Sentences with phrase «tuble marine sanctuary»

As an example, Klein points to a 2003 incident in California when a Crystal cruise ship discharged 138,000 litres of waste water 14 km offshore into the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.

The state office, in Gainesville, has already approved the eligibility of 103 canals in the Keys and environmental permits from National Oceanic and Atmospheric and Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary are both in process.

The 50 acre site sits atop a hilly knoll and receives cool breezes off the Monterey Bay, a national marine sanctuary.

Give your children an unforgettable experience — snorkel or scuba dive the crystal - clear, warm waters of the Florida Keys to view the only living coral reef in the continental U.S. Head to John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park and the adjacent Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, where kids can see brain corals and sea fans up - close and swim with rays, turtles and tropical fish.

Efforts to make Lake Ontario a marine sanctuary and Fort Ontario a national park are underway, as is a volunteer - led restoration of the port's historic lighthouse.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has lent his support to an effort to make part of Lake Ontario a national marine sanctuary.

«There is a chemical toxicity to the dispersant compound that in many ways is worse than oil,» said Richard Charter, a foremost expert on marine biology and oil spills who is a senior policy advisor for Marine Programs for Defenders of Wildlife and is chairman of the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council.

Working with the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, they are currently finishing up a detailed study of the effects of a particularly large piece of marine debris — a shipping container that fell off a ship in 2004.

According to guidelines based on several years — and $ 10 million — of environmental - impact research, the Navy is not permitted to use the low - frequency sonar within 12 nautical miles of any coastline, in any marine sanctuary, near any marine - mammal «biologically important area,» or in polar seas.

The first agreement, signed on 18 November in Havana, established a sister relationship between marine sanctuaries in the United States and Cuba.

Florida officials are concerned about the apparent increase in disease, says Lauri MacLaughlin, a resource management specialist at the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.

President Barack Obama on Thursday will designate the largest marine sanctuary in the world in an area of the Pacific Ocean that will be off - limits to commercial fishing and deep - sea mining, the White House said on Wednesday.

Dive a ship graveyard For underwater adventure, head to the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Shipwreck Trail, where you can snorkel and dive on the sites of nine wrecks.

They will work in collaboration with staff scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries to collect samples of water, microbes, sediment, corals and sponges to monitor the health of the reefs.

The deeper reefs in the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, 100 miles off the coast of Texas in the Gulf of Mexico, are also in the crosshairs.

The more than 13 trillion gallons of floodwater from Hurricane Harvey have created a massive plume of freshwater in the Gulf of Mexico that is threatening the coral reefs of the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary about 100 miles offshore of Galveston.

Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary in Lake Huron in Michigan offers another impressive collection of doomed vessels.

For two years, the researchers collected water samples along the 200 - kilometer (124 - mile) stretch of the Florida Reef Tract north of Biscayne National Park to the Looe Key National Marine Sanctuary.

The scientific team included researchers from NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, NOAA's Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, the Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology, the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, and Divers Alert Network.

It is important to NOAA to understand the potential impact of leaks on fisheries and marine sanctuaries, and their timescale, says Symons.

A team of researchers studying humpbacks in the southern Gulf of Maine, mostly the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary and Great South Channel, used tags to track the whales» motion and sound underwater.

Using the University of Miami's Research Vessel F.G. Walton Smith as a platform for daily dives with the NOAA Marine Sanctuaries Foundation's Mohawk ROV, scientists from the U.S. and Cuba specializing in corals, sponges, algae and fish logged thousands of dive notes, underwater photos and video, documenting the geomorphology, biological zonation and diversity of marine organisms.

«These new discoveries will provide important documentation on the density of corals and fish in Cuba and ultimately determine the genetic connectivity of their corals and those collected from the U.S. Flower Gardens Bank and Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuaries.»

Since returning from Costa Rica last September, where she had been campaigning on behalf of marine sanctuaries, Cousteau has made it her personal and professional mission to advocate for protecting and replenishing the earth's water systems.

The study's recommendations, which align with the government's current proposal of developing an offshore national fishery as part of the recently designated National Marine Sanctuary, may allow Palau to protect reef systems and the industries that rely on them, as well as traditional local lifestyles intimately linked to catching and eating seafood.

