Sentences with phrase «identifying ocean areas»

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.

Not exact matches

«Ocean constantly identifies areas of opportunity for my brands and products, making them a true strategic partner.

There was a shared sentiment that Alberta must be careful not to try to «boil the ocean» but instead focus on a few important levers: best - in - continent carbon pricing with a trigger mechanism linked to oil prices, energy efficiency measures and infrastructure were identified as good areas to focus on.

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.

«We used these estimates to map natural extinction risk in modern oceans, and compare it with recent human pressures on the ocean such as fishing, and climate change to identify the areas most at risk,» says Professor Pandolfi.

Scientists and diplomats have identified scores of ecologically significant ocean areas that could benefit from international recognition.

Still, the process is «a laudable start in employing a scientifically rigorous methodology to identify those special ocean areas that deserve greater protection,» says conservation scientist Richard Steiner, a consulting researcher in Anchorage, Alaska.

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.

To determine aquaculture's global potential, the researchers identified areas where ocean conditions are suitable enough to support farms.

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.

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