Sentences with phrase «continental shelf waters»

The Pacific walrus is found throughout the continental shelf waters of the Bering and Chukchi seas and occasionally in the East Siberian Sea and Beaufort Sea.

As you may know, world - wide the vast majority of walruses reside over the continental shelf waters between the U.S. and Russian Far East.

White sharks of all ages and sizes are present in continental shelf waters year - round, but their distribution varies by season.

The study subdivided coastal waters into tidal wetlands, estuaries and continental shelf waters.

But continental shelf waters are deeper than tidal wetlands and estuaries, so there is more time for bacteria and other animals to consume this dead matter before it can get buried.»

Not exact matches

In April, Trump signed the America First Offshore Energy Executive Order instructing Zinke to revise the current five - year schedule for leasing blocks of the U.S. outer continental shelf, the waters off the U.S. shore that the federal government governs.

Trump's new executive order now urges the U.S. Department of Interior to reassess and replace the most recent five - year oil and gas development plan the Obama administration put in place for the outer continental shelf, which covers federal waters off all U.S. coasts.

«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 between the canyons marked the first field effort of the multiyear Deep - Water Mid-Atlantic Canyons Project.

A plague of oxygen - deprived waters from the deep ocean is creeping up over the continental shelves off the Pacific Northwest and forcing marine species there to relocate or die.

The data show that some of the water upwells close to the continental shelf along the western Antarctic Peninsula.

In some places, like the Amundsen Sea, the warm water even reaches the continental shelf.

Then there was an exciting decade of research in arctic marine waters anticipating petroleum development on the continental shelf adjoining Alaska.

Where the shelf ends and the continental slope drops steeply downwards, waters at 1,500 - 2,000 meters teem with long - lived predatory species such as bluefin tuna, swordfish, marlin and wahoos, which probably all swam through the plume.

At the edge of the Pacific continental shelf, deeper, nutrient - rich waters rise to the ocean's surface.

When that edge moves off the continental shelf into deep open ocean waters, the productivity drops off and the marine organisms that feed larger wildlife are out of reach, scientists say.

Though muddy seabed often lacks the diversity found in coral reefs, the nutrient - rich waters at the edge of the Pacific continental shelf attract schools of squid, anchovies and krill.

The Chinese icebreaker Xuelong has been studying multiyear sea ice in the Arctic Ocean, and the U.S. Coast Guard is sounding waters to determine the extent of the Alaskan continental shelf.

Earlier this year an analysis of mitochondrial DNA conducted by researchers in the United States, Japan, and Taiwan estimated that the first anglerfish appeared about 160 million years ago, during the Jurassic Period, and quickly diversified as they spread into habitats ranging from shallow waters to the continental shelves to the harsh deeps.

GA maps the land masses below the ocean's surface through basic geological work and seismic and bathymetric analysis (measuring water depth at various places in a body of water) to better define and legally extend Australia's continental shelf for a submission to the United Nations under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.

That includes modeling the wind - induced upwelling at the edge of the Antarctic continental shelf, the flow of the water through submarine canyons on the continental shelf, and the water reaching Totten that causes melt and acceleration.

As Hartmut Hellmer explains, «When it comes to the Amundsen Sea, where warm water has already reached the continental shelf and even the grounding line of some ice shelves, we can safely say that this inflow of heat can not be stopped; the climate regime change has already taken place.

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).

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.

New research by University of Delaware oceanographer Wei - Jun Cai and colleagues at Université Libre de Bruxelles, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, University of Hawaii at Manoa and ETH Zurich, now reveals that the water over the continental shelves is shouldering a larger portion of the load, taking up more and more of this atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Between 1982 and 2006, waters along the continental shelf warmed by.23 degree Celsius.

The new rules would allow them in federal waters, known as the outer continental shelf, which extend to the edge of U.S. territory about 230 miles (200 nautical miles, or 370 kilometers) out.

