Sentences with phrase «estuaries at»

Many of the world's largest cities are situated at coasts and in estuaries at or near sea level.

Usually found in kelp forests, along reefs or in shallow, weedy areas of estuaries at depths to 160 feet (50 m); tends to remain in shallower waters unless food is scarce.

This is suggested by the presence of exotic raw lithic materials dated to this period and plant species from both areas, especially those from coastal beaches and estuaries at MV - II [14,25].

Kayaking in the Cluxewe estuary at high tide is a pleasant and peaceful paddle.

This property is a luxury 4.5 - star waterfront accommodation, just a 50 minutes drive south of Perth, overlooking the Mandurah Estuary at The Point.

It is located on the western side of the city of Ventura and borders the estuary at the mouth of the Ventura River.

The Estuary at Grey Oaks offers a measure of exclusivity that is reserved for only the most discriminating of homebuyers.

Not exact matches

The grandeur of the river is revealed not at its source but at its estuary.

«The oysters we process here in the Northwest at Willapa Bay come from one of the cleanest estuaries in the country, and just that alone separates us from other regions and oyster farms,» Nisbet states.

It's taken at mid-depth in the estuary, to avoid mud particles yet maximize salinity.

With any luck at all, Kelley will take care of that by sculling shooters down on rafts of old squaws, whistlers, bluebills, buffleheads and black ducks on the inland estuaries, bays and tidal rivers.

He said because they knew Baffour Gyan was going to stop them, they hurriedly sped off without Janet picking a lifejacket and even though Baffour shouted at them to return for a jacket, they were not bothered, sped off and headed towards the estuary side and that was the last time we all saw him [Castro].

So far the Coalition has ruled out a third runway at Heathrow and a new airport in the Thames Estuary as options to increase airport capacity.

Speculation began to increase at this point that the Government was having a change of heart over the third runway at Heathrow and a new Thames Estuary airport.

Proposals to increase airport capacity in London and the South East have attracted huge controversy, particularly the plans for a third runway at Heathrow and a new airport in the Thames Estuary.

Ed Miliband's party is ahead in all of the clusters of seats in which it will challenge sitting Tories at a general election, with the biggest swings in the Thames estuary, the Midlands and parts of the north.

The Thames Estuary Airport proposal, then described as being at «Cliffe» (in the constituency which I now represent), was ruled out on both environment and economic grounds, but the Labour government recommended a second runway at Stansted in 2011 - 12, a third runway at Heathrow in 2015 - 20 and, eventually, a second runway at Gatwick in the mid-2020s.

In 2010, Liddell - Grainger criticised plans by the Environment Agency and Natural England to create a wetland habitat at Steart on the Severn estuary as part of a realignment of coastal flood defences.

«At this stage, there is an entire host of outstanding questions and legal concerns surrounding this project that have not been answered to the satisfaction of anyone, including oversight and expert bodies such as: the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Citizens Advisory Committee of the New York - New Jersey Harbor & Estuary Program and the Westchester Municipal Officials Association, not to mention members of the State Legislature and the New York City Council,» Perkins writes.

Members of the region's most influential agricultural and environmental groups — including the Long Island Farm Bureau, Cornell Cooperative Extension, Long Island Wine Council, Peconic Estuary Program and Peconic Land Trust — are expected join the two politicians in the efforts at Wickham's Farm in Cutchogue Monday at 11:30 a.m.

Mrs Villiers also said that the Party was not looking at the option of building an airport in the Thames Estuary (a policy favoured by London Mayor Boris Johnson and Kit Malthouse, a Deputy Mayor) but added that the Conservatives «acknowledge the possibilities and benefits that could come from the proportionate and carefully considered expansion of regional airports».

Under the deal, Diller will resume his efforts to build Pier 55, the litigation against the park will not move forward, and Cuomo will agree to complete Hudson River Park, which runs from Battery Park City to 59th Street, and not allow development at the marine estuary.

UKIP is on the march in the Thames estuary — in a seat that hardly resembles its stereotypical territory at all.

It is a technical question whether new capacity should be built at Heathrow, or other London airports, or as Boris suggests, by the Thames Estuary.

Fish Count at Multiple Sites on Hudson River Banks and Piers The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) today announced that the sixth annual Great Hudson River Estuary Fish Count will take place at multiple sites along the banks and piers of the Hudson River on August 5.

