Sentences with phrase «at ocean reef»

Cassia Villas at Ocean Reef Club offers 17 custom homes ranging from 17,000 sq. ft. to 23,000 sq. ft. Membership to Ocean Reef Club included with the purchase of a Cassia Villa property gives residents access to first - class amenities such as 36 holes of golf, a salon and spa, more than a dozen restaurants, a 175 - slip marina and a private airport.

Property Location With a stay at Ocean Reef Yacht Club & Resort in Freeport, you'll be convenient to Reef Golf Course and Port Lucaya Marketplace.

[FN13] The largest of these known colonies is the ORCat colony located at the Ocean Reef Club residential resort in Key Largo, which has an estimated 1,000 cats.

To meet the growing demand of veterinary services offered at Ocean Reef, we are happy to announce an expanded partnership with Mobile Pet Doctors - A fully equipped, self - contained veterinary practice complete with state of the art surgical, dental, and diagnostic equipment including CT Scan.

Presented by Chef's Roll and sponsored by Meat Livestock Australia, Front of the House, and MIC Food, the scintillating showdown saw Ryan Peters, Sous Chef at Ocean Reef Club take on Louis Robinson, Chef / Owner of Spice.

Not exact matches

«We joined renowned ocean conservationist Guy Harvey to see the rays up close at Stingray City Sandbar,» Branson wrote, and they were «surrounded by stingray, as well as stunning coral reefs and tropical fish.»

A recently published study, led by researchers at the University of Hawai'i at M?noa's School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), sheds light on the ways SGD affects coral reef growth.

«Our aim was to explore the effect of a more acidic ocean on every gene in the coral genome,» says study lead author Dr Aurelie Moya, a molecular ecologist with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University.

For example, as a reef is growing at the ocean's surface, it can build up only so fast.

Greater acidity also «impairs their ability to discriminate between the smell of kin and not, and of predators and not,» according Philip Munday, a professor and research fellow at the Coral Reef Studies center at James Cook University in Australia, who conducted the experiments and presented results at a symposium here this week called The Ocean in a High - CO2 World.

Other speakers at the briefing included award - winning conservationist Jim Toomey, who created the comic strip Sherman's Lagoon, filmmaker Jon Bowermaster, an award - winning writer and filmmaker recently named one of a dozen Ocean Heroes by the National Geographic Society, and Luke Creswell, who co-directed the award - winning large - format films Wild Ocean and The Last Reef: Cities Beneath The Sea.

«It's estimated that 95 percent of the livable space on our planet is in the ocean,» said Carole Baldwin, curator of fishes at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, lead author of the study and director of the Smithsonian's Deep Reef Observation Project (DROP).

TURTLE TROUBLE Green sea turtle populations in parts of the Great Barrier Reef are becoming increasingly female because their eggs are being incubated at higher temperatures due to warming ocean waters.

Now the chemistry of the entire ocean was shifting, imperiling coral reefs, marine creatures at the bottom of the food chain, and ultimately the planet's fisheries.

A fleet of robotic submarines, based at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), head - quartered in in Southampton, have been used to map vulnerable cold - water coral reefs in the deep ocean off southwest England.

It's not easy studying the nautilus, a creature that lurks in the depths of the ocean and emerges only at night to prowl the coral reefs.

Prior research has largely focused on the negative impacts of ocean acidification on reef growth, but new research this week from scientists at the Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB), based at the University of Hawai'i — Mānoa (UHM), demonstrates that lower ocean pH also enhances reef breakdown: a double - whammy for coral reefs in a changing climate.

«We found that commonly applied molecular methods did not give enough resolution to distinguish the dominant symbionts of Gulf corals from those in other parts of the world's oceans,» explains Professor Jörg Wiedenmann, Professor of Biological Oceanography and Head of the Coral Reef Laboratory at the University of Southampton.

The research, led by scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and partners, has important implications for the long - term survival of coral reefs worldwide, which have been in worldwide decline from multiple stressors such as climate change and ocean pollution.

Local pressures, in particular overfishing, destructive fishing, and pollution from nearby land - based human activity, are paramount, but global warming has caused increased bleaching and ocean acidification, which makes it harder for corals to grow, compounding the problems, the World Resources Institute (WRI) and 24 other organizations concluded in «Reefs at Risk Revisited,» an update of a 1998 report.

Scientists at the School of Ocean Sciences, Bangor University have completed a comprehensive review of the literature on the mechanisms of potential coral resistance and recovery across scales from global reef areas to the microbial level within individual corals.

And since the acidic proteins are able to function at a much wider pH range than suspected, the scientists say that corals can continue to build reefs, even as the ocean acidifies.

