Sentences with phrase «for lake ecosystems»
«These results are a significant step in understanding what may be far - reaching changes for lake ecosystems.»
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These individuals are true ambassadors for the startup ecosystem in the Lake Norman area.
JEFFERSON COUNTY, N.Y. — Governor Andrew Cuomo made it very clear Monday: He feels Plan 2014 — the guide that went into effect in December and was designed to help Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River ecosystems by keeping levels higher, longer and allowing for more fluctuation — was a major blunder.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo made it very clear Monday: He feels Plan 2014 — the guide that went into effect in December and was designed to help Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River ecosystems by keeping levels higher, longer and allowing for more fluctuation — was a major blunder.
«This money will help safeguard lakes and rivers in every corner of this state, protect local ecosystems, and ensure that visitors can experience New York's natural beauty and wonders for years to come.»
USACE initiated a feasibility study to evaluate alternatives for aquatic ecosystem restoration in South Park Lake in Buffalo.
BAD HAB - ITS: Lake Erie's harmful algal blooms (HABs) are a growing problem for its ecosystem.
«Freshwater ecosystems, including lakes, streams and wetlands, are a large global sink for reactive nitrogen,» says lead author Jacques Finlay, an associate professor in the College of Biological Sciences (CBS).
«This decline is seen in the sediment core records and is a major problem for the conservation of Lake Tanganyika's many threatened species and unique ecosystems.»
The paper, «Climate warming reduces fish production and benthic habitat in Lake Tanganyika, one of the most biodiverse freshwater ecosystems,» by Cohen and his co-authors, is scheduled for online publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of Aug. 8, 2016.
For years, scientists studying lakes and other ecosystems have predicted collapses before they happen, using long - term data on environmental factors and population health.
The wasted earth and other materials are either put back onto the mountaintop in an approximation of their original contours, wreaking havoc on local ecosystems and biodiversity, or dumped into neighboring valleys, polluting lakes and streams and jeopardizing water quality for humans and wildlife.
The project was funded by the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative's SOAR (Synthesis, Observations and Response) Project, the U-M Water Center, the Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research and NOAA.
Other suggested projects include studies of Arctic ecosystems subject to pollution from Russian factories; surveys of wild relatives of crops in South America; studies of the food potential of fish in African lakes; and investigation of the greenheart tree in Guyana as a raw material for pharmaceutical use.
Coauthor and Fellowship advisor Kathleen Weathers, an ecosystem scientist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies and co-chair of GLEON, comments, «In the North American Lakes Region — where road salt is a reality — roads and other impervious surfaces within 500 meters of a lake's shoreline are a recipe for saliecosystem scientist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies and co-chair of GLEON, comments, «In the North American Lakes Region — where road salt is a reality — roads and other impervious surfaces within 500 meters of a lake's shoreline are a recipe for saliEcosystem Studies and co-chair of GLEON, comments, «In the North American Lakes Region — where road salt is a reality — roads and other impervious surfaces within 500 meters of a lake's shoreline are a recipe for salinization.
Published March 13 in the journal Ecosystems, the study may be the first to provide quantifiable evidence that eliminating the overabundance of phosphorus will be critical for improving the quality of Wisconsin's lakes and rivers.
We can say for sure there will be damage to the lake's ecosystems.
So you tend to lose the sedges and the mosses and the lichens,» explained study co-author Ed Rastetter, a senior scientist at the MBL Ecosystems Center and principal investigator for the National Science Foundation's Arctic Long - Term Ecological Research site at Toolik Lake, Alaska, where part of the research was conducted.
The research is good news for those who long to find isolated ecosystems in Lake Vostok's dark waters, says glaciologist Charles Bentley of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Models were developed by scientists at NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS), the University of Michigan, LimnoTech, the University of Michigan Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research, and the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL).
Since the discovery, California officials have taken measures to control the outbreak at Pinto Lake, but the discovery illustrates how marine mammals like sea otters act as warning signals for near - shore ecosystems, Miller said.
Rochelle Sturtevant, an ecologist who studies the Great Lakes for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, hopes Leprieur's study can serve as a cautionary tale as developing nations join the global market and undertake activities that threaten to introduce exotic species into their relatively pristine ecosystems.
Coauthor and Fellowship advisor Kathleen Weathers, an ecosystem scientist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies and co-chair of GLEON, comments, «In the North American Lakes Region - where road salt is a reality - roads and other impervious surfaces within 500 meters of a lake's shoreline are a recipe for saliecosystem scientist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies and co-chair of GLEON, comments, «In the North American Lakes Region - where road salt is a reality - roads and other impervious surfaces within 500 meters of a lake's shoreline are a recipe for saliEcosystem Studies and co-chair of GLEON, comments, «In the North American Lakes Region - where road salt is a reality - roads and other impervious surfaces within 500 meters of a lake's shoreline are a recipe for salinization.
