Who introduced the theory of red tide? What are the instruments he used in investigating or studying red tide?
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Here are two papers written by Nerlie Abram, and one by Nerlie and a group of scientists, all  cover the threat to coral reefs posed by red tide and the theories on how wildfires contribute to the growth of red tide.\n\nNerlie Abram\n\nPhD student (final year) Research School of Earth Sciences,\n\n : THE NEW THREAT TO CORAL REEFS \n\nSmoke from fires raging through tropical forests near coastal reefs can cause an algal bloom capable of killing virtually all coral and fish for hundreds of kilometres, according to new research by Australian National University scientists.\n\nThis discovery explains the mysterious death of nearly all coral and fish in a 400 kilometre stretch of the Mentawai Islands reef, southwest of Sumatra in Indonesia, in 1997.\n\nIn a paper published in the latest issue of Science, a team of ANU researchers reveal that nutrients in smoke from the 1997 Indonesian wildfires produced a large algae bloom, known as a red tide, that suffocated the reef ecosystem – over a distance equivalent to around a quarter of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.\n\nBy examining the skeletal growth and geochemistry of Porites corals, researchers led by Ms Nerilie Abram, were able to track the environmental factors which led to the red tide. In examining fossilised corals, they found the red tide had been the worst in 7000 years.\n\n“This was an extreme event and almost six years on, the reefs still haven’t recovered,” says Nerilie. “We fear that future fires could further damage the reefs before they can recover.” \n\nThe researchers found that thick smoke from the 1997 Sumatra fires released almost 11,000 tonnes of iron into the atmosphere. The iron acted as a fertiliser, increasing water nutrient levels and providing the extraordinary conditions which led to the red tide algal bloom. The bloom led to reef death by asphyxiation.\n\nCores from rare corals that survived the 1997 red tide showed a clear hiatus in growth at the time of the fires.\n\n“When fires burn they release nutrients and this study has shown that these nutrients can create serious problems for coral reefs.”\n\n“Indonesia’s reefs are the most diverse in the world and are an important source of new corals that help to rejuvenate Australia’s coral reefs.  They are estimated to generate approximately US$4 billion a year in tourism, fishing and employment for Indonesia.” \n\n“Unfortunately they are also among the most threatened reefs in the world and conservation projects are of high-priority.”\n\n"It is expected that this new threat to coral reefs and other coastal ecosystems will increase in the future as global warming and forest clearing lead to more wildfires."\n\nNerilie is presenting her research to the public for the first time thanks to Fresh Science, a national program to bring public attention to the remarkable unsung achievements of young Australian scientists. Nerilie will be speaking to the public and school students about her work on Tuesday 19 and Wednesday 20 August at the Melbourne Museum.\n\n \n\nNerlie Abram\n\nPhD student (final year) Research School of Earth Sciences,\n\nFire: the new threat to coral reefs\nCoral reef death during the 1997 Indian Ocean Dipole linked to Indonesian wildfires \n\nFires represent a new and unexpected threat to coral reefs.  It has been found that the nutrients released by wildfires can produce large algae blooms in the ocean that suffocate fish and coral.  Global warming has seen a recent increase in wildfires and this trend is expected to continue, raising the future risk to coral reefs.\n\nProject description \nCoral reefs, the so-called “rainforests of the sea”, are being threatened by fire.  That is the finding of scientists working at the Australian National University.\n\nOver recent years, global warming has combined with forest clearing to produce some of the worst wildfires in history.  In 1997 the wildfires in Indonesia burnt out of control for over five months, bl
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Robert Esnault-Pelterie would be most likely inventor if you wish to agree with the majority of researchers.\nFeel free to visit the source for information over the two mentioned inventors.
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http://www.livescience.com\n\n\nHope I Helped!
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Anaxagoras.\n\n\nPythagoras first reasoned that the Moon must be a sphere because the line between light and dark is curved.\n\nAnaxagoras used the Earth shadow during eclipse to confirm the Earth is a sphere.\n\nAnd Aristotle came to the same conclusion because he noted how the constellations "move" when you get farther from the equator.
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Blaise Pascal? He invented the calculator. Maybe Isaac Newton, the inventor of calculus, or Charles Babbage, the inventor of the computer. Perhaps John Napier, who discovered how to add, subtract, multiply, divide, and even extract square roots simply by moving pieces on a chessboard? Tell you what, pick René Descartes, he's the inventor of coordinate geometry. These are all excellent choices!
