Sentences with phrase «in ocean environments»

I am a scientist that studies climate change in ocean environments.

V: We've found hundreds of new cellulases just randomly in the ocean environment.

Worrying statistics are given about the growing problem of plastic in the ocean environment and a quote from Sir David Attenborough is displayed to highlight the need to act with some urgency before it is too late.

Bonaire's own Carlos Coste, and Marina Kazankova, from Russia, will attempt the Longest Horizontal Free Dive in an ocean environment.

Impacts to Seabirds Seabirds in the park and throughout southern California are impacted by many factors including contaminants, oil spills, invasive species, and changes in the ocean environment.

Tuna are a top predator in the marine food chain, maintaining a balance in the ocean environment.

It is becoming increasingly clear that marine mammals are sentinels of potentially dangerous environmental changes in the ocean environment.

Or see turtles in their ocean environment from a glass - bottom boat operating out of Bundaberg.

The sources of lime already in the ocean environment is in the millions of billions of tons — some of which is readily available to maintain calcium levels at the surface despite ongoing losses.

Responsible for conducting research on aerodynamics and aeroacoustic for application in ocean environment

Not exact matches

Located in the central Cuban province of Sancti Spíritus, the buildings in the 16th - century city of Trinidad reflect the natural environment — sugarcane green, ocean blue, and sunshine yellow — sometimes all mixed together on the same building.

Trump's stance on the environment contradicts thousands of scientists and decades of research, which has linked many observable changes in climate, including rising air and ocean temperatures, shrinking glaciers, and widespread melting of snow and ice, to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.

«No, most likely the primary control knob is the ocean waters and this environment that we live in,» he told CNBC.

Many bioplastics are fully biodegradable, and would not accumulate in the environment like plastic pollution that currently plagues our land and oceans.

No, I am not Roz... I am a Rozta» (big fan of Roz, and I made up the eponym) Roz is in the Indian Ocean, somewhere, rowing from east to west (Australia to Madgascar, I think) and you have in common with her that she is also naked (salt water and clothing make for a bad skin situation when one is in that environment for months on end) You should look her up... writes a fantastic blog.

«We know that this type of non-biodegradable plastic is having a detrimental impact on the environment and oceans, and for us it's crucial that we play our role in helping to prevent any further damage.»

We are committed to helping transform the recycling system, seek innovations to change the materials we use, such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET), and work to recover the unmanaged waste that is ending up in the environment and, more specifically, our rivers and oceans.

Unless your hobby is dumping oil in the ocean, your sterilization has already done more good for the environment than * any * irresponsible behavior is likely to undo.

, location (near Spain, halfway between the ocean and the Alpes, the student environment (big universities city) and finally the cuisine (Southern France)... Yet, although the menu is balanced and varied, it doesn't seem to have the extra «splash» that the menu in Pau seemed to have.

A significant number of these bags make their way into the environment causing litter and damaging wildlife, which can be seen within our waterways, along our streets and in our oceans and lakes.

Cuomo says the EPA's decision is in direct violation of the 1972 Ocean Dumping Act, which outlaws dumping that could affect human health or the environment.

It's one of some 500 images in Discovering the Deep, a new book documenting unfamiliar deep - ocean environments.

Half a million gallons of water may be a drop in the bucket of an ocean environment, but it's a tripling in size for the Salt Lake City - area aquarium, which moves to a new and greatly expanded home in a southern suburb.

The potential for such activity in this small ocean world has made Enceladus a prime target for future exploration in search of habitable environments in the solar system beyond Earth.

Aside from myriad practical applications, these organisms could exemplify the kinds of life that exist in environments where little or no oxygen exists, such as the deep ocean or under the Martian surface.

Co-author Hayley Hung, a scientist with Environment Canada's Air Quality Division who studies toxic organic pollutants in the Arctic, said that in recent years, researchers had posited that warmer conditions would liberate POPs stored in land, ice and ocean reservoirs back into the atmosphere.

Improving our knowledge of past oceanic and climatic environments in the Southern Ocean is important for a number of reasons.

You could argue [on] the climate change [one], but [on nutrient] pollution we have used so much [fertilizer] and so much nitrogen compounds are loose in the environment, it is hard to recognize our coastal oceans anymore; of the species that are gone [and] that kind of thing.

