Sentences with phrase «estuary as»

romantic city in the world, its Lagoon and Estuary as well as the Brenta Riviera.

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The Campbell broadens into the intertidal estuary as it meets the ocean.

Villas Las Mareas overlooks the lazy curves of the Las Baulas estuary as it flows into the azure Pacific Ocean.

This suggests that Serenichthys was using a shallow, waterweed - filled embayment of the estuary as a nursery, as many fish do today,» says Gess.

Naming Long Island Sound and the Peconic Estuary as one of eight national critical designation areas would help fund agricultural conservation efforts, habitat restoration efforts and the sustainable use of soil, water and other natural resources, according to Mr. Bellone's office.

In 2010, Liddell - Grainger criticised plans by the Environment Agency and Natural England to create a wetland habitat at Steart on the Severn estuary as part of a realignment of coastal flood defences.

So far the Coalition has ruled out a third runway at Heathrow and a new airport in the Thames Estuary as options to increase airport capacity.

Rising anthropogenic, or human - caused, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may have up to twice the impact on coastal estuaries as it does in the oceans because the human - caused CO2 lowers the ecosystem's ability to absorb natural fluctuations of the greenhouse gas, a new study suggests.

«We need to look at these eutrophic estuaries as perhaps a larger source of methane than we thought.

«Developing baby barramundis, hatched in the oceans, need to find estuaries as intermediate habitats before they move upriver to complete their lifecycle,» says PhD candidate Jennifer Pistevos, who conducted the research under the supervision of Professor Nagelkerken and Professor Sean Connell.

Not exact matches

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.

We are privileged to farm in a way that respects the estuary and the environment, and when we do simple things, such as reducing our impact on the lake bed allowing the sea grasses to regrow, it is actually good for the oysters and the health of this beautiful estuary.

The Thames Estuary has been favoured widely as an ideal site for an off - shore airport.

Known as «Boris Island» this also proposes the building of a new hub airport on an artificial island in the Shivering Sands area of the Thames Estuary.

The Thames Estuary Airport proposal, then described as being at «Cliffe» (in the constituency which I now represent), was ruled out on both environment and economic grounds, but the Labour government recommended a second runway at Stansted in 2011 - 12, a third runway at Heathrow in 2015 - 20 and, eventually, a second runway at Gatwick in the mid-2020s.

In yesterday's Boris Johnson interview with the Evening Standard the Mayor poured praise on Ms Greening and effectively outed her as a supporter of the Thames Estuary Airport.

«At this stage, there is an entire host of outstanding questions and legal concerns surrounding this project that have not been answered to the satisfaction of anyone, including oversight and expert bodies such as: the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Citizens Advisory Committee of the New York - New Jersey Harbor & Estuary Program and the Westchester Municipal Officials Association, not to mention members of the State Legislature and the New York City Council,» Perkins writes.

The Labour leader also revealed a new «Estuary English» accent as he appeared on the celebrity's YouTube show.

It is a technical question whether new capacity should be built at Heathrow, or other London airports, or as Boris suggests, by the Thames Estuary.

In the End My CLP backed Andy Burnham for Leader, I can understand why, as the Thames estuary from Neighbouring Dagenham and Basildon are known as the areas of the inspirational working class.

At Molinaro's urging, everyone posed for an official picture in the middle of the span — across the county line — with the FDR bridge and the yawning estuary serving as an impressive backdrop even without sunshine.

The Columbia River has previously been identified as an area with high marine mammal consumption of salmon, specifically by seals and sea lions in the estuary.

If you are seated rather sadly in a sparkling white laboratory dreaming of the great outdoors, or are feeling miserable as you stand up to your knees in a muddy estuary and dream of wearing those sexy latex gloves that proper scientists wear, I suggest you follow your instincts.

What Brian Atwater had discovered in estuaries along the Washington shore, Alan Nelson of the USGS and a team of international colleagues found as well in Oregon and British Columbia in 1995.

The research, by the University of Sydney's Marine Studies Institute and the Centre for Coastal Biogeochemistry at Southern Cross University, is the first long term study of such a large and important Southern Hemisphere system referred to as a drowned river valley, which in Sydney spans estuaries from Middle Harbour to Lane Cove and Parramatta.

About 13 percent of U.S. rivers, 18 percent of lakes and 32 percent of estuaries are classified as impaired by stormwater, which means they are rendered unsafe for swimming or fishing.

