Sentences with phrase «continental shelf regions»

The draft five - year plan that has just been released by the Trump Administration's Interior Department would open up 25 of 26 outer continental shelf regions to drilling.

The quantitative population ecology of zooplankton with emphasis on zooplankton small - scale distribution and abundance, organic matter transport into the deep - sea, the biology of Gulf Stream Rings, zooplankton associated with deep - sea hydrothermal vents, dynamics of populations on Georges Bank and on the continental shelf region of the Western Antarctic Peninsula, acoustical determination of zooplankton biomass, abundance, and size, and the census of holozooplankton biodiversity in the worlds oceans.

Not exact matches

«Now Therefore I, Lieutenant - Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu - Ojukwu, Military Governor of Eastern Nigeria, by virtue of the authority, and pursuant to the principles recited above,» he announced in a broadcast, which thereafter triggered wild jubilations in the streets, «do hereby solemnly proclaim that the territory and region known as and called Eastern Nigeria, together with her continental shelf and territorial waters, shall henceforth be an independent sovereign state of the name and title of Biafra.»

A sonar mapping cruise taken in June to the Baltimore, Washington and Norfolk Canyons and selected regions of the continental shelf revealed steep escarpments that probably pose no tsunami hazard

This interaction may occur anywhere in the ocean, in particular in regions where surface - gravity waves interact as they reflect from continental shelf breaks, where the deep - sea suddenly faces a much shallower shoreline.

A sonar mapping cruise taken in June to the Baltimore, Washington and Norfolk Canyons and selected regions of the continental shelf between the canyons marked the first field effort of the multiyear Deep - Water Mid-Atlantic Canyons Project.

During the 12 - day at - sea experiment called GLAD (Grand Lagrangian Deployment), the research team deployed 300 GPS - equipped custom drifter soff the UM Rosenstiel School research vessel F.G. Walton Smith in a region where wind - driven continental shelf currents mix with buoyancy - driven Mississippi River outflow currents and deep eddy - driven currents in the Gulf of Mexico.

A throng of reef - dwelling organisms live on the edge of the Gulf of Mexico's continental shelf some 200 kilometers offshore, from corals in the shallower regions to sponges, sea fans and other soft corals, and numerous fish species in the deep.

To extend its maritime boundaries, a nation must provide scientific evidence of a «natural prolongation» of its continental shelf, usually by locating the foot of the region that drops off toward abyssal seafloor.

First of all, less sea ice is forming in the region, and secondly, oceanographic recordings from the continental shelf break confirm that the warm water masses are already moving closer and closer to the ice shelf in pulses,» says Dr Hartmut Hellmer, an oceanographer at the AWI and first author of the study.

In a paper to be published later this year, Lambshead and Guy Boucher of France's national research agency, the CNRS, point out that the slopes that plunge from the edge of the continental shelves, known as bathyal regions, contain a greater range of species than anywhere else on land or sea.

The Cooperative Institute for the North Atlantic Region (CINAR) is a regional CI that focuses on the U.S. northeast continental shelf (NES) from Cape Hatteras to Nova Scotia — one of the world's most highly productive marine ecosystems.

Once situated adjacent to the Terra del Fuego region of South America, South Georgia is thought to have migrated to its current position, 1800 km to the east of the South American continental shelf, between 45 — 20.

As well as hosting this significant biomass, the continental shelf surrounding South Georgia is identified as the most speciose region of the Southern Ocean.

Continental shelves in the Earth's polar regions are among the widest and deepest on the planet.

Further out to sea where the continental shelf drops off, the region is one of Australia's best pelagic birding sites, with an abundance of albatross across winter months, shearwaters in summer months, with petrels, gannets, skuas, terns and gulls also present.

By analogy similar blowouts ought to be readily findable along the South American continental shelf, but I haven't looked for geology papers about that region.

As to the other query, pingos, by definition are restricted to permafrost regions, although one might note they can be found in the ocean where permafrost underlies the continental shelf.

For example, reductions in seasonal sea ice cover and higher surface temperatures may open up new habitat in polar regions for some important fish species, such as cod, herring, and pollock.128 However, continued presence of cold bottom - water temperatures on the Alaskan continental shelf could limit northward migration into the northern Bering Sea and Chukchi Sea off northwestern Alaska.129, 130 In addition, warming may cause reductions in the abundance of some species, such as pollock, in their current ranges in the Bering Sea131and reduce the health of juvenile sockeye salmon, potentially resulting in decreased overwinter survival.132 If ocean warming continues, it is unlikely that current fishing pressure on pollock can be sustained.133 Higher temperatures are also likely to increase the frequency of early Chinook salmon migrations, making management of the fishery by multiple user groups more challenging.134

A high temporal resolution sediment core from the New Jersey continental shelf [19] reveals that PETM warming in at least that region began about 3000 years prior to a massive release of isotopically light carbon.

For example, the absence of ice over the continental shelf of the Arctic Ocean would produce a sharp rise in the productivity of this region, provided that a sufficient supply of nutrients is maintained.

The latitudinal thermal gradient over the continental shelf in this region is extremely steep, and thus is of particular interest for monitoring biodiversity changes in a warming climate.

Until now, the dispute over who could rightly claim the Arctic's resources had boiled down to an arcane debate over which of the five nations» continental shelves were connected to the region's undersea mountain ranges.