Sentences with phrase «along the continental shelf from»

When the males leave their rookeries, they migrate northwards to their feeding grounds along the continental shelf from Washington to the western Aleutians in Alaska.

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Gleason and colleagues identified a strip along the continental shelf 14 kilometres from Morro Bay that had not been trawled for at least a decade.

The project, headed by NEFSC, will utilize existing archival acoustic data from recorders previously deployed along the western North Atlantic continental shelf area.

minus 2 degrees Celsius, has protected the shelf from the inflow of water masses that are 0.8 degrees warm, which the Weddell Gyre transports along the edge of the continental shelf (see graphic).

They are called polynyas, formations that derive their name from the Russian word for «hole in the ice,» and are typically an expanse of open seawater along the coast that is enclosed by floating sea ice and the continental shelf.

Fraser Island has been formed over hundreds of thousands of years as winds, waves and ocean currents have carried sands from the far south - east of Australia, and from as far away as Antarctica (but before Australian and Antarctica split from each other), out to the continental shelf, and in towards the land again in a zigzag pattern, to form a string of sand islands along the Queensland coast.

Joe Davis's valuable daily digest of environmental coverage for the Society of Environmental Journalists includes links to several significant news stories (see below), and in the meantime I'm querying methane and Arctic specialists about the startling story from The Independent (UK) on Tuesday reporting on a «methane time bomb» discovered by an international expedition along the continental shelf off Siberia.

During a survey in August 2011 along a stretch of the continental shelf from northern Washington to southern California, researchers found a high percentage of pteropods with dissolving shells.

At many locations along the continental shelf break, cold polar water pushes back against the CDW, creating a barrier (analogous to an atmospheric weather front) known as the Antarctic Slope Front, which blocks CDW from getting onto the shelf.

In the 1980s, traditionally strong stocks of Atlantic cod and other white fish along the northeast Atlantic continental shelf began to collapse from overfishing.

Most pending offshore wind projects are along the New England and Mid-Atlantic coast for three reasons: First, the strong, consistent winds there — which a recent University of Delaware estimated as having the potential to generate 330 gigawatts of power, enough to meet a significant proportion of the energy needs of the Atlantic coastal states from Massachusetts to North Carolina — can be tapped on the broad, shallow continental shelf.