«At the heart of the investigation is the question about whether life in the ocean, as it moves about the environment, does any important «mixing,»» says William Dewar, an oceanographer at Florida State University in Tallahassee.

The five regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs) meeting at Kobe III manage tuna fisheries in 91 % of the world's oceans, notes the Pew Environment Group, an advocacy organization based in Washington DC.

The Visiting Fellowships in Canadian Government Laboratories (VF) program can place applicants in any one of the 13 governmental departments or institutions that participate in the program, such as Agriculture Canada, Environment Canada, Fisheries and Ocean, National Research Council, and Natural Resources Canada, to name just a few.

Shen's own work demonstrates that the deeps of the Proterozoic ocean were full of sulfidic gases, not dissolved oxygen, and indicates that a complex natural environment, complete with a food chain and natural selection, was in place on Earth at an early date.

The public widely believes that the marine environment is under threat from human activities, and supports actions to protect the marine environment in their region, according to a new study to be published in the February issue of the journal Ocean and Coastal Management.

However, while rangeomorphs were highly suited to their Ediacaran environment, conditions in the oceans continued to change and from about 541 million years ago the «Cambrian Explosion» began — a period of rapid evolutionary development when most major animal groups first appeared in the fossil record.

«This correlation tells us this is the same water and that this is what's causing the melting of the glacier, which could influence sea level rise,» said Muenchow, an associate professor of oceanography in UD's School of Marine Science and Policy, which is housed in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment (CEOE).

Further work will reveal how evolution in ocean microbes may affect the function of the ocean in removing carbon dioxide to the deep sea and whether or not laboratory findings can be translated into the natural ocean environment.

«Measuring the strength of olivine is critical to understanding how strong tectonic plates are, which, in turn, matters to how plates break and create subduction zones like those along the Cascadia plate, which runs down the west coast of Canada to the west coast of the United States,» said Warren, a geologist in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment.

At Medmerry in West Sussex, the Environment Agency has built an inland sea wall and allowed everything on the ocean side to become a wetland.

«It makes sense, because the coast is a much more complicated environment, whereas the open ocean is more homogeneous and the features are more spread out in space and time,» said coauthor Daniel Costa, a distinguished professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz.

They interpreted the deposits were formed on land, not in the ocean, by identifying the presence of geyserite — a mineral deposit formed from near boiling - temperature, silica - rich, fluids that is only found in a terrestrial hot spring environment.

Low oil prices may render impossible petroleum found in difficult environments like the Arctic or far offshore in the oceans or found in difficult forms like tar sands.

The Congressional briefing, «Living at the Extremes: Geoscience Research at the Coolest Places on Earth,» planned by AAAS in collaboration with the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in celebration of National Oceans Month, explored the implications that the Earth's poles have for our natural environment, oceans, and national secOceans Month, explored the implications that the Earth's poles have for our natural environment, oceans, and national secoceans, and national security.

NOAA's mission is to understand and predict changes in the Earth's environment, from the depths of the ocean to the surface of the sun, and to conserve and manage our coastal and marine resources.

and Organisms had about 50 million years to get good at making hard materials in the ocean based on, you know, trial and error and using what's in their environment, and we don't have 50 million years.

Through these robots, sensor packages and high - definition cameras, he adds, researchers will establish an unprecedented telepresence in even the most hazardous environments of the deep ocean.

The Pew Environment Group's Global Ocean Legacy program has set its sights on two further massive protection areas in the near future: they hope to see New Zealand approve a 630,000 square km area in the Kermadec Islands later this year, and Australia protect 900,000 square km in the Coral Sea in 2012.

In light of ongoing threats to the oceanic environment and economy, President Obama has set up a task force to craft a national ocean stewardship policy

The scientists» analyses detected antibiotic resistance gene determinants in all 71 environments represented in the public data, including soil, oceans, and human feces.

Nearly two years to the day after the Deepwater Horizon incident, scientists from the Consortium for Advanced Research on Transport of Hydrocarbon in the Environment (CARTHE), based at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, conducted a drifter experiment in the northern Gulf of Mexico spill site to study small - scale ocean currents ranging from 100 meters to 100 kilometers.

The researchers note that their computational approach can also be used to analyze microbial ecosystems found in soil, ocean, lakes and more to detect universal dynamics of microbes in these environments as well.