Sentences with phrase «in near shore»

In addition to these mid-ocean ridge studies I am also involved in the application of similar marine geophysical techniques to study sedimentary processes and characterize benthic habitats in the near shore setting.

If we are able to overload the system and maximize productivity within rivers, deltas, and their freshwater plumes — it should be possible to completely deplete dissolved oxygen in near shore waters and give carbon the best chance possible for preservation and burial.

Call centers in the near shore area are prime jobs; they are great jobs for people to have.

Not exact matches

That has meant complementing just - in - time production with carrying more inventory and locating auxiliary production closer to home — whether in North America or «near - shoring» (as opposed to offshoring) in places like Brazil, Argentina, Mexico or Chile (the latter two being attractive to Canadian firms thanks to existing free trade agreements).

Nokia, which closed its 15.6 billion euro acquisition of Alcatel Lucent in January, is looking to stronger growth in fixed line equipment from the recently acquired business, as well as 900 million euros in cost savings through 2018 to help it shore up profits in the near - to medium - term.

The city of just over 33,000 people is located near the shores of Lake Michigan in the western part of the state, about a half - hour drive from Michigan's second most - populated city, Grand Rapids, and roughly an hour from Kalamazoo, the home of Western Michigan University, which has an enrollment of nearly 23,000 students.

More recently as wages in China have risen, some economists see some «near shoring» of work back to Mexico that would allow manufacturers to save on transportation costs, given the shorter distance to U.S. markets.

However, there could be some positive news for the sector going ahead as the destruction caused by the recent hurricanes in the US could lead to higher vehicle sales in the near - term, thereby shoring up the industry somewhat.

Gold climbed 70 % from December 2008 to June 2011 as the Federal Reserve bought debt and held U.S. borrowing costs near zero percent in a bid to shore up economic growth.

Shortly after Dalgleish's arrival on a personal visit, a body with its hands severed is found in a dinghy near the desolate shore.

Yet with hazy, ancestral memories of flight, it spends much of its time standing on rocks near the shore spreading its vestigial wings out to dry in the sun, just as flying cormorants do.

The puddle ducks are in the patches of open water near shore, the mergansers farther out, and the gulls stand in a great white crescent on the ice in the center of the reservoir, folding and unfolding their wings.

Don't let kids swim without adult supervision — lakes or ponds might be shallow near the bank, but increase in depth sharply farther out from shore.

Other Potential Impacts: In addition to the direct impact on the above described DEP initiatives, the proposed EPA cuts will obviously have a devastating impact on toxic cleanups, and near shore health which includes runoff control to limit algae blooms throughout the Great Lakes.

Crestwood LLC won a policy battle that could bring the Houston - based company a step closer to storing liquid petroleum gas (LPG) in salt caverns near the southwest shores of Seneca Lake.

The Lakeview Amphitheater is an outdoor concert venue located on the shores of Onondaga Lake in the Town of Geddes, near the western edge of Syracuse, New York.

Onondaga Lake, $ 30 million That's the state's pledge toward a total $ 100 million Onondaga Lake Revitalization Project, which includes an amphitheater on the western shore near the New York State Fair and improvements in Solvay.

It is the latest development in the reclamation of the lake that includes Honeywell's work to cap pollutants, the further extension of the lake trail to the Onondaga Creekwalk near downtown Syracuse and construction of an amphitheater along the west shore of the lake.

On Earth, about a million bacteria are found in a cubic centimeter of ocean water near shore.

Excavations in a cave on the cliffs west of Qumran, near the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea, prove that Dead Sea scrolls from the Second Temple period were hidden in the cave, and were looted by Bedouins in the middle of the last century.

It was March 29, 1932, midway through the Third East African Archaeological Expedition, and it had rained so long and so hard that it took an hour to drive the four miles from the campsite in Kanjera, near the shore of Lake Victoria, to the Kanam West fossil beds.

After analyzing the data, researchers found radiocesium from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident in the sediment samples along with a high fraction of clay material, which is characteristic of shelf and slope sediments suggesting a near shore source.

In fact, if you went to all the talks you would (a) cease to pay attention and (b) never have a chance to swim or snorkel, which would be a shame because you would miss out on the local black marine iguanas, the black fish, and black sea turtles in the water, as well as the black crabs near the shorIn fact, if you went to all the talks you would (a) cease to pay attention and (b) never have a chance to swim or snorkel, which would be a shame because you would miss out on the local black marine iguanas, the black fish, and black sea turtles in the water, as well as the black crabs near the shorin the water, as well as the black crabs near the shore.

