Quentin Coldwater, the protagonist of the series, matures from a teen-ager who is "innocent and naïve, as yet unscuffed and unmarred" into a humble adult, "one of those crude, weather-beaten shopworn things," whose magical journey is deeply human.
On a Mexican sailing and surfing trip in the late 1970's, he began studying crude marine weather faxes transmitted by shortwave radio in the middle of the night from a remote weather station in Christchurch, New Zealand.
The WAF was prepared by an overnight high-energy spin of 50 mL ANS crude [partially weathered by heating to 70°C until 20% reduction in mass (Marty et al. 1997)] in 30 L zebrafish system water using a large fiberglass tank and a paint mixer fixed to a fan motor.
We exposed zebrafish embryos to ANS crude oil weathered using two methods: generation of a WAF by an overnight high-energy spin of an oil water mixture and incubation in the effluent from a column loaded with oiled gravel (OGE) or control (clean) gravel (CGE).
Even with the rather crude estimates of weather, climate, soil and nutrient deposition that were used, the strict shape of the growth curve, and the exclusion of the known good predictors age, latitude and altitude, we were able to explain between 10%and53%3% of the variation in diameter growth of individual trees of the main European tree species and species groups.
[C11.] Weather Roils Crude Oil Market Crude oil prices surged above $61 a barrel after a tropical storm curbed production in the Gulf of Mexico and forced the evacuation of offshore operations.
Third, the variety of cardiac function abnormalities we observed with both model tricyclic PAHs and weathered crude oil suggests several potential targets in the myocardium, which, in addition to HERG potassium channels, includes sarcoplasmic or plasma membrane calcium channels, as well as gap junctions.
[C3.] Oil Prices Drop on Weather Outlook Crude oil futures fell by nearly $3 a barrel as traders anticipated warmer weather in the Northeast later this week.
For instance, it is extremely difficult to transport via pipeline waxy crude oil in cold weather.
The crude oil was artificially weathered by heating, creating a +200°C residue [ 33] before dispersed into filtered seawater (2 μm cartridge filter) through a series of nozzles yielding a constant flow of dispersion with a homogenous droplet size.
Increased weathering of crude oil enriches the fraction of tricyclic PAHs and their alkylated homologs and increases the frequency of malformations (Carls et al. 1999; Heintz et al. 1999).
