Organotin compounds have long been employed in maritime antifouling paints, most notably tributyltin (TBT), which has subsequently been associated with adverse environmental impacts. Despite ...

Each spring and fall, academic departments and programs, as well as student groups, sponsor a wide range of trips and ...

Research led by the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO-CSIC), with the participation of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC), has reconstructed the ...

When bottom trawls are dragged across the seafloor, they stir up sediments. This not only releases previously stored organic carbon, but also intensifies the oxidation of pyrite, a mineral present in ...

Many processes in the deep sea are not yet well understood, and the role of microbial communities in particular is often a big unknown. This includes, for example, how organic material that sinks from ...

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The primary categories of soil and sediment analysis consist of hydrology and geology studies. In hydrology studies, the analysis of sediments offers significant data for plate tectonics and ...

Spread the loveIn a shocking discovery, scientists have observed a vast brown ribbon of sediment or pollution extending from the Atlantic Ocean to the coast of Africa. This phenomenon, identified and ...

Researchers at The University of Manchester have developed a new physics‑based artificial intelligence approach that, for the first time, enables accurate global‑scale predictions of how dissolved ...

Deep sea sediments contain treasure troves of information about marine ecosystems and past climate scenarios, yet remain understudied clues into Earth's environmental future, according to researchers.

Michael Cunliffe received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) for the project MYCO-CARB and currently receives funding from the UKRI Horizon Europe Guarantee scheme for the projects MARCO ...