Education Ph.D., Oceanography – 1990 Marine Hydrophysical
... platform deployed offshore Atlantic City, NJ. Based on these observations, provide various statistics, summaries of process-oriented analyses, and recommendations. Current, Conductivity, Temeperature, and Meteorological Observations at the Locations of Burlington, NJ; Philadelphia, PA; and Marcus Ho ...
... platform deployed offshore Atlantic City, NJ. Based on these observations, provide various statistics, summaries of process-oriented analyses, and recommendations. Current, Conductivity, Temeperature, and Meteorological Observations at the Locations of Burlington, NJ; Philadelphia, PA; and Marcus Ho ...
Focus On Earth Science
... Currents Along the Coast • The California Current is a wide, slow-moving current that travels southward, bringing cool water down from northern latitudes. • The Davidson Current is a narrow, warm water current that flows north from the tropics and is stronger in winter than summer. ...
... Currents Along the Coast • The California Current is a wide, slow-moving current that travels southward, bringing cool water down from northern latitudes. • The Davidson Current is a narrow, warm water current that flows north from the tropics and is stronger in winter than summer. ...
16.1 Ocean Circulation
... f. Cold surface water sinks at the poles because it is dense. g. causes increased salinity and increased density h. Ocean water moves around Earth because of density differences. ...
... f. Cold surface water sinks at the poles because it is dense. g. causes increased salinity and increased density h. Ocean water moves around Earth because of density differences. ...
2008, final Lecture 12 deep sea and hydro vents
... that precipitate out (form into particles) when the superhot vent water meets the surrounding deep ocean water, which is only a few degrees above freezing. • Black smokers are the hottest of the vents. They spew mostly iron and sulfide, which combine to form iron monosulfide. This compound gives the ...
... that precipitate out (form into particles) when the superhot vent water meets the surrounding deep ocean water, which is only a few degrees above freezing. • Black smokers are the hottest of the vents. They spew mostly iron and sulfide, which combine to form iron monosulfide. This compound gives the ...
Using Space-Age Technologies to Monitor the Coast`s Health
... of chlorophyll from algae are important indicators of aquatic health. Sediments prevent sunlight from penetrating to algae, which need light to grow. The microscopic plants represent the first critical link in the bay’s food chain. Satellites can easily discern chlorophyll concentrations in the open ...
... of chlorophyll from algae are important indicators of aquatic health. Sediments prevent sunlight from penetrating to algae, which need light to grow. The microscopic plants represent the first critical link in the bay’s food chain. Satellites can easily discern chlorophyll concentrations in the open ...
Ocean Basins - University of Washington
... moves away from ridge axis in both directions Abyssal basins water depth – 4000-6000 m (only trenches are deeper) abyssal hills, include rough relief from volcanic formation abyssal plains, smooth surface due to burial by sediment Continental margins created by sediment from land that builds into oc ...
... moves away from ridge axis in both directions Abyssal basins water depth – 4000-6000 m (only trenches are deeper) abyssal hills, include rough relief from volcanic formation abyssal plains, smooth surface due to burial by sediment Continental margins created by sediment from land that builds into oc ...
Plate Tectonics - River Mill Academy
... large as continents could move and because Wegener could not propose a mechanism ...
... large as continents could move and because Wegener could not propose a mechanism ...
Exploration Technologies for the Utilization of Ocean Floor Resources
... sea floors. When certain conditions are satisfied, the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea permits sovereign rights for ocean f loors under the high seas as the continental shelf of the coastal countries in accordance with EEZ. In order to investigate which sea areas of Japan satisfy the above-menti ...
... sea floors. When certain conditions are satisfied, the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea permits sovereign rights for ocean f loors under the high seas as the continental shelf of the coastal countries in accordance with EEZ. In order to investigate which sea areas of Japan satisfy the above-menti ...
Ocean 11 - Course World
... The Coriolus effect refers to _________________________________. The source of an oil spill can be found by ___________________________. Ocean circulation is another term for ocean ______________. The ocean moves _________ from the equator. Winds are created by the ____________. Waves are caused by ...
... The Coriolus effect refers to _________________________________. The source of an oil spill can be found by ___________________________. Ocean circulation is another term for ocean ______________. The ocean moves _________ from the equator. Winds are created by the ____________. Waves are caused by ...
On November 29 - the National Sea Grant Library
... Yet how does the tubeworm acquire the bacteria it needs for survival? Scientists have discovered that during its early life stages, the tubeworm has a mouth and gut for bacteria to enter. But as the worm rapidly grows, these features disappear! After riding the ocean currents for up to a month and s ...
... Yet how does the tubeworm acquire the bacteria it needs for survival? Scientists have discovered that during its early life stages, the tubeworm has a mouth and gut for bacteria to enter. But as the worm rapidly grows, these features disappear! After riding the ocean currents for up to a month and s ...
- World Ocean Observatory
... Myths to Explain the Ocean’s Mysteries Throughout time, people have created mythologies to explain the mysteries of ocean behavior. These myths combine imagination, poetry, and spiritual beliefs. Today, in many parts of the world, people continue to honor the oceans as places where spirit resides. ...
