They concluded that Arctic Ocean bacterioplankton assemblages, which are as complex as assemblages from
California coastal waters, represent novel groups of organisms, at least compared with those from tropical and temperate waters.
Heal the Bay is a nonprofit environmental organization making Southern
California coastal waters and watersheds, including Santa Monica Bay, safe, healthy and clean.
Not exact matches
Nicholas Pinter, a University of
California, Davis, geoscientist who studies flood risk and
water management, said that Florida is well - situated to build more wisely after this disaster because it already has a statewide post-disaster redevelopment plan and requires
coastal communities to have their own.
1971 - Clean
Water Act Southern California went from having some of the worst coastal water quality that existed in the U.S. - with primary treated raw sewage released one mile from shore - to having some of the best wastewater treatment in the world t
Water Act Southern
California went from having some of the worst
coastal water quality that existed in the U.S. - with primary treated raw sewage released one mile from shore - to having some of the best wastewater treatment in the world t
water quality that existed in the U.S. - with primary treated raw sewage released one mile from shore - to having some of the best wastewater treatment in the world today.
Meanwhile, development projects such as marinas and residential buildings constructed in
California's estuaries have pushed stingrays out of their traditional habitats and into
coastal waters, where the rays provide easy food for baby white sharks.
Water wars in
California's
coastal wine country: By most measures,
California's Central Coast wine industry is thriving.
The team designated four new species groups within the genus; Francisella opportunistica, an opportunistic pathogen of immune compromised patients; Francisella salina and Francisella uliginis, environmental isolates from
coastal seawater near Galveston, TX; and Francisella frigiditurris from cooling - tower
water in
California.
«Essentially, the very cold
water that upwells off the
California coast and gives
coastal California such a cool, benign climate also protects it from hurricanes.
The
waters probed during this study, known as the
California Current, are a hot spot of ocean acidification because of
coastal upwelling, which brings naturally acidic
waters to the surface, where they are made even more acidic by greenhouse gas pollution.
But studies in
California's
coastal redwood forests show that sap flow sometimes runs in reverse during fog events, with captured
water moving from the atmosphere into the leaves and then down through the branches — something that may be happening in Chile as well.
For glimpses into a less resource - intensive future for
California, you can look to the
coastal county of Marin, where the Carbon Cycle Institute is teaching farmers how to conserve
water by improving soil health.
One of the Ocean Institute's programs entails gathering data for the Southern
California Coastal Water Research Project, an extensive project created to help scientists better understand connections between human activities, natural events, and the health of southern
California's
coastal environment.
The Sea of Cortez is Baja
California's own little slice of paradise, known for its crystal - clear
waters, unique
coastal landscapes, and exclusive — even interactive — sea life!
The Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary (Sanctuary) consists of an area of approximately 1,110 square nautical miles (nmi) of
coastal and ocean
waters, and the submerged lands thereunder, off the southern coast of
California.
Low - altitude stratus clouds form over the cool
water of the
California Current, and spread overnight into the
coastal regions of Southern
California.
This «kelp highway hypothesis» suggested that highly productive kelp forests supported rich and diverse marine food webs in nearshore
waters, including many types of fish, shellfish, birds, marine mammals, and seaweeds that were similar from Japan to
California, Erlandson and his colleagues also argued that
coastal kelp forests reduced wave energy and provided a linear dispersal corridor entirely at sea level, with few obstacles to maritime peoples.
7 During the winter, the Marine Bio Conservation Society states that the gray whales inhabit shallow
coastal waters of the eastern and western North Pacific often sighted along the North American Pacific Coast between the arctic and the equatorial lagoons of Baja
California, Mexico.
We produce Riesling and Pinot Noir from our estate vineyard located just outside of Cambria,
California, only a few miles from the
waters edge, and just over the
coastal mountains from the Westside Paso Robles wine region.
The Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary has some of the cleanest
coastal waters in southern
California.
Less well known than the 33 percent mandate is
California's requirement that, as of 2017, power plants using
coastal and estuary
waters for cooling be retrofitted, repowered or retired.
Furthermore, during the peak of the upwelling season (May - June), central and northern
California Current
coastal waters returned to normal temperatures as cold
water was brought to the surface.
These include eastern boundary current upwelling systems such as those off the U.S. west coast along
coastal California, Oregon and Washington, deep - sea and subsurface oxygen minimum zones, and
coastal waters that are already experiencing excess nutrient levels (eutrophication) and low dissolved oxygen (hypoxia) due to human - driven nutrient pollution from land - based activities.
With its long coastline, many
coastal power plants, and need for more
water,
California is a good place for this use of waste heat, and the last I read the plans are in for about 20 desalination plants.
Federal officials can't even say how often fracking has happened in
California's
coastal waters.
Ownership of
coastal land is controlled by the
California Civil Code, which reserves land below the mean high
water mark to the state: