Sentences with phrase «as ocean conditions»

Local threats have been degrading coral reefs for decades — ultimately compromising a reef's ability to persist as ocean conditions change.

As your group head up the coast your captain will sail as close to the shore as ocean conditions permit, allowing for great photos and chances to see waterfalls and sometimes mountain goats; after you reach Kalalau Valley your group will pull out for a more panoramic view.

Mother Nature does not always cooperate, but we will do everything in our power to get you into the water as long as ocean conditions permit a safe dive experience.

As the ocean conditions are ever changing and the waves are influenced by swells, winds and currents, I suggest checking with the life guards at any county or state beach park during your visit.

Where you will dive depends on your skill and comfort level as well as the ocean conditions of the day.

Other scientists show how robotic drones, called Seagliders, swoop under the ice to track the movement of the pack and how it changes as ocean conditions change.

It then fluctuated around that level, reaching a high of 306,220 in 2012 before declining below the carrying capacity in the years since as ocean conditions changed.

Not exact matches

While FourKites has grown its customer base and network exponentially, it has also expanded tracking coverage to Europe and South America, and to include shipments moving by ocean, rail and parcel, in addition to truckload and less - than - truckload (LTL), as well as real - time trailer temperature and condition monitoring.

But the ocean is a huge, constantly moving three - dimensional ecosystem, and obtaining precise, real - time observations of marine life and of oceanic conditions such as temperature, current and salinity is quite challenging and astronomically expensive.

Using these data, researchers fine - tuned estimates from previous foram studies that captured polar conditions to show tropical oceans warmed substantially in the Eocene, but not as much as polar oceans.

Rocky tide pools may operate as an indicator for future ocean conditions.

The main drivers of El Niño conditions, ocean temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific, were as high as 3 °C above the average, making this event one of the three most intense El Niños on record.

It was nearly the same as that of the control population under current ocean conditions.

Under these conditions, iron is as liquid as the water in the oceans.

Just as conditions in the tropical Pacific Ocean can have distant effects through what we now understand as El Niño, the loss of a forest could generate a signal heard around the world — including by other plants.

Other hostile conditions deep in ocean sediments, such as scarce nutrients, high pressure, or extreme salinity, probably set life's limit in some places.

It provides a large quantity of food to many countries around the world, but those who practice it as an industry must often pursue fish far into the ocean under adverse conditions.

This past June scientists at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi reported that the eyewall's extreme conditions can stir up ocean currents 300 feet below the surface, disrupting sediment and organisms on the seafloor for as long as a week after the storm subsides.

Those cool conditions, however, depend on whether Venus looked the same in its youth as it does today — although the researchers added an ocean, they kept Venus's present - day topography intact — and whether it has always spun as slowly as it does now, taking 243 Earth days to complete a single rotation.

This enabled the research team to reconstruct, for the first time, a detailed picture of the environmental conditions at the ocean's surface, as well as in deeper water layers, over the last 30,000 years.

In the natural scheme of things in the spring and summer months, environmental conditions in the ocean, such as water temperature, light and seagrass growth, are favorable for the growth of coral limestone.

«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.»

As Mooney acknowledged, this first study did expose the squids to fairly extreme acidified conditions, ones unlikely to be present in the ocean for quite a while.

Recent evidence indicates that the genetic diversity among coccolithophores in nature may hold part of the answer as to which strains and species might be «pre-adapted for future ocean conditions,» Stillman added.

«If protective ice shelves were suddenly lost in the vast areas around the Antarctic margin where reverse - sloping bedrock (where the bed on which the ice sheet sits deepens toward the continental interior, rather than toward the ocean) is more than 1,000 meters deep, exposed grounding line ice cliffs would quickly succumb to structural failure as is happening in the few places where such conditions exist today,» the researchers point out.

Scientists anticipate that future oceans will be slightly warmer and contains less oxygen (a condition known as hypoxia).

This suggests that natural cycles — such as the succession of El Nino and La Nina conditions in the Pacific Ocean — forced these climate anomalies.

In a new study recently published in the journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles, scientists of Kiel University (CAU) with colleagues from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and international partners from the USA, New Zealand, and Great Britain studied marine benthic shell - forming organisms around the world in relation to the chemical conditions they currently experience — with a surprising result: 24 percent, almost a quarter of the analyzed species, including sea urchins, sea stars, coralline algae or snails, already live in seawater unfavorable to the maintenance of their calcareous skeletons and shells (a condition referred to as CaCO3 - undersaturation).

Now, new research offers a potential solution: Longer RNA chains could have hidden out in porous rocks near volcanic sites such as hydrothermal ocean vents, where unique temperature conditions might have helped complex organisms evolve.