... Myths to Explain the Ocean’s Mysteries Throughout time, people have created mythologies to explain the mysteries of ocean behavior. These myths combine imagination, poetry, and spiritual beliefs. Today, in many parts of the world, people continue to honor the oceans as places where spirit resides. ...
6-5 Ocean Life Zones PPT - Lyndhurst School District
... MAJOR OCEAN LIFE ZONES: OCEANIC PROVINCE (DEEP-SEA) Ø fish adapted to darkness & scarcity of food Ø drift or are slow moving à reduced bone & ...
... MAJOR OCEAN LIFE ZONES: OCEANIC PROVINCE (DEEP-SEA) Ø fish adapted to darkness & scarcity of food Ø drift or are slow moving à reduced bone & ...
Unit 5: Ocean Floor Structure and Plate Tectonics
... Continental Shelves – zones adjacent to a continent (or around an island) and extending from the low-water line to the depth, usually about 120 m, where there is a marked or rather steep descent toward great depths. The volume of the water in the ocean exceeds the volume of the ocean basins, and som ...
... Continental Shelves – zones adjacent to a continent (or around an island) and extending from the low-water line to the depth, usually about 120 m, where there is a marked or rather steep descent toward great depths. The volume of the water in the ocean exceeds the volume of the ocean basins, and som ...
Modeling of the upwelling hydrodynamics in the Aegean Sea
... waters, therefore, there are large quantities of nutrients due to the absence of living organisms that might have consumed them. When deep and cold waters, enriched with nutrients, move to the surface, they enhance biological activity, making these coastal waters of the surface layers very rich in f ...
... waters, therefore, there are large quantities of nutrients due to the absence of living organisms that might have consumed them. When deep and cold waters, enriched with nutrients, move to the surface, they enhance biological activity, making these coastal waters of the surface layers very rich in f ...
Earth Structure
... carbonate more soluble in seawater – It also more soluble in the lower temperature of the deep water – At a certain point, calcium carbonate dissolves as fast as it forms= carbonate compensation depth ...
... carbonate more soluble in seawater – It also more soluble in the lower temperature of the deep water – At a certain point, calcium carbonate dissolves as fast as it forms= carbonate compensation depth ...
Lecture notes, part six
... The sea breeze normally starts in the morning, a few hours after sunrise, when the solar radiation heats the boundary layer over land. A classical explanation for the development of a sea breeze is the “Upwards” Theory: The differential heating between land and sea leads to the development of a hori ...
... The sea breeze normally starts in the morning, a few hours after sunrise, when the solar radiation heats the boundary layer over land. A classical explanation for the development of a sea breeze is the “Upwards” Theory: The differential heating between land and sea leads to the development of a hori ...
black sea ecosystem research, environmental quality monitoring
... represents a real natural laboratory...” (1), or more recently Jane Lubchenco – “The problems of the Black Sea are not so different as elsewhere, but they are more obvious, in part of isolated, contained nature of the Black Sea” (24). Scientific research around the Black Sea proved that the state of ...
... represents a real natural laboratory...” (1), or more recently Jane Lubchenco – “The problems of the Black Sea are not so different as elsewhere, but they are more obvious, in part of isolated, contained nature of the Black Sea” (24). Scientific research around the Black Sea proved that the state of ...
In Search of a Cooperative Scheme for Securing the Ocean in Asia
... UNCLOS came into effect in 1994, twelve years after its adoption by the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea. In response to the demands of Coastal States for expansion of ocean areas under their sovereign rights, the Convention that came into effect adopted the twelve mile territor ...
... UNCLOS came into effect in 1994, twelve years after its adoption by the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea. In response to the demands of Coastal States for expansion of ocean areas under their sovereign rights, the Convention that came into effect adopted the twelve mile territor ...
The Ocean Floor
... Less than 0.1 percent of the world's seamounts have been explored to learn what species live on them, but many of the species that have been found so far are new to science. It has been estimated that more than 30,000 seamounts reaching more than 1,000 meters tall are found in the Pacific Ocean. App ...
... Less than 0.1 percent of the world's seamounts have been explored to learn what species live on them, but many of the species that have been found so far are new to science. It has been estimated that more than 30,000 seamounts reaching more than 1,000 meters tall are found in the Pacific Ocean. App ...
Hydrosphere and cryosphere
... daily, and revolves around the Sun yearly. The ocean is the set of interconnecting water basins (e.g. including the Black Sea, which is connected through the Mediterranean, but not the Caspian Sea, which is endorheic). Looking from the Moon, the Earth appears as a bluish planet mostly made of water, ...
... daily, and revolves around the Sun yearly. The ocean is the set of interconnecting water basins (e.g. including the Black Sea, which is connected through the Mediterranean, but not the Caspian Sea, which is endorheic). Looking from the Moon, the Earth appears as a bluish planet mostly made of water, ...
so, where would you predict the highest primary productivity?
