Sentences with phrase «pacific ocean reefs»

Allgeier is currently working with researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara, to collect data next on fish urine in tropical Pacific Ocean reefs, essentially building upon the data collection Allgeier did as a graduate student.

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«Staghorn corals are the key reef - building corals throughout the Pacific and Indian oceans.

Charlie's research told him that during El Niño weather cycles, the surface seawaters in the Great Barrier Reef lagoon, already heated to unusually high levels by greenhouse gas — induced warming, were being pulsed from a mass of ocean water known as the Western Pacific Warm Pool onto the reef's delicate living corReef lagoon, already heated to unusually high levels by greenhouse gas — induced warming, were being pulsed from a mass of ocean water known as the Western Pacific Warm Pool onto the reef's delicate living correef's delicate living corals.

Coral reefs can't find a strong purchase in the eastern tropical Pacific thanks to more acidic waters — a potential precursor of what the ocean will be like under global warming

His quest took him to hundreds of reefs in both hemispheres and across the vast Indian and Pacific oceans.

Waters with a reduced pH are expected to dissolve coral skeletons — but in Palau in the western Pacific Ocean, researchers have found reefs that are bigger and more diverse in relatively acidic waters than the Pacific average.

Since their introduction to the Atlantic Ocean in the 1980s, Pacific red lionfish (Pterois volitans) have gobbled up native Caribbean and western Atlantic reef fishes, reducing their abundance by up to 90 %.

The study tracked the journeys of over five billion model «larvae» from 636 remote reefs scattered across the central and eastern Pacific Ocean over a 14 and a half year period.

Darwin's studies of coral reefs (the mineralized parts of which are, after all, huge fossils) encircling islands in the Pacific and Indian oceans led him to theorize correctly how such reefs form.

The study's findings provide evidence that local conservation is essential for the sparse and poorly - protected, but economically and environmentally - important coral reefs of the eastern Pacific Ocean.

A new study has found that La Niña - like conditions in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Panamá were closely associated with an abrupt shutdown in coral reef growth that lasted 2,500 years.

More recently, several island nations in the western Pacific and Indian oceans formed the Coral Triangle Initiative, adopting a 10 - year plan of action to avert growing threats to coral reefs, fish, coastal mangrove buffers and other marine resources across the region.

For example, contrary to their assertion, current conditions in the eastern Pacific are almost the antithesis of projected conditions for most reef systems under global warming and ocean acidification.

Species: Pink whipray (Himantura fai) Habitat: Reef sands of the Indian and western Pacific oceans

But it would have been nice to hear the authors» thoughts on recent Japanese proposals to attempt to bioengineer even more productive living coral reefs and plant them in the Pacific to increase the power of the oceans to absorb carbon.

Fishes» fear of sharks helps shape shallow reef habitats in the Pacific, according to new research by a scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.

Moving back out into the Pacific Ocean, the warmer ocean waters can cause bleaching of coral reefs, killing Ocean, the warmer ocean waters can cause bleaching of coral reefs, killing ocean waters can cause bleaching of coral reefs, killing them.

Many reefs, from islands in the South Pacific to the Florida Keys, have felt the impacts of the warmer oceans.

The area of the Pacific Ocean around Anahola Bay is home to coral reefs, which can be suffocated by excess silt.

Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warn that the continued rise in ocean temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic is causing the massive coral bleaching on reefs in the Northern Hemisphere.

The percentage of coral reefs affected by moderate (white) and severe (black) bleaching from 1980 to 2016 in (A) Australasia, (B) Indian Ocean, (C) Pacific Ocean, (D) western Atlantic.

A team of marine scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology and University of Victoria have returned from nearly a month of scuba diving on coral reefs in the middle of the equatorial Pacific Ocean.

Facing the waves of the Pacific Ocean, the islands are a maze of pocket beaches, exposed reefs, lagoons, densely forested islands and bare, windswept rocks.

Also along the waterfront, the outstanding Aquarium of the Pacific has huge tanks and displays featuring coral reefs, goofy Magellanic penguins and other ocean habitats.

Reef Point B&B Two Romantic luxury suites set on a cliff overlooking the wild Pacific ocean, King, Queen beds, fireplaces, kitchenettes, large private en - suites, Cliff top hot tub with spectacular views.

The Karma Kandara and Karma Jimbaran in Bali, Indonesia offer luxury lifestyle experiences for members, and The Reef at Vallarta Gardens will give members access to the astonishingly beautiful Pacific Ocean destination of Riviera Nayarit, Mexico.

