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Tag: sediment

When cells started snacking
Biological oceanography Ecology

When cells started snacking

Algae rose, protists gorged, and the modern ocean was born.
April 4, 2025May 8, 2025 Josiah Grzywacz
Deep seafloor microbes are active at extreme temperatures
Biogeochemistry

Deep seafloor microbes are active at extreme temperatures

Researchers have discovered bacteria that redefine the temperature limit for sediment life.
February 28, 2022February 26, 2022 Sarah Brown
A New Way to Make Hydrocarbons
Chemistry

A New Way to Make Hydrocarbons

Marine scientists used isotopic fingerprinting techniques to discover a new way that the hydrocarbons in oil and gas are formed.
January 4, 2022January 4, 2022 Amanda Semler
Oil and Gas Seeps: Microbial Elevators through Ocean Sediments
deep sea

Oil and Gas Seeps: Microbial Elevators through Ocean Sediments

Many microorganisms live in ocean sediments – both at the seafloor, as well as in the subsurface hundreds to thousands…
June 15, 2020 Amanda Semler
New insights into old events using marine sediment
Climate Change

New insights into old events using marine sediment

We talk a lot about what the ocean is doing, but what can it tell us about land? Here, we…
August 21, 2017August 22, 2017 Laura Zinke
Biogeochemistry Microbiology

Methane on the dinner menu

Bacteria in coastal waters can eat methane, a greenhouse gas - but just how much and how fast can they…
March 29, 2017 Michael Graw
Coastal Management Pollution

Nineteen years later: The clean-up of Boston Harbor’s waste water

The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority spent ten years from 1991 and 2000 drastically improving the treatment of waste water released…
May 13, 2015May 11, 2015 Kari St.Laurent
Climate Change Geology Paleoceanography

Reconstructing climate history from sediments in the Gulf of Taranto, Italy

What was the climate like in Southern Italy 10,000 years ago? This question and many more can be answered by…
January 15, 2014January 15, 2014 Brian Caccioppoli

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