Many marine biologists think of the world's biggest alga as the keystone species of its ecosystem, not only in terms of its structure — a huge forestlike environment under the sea — but also in terms of its tremendous productivity in supplying food for the near - shore ecosystem.

Nearby highway traffic, waves lapping at the shore of the Gulf of Mexico, or a tree falling in the forest near the Louisiana site can all swamp the gravitational waves.

«While a wave of farming peoples from the Near East replaced these hunter - gatherers, some of their lineages may have persisted longer in the far south of the Iberian peninsula and on off - shore islands and were then transported to the melting pot of Carthage in North Africa via Phoenician and Punic trade networks.»

Near shore, the clouds and smoke stay separated in tidy layers, but farther west the smoke settles and mixes with the clouds.

The 2 - centimeter - thick layer contains tiny fossils usually found near the shore, as well as types of pollen different from those found in the rest of the core.

In addition to Delaney's cabled network, the program includes five other sites scattered from the tip of South America to the waters near Greenland, where swarms of instruments will shuttle up and down cables and fly through the water on robots controlled from shore.

Likely measuring between 1.2 - and 1.5 - meters long, the dolphin was about the same size as today's vaquita, the world's smallest and most endangered cetacean, and it likely foraged in shallow, near - shore waters.

Major challenges in the near future include assigning clearer attribution to sea ice as a primary driver of such dynamics, especially in terrestrial systems, and addressing pressures arising from human use of arctic coastal and near - shore areas as sea ice diminishes.

The ship will collect data near and far from shore in Terrebonne Bay, about 125 kilometers west of the Southwest Pass of the Mississippi Delta, and Atchafalaya Bay, another 150 kilometers west.

And this polluted air and water vapor certainly will be carried to the near shore and left as an oily residue on everything from trees to electrical transformers, just as the salt from seawater often coats several kilometers inland in the wake of a hurricane.

Species that live in open water used platelets in their silvery skin to bend polarized light, obscuring their outlines more effectively than either near - shore species or humanmade mirrors, the researchers reported last week in Science.

Drawing on original research and published studies, the report also found that 70 % of China's mangrove forests and 80 % of near - shore coral reefs have vanished in the past half - century.

The finding, reported online today in Current Biology, comes from CT scans of several more - complete skulls of the species (artist's concept, above) also unearthed on Kenya's Rusinga Island, a near - shore landmass in the northeastern corner of Africa's Lake Victoria.

Yet the rate of increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the decrease of pH in near - shore waters have been questioned as being severe enough to cause the die - offs.

Ecologist Álvaro Palma of Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Santiago, who had dispatched the team of five to the island, says the group scrambled uphill from their house near shore to avoid the wall of water.

In videos of the tsunami, the blue roofs of the marine station buildings appear to be the only structures near shore that survived.

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.

Also convincing: Major insurance companies like Allstate, Nationwide, and State Farm have quietly stopped writing new policies in many zones near shore, says Wetlands Watch.

The bathers that gather every summer on the banks of the rivers of the mountain ranges of La Cabrera and El Teleno in León have little reason to suspect that the rocks that they can see near the water are of volcanic origin, over 460 million years old, when an emerging Iberian Peninsula was still on the coast of the continent of Gondwana, on the shore of the Rheic ocean.

West African nations, for instance, historically appear to have reported to FAO just 40 % of the catches made by local vessels in near - shore waters, found UBC's Dyhia Belhabib.

In the ocean, however, fishing continued to rely on sailing ships clustered in small slivers of near - shore wateIn the ocean, however, fishing continued to rely on sailing ships clustered in small slivers of near - shore watein small slivers of near - shore water.

The cichlid, Neolamprologus furcifer, raises its brood in rocky nests near the lake shore — a habitat shared with various snail species.

The bones and bodies appear to be the work of a serial killer — and perhaps multiple killers — who dumped the bodies in brush near the island's south shore.

In the early morning hours of April 18, 2015, around 200 mostly African migrants crowded into a rubber dinghy on the sandy shores near the port of Misrata, Libya.

As his group described in recent papers published in PLOS One and Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, the surfer - collected sea surface temperatures show that satellite measurements become unreliable near shore.

What they discovered is a near - perfect system in which krill aggregations situated over the Palm Deep Canyon — a region of nutrient - rich waters that produce a lot of food for the krill — are delivered close to shore by tidal currents and winds.

To Robert Brewin, a satellite oceanographer at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory in the United Kingdom, there's a «huge potential to use surfers as a platform to improve sampling» of the near - shore environment.