Ms Tanner said monitoring of estuarine CO2 was important for planning and remediation efforts: «As each estuary is different, the potential impacts of climate change and urban development will be different in every ecosystem.»

AT THE far eastern end of the Thames estuary, amid a scruffy sprawl of London satellite towns, is a spot known as Lodge Hill.

The Somerset Levels, the Humber estuary, the city of Oxford and Tonbridge in Kent are all due to have flood defences shored up as part of the plans.

Coastal seas and estuaries have lost as much as 91 percent of certain species, such as oysters, according to another survey.

Although the cholera bacterium, Vibrio cholerae, is usually thought of as a disease - causing organism, most strains never infect people and live freely in estuaries and other brackish waters.

The authors say the combined impact of substitution, reuse and water conservation would help to preserve freshwater supplies and coastal estuaries, as well as biodiversity.

«Urban organics» thus remain at higher levels longer, says Canuel, «delivering more organic material to the river mouth and increasing the likelihood that low - oxygen conditions will develop in downstream locations such as estuaries and the coastal ocean.»

And five instrument stations in a nearby estuary that transmitted real - time weather and environmental data blinked offline this past Saturday night as Hurricane Harvey roared ashore.

«Areas of greatest vulnerability will likely be where deep waters, naturally low in pH, meet acidified surface waters,» such as areas of coastal upwelling along the West Coast and in estuary environments such Hood Canal, the new study predicts.

The coast and its adjacent areas on and off shore is an important part of a local ecosystem as the mixture of fresh water and salt water in estuaries provides many nutrients for marine life.

The team filled the central chamber of their cell with brackish water containing 5 grams of sodium chloride per litre, as might be found in an estuary, and applied a voltage of 0.55 volts to the setup.

«You'd expect animals around a more urbanized estuary, such as Monterey Bay, to have more exposure to oil products from cars or disease elements relative to Big Sur,» says co-author Keith Miles, a geneticist with the USGS Western Ecological Research Center.

All eyes were on southeast Florida's St. Lucie Estuary in 2016 as it received national attention due to beach closures on the Fourth of July weekend from the massive amounts of toxic green slime that covered parts of the 7 - mile - long inlet linked to a coastal river system.

«It has long been thought that the algal blooms found in Lake Okeechobee, which are caused by pollution such as runoffs from farms, were solely responsible for driving the blooms and their toxins in the St. Lucie Estuary,» said Brian E. Lapointe, Ph.D., lead author of the study and a research professor at FAU Harbor Branch, who recently presented these findings at the ninth U.S. National Harmful Algal Bloom Conference.

A barrage across the Severn estuary on the UK's west coast could provide as much energy as a second nuclear power station at Sizewell in Suffolk in eastern England, we explained.

Human activities such as manufacturing had made the Port River estuary near Adelaide, Australia, inhabitable to bottlenose dolphins.

Others are much smaller, such as the upper waters of the Red Sea, or the dilute estuaries of several Northern Hemisphere rivers.

The research, published in Nature Geoscience and led by researchers from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, the University of Exeter, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et l'Environnement, the University of Hawai'i and ETH Zürich, has for the first time shown that increased leaching of carbon from soil, mainly due to deforestation, sewage inputs and increased weathering, has resulted in less carbon being stored on land and more stored in rivers, streams, lakes, reservoirs, estuaries and coastal zones — environments that are together known as the «land - ocean aquatic continuum».

The Mississippi River delta is a rich ecosystem of barrier islands, estuaries, and wetlands that's home to a diverse mix of wildlife — as well as more than 2 million people.

Though this is the first time scientists have seen this behavior in bowheads, other arctic whales — such as belugas — have been seen grooming themselves along abrasive bottom surfaces in Hudson Bay estuaries.

This is the seventh year for the Bay outlook which, because of the shallow nature of large areas of the estuary, focuses on water volume or cubic miles, instead of square mileage as used in the Gulf.

Lowest readings of dissolved oxygen were found in late summers, as is the case in other estuaries along the Oregon coast, when incoming salty seawater settles longer in the estuary and warmer, drier conditions reduce the amount of fresh water from the Coos River.

The authors noted, however, that this sort of whitening approach could be effective on a smaller scale, perhaps in an individual bay or estuary, as opposed to a whole ocean.