Antarctic Ocean secrets hidden in layers of seafloor mud

Why is one of the Antarctica sea base to dig mud from the soles of cold, iced winds and coarse seas – sometimes working over the night -?

This is what an international team of adventurous researchers did in a mission that aims to explain centuries of scientific secrets about the Southern Ocean on the Far Antarctic Peninsula earlier this year.

How will scientists around the world solve these valuable mud examples, the rest of our planet, which is affected by human activity, including a century of industrial whale hunting.

Research is part of a global effort to understand the relationship between ocean and climate.

The researchers used a special core exercise such as a large apple -tuccar, which was connected to a research vessel to drill up to 500 meters depths.

They collected more than 40 core or tube sea floor sediments from the surrounding areas.

This is one of the richest habitats for the sea life in Antarctica, and a focus for fishing, tourism, and – before it was banned in the 1980s – industrial whale hunting.

The collection of sediment gives ideas and clues to the past, like a historical book ,, the chief researcher from the University of Barcelona, Dr. Elisenda Baleste.

The authority said it was recorded as a layer in the layer on the sediment layer for centuries.

Researchers can create a picture of the history of Antarctica Naval Life by protecting these layers and analyzing history.

After entering the ship, the seeds were frozen and transferred to Barcelona and Dr Balleste’s laboratory.

From there, the carefully removed parts of this Antarctic mud will be sent to several academic institutions in the world.

Scientists will scan and dating the sediment layers, which will handle which microbial life they drink, measure their pollution levels and calculate how much carbon is buried in mud.

Part of a task – Converse Seascape Survey – This includes universities and research institutions around the world to better understand how our ocean and climate is connected.

Claire Allen, an oşinographer who has been studying Antarctica’s history for more than 20 years from the British Antarctica Study, said that such nuclei were particularly valuable.

“Before 1950 – Before any monitoring capacity in Antarctica – sediment seeds and ice seeds are the only way to get an idea of any of the changing climate or physical characteristics over time.” He said.

Newly collected samples stored for DNA analysis should be kept at temperatures enough to stop all biological processes.

Dr Balleste took them out of the freezer of the industrial size they were stored to show us very briefly.

“They are held at minus 80 degrees to stop their humiliation.”

These small sea soles, which are frozen in time at temperatures that protect the genetic material, will be used for what is known as environmental DNA analysis.

It is a rapidly developing science field in recent years. It gives researchers the ability to remove genetic information from water, soil and even air, such as fingerprints of life left behind.

Dr. King Abdullah University in Saudi Arabia. Carlos Preks are leading this part of the research and will try to measure how almost centuries -old industrial whale hunting in Antarctica affects the ocean and its atmosphere.

Carbon – when it is released into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide – heats our planet like a blanket.

Therefore, as the world struggles to reduce these emissions, processes that absorb and lock a significant amount of carbon can help to restrain global warming.

“We know there are too many carbon in the bodies of whales, because they’re big animals, Dr Dr Prects said.

What he and his colleagues want to know is how much of this carbon is buried in the sea base when animals die and move away from the atmosphere.

“We can measure the whale DNA and the carbon in the sediment,” Dr Prectler explained.

“Thus, we can measure what happened before the industrial whale hunting removing most of the whales. [Southern] Ocean, “he added.

Researchers say how much whale has removed carbon from our atmosphere and helps to fight against climate change, just being very large and living their natural lives.