Sentence examples for samples of marine from inspiring English sources
Populations of two million individuals per square metre have been recorded from some samples of marine sediment.
The team waded or used a 46-foot boat belonging to SUNY Maritime to gather samples of marine life and test the water for salt and sediment levels, among other things.
Off the coast of California, nearly 20,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, scientists from the San Diego Institute of Oceaneography are collecting samples of marine life from the ocean floor.
Thousands of core samples of marine sediment, some more than 130 feet (40 metres) in length, have been collected in the North and South Atlantic by means of piston-coring tubes.
From 2009 to 2012, a small crew sailed on a 110-foot schooner collecting 35,000 samples of marine microbes and viruses from 200 locations around the globe — facing pirates, high winds, and ice storms in the process.
When researchers bring samples of marine species into the lab to study whether radiation can cause mutations, they expose them to gamma rays, the same kind of radiation used to sterilize equipment and food.
Thus, in most cases, measurements and sampling of marine life is best done in concert with measurements of the physical and chemical properties of the ocean and the surface effects of the atmosphere.
As an environmental niche model, AquaMaps was developed specifically to deal with non-representative sampling of marine species ranges, but also to address the prevailing overall paucity of available point occurrence records by incorporating expert knowledge on species habitat usage.
More recently, underwater archaeological surveys combining acoustic mapping with physical sampling of marine mollusks and extinct freshwater mollusks have suggested that the inundation of the Black Sea followed the collapse of a natural dam between it and the Mediterranean.
However, direct observation and sampling of marine biodiversity is extremely time consuming and expensive.
In the Tropical West Atlantic, particularly in the Venezuelan Atlantic Front, sampling of marine biodiversity has intensified in recent years [316], [332], [333], [335], [339], [340], significantly increasing our knowledge, but there are still many gaps and unknowns.
