Sentences with phrase «important areas of the ocean»

But if we decide to explore other parts of the ocean, we still have options: we can go wider, exploring interesting and important areas of the ocean we'll never get to during the K - 12 curriculum, or we can go deeper, staying in the travel lanes but exploring aspects of those lanes most students won't see.

Not exact matches

Since The Bahamas is comprised of 700 individual islands and cays with a total land area of about 5,400 square miles scattered across 100,000 square miles of ocean, it is natural that fish and seafood are very important in the cuisine.

Leinen easily ticks off a host of areas, from analyzing the complex mixtures of physical processes and chemical reactions in the atmosphere and the ocean to characterizing earthquakes, in which geoscientists have made important contributions to physics and chemistry.

This provides important weather data, however they are mostly located around the coast, so leave vast areas of the continent and the surrounding oceans uncovered.

«Micro-scale 3D models are an important tool for many areas of science, but for most micro or nano - scale objects only a portion of the object can be seen in the field of view,» says Gopala Mulukutla, a research scientist in the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space at UNH and the study's lead author.

Ocean acidification is therefore one of the most important research areas regarding the effects of elevated CO2 on benthic marine calcifiers and the marine ecosystem in general.

«This work helps inform our knowledge and understanding of the deep sea ecosystems north of Cordell Bank and Gulf of the Farallones national marine sanctuaries, areas that are extremely important to the ocean environment.»

As the science develops, it is important for managers to design select examples of coral reef areas in a variety of ocean chemistry and oceanographic regimes (e.g., high and low pH and aragonite saturation state; areas with high and low variability of these parameters) for inclusion in MPAs.

The Flamingos Riviera Nayarit area is known for combining the golf course designs of important golf pros with the charms of the Pacific Ocean and the green tropical mountains.

I don't think it's very important because there is a high proportion of ocean's area, but I think it's worrying because, in principle, the trend of land temperatures is higner than SST's trend.

After I read the Hatun et al paper I thought the major point of the paper was that ocean circulation and the subpolar gyre is an important but little understood factor in the THC and more research in the area was needed.

By understanding what areas of the ocean are being heavily fished, agencies and governments can make important decisions about how much fishing should be allowed in any given area.

Today, President Barack Obama announced that he is withdrawing most of the Arctic Ocean and important areas in the Atlantic permanently from future oil and gas leasing under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act.

See e.g. the source / sink area's of the oceans, where most important sources are near the equator and most important sinks are near the poles, especially the NE Atlantic: http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/pubs/outstand/feel2331/maps.shtml

In many cases, the lack or insufficient quality of long - term observations, be it a specific variable, an important processes, or a particular region (e.g., polar areas, the upper troposphere / lower stratosphere (UTLS), and the deep ocean), remains an impediment.

The most productive coastal upwelling area of the modern ocean is the Benguela upwelling system off south - western Africa, an area that is considered to represent an important modern analogue of petroleum source rocks deposited in the geological past.

«In many cases, the lack of long term observations, observations suitable for the evaluation of important processes, or observations in particular regions (e.g., polar areas, the upper troposphere / lower stratosphere (UTLS), and the deep ocean) remains an impediment.»

Coral reefs provide a habitat or a feeding area for a diverse collection of sea creatures and are an important part of the ocean ecosystem.

While amplified warming does occur in cities and is an important local phenomenon, cities occupy only a small fraction of the planet compared to the vast area of oceans, ice caps, uninhabited mountains, and rural landscapes.

Equally important: Strongly worded concern from the most recent letter's signers that the draft 2017 - 2022 plan for oil and natural gas leasing offered by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management not be weakened by removing any of the leasing areas in the proposal.

8 21.1 Factors That Affect Climate Water Bodies • Large bodies of water such as lakes and oceans have an important effect on the temperature of an area because the temperature of the water body influences the temperature of the air above it.

I received an MS in Ocean Sciences from the University of California, Santa Cruz a few years ago (in the area of marine nitrogen fluxes); at the time I was a recipient of an NSF Graduate Student Fellowship in microbiology — and I transferred into the Biochemistry department hoping to go into renewable energy research, which seemed to be very interesting, important and useful work — I was particularly interested in algal biochemistry (a great oil source) or fungal enzymes (for cellulose digestion)-- but when I took these proposals to the Dean of Graduate Studies, he shook his head and said «You will never be able to find funding for this kind of work — can't you do something else?»

Arlington, VA — A massive new marine protected area around Cocos Island is a beacon of hope for ocean health and human well - being in the Eastern Tropical Pacific, and will offer endangered marine species such as hammerhead sharks and leatherback turtles, as well as fish stocks that are important to local communities, the chance to recover from increasing pressures, Conservation International (CI) said today in reaction to a decree by the Costa Rican government.

Elsner said the springtime NAO can help influence the location of the all - important High pressure area in the Atlantic Ocean, displacing it further southwest, which in turn may steer hurricanes closer to the U.S. coastline, as occurred in 2004 and 2005.