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April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Jellyfish, in all their many varieties, have invaded many of the world’s seas, including the Sea of Japan, the Black Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea since the beginning of the 2000s. Researchers question this phenomenon, trying to understand the underlying causes. Is it cyclical? Is it caused by changes in marine currents, or global warming? The causes of the jellyfish boom have remained a mystery until now. A new study, led by the...
WEST CHESTER, Ohio, May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- West Chester-based Contech Engineered Solutions announced today the purchase of the Imbrium Systems Group from Monteco Ltd., a clean technology company. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120208/CL49625LOGO ) The acquisition includes Imbrium's Jellyfish®( )stormwater filtration product line. The Jellyfish filter is an engineered stormwater treatment technology featuring pretreatment and membrane filtration in a compact...
[ Watch the Video: Autonomous Robotic Jellyfish ] Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Researchers from Virginia Tech College of Engineering have created an autonomous robotic jellyfish the size and weight of a grown man. Cyro is a larger model of a robotic jellyfish the team unveiled back in 2012 dubbed RoboJelly, which was about the size of a man's hand. The latest robotic ocean dweller is 5-foot-7-inches in length and weighs 170 pounds. "A larger vehicle will...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A widely held perception of a global increase in jellyfish has been challenged by a new international study led by the University of Southampton. Jellyfish proliferations, or blooms, have a visible and substantial impact on coastal populations, including clogged nets for fishermen, stinging waters for tourists, and even choked cooling intake pipes for power plants. A perception that the world's oceans are experiencing trending...
Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Box jellyfish are known to lurk in the waters off the coast of Hawaii and a pair of researchers from the island state have found a treatment that takes some of the sting out of the invertebrate’s deadly venom, according to their study in the open access journal PLOS ONE. Angel Yanagihara and Ralph Shohet from the University of Hawaii have shown that zinc can mitigate the effects of the jellyfish’s venom, which act on a victim by...
Association with the open water swimming community helps guide company in providing safe and effective jellyfish and marine sting first aid products. Ocean City, NJ (PRWEB) August 03, 2012 Ocean Care Solutions, specializing in State of the Art Marine Life First Aid Kits and jellyfish sting relief solutions, works in concert with U.S., Asian and European swimming associations along with world class competitors to test and provide the latest, most comprehensively effective sting relief aid...
[ Watch the Video ] redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online By taking advantage of advances in the fields of marine biomechanics, materials science, and tissue engineering, researchers from two prominent US universities have actually taken inanimate silicone polymer and heart muscle cells and turned them into a swimming artificial jellyfish. Scientists from Harvard University and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) joined forces on the...
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online With some inspiration from the studies of ocean life forms, a British space expert envisages alien lifeforms that resemble jellyfish with organs developed to ingest methane and other chemicals for its nutrition, keeping aloft by means of dangling onion-like buoyancy bags, and communicating with pulses of light. Dr. Maggie Aderin-Peacock, a leading scientist at the European space company Astrium, described her vision of what might...
WASHINGTON, June 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Home remedies for jellyfish stings - such as vinegar, alcohol, meat tenderizer, baking soda and urine -may be less effective at relieving pain than plain hot water and lidocaine, according to a paper published online Tuesday in Annals of Emergency Medicine ("Evidence-Based Treatment of Jellyfish Stings in North America and Hawaii") http://www.annemergmed.com/webfiles/images/journals/ymem/ntward.pdf. (Logo:...
ROCKVILLE, MD, May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) has granted Final Certification to Imbrium(®) Systems' Jellyfish(®) Filter, based on rigorous field testing conducted according to the Technology Acceptance and Reciprocity Partnership (TARP) protocol. The NJDEP certification, as with the recent NJCAT verification, is based on the Jellyfish Filter's field test performance. The innovative membrane-based technology demonstrated...
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The Warty Comb Jelly (Mnemiopsis leidyi), also known as the Sea Walnut, is a species of tentaculate ctenophore originally native to the western Atlantic coastal waters. Three species of Mnemiopsis have been named, but are now generally categorized as different ecological forms of the species leidyi. This species tolerates a wide range of salinity (2 to 38 psu), temperature (36 to 90 degrees F), and water quality. This creature was introduced in the Black Sea in the 1980s, where only one...
Bathykorus bouilloni is a species of jellyfish found in the Arctic Ocean at depths of 2,600 feet below sea level and extending to roughly 8,200 feet below sea level. Its range extends around Greenland and the north of Canada. This jellyfish is a recently discovered specimen that was first described in 2010. It is the only species within its genus, Bathykorus. Its genus name is derived from the Greek words bathy, meaning “deep” and korus, meaning “helmet,” which refers to the depth...
The Purple-striped Jelly (Chrysaora colorata), also known as the Mauve Stinger, is a species of jellyfish found primarily off the coast of California in Monterey Bay. This species has been studied closely by scientists hoping to gain a better understanding about the creature’s eating habits. The bell (body) of the jellyfish is up to 27.6 inches in diameter, with a radial pattern of stripes. The tentacles vary with age of each individual, consisting mainly of eight long dark arms, and...
The Compass Jellyfish, (Chrysaora hysoscella), is a fairly common species of jellyfish that is found in the coastal waters around the United Kingdom and Turkey. It has a diameter of up to 12 inches. It has 24 tentacles arranged in eight groups of three. It is typically colored yellowish white, with some brown.
The Japanese Sea Nettle, (Chrysaora melanaster), also known as the Northern Sea Nettle or Brown Jellyfish, is a species of jellyfish native to the waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean. It is often called the Pacific Sea Nettle, however, this name is also used for Chrysaora fuscescens. The name “Japanese Sea Nettle” is also used for Chrysaora pacifica. This species’ medusa (umbrella or dome) can reach up to 24 inches in length with tentacles growing up to 10 feet long. C. melanaster...