Last February, at the Economist World Ocean Summit in Bali, Indonesia, the»50 Reefs» initiative was launched by the Global Change Institute of the University of Queensland and the Ocean Agency.

«Secretary Zinke is giving Trump truly awful advice,» asserts John Hocevar, director of oceans campaigns at Greenpeace in Washington, D.C. «The science is clearer than ever that climate change is killing our coral reefs and that industrial fishing has had a huge impact on marine ecosystems that extends far beyond the fish they target.»

Coral reefs, which support diverse communities of fish and other marine life, are declining globally at unprecedented rates due to human - caused impacts, such as warming waters and ocean acidification.

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.

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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They will also hear from researchers looking at issues associated with ocean warming and acidification and associated impacts of coral reefs.

«There have been a lot of studies showing that under ocean acidification scenarios that corals and other organisms on the reef calcify at a slower rate,» Kline says.

Experiments on coral reefs and sea butterflies hint at what the future may hold if more carbon dioxide ends up in the oceans.

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.

(Which, as an aside, will be severely stunted by ocean acidification, if coral reefs survive at all.)

The abundance of reef - building corals is decreasing at a rate of 0.5 — 2 % / year, at least in part due to ocean warming and possibly ocean acidification caused by rising dissolved CO2 [39]--[41].

Ocean pH has declined to 8.1 from 8.2 since the Industrial Revolution, and while those are just numbers to most of us, «reef development is thought to cease at pH 7.8,» said David Wachenfeld, director of reef recovery at the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, a government agereef development is thought to cease at pH 7.8,» said David Wachenfeld, director of reef recovery at the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, a government agereef recovery at the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, a government ageReef Marine Park Authority, a government agency.

These days, hearing the latest news on trash - clogged oceans, decaying coral reefs, and warming temperatures can be scary, sad, and overwhelming all at once.

If surfing is not your cup of tea then you can try your hand at paddle boarding but either way you and your date could have a fun packed date in the ocean together with the Outer Reef Surf School.

Eve Heaton, a fourth - grade teacher at Mossy Oaks Elementary School, in Beaufort, South Carolina, works lessons on coral reefs into other subjects, such as art and writing, because not all of her science standards fit within ocean studies.

Echoing Dauphine's concerns, Florida attorney Pamela Jo Hatley decries ORCAT's resources: «At a meeting hosted by the Ocean Reef Resort in June 2004,» recalls Hatley, «I learned that the ORCAT colony then had about 500 free - ranging cats, several paid employees, and an annual operating budget of some $ 100,000.»

Built originally as a rigid non-floating jetty for ferrying tourists and locals out to snorkel and scuba dive the Great Barrier Reef one important thing to consider at the time was not planned for and that was that the Palm Cove beach faces south east and the change in tide levels made it difficult to board passengers with a rising and descending ocean making it quite dangerous so nowadays the jetty is a mecca for fishing enthusiasts all year round and both day and night.

Every year, from April to July, whale sharks — at 50 ft long the largest fish in the ocean — arrive at Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia to feed, and you can join them.

A brightly painted surfboard bearing eco-friendly messages greets you at Three Tables Beach, named for the trio of flat reef formations peeking above the ocean's surface.

We have more than 60 dive sites on the regular Small Hope Bay Lodge dive schedule, including colorful shallow reefs, coral gardens, wreck dives, breathtaking blue holes and stunning wall dives at the edge of the continental shelf, where the Tongue of the Ocean plunges to 6,000 feet.

If you have more time, you can add some additional underwater adventures such as a visit to the walls on the ocean side of the reef, an exploration of coral caverns, or a stop at a dive site where freshwater springs bubble up from the reef, attracting Napoleon wrasse and sea turtles.

At Bight Reef, on the island of Providenciales (known as Provo), you can snorkel right off the beach along a clearly marked ocean trail, making it a great choice for beginners or younger visitors.

In the spring of 2017, Ocean Frontiers opened a satellite dive shop at the Wyndham Reef Resort, which is located three miles north of Compass Point.

For total beginners who pale at the idea of heading onto the open ocean, or if you're showing your kids the ropes, the snorkel trail at Bight Reef at Coral Gardens just south of Grace Bay makes a great option.

Trip Advisor renters rate this property with 3 - 5 stars saying, «I like the location for south Maui beaches because you are right in the middle - at the end of Kihei but near Wailea»... and «Rocky reef ocean side means excellent snorkeling with a large variety of fish.

For swimming, guests can try the nearby marvelous sandy - bottom natural lagoon, accessible only by guests staying at Aloha Sands, with coral reefs serving as natural divisor with the ocean.