Yuan Pan, of the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, for her presentation on «Using the ecosystem services framework to link scientific research and policy - making: a case study of Lake Tai, China.»
A particular challenge for science is the growing evidence that social - ecological interactions across scales can generate regime shifts where profound and abrupt changes can occur in systems ranging from local ecosystems (such as lakes) to large biomes (such as the Arctic); from local communities (such as farming systems) to regional economic sectors (e.g., global fisheries).
The Jefferson Project — a collaboration between Rensselaer, IBM Research, and The FUND for Lake George — was founded to develop a new model for technologically enabled environmental monitoring and prediction to better understand and protect the Lake George ecosystem and freshwater ecosystems around the world.
The research is part of the Jefferson Project at Lake George — a collaboration between Rensselaer, IBM Research, and The FUND for Lake George — founded to develop a new model for technologically enabled environmental monitoring and prediction to understand and protect the Lake George ecosystem and freshwater ecosystems around the world.
Studying the wildlife of a modern East African savanna ecosystem provides students an analog for studying the ancient environment of the Lake Turkana Basin, which millions of years ago was much more lush and green than today.
Lake sediment cores document increased chemical pollution of ecosystems during the past several decades traceable to tar sands development [157] and snow and water samples indicate that recent levels of numerous pollutants exceeded local and national criteria for protection of aquatic organisms [158].
Suchitoto is close to Lake Suchitlan, a river that was dammed and formed an ecosystem that offers ornithological interest for abundance as well as for the variety of species, pelicans, herons and storks.
For nearly a century, Washington's Condit Dam strangled the White Salmon River, forming a lake which profoundly reshaped the landscape and tipped the local ecosystem's delicate balance, that is, until last week.
Forests, grasslands, lakes, oceans, deserts, and other natural ecosystems provide a range of natural services that people have often taken for granted, even though they are vital to human welfare.
Scientists are learning to study (study of ecosystem collapse in a North American lake) these changes and pushing for action to protect ecosystems both as the home to some of the planet's most threatened species and to give human beings a sustainable future on the planet too.
For large lake ecosystems, these changes have well - documented effects, such as effects on algal production, stratification (change in water temperature with depth), beach health, and fisheries.
The document «Conservation and sustainable use of ecosystems for the provision of ecosystemic services,» by the Ministry of Environment, also discusses the mercury contamination problem in La Rinconada, which is in the Ananea District, and in Lake Titicaca.
Lake sediment cores document increased chemical pollution of ecosystems during the past several decades traceable to tar sands development [157] and snow and water samples indicate that recent levels of numerous pollutants exceeded local and national criteria for protection of aquatic organisms [158].
According to the Salt Lake Tribune, instead of studying the ways that climate change is threatening ecosystems worldwide and making life miserable for people and wildlife, these kids will learn that the greenhouse effect «maintains Earth's energy balance and a relatively constant temperature.»
Although decreases in fish mercury have been reported recently for lakes exposed to reduced mercury deposition (53), other aquatic ecosystems may continue to bio-accumulate Hg due to higher anthropogenic emissions in the 1970s.
The observed effects of cryosphere reduction include modification of river regimes due to enhanced glacial melt, snowmelt advance and enhanced winter base flow; formation of thermokarst terrain and disappearance of surface lakes in thawing permafrost; decrease in potential travel days of vehicles over frozen roads in the Arctic; enhanced potential for glacier hazards and slope instability due to mechanical weakening driven by ice and permafrost melting; regional ocean freshening; sea - level rise due to glacier and ice sheet shrinkage; biotic colonisation and faunal changes in deglaciated terrain; changes in freshwater and marine ecosystems affected by lake - ice and sea - ice reduction; changes in livelihoods; reduced tourism activities related to skiing, ice climbing and scenic activities in cryospheric areas affected by degradation; and increased ease of ship transportation in the Arctic.
«Reducing pollution of the nation's rivers, lakes and ecosystems» did nearly as well, with 69 percent asking for more government intervention.
A new report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature says ports and trade hotspots in the United States need to do more to detect and respond to foreign invaders like the quagga.Quaggas have transformed the Great Lakes ecosystem, outcompeting native species, harming fish populations, clogging up drinking water intake pipes and helping fuel toxic algal blooms.
«In the short term, the biggest change will be the ability for members to contribute toward hardening of Burrow's EVM implementation in order to support production - grade ecosystem applications... In the medium term, we will be working with other Hyperledger projects to ensure that Burrow runs well in combination with various blockchain bases such as Sawtooth Lake and Fabric.»
The Hyperledger community and by extension, The Linux Foundation, has initialized several projects (e.g., Fabric, Sawtooth Lake and Iroha) for the Decentralized Ledger Technology (DLT) ecosystems.
In this talk, Dr. Watmough will provide an overview of our current understanding of calcium biogeochemistry and describe the reasons for the widespread decline in calcium levels in lakes and the implications of calcium losses on soil fertility and forest health in addition to impacts on lake ecosystems.