Riverfront Park: 10:00 a.m. — 12:00 p.m.; seining at Riverside Festival, near boat launch; Hudson River Estuary Program / Capital District Marine Aquarists Society

«There will never be another Plum Island, and there will never be other opportunities to simultaneously protect this remarkable national treasure at the confluence of two national estuaries while developing an innovative opportunity to promote cutting - edge research,» said Robert DeLuca, president of Group for the East End.

Graham Evans gained Weaver Vale in Cheshire from Labour at the election, making him the sole Conservative representative on the Mersey estuary.

At Molinaro's urging, everyone posed for an official picture in the middle of the span — across the county line — with the FDR bridge and the yawning estuary serving as an impressive backdrop even without sunshine.

At night, for example, water in the estuary had higher carbon dioxide, lower pH levels, and a lower saturation state from the collective «exhale» of the ecosystem.

The research, by the University of Sydney's Marine Studies Institute and the Centre for Coastal Biogeochemistry at Southern Cross University, is the first long term study of such a large and important Southern Hemisphere system referred to as a drowned river valley, which in Sydney spans estuaries from Middle Harbour to Lane Cove and Parramatta.

Bay mud consists of thick deposits of soft, unconsolidated silty clay, which is saturated with water; these soil layers are situated at the bottom of certain estuaries, which are normally in temperate regions that have experienced cyclical glacial cycles.

AT THE far eastern end of the Thames estuary, amid a scruffy sprawl of London satellite towns, is a spot known as Lodge Hill.

Their eggs and larvae drifted for weeks offshore, bathed in oily water, before the juveniles at last took refuge in the shallow coastal estuaries, where they will mature.

Tidal wetlands and estuaries, despite being the smallest ecosystems in the study domain at 2.4 percent and 9 percent of the area, respectively, buried the majority of the region's carbon, the team found.

Up to five people left the series of footprints in mud on the bank of an ancient river estuary over 800,000 years ago at Happisburgh in northeast Norfolk.

«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.»

While working on his PhD at the University of Oregon, he discovered that Dungeness crabs staying in estuaries were infected with far fewer parasites than their fellows in the open sea.

The low salinity of the estuaries effectively cleans the crabs from parasites,» says Paul Dunn, a postdoc at the Institute of Biology, University of Southern Denmark.

The researchers developed a novel approach to the issue by using climate data from the IPCC and directly modeling all of the components that cause flooding at the coast including, waves, tides, winds blowing over the surface of the ocean and estuaries, precipitation, and stream flow.

«We need to look at these eutrophic estuaries as perhaps a larger source of methane than we thought.

It was first found in the state of NSW in 2000 and has spread to at last 14 NSW estuaries or lakes, from Lake Macquarie in the north to Wallagoot Lake in the south.

In 1991, English Nature, the government's main conservation agency, began a small but potentially important experiment in «managed retreat» of the coastline at Northey Island, a small patch of salt marsh and grazing pasture owned by the National Trust in Essex's Blackwater estuary.

«Given how widespread low - oxygen zones are in coastal waters worldwide, understanding these processes will allow us to predict the acidification of estuaries under expected increases in carbon dioxide and ongoing mitigation of nutrient inputs by management actions,» said Jeremy Testa, assistant professor at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.

«It has long been thought that the algal blooms found in Lake Okeechobee, which are caused by pollution such as runoffs from farms, were solely responsible for driving the blooms and their toxins in the St. Lucie Estuary,» said Brian E. Lapointe, Ph.D., lead author of the study and a research professor at FAU Harbor Branch, who recently presented these findings at the ninth U.S. National Harmful Algal Bloom Conference.

A barrage across the Severn estuary on the UK's west coast could provide as much energy as a second nuclear power station at Sizewell in Suffolk in eastern England, we explained.

While gazing at the Mersey estuary, Howitt realised that a salt basin on the other side of the river would be a perfect place to stash compressed air, which is used to store wind power.

«At the end of summer, the Coos River and other rivers along the coast that feed the estuaries generally dry up,» Sutherland said.

Researchers at the Georgia Coastal Ecosystems LTER site are monitoring and documenting many of these changes among different coastal habitats, including barrier islands, salt marshes, rivers and estuaries.

We followed monthly changes in water's and sediment geochemical characteristics at thirty - two sites spanning the Pescadero Estuary over a one - year period.