... the presence or absence of a strong thermocline (including the development of a seasonal thermocline in the mid-latitudes) seasonal changes in solar radiation (angle of incidence) ...
... the presence or absence of a strong thermocline (including the development of a seasonal thermocline in the mid-latitudes) seasonal changes in solar radiation (angle of incidence) ...
Poster introductions, viewing and reception
... zones. In the Black Sea, an additional categorical layer also comes into play: the oxygen regimes. The seabed substrate layer is provided by EMODnet Geology. The biological zone and oxygen regime layers are produced by overlaying oceanography data layers that are compiled from fundamental physical p ...
... zones. In the Black Sea, an additional categorical layer also comes into play: the oxygen regimes. The seabed substrate layer is provided by EMODnet Geology. The biological zone and oxygen regime layers are produced by overlaying oceanography data layers that are compiled from fundamental physical p ...
Tidal characteristics along the Western and Northern Coasts
... Methodology and Results Tides are the periodic rise and fall of the water surface of the Earth resulting from gravitational interactions between the Sun, Moon and Earth and include both vertical (tide) and horizontal (tidal current) components. The tide-producing forces resulting from the gravitati ...
... Methodology and Results Tides are the periodic rise and fall of the water surface of the Earth resulting from gravitational interactions between the Sun, Moon and Earth and include both vertical (tide) and horizontal (tidal current) components. The tide-producing forces resulting from the gravitati ...
Unit Lesson Plan—Ocean`s Deadliest Catch Duu-wat cha Si`~s-xu
... Atlantic and Pacific. One surface current circles endlessly around Antartica. These gyres are made up of currents set in motion by winds and gravity, and steered by the placement of the continents and the rotation of the Earth. Wind is the most important cause of surface currents. When strong, susta ...
... Atlantic and Pacific. One surface current circles endlessly around Antartica. These gyres are made up of currents set in motion by winds and gravity, and steered by the placement of the continents and the rotation of the Earth. Wind is the most important cause of surface currents. When strong, susta ...
Sea
A sea is a large body of salt water that is surrounded in whole or in part by land. More broadly, the sea (with the definite article) is the interconnected system of Earth's salty, oceanic waters—considered as one global ocean or as several principal oceanic divisions. The sea moderates Earth's climate and has important roles in the water cycle, carbon cycle, and nitrogen cycle. Although the sea has been travelled and explored since prehistory, the modern scientific study of the sea—oceanography—dates broadly to the British Challenger expedition of the 1870s. The sea is conventionally divided into up to five large oceanic sections—including the IHO's four named oceans (the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Arctic) and the Southern Ocean; smaller, second-order sections, such as the Mediterranean, are known as seas.Owing to the present state of continental drift, the Northern Hemisphere is now fairly equally divided between land and sea (a ratio of about 2:3) but the South is overwhelmingly oceanic (1:4.7). Salinity in the open ocean is generally in a narrow band around 3.5% by mass, although this can vary in more landlocked waters, near the mouths of large rivers, or at great depths. About 85% of the solids in the open sea are sodium chloride. Deep-sea currents are produced by differences in salinity and temperature. Surface currents are formed by the friction of waves produced by the wind and by tides, the changes in local sea level produced by the gravity of the Moon and Sun. The direction of all of these is governed by surface and submarine land masses and by the rotation of the Earth (the Coriolis effect).Former changes in the sea levels have left continental shelves, shallow areas in the sea close to land. These nutrient-rich waters teem with life, which provide humans with substantial supplies of food—mainly fish, but also shellfish, mammals, and seaweed—which are both harvested in the wild and farmed. The most diverse areas surround great tropical coral reefs. Whaling in the deep sea was once common but whales' dwindling numbers prompted international conservation efforts and finally a moratorium on most commercial hunting. Oceanography has established that not all life is restricted to the sunlit surface waters: even under enormous depths and pressures, nutrients streaming from hydrothermal vents support their own unique ecosystem. Life may have started there and aquatic microbial mats are generally credited with the oxygenation of Earth's atmosphere; both plants and animals first evolved in the sea.The sea is an essential aspect of human trade, travel, mineral extraction, and power generation. This has also made it essential to warfare and left major cities exposed to earthquakes and volcanoes from nearby faults; powerful tsunami waves; and hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones produced in the tropics. This importance and duality has affected human culture, from early sea gods to the epic poetry of Homer to the changes induced by the Columbian Exchange, from Viking funerals to Basho's haikus to hyperrealist marine art, and inspiring music ranging from the shanties in The Complaynt of Scotland to Rimsky-Korsakov's ""The Sea and Sinbad's Ship"" to A-mei's ""Listen to the Sea"". It is the scene of leisure activities including swimming, diving, surfing, and sailing. However, population growth, industrialization, and intensive farming have all contributed to present-day marine pollution. Atmospheric carbon dioxide is being absorbed in increasing amounts, lowering its pH in a process known as ocean acidification. The shared nature of the sea has made overfishing an increasing problem.