Frontiers | An Earthquake Early Warning System for Southwestern British Columbia frontiersin.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from frontiersin.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
An example of deep-sea soft sediment ecosystem.
Photo credit: NOAA OER and Ocean Exploration Trust; A. Thurber camera loan. Courtesy of Lisa Levin.
Which of temperature or food is more important for the richness of deep-sea animals? Dr Moriaki YASUHARA from the School of Biological Sciences, the Research Division for Ecology & Biodiversity, and The Swire Institute of Marine Science, The University of Hong Kong (HKU), in collaborating with Hideyuki DOI from University of Hyogo and Masayuki USHIO from Kyoto University, used long-term fossil dataset and novel statistical method to detect causality and found climate control of deep-sea biodiversity.
Deep-sea cover >90 % of the ocean. So, understanding biodiversity drivers in deep-sea is critically important to project future changes in the function of Earth’s ocean system. Recently, two main factors of the deep-sea biodiversity control have been actively debated, which are (1) food supply via marine snow (aka sinking particulate org
E/V Nautilus: 2015 Field Season
The partnership between the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research and the Ocean Exploration Trust has been an evolving one, tracing its roots back to 2000.
From April through September 2015, Exploration Vessel
Nautilus explored sites ranging from the Gulf of Mexico to British Columbia. The season marks the transition of the vessel and operations of the Ocean Exploration Trust to the west coast of the United States and the Pacific Ocean, concluding over two years of research in the Gulf and Caribbean regions.
The NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research provides support for the complementary ocean exploration program of the Ocean Exploration Trust’s E/V
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IMAGE: Deep-sea octopuses brood their eggs on rocks at the Dorado Seamount offshore of Costa Rica, almost two miles below the ocean surface. Deep-sea ecosystems like these are threatened by emergent. view more
Credit: Photo courtesy of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences has been awarded $2 million by the National Science Foundation to lead an international effort to accelerate scientific understanding of the environmental impacts of emerging industries in the deep sea - one of the most mysterious, and potentially lucrative, areas of the ocean.
The five-year Crustal Ocean Biosphere Research Accelerator project aims to identify the potential environmental costs of deep-sea activities to inform the policies that will govern them. It will connect diverse science and policy experts in industry, academia, and private institutes in a race against the clock to guide responsible use of these fragile environments.
Study examines the role of deep-sea microbial predators at hydrothermal vents eurekalert.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from eurekalert.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.