Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

posted by cmn32480 on Thursday January 05 2017, @10:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the is-it-available-on-google-maps-yet? dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Oceanographers are carving up the world's seas like the last of the holiday turkey. A new 3D map sorts global water masses — from deep, frigid circumpolar waters to the oxygen-starved Black Sea — into 37 categories.

The map groups together marine regions of similar temperature, salinity, oxygen and nutrient levels. It has been available for only a few months, and researchers are still working through how they might use it. But its international team of developers hopes that the map will help conservationists, government officials and others to better understand the biogeography of the oceans and make decisions about which areas to preserve. It could also serve as a data-rich baseline for analysing future ocean changes.

Many existing systems also attempt to classify variations in the ocean, such as lists of large marine ecosystems or the Longhurst biogeographical provinces that are defined by the rate at which ocean life consumes carbon. But these are often limited to surface or coastal ecosystems. The latest effort, known as the ecological marine units (EMUs), is the most detailed attempt yet to cover the global ocean in three dimensions.

"What's often missing is all that's between the surface of the ocean and the ocean bottom," says Dawn Wright, chief scientist of Esri, a geographic information-systems company in Redlands, California, that helped to develop the 3D map. "That's what our project will hopefully bring to the table."

Esri launched a web portal for the EMU data in September, and has been presenting the concept at conferences since then. Wright described it on 16 December in San Francisco, California, at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union.


Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday January 06 2017, @02:32AM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Friday January 06 2017, @02:32AM (#450059) Homepage Journal

    No carving up the last bits for me - it had mummified in my fridge. I tossed the carcass in the trash, then bought some chicken.

    I like to cook chicken into my canned soup. For a brief, shining moment I cooked turkey into my canned soup, but that moment is no longer.

    --
    Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
    Starting Score:    1  point
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  

    Total Score:   2  
  • (Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Friday January 06 2017, @03:27AM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Friday January 06 2017, @03:27AM (#450073) Journal

    Wow, what a waste.

    The best way to deal with leftover turkey is to cut it into tiny bits, brown some onions, add the turkey, brown it all to hell, then add coconut milk, tomatoes, and spices. Quick curry, serve on rice. Cooking the turkey long enough gets rid of the horrible leftover turkey taste.

    If you really wanted to make it a holiday themed meal, you could add potatoes (not mashed?) and peas, which can be found in other curries.

    --
    [SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]