Sentences with phrase «in coastal waters»

The three small boats previously available to researchers were limited to sailing in coastal waters.

In coastal waters where the surrounding light and water are green, specific proteins help catch green light.

Until recently, these trends were extremely difficult to calculate due to a lack of data about carbon dioxide in coastal waters.

If this greenhouse gas finds its way into the water, it can also become trapped in the sea ice that forms in these coastal waters.

Both pollutants also contribute to excessive nutrient loading in coastal waters, affecting diversity of fish life.

She and her crew offer more than 20 years experience in our coastal waters.

Few studies have described the distribution and behaviour of krill in the coastal waters of the Antarctic Peninsula in autumn [3], [4], when adult krill are believed to migrate inshore to overwinter under the shelter of sea ice [5], [6].

These spawning grounds are found in the coastal waters of the Laptev and Kara Seas in northern Siberia.

Updated, 6:14 p.m. Assessing widespread reports of reef stress along with unusually high sea - surface temperatures, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is warning of a globe - spanning bleaching of corals in coastal waters around the tropics.

The researchers undertook the study in light of concerns about decreasing levels of oxygen in coastal waters worldwide, and how the growing prevalence of low - oxygen «dead zones» might affect populations and management of blue crabs and other coastal marine life.

In the 2000s, under public pressure, EU fleets stopped fishing in coastal waters off much of West Africa, except Mauritania and Morocco.

ref Specifically, reducing land - based sources of pollution (nutrient runoff and sedimentation) has been identified as an important approach to address acidification in coastal waters because nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen and land - based carbon inputs can increase the acidity of coastal and oceanic waters.

Interaction between ocean acidification due to anthropogenic CO2 emissions and the dynamic regional to local drivers of coastal ecosystems have resulted in complex regulation of pH in coastal waters.

For example, high numbers of disease - causing viruses and a bacterial species called Escherichia coli can occur in coastal waters influenced by human wastes (e.g., sewage).

Japan may get the right to kill whales in its coastal waters in return for scaling back its controversial annual hunts, cast as scientific research, near Antarctica.

«Suspended sediments result from flood plumes, coastal agricultural and industrial development and from dredging operations and are increasing in coastal waters worldwide,» says study co-author, Dr Amelia Wenger.

Fishing in the coastal waters of China is poorly regulated and often involves taking in large quantities of «discards» mixed in with the intended catch.

This notorious invasive species threatens reef ecosystems in coastal waters around the southeastern U.S. and in the Caribbean Sea.

In 2008, the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity put in place a moratorium on all ocean - fertilization projects apart from small ones in coastal waters.

Seasonal succession of free - living bacterial communities in coastal waters of the Western Antarctic Peninsula.

In today's digest, check among many interesting articles: the evolution within human microbiome by T.D. Lieberman, unique microbial biodiversity residing in hadal trenches by L.M. Peoples, changes in community composition in coastal water following exposure to oil and oil dispersant by S.H. Doyle.

With the hunters gone, the whales have returned and from time to time in the winter months, can be seen frolicking in the coastal waters around Victor Harbor.

This, for example, allows the B.C. government to exercise its authority over oil tanker traffic in the coastal waters dear to Aboriginal Peoples.

An inland boat insurance policy likely won't provide coverage while using your boat in coastal waters.

The prevalence of hypoxic (low oxygen) areas in coastal waters is predicted to increase in the future, both in terms of their scale and duration.

History in British Columbia Pacific White - sided dolphins were considered primarily a pelagic species until the mid 1980's when they became common sights in the coastal waters on the north - eastern side of Vancouver Island and north to Queen Charlotte Strait.

Focuses on how coastal and ocean acidification affects estuaries and coral reefs in coastal waters of the Southeast U.S. states.

China's military conducted live - fire exercises in coastal waters opposite Taiwan, trying to send a message to the democratic island whose Defense Ministry dismissed the drill as small - scale intimidation.

«There is tremendous interest in using marine plants to locally mitigate excess CO2 in coastal waters to the benefit of other sensitive marine species, such as oysters,» Waldbusser said.

The chlorophyll - a content that represents the algae levels in coastal waters was higher than last year in both the southern areas of the Finnish Archipelago Sea and the Gulf of Finland.

Led by Lynn Roberts and Ed Bouwer, the researchers track samples at sewage - treatment facilities in Massachusetts and Maryland to determine whether and in what quantities pharmaceuticals are getting through the waste - treatment plants and the extent to which they may be accumulating in coastal waters.

In fact, Canadian researchers have already moved forward with plans to place sensors along the northern third of the Juan de Fuca plate, and China recently entered the fray with ambitious plans for observatories in its coastal waters.

RCRVs are among the smaller vessels in the federal fleet, optimized for work in coastal waters, estuaries, and bays.

To track changes in coastal waters and predict when seafood species in the region may be safe to consume, it will be necessary to establish a «temporal data set» — that is, to measure the levels and distributions of contaminant radionuclides at a given location over time, he says.

Next, the researchers estimated the chances of one or more of the 13 nonnative bivalve species sold as seafood in the Western U.S. — but not yet established in coastal waters — being introduced into the regional marine environment.

Algal blooms have been increasing in coastal waters nearly everywhere.

Tidal wetlands buried 42 percent of the carbon in the study and estuaries buried 38 percent, for a total of 80 percent of carbon burial in coastal waters.

Overall, Govindarajan said the project met the primary objective, testing the feasibility of SUPR - REMUS for sampling in coastal waters: «We were thrilled with the first results for robotic sampling coupled with genetic analysis.

Craig Downs, executive director of the Haereticus Environmental Laboratory in Clifford, Va., part of the Global Coral Repository, has been looking at the effect of cosmetic chemical byproducts in coastal waters for years, in particular how they affect coral reefs.

Nutrient runoff may well be creating dead zones in coastal waters, but we can't just stop fertilizing our fields; global warming is a serious threat to coral reefs, but we can't just stop emitting greenhouse gases, and at this point it would probably be too late.

Pseudo-nitzschia is a microscopic algae that occurs naturally in coastal waters, and is of particular concern due to its production of the neurotoxin domoic acid.

This change alters the nutrient flux in coastal waters, especially given the heavy food supply that is often used to accelerate growth in the aquaculture facilities.

Two samples of Ulva spp., that were deployed near shore on Maui, show large differences due to growth in coastal waters that have either high (left) or low (right) levels of SGD - derived nitrogen.

Nature will only build beaches and salt marshes if there is sediment moving in the coastal waters.

Ship noise may be making it harder for endangered orcas (Orcinus orca) that live in the coastal waters off Seattle, Washington, to catch salmon.

The samples from 2011 came from sea ice that had started its long journey north in the coastal waters of the Laptev Sea of eastern Siberia nearly two years earlier, in October 2009.

«This study shows for the first time that the oxidation of hydrogen sulfide and ammonia from the bottom waters could be a major contributor to lower pH in coastal oceans and may lead to more rapid acidification in coastal waters compared to the open ocean,» said Cai, the paper's lead author and an expert in marine chemistry and carbon's movement through coastal waters.