Sentences with phrase «from small ocean»

Ed has represented an entire echelon of clients from top level executives and custom home builders to well recognized professional athletes, marketing their properties, from small ocean view condos to multi-million dollar estates.
Aquaculture currently uses more than 80 percent of the world's fish oil and fishmeal, which are extracted from small ocean - caught fish, leading to over-fishing of these species.

Not exact matches

Wallace said there is an ocean of data that creates security and content issues, and that requires the subjective perspective from a human being to decide which pieces of data or content make it to the smaller pool that is widely shared.
From small surfing and resort towns like Huatulco and exciting Cabo San Lucas at the tip of the Baja Peninsula where the Sea of Cortez meets the Pacific Ocean, we'll share insights to the beach towns and coastal areas you might want to explore.
It is nothing less than a tragedy because their small mindedness is preventing them from experiencing the ocean while those who venture to explore beyond themselves are rewarded for their willingness to broaden their minds beyond their limited experiences.
At my own University of Harvard, not a winter passes without its harvest, large or small, of lectures from Scottish, English, French, or German representatives of the science or literature of their respective countries whom we have either induced to cross the ocean to address us, or captured on the wing as they were visiting our land.
It also has a small pebble from a local ocean beach inside its shelter.
Moving away from the ocean and all related odors, let's talk about raw cacao nibs, which are roasted cacao beans that are are removed from the husk and then broken into smaller pieces.
In addition to Champagne, Chablis, and Muscadet — our favorite pairings with oysters — crisp, mineraly whites and a small number of ocean - friendly reds from Cat's favorite artisanal producers complete the wine offerings.
Our fish meal is from deep ocean water small fish, and our crab meal comes from the cold waters of the Pacific Northwest or Nova Scotia.
Occasionally Chichester is obliged to turn to the classics to piece out the narrative with passages from Conrad and Richard Henry Dana, but for the most part he draws on the solitary venturers in small craft — Joshua Slocum, the first man to sail alone around the world; Ann Davison, the first woman to sail alone across the Atlantic; Alain Bombard, the French physician who sailed a 15 - foot rubber dinghy 2,750 miles in 65 days to see if it was possible for a man to survive on the ocean without food or water except that provided by fish and rain.
That's because the dogfish, a type of shark, sits high in the ocean food chain and therefore accumulates mercury from the smaller fish it eats.
Most sea - level rise comes from water and ice moving from land into the ocean, but the melting of floating ice causes a small amount of sea - level rise, too.
Whilst this is a small figure in actual terms, combined with the contribution from other melting glaciers around the world and expansion of the world's oceans, it will have an impact upon society through flooding of low - lying coastal regions.»
And across all scales, from very small controlled studies of marine plots to those of entire ocean basins, maintaining biodiversity — the number of extant species across all forms of marine life — appeared key to preserving fisheries, water filtering and other so - called ecosystem services, though the correlation is not entirely clear.
Previous studies have documented the impact of plastic debris on more than 660 marine species — from the smallest of zooplankton to the largest whales, including fish destined for the seafood market — but none have quantified the worldwide amount entering the ocean from land.
Because Charon's modern - day surface is mostly water ice, it makes sense that the 1212 - km - diameter moon once had a subsurface ocean kept liquid by heat from the radioactive decay of elements in its core, as well as by the heat generated from collisions of smaller bits when the moon first accumulated.
Seen from below, its belly glows with blue light, making it difficult to distinguish against the backdrop of sunlight coming from the ocean's surface — except for a small dark band near its mouth.
According to the study, countries with coastal borders — 192 in all — discharge plastic into the world's oceans with the largest quantities estimated to come from a relatively small number of middle - income, rapidly developing countries.
«Normally at the ocean floor, at 700 meters depth, what you're accumulating is very fine material» — dust or silt small enough that it could be carried by currents or winds far from land without settling out.
That region, he says, is susceptible to even small amounts of warming and cooling from the atmosphere — and how cold the water gets influences how much or how little it sinks, thereby driving or delaying, respectively, the ocean conveyer belt.
Nearly two years to the day after the Deepwater Horizon incident, scientists from the Consortium for Advanced Research on Transport of Hydrocarbon in the Environment (CARTHE), based at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, conducted a drifter experiment in the northern Gulf of Mexico spill site to study small - scale ocean currents ranging from 100 meters to 100 kilometers.
The Oceans Chapter of Agenda 21 from the Earth Summit in Rio makes a «commitment to take into account traditional knowledge and the interests of local small - scale artisanal fisheries and indigenous people».
Research begun at Princeton University found that the numerous small sea animals that migrate from the surface to deeper water every day consume vast amounts of what little oxygen is available in the ocean's aptly named «oxygen minimum zone» daily.
Only further investigation will reveal how much of it makes its way from the river transport to the deep ocean, however, and how it might affect marine life, especially microbial communities that live in and feed on small organic particles.
