Francine Kershaw, PhD Natural Resources Defense Council As part of NRDC's Marine Mammal Protection Project, Francine Kershaw
identifies areas of the ocean that are crucial for marine mammals and then assesses how vulnerable those areas are to human impacts.
Not exact matches
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Ocean constantly
identifies areas of opportunity for my brands and products, making them a true strategic partner.
Meantime, as a result
of groundwork laid by NYSERDA, the state announced it has asked the federal Bureau
of Ocean Energy Management to consider
identifying and leasing at least four new Wind Energy
Areas off the coast.
«We realised that our buoys are in fact a kind
of marine debris,» says Nikolai Maximenko
of the University
of Hawaii in Honolulu, who collaborated with 5 Gyres researchers to
identify which
areas of the
ocean should have especially high levels
of plastic pollution.
Scientists and diplomats have
identified scores
of ecologically significant
ocean areas that could benefit from international recognition.
An improved understanding
of how rogue waves originate could lead to improved techniques for
identifying ocean areas likely to spawn them, allowing shipping companies to avoid dangerous seas.
A group
of scientists and representatives
of indigenous Arctic communities has
identified areas around the Arctic
Ocean that they consider especially worthy
of consideration for protection as sea ice recedes and industry poises to enter the increasingly accessible high northern latitudes.
Bell, one
of the authors
of a 2011 National Research Council (NRC) report that
identified future
areas for scientific research in Antarctica and the Southern
Ocean, notes that the communications issue came up frequently in the report, and has been an issue for over a decade.
We are pioneering this data fusion approach so that we can observe large
areas of Earth's
oceans, allowing us to quickly and easily
identify those
areas most at risk from increasing acidification,» says Jamie Shutler from the University
of Exeter, who is leading the research.
I have to raise an objection to the phrase «the only region
of the world that has defied global warming» — that might be neglecting a certain
area in the Pacific where England 2014 has
identified a very obvious point where the «Pacific conveyor» was bringing in the last decade up a lot
of cold water from the deep
ocean and has possibly played a major role in the specific trends for that period.
There does need to be more study to
identify exactly how much carbon dioxide is actually sequestered in the bottom
of the
ocean, but the use
of iron as a fertilizer in naturally barren
areas of the
ocean to induce plankton blooms is no different from what mankind has been doing for thousands
of yeas — albeit on the
ocean versus on land.
The federal Bureau
of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) recently initiated the
area identification process by issuing a Call for Information and Nominations for
identifying and leasing additional wind energy
areas in the New York Bight.
First, we
identify TLC regions as the 25 %
of the tropical
ocean area (30 ° N — 30 ° S) with the lowest mid-tropospheric (500 - hPa) relative humidity (Fig. 1a, b).
Ecological niche modelling
of king penguins in the Southern
Ocean, validated with population genomics and palaeodemography data, is used to reconstruct past range shifts and
identify future vulnerable
areas and potential refugia under climate change.
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo released the following statement after the Bureau
of Ocean Energy Management issued a call for information and nominations to
identify additional wind energy
areas in the New York Bight off New York's Atlantic Coast, supporting Governor Cuomo's Offshore Wind Master Plan to obtain 2,400 megawatts
of offshore wind energy by 2030