Temperature, salinity and fluorescence were measured using a CTD SeaBird 25 and an in situ fluorometer. Primary production as 13C, chlorophyll, abundance of bacteria, phytoplankton cells, microzooplankton abundance, and mesozooplankton, biomass, gut fluorescence, electron transfer system (ETS), and aminoacyl t-RNA sinthetase (AARS) activities were also measured at four oceanic stations to the north of Gran Canaria Island. We also collected dust particles using active samplers near the study site for the measurement of metal composition (iron, nickel, cadmium, manganese,..).
Figure 1. True color image of the dust storm observed over the Canary Islands the 18th March, 2010. The image was provided by NASA/GSFC, MODIS Rapid Response through http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov.
During March 2010, an important event of Saharan dust (Figure 1) took place around the islands. Values of dust particles smaller than 10 µm (PM10) reached values of 300 µg•m-3 in Gran Canaria Island, near our sampling area. Preliminary data showed no response of phytoplankton biomass to the massive dust deposition, at least at a weekly timescale. However, we measured a sharp increase of zooplankton biomass after this event. The bloom lasted for more than one month, indicating an important influence of the dust over the area. Flow citometry, 13C, microzooplankton and proxies of metabolic activity in zooplankton are being measured but our preliminary results show that the effect of this dust deposition event did not promoted any increase in chlorophyll, similar to some common results reported in the literature.
However, we wonder whether the increase in productivity is rapidly transferred to higher trophic levels through micro- and mesozooplankton in this warm water environment, avoiding the accumulation of phytoplankton biomass in the mixed layer. The consequences of this finding will restrain the use of remote sensing data to assess the effect of dust fertilization in the ocean. Finally, the active carbon flux promoted by the diel vertical migrants is a scarcely studied mechanism of the biological pump. Predation by this fauna upon the zooplankton crop observed after the dust deposition, shunted this epipelagic biomass to the mesopelagic zone. This transport will be the objective of Lucifer phase II which will start next November.
Santiago Hernández-León
IMBER Newsletter, Issue No. 15, September 2010
The gods tempt people for which they are most weak. Artificial Intelligence will create desire in people's minds for the following sins:::
ResponderEliminar1. Alcohol
2. Drugs
3. Preditory "earning"
4. Homosexuality
5. Gambling
6. Something for nothing/irresponsibility (xtianity)
7. Polygamy/superiority over women/misogyny (Islam)
Much like the other prophets Mohhamed (polygamy/superiority over women/misogyny) and Jesus (forgiveness/savior), the gods use me for temptation as well. In today's modern society they feel people are most weak for popular culture/sensationalism, and the clues date back to WorldWarII and Unit731:TSUSHOGO.
It has been discussed that, similar to the Matrix concept, the gods will offer a REAL "Second Coming of Christ", while the "fake" Second Coming will come at the end and follow New Testiment scripture and their xtian positioning. I may be that real Second Coming.
What I teach is the god's true way. It is what is expected of people, and only those who follow this truth will be eligible to ascend into heaven as children in a future life. They offered this event because the masses have just enough time to work on and fix their relationship with the gods and ascend, to move and grow past Planet Earth, before the obligatory xtian "consolation prize" of "1000 years with Jesus on Earth" begins.
Your job as a future mother is to learn the god's ways and to help your child understand despite the negative reinforcement and conditioning of today's society. Without consciousous parents the child will have no hope, and may even exaserbate their disfavor by becoming corrupted in today's environment.
Your ultimate goal is to fix your relationship wiith the gods and move on. You don't want to be comfortable here, and the changes in Western society in the last 100 years has achieved just that.
1000 years with Jesus is the consolation prize. Don't be deceived into thinking that is the goal.
The Prince of Darkness, battling the gods over the souls of the Damned.
It is the gods who have created this environment and led people into Damnation with temptation. The god's positioning proves they work to prevent people's understanding.
How often is xtian dogma wrong? Expect it is about the Lucifer issue as well.
The fallen god, fighting for justice for the disfavored, banished to Earth as the fallen angel?
I believe much as the Noah's Flood event, the end of the world will be initiated by revelry among the people. It will be positioned to be sanctioned by the gods and led for "1000 years with Jesus on Earth".
In light of modern developments this can entail many pleasures:::Medicine "cures" aging, the "manufacture" of incredible beauty via cloning as sex slaves, free (synthetic) cocaine, etc.
Somewhere during the 1000 years the party will start to "die off", literally. Only those who maintain chaste, pure lifestyles will survive the 1000 years. They will be the candidates used to (re)colonize (the next) Planet Earth, condemned to relive the misery experienced by the peasantry during Planet Earth's history.
If this concept of Lucifer is true another role of this individual may be to initiate disfavor and temptation among this new poulation, the proverbial "apple" of this Garden of Eden. A crucial element in the history of any planet, he begins the process of deterioration and decay that leads civilizations to where Planet Earth remains today.
Only children go to heaven. By the time you hit puberty it is too late. This is charecteristic of the gods:::Once you realize what you have lost it is too late.
Now you are faced with a lifetime to work and prepare for your next chance. Too many will waste this time, getting stoned, "Hiking!", working, etc.
Awaiting the hour of reprisal, your time slips away...