna under Antarctic ice shelf
Under the former Larsen ice shelf east of the Antarctic Peninsula, deep-sea sea cucu...ife actually existed under the former floating ice shelf which was up to several hundreds of meters thick? What are the prospects for the future after the co...ROV discovers Antarctic seafloor fauna
...nt expedition, devoted to the study of continental shelf seafloor communities, which were once under the recently collapsed Larsen B ice-shelf, the ROV model Cherokee was selected. "Inspection ROVs like the Cherokee are fast to deploy and easy to recover" explains the chief scientist and marine ecologist...Cloudy apple juice four times healthier than clear
...tend to favour clear juice because it has a longer shelf life than cloudy juice. Also of interest in C&I issue 1 2007: Super Sausages Adding orange fibre to the mix allows scientist to make tasty sausages with 60% less fat. The orange fibre not only improves flavour but could also provide health benef...Four Arnoux's Beaked Whales observed from Polarstern expedition
...larstern to enter the "ice port" right next to the shelf edge. The first samples A Spanish team of scien...nct group of animals living on the seafloor in the shelf ecosystem. As the first working groups are supplied with organisms scientific work is running. Fis...Extreme life, marine style highlights 2006 ocean census
...e fishs survival and location. The Census Pacific shelf listening array achieved more than 95 percent success in tracking salmon, sturgeon, and other fish engaged as Census correspondents. Wider ranges When studying distribution, the surprise of finding a species in a new place is as exciting as the dis...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- Nov. 8, 2006
...ering News. In This Edition: Squeezing more shelf life out of milk Honey, I shrunk the carbon nanot... ARTICLE #1 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Squeezing more shelf life out of milk Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry Putting the squeeze on milk may be a ...University of Illinois scientist helping processors keep E. coli out of meat
...ertain solutions used by meat processors to extend shelf life actually do double duty as antimicrobial agents, killing such virulent foodborne pathogens as E. coli 0157:H7. That's important because E. coli can be spread via recycled solutions used to tenderize and enhance flavor in steaks, chops, and oth...Of I robots go solar; new system could drastically reduce herbicide use
... panel that powers the robot. "We custom-built a shelf that holds the solar panel," said Gingrich. "It also protects the machine from weather and gives it shade for its vision system." Although the robot is equipped with ultrasonic sensors that go all the way around the machine, "we're going to try and...