News tagged with monterey bay
The bizarre lives of bone-eating worms
Nov 09, 2009 |
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The females of the recently discovered Osedax marine worms feast on submerged bones via a complex relationship with symbiotic bacteria, and they are turning out to be far more diverse and widespread than scientists expected. ...
Scientists report first remote, underwater detection of harmful algae, toxins
Jul 14, 2009 |
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Scientists at NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) have successfully conducted the first remote detection of a harmful algal species and its toxin below ...
First sea trials for deep-ocean robotic DNA lab
May 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In late April 2009, a team of MBARI researchers tested the world's only deep-sea robotic DNA lab beneath the waters of Monterey Bay.
Ocean carbon: A dent in the iron hypothesis
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 06, 2009 |
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Oceanographers Jim Bishop and Todd Wood of the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have measured the fate of carbon particles originating in plankton blooms in the Southern Ocean, ...
Study shows how algae may cope with environmental change
Apr 09, 2009 |
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Scientists from two-dozen research organizations led by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) have decoded genomes of two ...
Scientists cable seafloor seismometer into California's earthquake network
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 19, 2009 |
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A newly-laid, 32-mile underwater cable finally links the state's only seafloor seismic station with the University of California, Berkeley's seismic network, merging real-time data from west of the San Andreas fault with ...
Study links seabird deaths to soap-like foam produced by red-tide algae
Feb 21, 2009 |
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In late 2007, hundreds of dead and stranded seabirds washed up on the shores of Monterey Bay, their feathers saturated with water and coated with an unknown substance. After an intensive investigation, scientists determined ...