Potentially extremely dangerous realistic rogue waves — also called as freak waves — can now be controlled and generated at will in laboratory environments, in similar conditions as they appear in the ocean.

But now I really think this is going to transform oceanography by giving us a persistent presence in the ocean — a presence that doesn't require a boat, can operate in any weather condition, and can stay within the same water mass as it drifts around the open ocean.»

Along one string of sites, or «stations,» that stretches from Antarctica to the southern Indian Ocean, researchers have tracked the conditions of AABW — a layer of profoundly cold water less than 0 °C (it stays liquid because of its salt content, or salinity) that moves through the abyssal ocean, mixing with warmer waters as it circulates around the globe in the Southern Ocean and northward into all three of the major ocean baOcean, researchers have tracked the conditions of AABW — a layer of profoundly cold water less than 0 °C (it stays liquid because of its salt content, or salinity) that moves through the abyssal ocean, mixing with warmer waters as it circulates around the globe in the Southern Ocean and northward into all three of the major ocean baocean, mixing with warmer waters as it circulates around the globe in the Southern Ocean and northward into all three of the major ocean baOcean and northward into all three of the major ocean baocean basins.

Dr Lal said as the frequency of positive Indian Ocean Dipole phases is expected to increase, there would be drier conditions for much of Australia.

The tracking revealed «a climate system still in transition in 2017,» as surface ocean conditions return to near normal.

So far, these early results showed that physical conditions where the air and the ocean interact must be a vital part of any successful hurricane forecasting model and would help explain, and predict, how a storm might intensify as it moves through across the water based on the physical stress at the ocean's surface.

Way and his GISS colleagues simulated conditions of a hypothetical early Venus with an atmosphere similar to Earth's, a day as long as Venus» current day, and a shallow ocean consistent with early data from the Pioneer spacecraft.

Using observed and modeled ocean current conditions, they found a difference of distance between the turtles and drifters to be as much as 125 miles in the first few days.

«Changes in ocean conditions that affect fish stocks, such as temperature and oxygen concentration, are strongly related to atmospheric warming and carbon emissions,» said author Thomas Frölicher, principal investigator at the Nippon Foundation - Nereus Program and senior scientist at ETH Zürich.

During the later period, when there was less sea ice, the whales dove significantly longer and deeper than in the earlier period — presumably in search of prey as the animals, in turn, changed their habits because of different ocean conditions brought on by sea ice loss.

The findings presented at the Society of Marine Mammalogy's Biennial Conference in San Francisco demonstrate that humpback foraging responds to environmental changes, and illustrates how marine mammals serve as sentinels of ever - changing ocean conditions.

As any sailor knows, conditions at the ocean's surface can change in a moment.

«The ability to adapt to changing conditions is going to become even more important as humans impact the environment, whether it's from ocean acidification or increasing temperatures or other types of global changes that are occurring.»

Take the hogfish, a pointy - snouted reef fish that can go from pearly white to mottled brown to reddish in a matter of milliseconds as it adjusts to shifting conditions on the ocean floor.

Another key question is how the production of methane by these organisms is influenced by environmental conditions in the ocean, including temperature and pollution such as fertilizer runoff.

With ENSO - neutral conditions present during the first half of 2013, the January — June global temperature across land and ocean surfaces tied with 2003 as the seventh warmest such period, at 0.59 °C (1.06 °F) above the 20th century average.

Bacteria, however, have remained Earth's most successful form of life — found miles deep below as well as within and on surface rock, within and beneath the oceans and polar ice, floating in the air, and within as well as on Homo sapiens sapiens; and some Arctic thermophiles apparently even have life - cycle hibernation periods of up to a 100 million years while waiting for warmer conditions underneath increasing layers of sea sediments (Lewis Dartnell, New Scientist, September 20, 2010; and Hubert et al, 2010).

RICHLAND, Wash. — Basic ocean conditions such as current directions and water temperature play a huge role in determining the behavior of young migrating salmon as they move from rivers and hit ocean waters for the first time, according to new research.

«The big question is whether the ice sheet will react to these changing ocean conditions as rapidly as it did 14,000 years ago,» said lead author Dr Nick Golledge, a senior research fellow at Victoria's Antarctic Research Centre.

The complexity of these biochemical processes makes it difficult to accurately simulate how the ocean absorbs CO2 from the atmosphere and how it stores this carbon as global conditions change.

Because huge expanses of the deep ocean will be exposed to changing environmental conditions as a result of climate change (Mora et al., 2013; this study), the societal impacts of climate change in the deep sea will undoubtedly be widespread, complex and dynamic.