But as trackers got smaller and battery life went from days to weeks and then months or years, it became apparent that sharks crossed huge distances, even oceans.
Andrés Cózar, researcher from the University of Cadiz, explains: «Ocean currents carry plastic objects which split into smaller and smaller fragments due to solar radiation.
The odds of randomly picking a wine molecule from the ocean is tiny — about 10 - 21 — because the volume of the bottle is so small relative to the volume of the ocean.
«What is most interesting is that there are big shifts in the surface mass balance that occur from only very small changes in radiative forcing,» said Ullman, who is in OSU's College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences.
His fears are based partly on new discoveries from places like Antarctica and the bottom of the Pacific Ocean that show small life - forms like bacteria have found ways to thrive in extreme places.
Researchers studied the Cayman reefs, which are 80 miles south of Cuba and surrounded by deep ocean water, in part because of their remoteness and negligible impact from a small nearby human population, Frazer said.
«As length scales become smaller from several hundred miles to a few tens of miles, we discovered the point at which geostrophic balance becomes no longer valid — meaning that sea level is no longer useful for calculating ocean circulation,» said Qiu, professor at the UHM School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOocean circulation,» said Qiu, professor at the UHM School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOOcean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST).
During expeditions from 2009 through 2013, the Tara Oceans scientists sampled viruses, bacteria, protists, and small animals in the upper ocean, ultimately collecting over 35,000 planktonic samples from 210 stations in all the major oceanic regions.
«It seems pretty clear that a small group of countries led by Russia wanted to wreck the agreement,» Steve Campbell, director of the Antarctic Ocean Alliance which campaigns for protecting the Antarctic seas, said by phone from London.
Further, in areas of the ocean with persistent or frequent eddies, Qiu and co-authors from the Japan Meteorological Agency, Caltech and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory determined that sea level can reliably be used to calculate circulation at a fairly high resolution, that is, at fairly small length scales (resolution of 10 miles).
The signal, which was picked up by underwater sound recorders off Rottnest Island just after 1:30 am UTC on the 8th March, could have resulted from Flight MH370 crashing into the Indian Ocean but could also have originated from a natural event, such as a small earth tremor.
Researchers from the University of Liverpool have spotted the equivalent of smoke - rings in the ocean which they think could «suck - up» small marine creatures and carry them at high speed and for long distances across the ocean.
These findings are relevant for sustainable development for other small island developing states that are likely to feel a significant impact from changes to the ocean.
«By analyzing the scattering signals that we got from satellite measurements of the ocean's color, we were able to develop techniques to calculate how much of the biomass occurs in very large or very small particles.»
But a new project using small wave - energy buoys aims to harvest clean energy from the ocean instead.
Bacteria and small organisms like crabs and mussels brought in on ships coming from warmer oceans could spread disease and compete with native species for resources.
Conor Purcell from Cardiff University's School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, said: «Using the simulations performed with our climate model, we were able to demonstrate that the climate system can respond to small changes with abrupt climate swings.
At the American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting on Dec. 17, they report the discovery of a previously unknown geochemical pathway by which Earth can sequester water in its interior for billions of years and still release small amounts to the surface via plate tectonics, feeding our oceans from within.
Launching on four legs, the pterosaur would have flapped its wings till it caught these small pockets of warm air rising from ocean or hot land, and then coasted easily on these for several hours.
The moon's south pole has strange, warm fractures, and plumes of liquid water from a subsurface ocean many believed was impossible in such a small, cold world.
They used baited remote underwater video systems — cameras lowered to the ocean floor with a small amount of bait — to survey sharks and other predators from the surrounding reef.
This means that even relatively small marine - protected areas could be effective in protecting the top - level predators and allowing coral reefs to more fully recover from coral bleaching or large cyclones which are increasing in frequency due to the warming of the oceans as a result of climate change.
Recent projections show that for even the lowest emissions scenarios, thermal expansion of ocean waters21 and the melting of small mountain glaciers22 will result in 11 inches of sea level rise by 2100, even without any contribution from the ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica.
Ecologists implanted tiny, battery - powered tags smaller than a pencil eraser into more than 8,159 fish migrating down the Columbia, the nation's fourth - largest river, and released those fish at one of four sites anywhere from about 140 to 245 miles upstream from the ocean.
The complement of microbes that compose an ecosystem, from the human body's smallest nook to the world's largest ocean, microbiomes have become a focus of fervent scientific interest.
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