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Waldeyer discovered chromosome\nHans krebs propounded kreb's cycle\nAnton van leewenhoek invented simple microscope\nWagner discovered nucleolus\nRobert Brown discovered nucleus\ncell theory propounded by  Schleiden(botanist)&Schwann(zoologist)
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http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Neil_Hawes/theory.htm\nhttp://www.musictheory.net/\nhttp://musiced.about.com/od/musictheory/
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John Harrison developed longitude.\n\nLatitude is a bit more difficult to determine and is mostly about mathematics but I believe mathematician Karl Gauss had something to do with it. But you should research that some more.
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http://inventors.about.com/od/mstartinventions/a/microscope.htm
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Galileo did something that you should never do.  He looked at the sun through a telescope, which later caused him to go blind.  But over a period of time he observed the sun and he saw sunspots.  If you took a ping pong ball and spun it through the air then it might be hard to tell that it was spinning.  But if you put a spot on the same ping pong ball and then spun it through the air then you would even be able to tell how fast it was spinning. It was the same for Galileo.  He was able to measure how long it took the sun to rotate (about 25 days near the equator).
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I'd say Galileo was a victim of the ignorant Catholic church, not a victim of his own research...although he did harm his eyes by looking at the sun through his telescope without any kind of filter :)\n\nNewton did experiments in optics on his own eyes, sometimes by sticking needles into them.  He had cataracts and other eye problems later on, almost certainly caused by his experiments.  He also went a bit mad later in life, and samples of his hair taken a few years ago showed high levels of lead in his system -- a result of his alchemical experiments.  It almost certainly hastened his death.\n\nJoseph Priestly, who "discovered" oxygen, used to put on a mask to breath the "vapors" of various gases, some of which were highly toxic...he passed out numerous times and nearly killed himself quite a few times.\n\nThere are a lot more -- do a web search and you'll find a bunch.
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Sir Isaac Newton, held the theory that light was made up of tiny particles. In 1678, Dutch physicist, Christiaan Huygens, believed that light was made up of waves vibrating up and down perpendicular to the direction of  the light travels, and therefore formulated a way of visualising wave propagation. This became known as 'Huygens' Principle'.  Huygens theory was the successful theory of light  wave motion in three dimensions. Huygen, suggested that light wave peaks form surfaces like the layers of an onion. In a vacuum, or other uniform mediums, the light waves are spherical, and these wave surfaces advance or spread out as they travel at the speed of light. This theory explains why light shining through a pin hole or slit will spread out rather than going in a straight line (see diffraction). Newton's theory came first, but the theory of Huygens, better described early experiments. Huygens' principle lets you predict where a given wavefront will be in the future, if you have the knowledge of where the given wavefront is in the present.
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Theodor Schwann and Matthias Schleiden -development of cell theory\nRobert Hooke-came up with the term cell\nRudolf Virchow-dicovered cell division\nJames Watson and Francis Crick-built structure of DNA\nLynn Margulis-endosymbiotic theory
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go here\n\nhttp://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bledison.htm\n\nhttp://www.thomasedison.com/Inventions.htm
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Phosphates tend to cause overgrowth of algae. I think you could use Tide in your experiment (unless they've changed the formula). I was once told that you could use a mixture of Tide to make stuff glow in the dark, because it was so high in phosphates...but this would be something you could try for yourself.\n\nThe point was that phosphates in water coming out of water treatment plants could affect the ecosystem by causing overgrowth of vegetation.\n\nGood experiment.
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This goes back to the famous story where Newton was sitting under a tree and he saw an apple fall.  Whether or not that is true, it says that he made the connection that the same force that caused the apple to fall was the force that caused the moon to orbit the Earth.  From there, he developed the Universal Law of Gravitation.  \n\nThis was all published in his masterpiece: Principia Mathematica.  It was published in 1687, although he had the work finished a lot earlier.  He was afraid to publish it.
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Hmmm.  Reading “Tulips” by Padraic Colum?  Anyway…\n\nBoth are optical instruments of the late 17th Century.  Newton used a prism to break sunlight up into its contituent colors—red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, and infinitely fine gradations in between.  Spinoza, although nowadays more famous for his philosophy, actually made a living grinding lenses for telescopes and such.  Both tools bend and distort light, and both have (relatively) simple mathematical descriptions.\n\nIf indeed, the aforementioned poem is what called to mind the question, I think the reference has to do with the abstract mathematics of prisms and lenses translating into real-world manipulation of light.\n\n\nRyan Wyatt\nRose Center for Earth & Space\nNew York, New York