Made up of four separate reefs that face out to the South Pacific Ocean, Agincourt Reef is regarded as one of the most significant sites of this natural wonder.

- only Central American country without a coast on the Pacific Ocean - second largest barrier reef after the Great Barrier Reef - very hot and hreef after the Great Barrier Reef - very hot and hReef - very hot and humid

The coral atolls are so special because they are so uncommon outside the Pacific Ocean and this is why the Belize government and people of Belize strive to conserve the Barrier reef of Belize.

Waidroka Dive will also engage in «discovery diving» anywhere on our reefs and many times we head out with our guests to discover new dive sites on the vast amount of reefs we have as our playground in the Pacific Ocean.

The Frigates surf break is one of a kind in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and with no land around, but just a reef popping up in the midst of nowhere.

Colossal rocks jut straight up out of the Pacific Ocean in the Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge which spans 230 miles of Oregon coast and includes 1,853 rocks, reefs and islands.

Set right on Muri Beach, Te Vakaroa Villas is a secluded haven set in beautiful tropical gardens with unsurpassed views across Muri lagoon and beyond the reef to the southern Pacific Ocean.

Central America is becoming a very interesting spot for tourists with its untouched tropical nature, beautiful beaches on the shores of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, coral reefs and numerous monuments of the ancient Mayan civilization.

The chapel can seat up to 40 guests who will be able to enjoy views of the reef and the Pacific Ocean through the glass wall behind the altar.

Huge tidal flows between the Pacific and Indian oceans cause upwelling's of cold, nutrient rich water delivering a constant stream of food for the rich reefs and marine life found around the islands of the Komodo National Park.

You can see both Pacific reef and pelagic (open ocean) species.

Here at the Papua Paradise Resort, located on the pristine shoreline of the uninhabited island of Birie, you will find a total of 26 over-water bungalows (10 Deluxe Rooms & 16 Superior Rooms) with spacious verandas overlooking the turquoise house reef and the Pacific Ocean.

The reefs of this Pacific Ocean gem are blessed with so much big fish action that Palau leaves many other destinations in the shade.

For instance, I'm a scuba diver, and I became interested later in the underwater coral formations in the Pacific, then the Great Barrier Reef and the Indian Ocean.

In my briefings to the Association of Small Island States in Bali, the 41 Island Nations of the Caribbean, Pacific, and Indian Ocean (and later circulated to all member states), I pointed out that IPCC had seriously and systematically UNDERESTIMATED the extent of climate change, showing that the sensitivity of temperature and sea level to CO2 clearly shown by the past climate record in coral reefs, ice cores, and deep sea sediments is orders of magnitude higher than IPCC's models.

The researchers found that reefs in the warmest part of the Pacific Ocean — holding some of the most diverse coral arrays on Earth — have not been adversely affected as global ocean and atmospheric temperatures have risen since Ocean — holding some of the most diverse coral arrays on Earth — have not been adversely affected as global ocean and atmospheric temperatures have risen since ocean and atmospheric temperatures have risen since 1980.

«Such interdecadal fluctuations have also been observed in another coral d 11 B record in Flinders Reef in the adjacent region (Pelejero et al., 2005), which is the only other published long - term coral d 11 B record and also shows a relationship to the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO) of ocean - atmosphere anomalies (Pelejero et al., 2005).».

An innovative project on the island of Tetiaroa in the South Pacific to develop reef rebuilding and replenishing systems, helping to ensure the long - term survival of coral reefs in the face of climate change and ocean acidification.

Scientists reported earlier this year that 99 percent of 500 coral reefs surveyed in Australia's Great Barrier Reef have been hit by the bleaching event, which has already impacted reefs across the Pacific, from American Samoa and Fiji to Hawaii and Vanuatu, as well as parts of the Caribbean, Florida Keys, and Indian Ocean.

The current bleaching event has affected reefs throughout the tropics — including much of the Pacific and parts of the Indian Ocean, the Atlantic and the Caribbean basin — and is largely thanks to the onset of a particularly severe El Niño event in 2015, which has resulted in unusually warm water temperatures in many regions.

«My research site is in the very middle of the Pacific Ocean,» says Cobb, a Georgia Institute of Technology climate scientist who studies the effects of specific El Niño and La Niña climate patterns on coral reefs.

Such is the desperate status of the lionfish wars, an invasion of this predatory fish from the Pacific Ocean into the Bahamas and Caribbean region that threatens everything from coral reef ecosystems to the local economies, which are based on fishing and tourism.