The five marine monuments included in the Interior review are also part of a Commerce Department study examining whether 11 marine national monuments and national marine sanctuaries should be opened to oil and gas development (Greenwire, Aug. 16).

New NOAA - led research on tagged humpback whales in Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary reveals a variety of previously unknown feeding techniques along the seafloor.

Borboroglu and the Global Penguin Society are working with the Argentinian government to create a marine sanctuary for Magellanic penguins, an effort Borboroglu hopes will help increase the penguins» food supply and reduce chick deaths.

Several years later, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) extended these MPAs into the federal waters of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary.

NOAA's National Ocean Service (NOS), which includes the agency's marine sanctuary network and estuarine research reserves, would see a 4 % cut to $ 458.5 million, down from $ 477.9 million this year.

For now, though, the funds raised by the Stand with Palau campaign show global backing for the new National Marine Sanctuary.

Palau's waters are home to over 1,000 species of tropical fish, and their new national marine sanctuary will cover approximately 600,000 square kilometers, an area about the size of France or Texas.

«The money raised through the campaign will directly support the implementation of the [Palau] National Marine Sanctuary.

It is really about fleshing out the next steps — especially in regard to data collection, monitoring and enforcement framework — and making sure the marine sanctuary is implemented in a way that is on the medium term economically and environmentally sustainable,» he says.

«This work helps inform our knowledge and understanding of the deep sea ecosystems north of Cordell Bank and Gulf of the Farallones national marine sanctuaries, areas that are extremely important to the ocean environment.»

Finally, the team partnered with the NOAA Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary in Scituate, Mass, submerging panels of all the lab - tested materials into Scituate Harbor for sixteen weeks to see whether organisms would grow on them.

«NOAA has a strong interest in supporting scientific research however we can,» says David Slocum, Facilities and Vessel Operations Coordinator at Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary.

Large red crab is Eumunida picta; urchin below it is Echinus tylodes; courtesy S.W. Ross, K. Sulak, and M. Nizinski); (f) bryozoan (courtesy NOAA / Ocean Explorer); (g) mollusk (oyster reef; courtesy South Carolina Department of Natural Resources); (h) echinoderm (brittle star; Larry Zetwoch; Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary); (i) crustacean (lobster; Dr. James P. McVey, NOAA Sea Grant Program)

Examples of marine calcifiers from Kleypas et al. 2006: (a) coralline algae (photo by Nancy Sefton; courtesy NOAA / CORIS); (b) Halimeda (photo by James Watt; courtesy NOAA / NMFS); (c) benthic foraminifera (courtesy P. Hallock); (d) reef - building coral (Dendrogyra cylindrus; Cmdr William Harrigan, NOAA Corps; courtesy Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary); (e) deep - water coral (Lophelia pertusa; from 413 m depth off North Carolina.

1400 Laura Francis, Education Coordinator, NOAA Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Engaging teachers and students with ocean acidification science using real data on pH variability in marine ecosystems

The Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary is one of few large Marine Protected Areas.

The network includes a system of 13 national marine sanctuaries and Papahānaumokuākea and Rose Atoll marine national monuments.

But, notes the World Resources Institute, of the 400 or more MPAs in more than 65 countries and territories, there are only a handful that are truly large in scope — notably the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and the Ras Mohammed Park Complex in Egypt.

«The Office of NOAA's National Marine Sanctuaries Pacific Islands Region is honored and excited about the possibilities that this new partnership will bring to both our programs,» said Allen Tom, Regional Director, Office of NMS Pacific Islands Regional Director.

NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries serves as the trustee for a network of underwater parks encompassing more than 600,000 square miles of marine and Great Lakes waters from Washington state to the Florida Keys, and from Lake Huron to American Samoa.

She works for NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries and is based at Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary off the US's northeast coast where she leads the site's acoustics research program.

According to the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, the reefs there provide an estimated $ 2 billion in income and 70,400 jobs.

The research expedition was made possible by partnerships and collaboration among government and academic partners including NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, NOAA National Center for Coastal Ocean Science's, Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank national marine sanctuaries, the U.S. Geological Survey and the California Academy of Sciences.

(See the National Marine Sanctuaries Web page for a complete list of sanctuaries.)

PBS created the Cousteau videos, and its Web site, Jean - Michel Cousteau Ocean Adventures, has lesson plans for educators who want to use the National Marine Sanctuary sites.