Seawater

Winds from the Gulf Stream Current and warmer ocean temperatures during the summer months may be the catalysts behind a strange “jellyfish” like creatures popping up on East coast beaches over the past several weeks. Known as the Portuguese Man O’ War, these large, colorful venomous animals are often confused for a jellyfish but are actually part of a group related to jellyfish called siphonophores. They can grow up to 1 foot long and 5 inches wide and their tentacles can stretch as long as…

Examined T. californicus ability to handle high temperature stress under short-term, small exposure to high temperature, and long-term, persistant exposure to constant high temperatures. The took populations of T. californicus from 11 pools at different latitudinal gradients in a local scale. They put the specimen in petri dishes with founding adult females. They only mate one time and store the sperm so they can produce many groups of offspring. To test if inbreeding could influence the…

Prior to the Great Oxygenation Event (GOE) there was little oxygen in the atmosphere. Oxygenation of the atmosphere occurred in two steps, at the beginning and end of the Proterozoic eon (Frei, et al., 2013). In the GOE the surface oceans began to become oxygenated (Holland, 2006). The Second stage of oxygenation is known as the Neoproterozoic Oxygenation Event (NOE) and occurred after the 650-635Ma in the Marinoan glaciation (Sahoo, et al., 2012) (Feulner & Kienert, 2014). The NOE is thought to…

Human experimentation Since the beginning of mankind we have managed to be the dominate species of the Earth; however, we are far from peaceful with warfare, slavery, starvation, and experimenting on our own kind. Humans have done some pretty twisted and inhuman things such as the Nazi Holocaust Experiment and Project MK-Ultra. Before, during, and after WWII, Nazi’s conducted many medical experiments on the Gypsies, Slavs (Large group of Ethnolinguistic in Europe), and Jews they held in…

slightly over the last thirty years (Constable, A.J, Melbourne-Thomas J, Corney S.P, et al. 2014). Modern society burn fossil fuels which cause a steady increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The carbon dioxide combines with seawater producing carbonic acid and causes seawater to become more acidic, a process known as ocean acidification (Cooley S, Mathis J, Yates K. 2013). Antarctic krill is one of many marine organisms affected by the ocean acidity changing. Pteropods, commonly known as…

30% of the additional CO2 in the atmosphere produced by our burning of fossil fuels. In 2007 alone, the oceans were estimated to have absorbed around 2.3 tonnes of CO2. The cumulative effect of the added carbon dioxide is causing changes in the seawaters chemistry. When carbon dioxide is absorbed from the atmosphere into the oceans it forms a carbonic acid. This is shown in the equation below: CO2 (g) + H2O ⇒ H2CO3 The carbonic acid then breaks down into hydrogen carbonate (HCO3-) and a single…

process using the temperature differences between the ocean’s abyss and its surface to generate electricity. The lab was to create the first air-conditioning system to use cold seawater pumped in from the deep. Honolulu was set to become the first warm-climate city to adopt the system. After 4 years of studying Honolulu Seawater Air Conditioning expected to server customers within 2 years. The system had obtained equity investment of $10.7 million and was fertilizing the design. Hilo is located…

fragrances. Paraben preservative prompt allergic reactions, hormone disruption, developmental and reproductive toxicity. These are the same ingredients that are washed away in the oceans to harm organisms and ecosystems. The presence of these compounds in seawater lead to severe ecological…

These amazing beautiful towers of volcanoes on the ocean floor vary in every way which only makes them more mysterious and fascinating. The first discovery of a hydrothermal vent was aboard a 3-person submersible named Alvin in 1977 at the Galapagos Rift (WHOI, 2004). This vent was a discovery of warm fluids mixing with cold ocean water rising from the ocean floor crust (WHOI, 2004). “In 1979, a second hydrothermal system was discovered along the East Pacific Rise” (WHOI,2004). This discovery…

State senator who was angered by the Eastern food corporation for not selling fresh products anymore which led her to start a group known as the survivalist party. Another was a young high schooler who created a way to generate electricity from seawater . They began to lead a way to the place we known as Ecotopia. A few events happened which made this revanchism work. Since the issues caused by a nuclear accident and water issues caused by contamination. This started to create ripple effects…