During the past 11,000 years, wind patterns have pushed warm waters from the deep ocean onto Antarctica's continental shelf

The scientists detailed their best effort to come up with estimates of carbon cycling in three subsets of coastal areas: those dominated by river outlets, others consisting of filtering estuaries and bays, and the continental shelf — any coastal water reaching a depth of about 200 meters or fewer.

«Where mid-depth waters from the deep ocean intrude onto the continental shelf and spread towards the coast, they bring heat that causes the glaciers to break up and melt.

The waves that run along shallow continental shelves are much larger than those over the deep ocean, and so the force applied by the standing waves is also larger in shallow water.

Analyzing the chemical composition of those shells «acts like a fingerprinting» for the water's temperature, Hillenbrand said, enabling researchers to trace the intervals when relatively warm water welled up onto the continental shelf.

The findings, published yesterday in the journal Nature, show that during the past 11,000 years, wind patterns have driven relatively warm waters from the deep ocean onto Antarctica's continental shelf, leading to significant and sustained ice loss.

Coastal and boundary current systems with a focus on processes that link the nearshore and continental shelf to the open ocean, such as along - and across - shore transport processes, stirring and mixing of water masses, and the coastal response to larger - scale forcing events; long - duration, high - resolution observations using autonomous underwater gliders.

a) Satellite image showing fast disintegration of sea ice over a polar continental shelf; b) Zoobenthos on an Antarctic continental shelf; c) Examples of sea mosses (specimens on the left are from an open - water location and hence have had more plankton to feed on); and d) Dead bryozoan and other benthic skeletons covering the seabed, most likely to be buried, sequestering their blue carbon in the seabed.

During glaciation, water was taken from the oceans to form the ice at high latitudes, thus global sea level drops by about 120 meters, exposing the continental shelves and forming land - bridges between land - masses for animals to migrate.

The waters above continental shelves tends to be very «productive».

Low - oxygen and low - pH events are an increasing concern and threat in the Eastern Pacific coastal waters, and can be lethal for benthic and demersal organisms on the continental shelf.

The ice shelf around Pine Island Glacier is currently thinning, and it is warmed from below by Circumpolar Deep Water that flows onto the continental shelf22, 23.

This ice shelf collapsed after 10600 years ago28, when warmer waters flowed onto the continental shelf.

Around the Antarctic Peninsula, changes in ocean currents, and in particular, changes in circumpolar deep water flowing onto the continental shelf, is melting ice shelves from below.

Thoma M, Jenkins A, Holland D, Jacobs S. Modelling circumpolar deep water intrusions on the Amundsen Sea continental shelf, Antarctica.

In this case, incursions of circumpolar deep water onto the continental shelf are melting the ice stream at its base and encouraging grounding line recession, which results in a positive feedback loop and further grounding line recession.

Even if continental shelf extensions were conferred all the way to the North Pole — unambiguously in the overlying water column — high seas still would exist beyond sovereign jurisdictions, where more than 160 nations have rights and responsibilities under international law.

Snorkel or dive on the edge of the continental shelf at Agincourt Reef, feed giant cod at the Cod Hole or explore the waters surrounding a secluded coral cay.

In the waters off the Big Sur / Big Creek coast are a series of narrow and steep finger canyons that serrate the continental shelf.

Prefer to feed in coastal bays and estuaries, as well as in the shallow water along the continental shelves of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans.

The eastern North Pacific stock of gray whales prefers shallow, coastal waters and feeds over oceanic continental shelves around the northern Bering and southern Chukchi seas between Alaska and Russia during the summer.

Feeding The Cassin's auklet feeds offshore, often relying on upwellings of cooler nutrient rich waters and associating with bathymetric landmarks such the continental shelf and underwater canyons.

During the Spring months and throughout the Summer, the trophy - sized pelagic species, like Blue Marlin, White Marlin, Sailfish, Blackfin Tuna, and Dorado (also called Dolphin Fish or Mahi Mahi), venture close to the continental shelf to feed on feeder fish that congregate in the warm waters that border the deepwater currents of the Caribbean.