Sentences with phrase «calving ground»

From May to September, the Whitsundays are an important calving ground for migrating humpback whales, keep an eye out and you may be rewarded.

So leave the one place that is a calving ground for 120,000 caribou alone.

This is a vastly larger number than seen over any similar period and in any other right whale calving ground.

Over 600 southern right whale calves died at the Península Valdés calving ground, Argentina, between 2003 and 2014.

Not exact matches

It's the first time that researchers have been able to put boots on the ground so quickly after a massive calving event, and they have a lot of questions.

In a presentation Thursday at the Seismology Society of America's annual meeting in Anchorage, West showed that long - ignored data within the state's earthquake records faithfully capture dynamic change occurring above ground: ice breaking off of glaciers and falling into water, the phenomenon known as calving.

A large contribution from the Greenland Ice Sheet is unlikely, as it is mostly grounded above sea level and so mass loss from calving ice bergs is limited.

Schematic cartoon of a glacier flowing into an ice shelf, showing the grounding line and calving at the ice cliff at the edge of the ice shelf.

Thicker ice in deeper water drives increased calving, increased ice discharge, and further grounding - line recession in a positive feedback loop2, 3.

- Use multi-species stocking (i.e., sheep and cattle together)- Protect livestock in predator proof enclosures, especially at night - Utilize guard dogs, donkeys, or llamas - Confine ewes & cows during lambing / calving & at night - Provide rabbit wire covered enclosures with fencing buried below ground; rabbit cages are not recommended as they may be attacked through the cage or die of shock as they frantically seek cover.

«This is a huge problem as the whales use this area as a crucial feeding ground; the sustenance provided by the waters off Sakhalin Island see them through the rest of the year — through migration, breeding and calving,» said Leigh Henry, Senior Policy Officer for WWF.

The loss of ice shelves — Mercer proposed — would allow the ice sheet to thin, grounding lines to retreat and the ice sheet to disintegrate via calving.

Change was afoot: after 50 years of apparent stability, the glacier calving front was retreating, and the grounding line was retreating indicating reduced bedrock anchoring.

The thinning between the grounding line and the calving front is mainly via melting as the snowline is at 900 m.

As during the last ice age when sea levels were around 100 m lower icebergs were grounding at 44s, these would have calved from similar size as during the 2001 event (160kmx30km) hardly evidence of change.