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Newly Discovered Volcanic 'Lost World' Is a Haven For Marine Life (gizmodo.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: Australian scientists have discovered a previously unknown chain of volcanic seamounts near Tasmania. The area appears to be brimming with marine life, including a surprising number of whales who may be using the undersea volcanoes as a navigational tool. The volcanic chain was discovered by scientists from the Australian National University and CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, while on a 25-day mission aboard the research vessel Investigator to conduct detailed seafloor maps of the region. The undersea volcanoes are about 250 miles (400 kilometers) east of Tasmania, and they're quite deep.
The tallest of the seamounts extends 3,000 meters (9,800 feet) from the seafloor, so they're not tiny. It's hard to believe that something so large has gone undetected for so long, but our oceans are notoriously understudied. A mere 20 percent of Earth's oceans has been explored, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. [T]he seamounts appeared to serve as a kind of mid-ocean oasis for a host of marine organisms. In addition to finding copious amounts of plankton in the area, the researchers observed various seabirds and a surprising number of whales. The volcanic seamounts, the researchers say, are likely important stopping points for migratory animals, particularly whales, who rely on seafloor structures for navigation. The volcanoes are likely serving as important signposts as the whales travel from their winter breeding areas to summer feeding grounds, the researchers say.
The tallest of the seamounts extends 3,000 meters (9,800 feet) from the seafloor, so they're not tiny. It's hard to believe that something so large has gone undetected for so long, but our oceans are notoriously understudied. A mere 20 percent of Earth's oceans has been explored, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. [T]he seamounts appeared to serve as a kind of mid-ocean oasis for a host of marine organisms. In addition to finding copious amounts of plankton in the area, the researchers observed various seabirds and a surprising number of whales. The volcanic seamounts, the researchers say, are likely important stopping points for migratory animals, particularly whales, who rely on seafloor structures for navigation. The volcanoes are likely serving as important signposts as the whales travel from their winter breeding areas to summer feeding grounds, the researchers say.
Maybe we need to plug up the volcanoes to stop them warming the oceans.
This is where all that missing thermal energy that they 'overlooked being stored in the ocean' went to: making lavas. Putin had Trump hide it there.
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sea level rise is slowly threatening the ecosystems of these seamounts! with all the additional water overhead, their sinus headaches will get more severe and be of longer duration!
Anyone who worships at a moron's altar is a FUCKING MORON.
Hopefully the Australian Navy protects this whale sanctuary from Japanese Whalers.
The military will have already mapped this out. They need it mapped for sub navigation and underwater warfare. Thing is, these maps are considered secret so there is no sharing with the scientific community.
Ooh. A pristine ecosystem with untold variety and ecological value. Let's do what humans do best - wreck it then deny.
Looks like they found -40.389486, 153.292389, which you can look up in Google Maps (and probably many other online maps) and see the mounts there.
It has everything to do with climate change. Obama lowered the seas. Hillary would have stop the volcanos and cow farts. Trump has boosted the economy and has more people working by any metric than the country has ever seen. People who work produce more co2 than couch potato welfare leeches. Therefore Trump has destroyed the world by helping us recover from the Obama economy.
What is the one thing Jimmy Carter is grateful for? He is now the second worst president in modern times after Obama.
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I worry when this kind of information is presented in the public forum because before you know it the Japanese fisherman will be there hunting whales for 'scientific purposes'. Greenpeace can screw around, but the hunting is the real danger, which will wipe out the species before climate change could cause it..
Your arguments are compelling. Your facts cannot be refuted. I am now a convert to your cause. Instead of Trump or someone else who understands the real world I will vote for whatever racist man hater the left puts up and I also now believe cow farts are destroying the planet and only carbon credits enriching Al Gore can save us.
Well, I was nearby. I farted and the bowel has mixed with the volcanic gasses. Then I lit a match. The resultant explosion became known as Krakatoa.
Uneducated post spotted.
Firstly, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, just doing their jobs.
Secondly, "air" and "water" are massively interacting. They are part of a system. While studying them individually make sense, it is even more important to study their interactions.
It has to do with the reason why the fucking megalodons which where confined and which I said still exist, now have been released into the rest of the open ocean. Stupid scientists with their science and now we're all doomed, unless I can stab one in the eyeball with a harpoon.
The Australien Government also just released this ad about the "Great Australian Bight and it's surprisingly honest and informative."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The air is above the water. The water is below the air. When you mix them, the water bubbles en air wants to escape to, wait for it, be above it again.
That was hard. We should look into this more, it is sure to grant us vast amounts of knowledge to study the interaction between air and water.
Labour participation rates are at just under 63%. Under G. W. Bush they were at 66%. The figure was been essentially flat from the start of 2016 (Obama) to now. Absent a dip in 2015, it has been level since the start of 2014.
If you look at GDP growth, it's swung around 2% but from - 1% to +5.5% since 2010. The average under Trump has been higher than the average under Obama, but fluctuations are significant so it is too early to tell if the current increase to 4% is sustainable.
Are there some funky 70s people down there, who fell down a waterfall on a raft?
Wow, Kendall is even dumber than usual today.
Oceans and Atmosphere, it's kind of the mission statement, and the oceans are vast, and at depths we have little ability to operate in.
That we've only explored 20% or so of it is completely unsurprising.
WTF?
Pirate Chinese factory ships will start showing up on the coast of Tasmania shortly.
So what you're saying is that Obama drove labor participation rates down, and President Trump is now starting to reverse that, by first lowering unemployment of those in the labor force to historic lows?
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
...what the heck does this have to do with Climate Change?
Other than both being part of Earth science, nothing. Why do you ask?
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No he inherited a cluster fuck from a dipstick and had to spend eight years fixing the damn nation, just like Clinton had to do and like Carter did as well, and as did FDR. In fact about the only Republican not to run the nation in to the ground and not leave a mess for a Democrat to rebuild was Eisenhower.