Sentences with phrase «in ocean waters»

At one time, these animals were common in ocean waters off the United States; however, a recent stock assessment of the sharks along the U.S. East Coast and in the Gulf of Mexico showed an 80 percent decline even though they have been protected since 2000.

«This is the first evidence of increases in nitrate in ocean waters not in an enclosed estuary like the Chesapeake Bay,» said Raymond G. Najjar, professor of oceanography, Penn State.

There are 25 billion tons of gold in ocean waters.

There are many issues with measurement of pH in ocean waters, some physical, like depth and area coverage, some chemical like what pH is, some a mixture like whether dead / live biota should be considered, or filtered out with how fine a filter.

This circulation, which extends from pole to pole and throughout every ocean, is powered by density differences in ocean waters in different areas of the world.

«All the groups of micro-organisms, all these taxonomic groups, have been shown to grow better in these ocean waters when iron is added.

Furthermore, the level of oxygen in all ocean waters is falling, with 2 % — 77bn tonnes — being lost since 1950.

Pollutants have altered on a global scale the carbon dioxide content of the air and the lead concentrations in ocean waters and human populations.

The reason however that for instance Queensland hasn't really been hindered by the current La Niña until recent weeks is, just like in Pakistan several months earlier, much of the energetic build - up in the ocean waters had been masked by relatively high pressure air systems — as long as the ITCZ lay further to the north.

An increase in temperature or a decrease in pressure in the ocean waters overlying these sediments can melt this buried methane and allow it to bubble to the surface.

Igor Polyakov, an ice expert at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, said that heat banked in ocean waters appears to be the main force driving the ice shrinkage this summer, while last year wind patterns were the main factor.

Sediment CH4 release enhances substrate availability for aerobic methanotrophy in ocean waters and thus increases O2 consumption.

Belize, home of the largest barrier reef in the western hemisphere, permanently suspended oil activity in its ocean waters.

Giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) is a type of brown algae that grows on rocky reefs in ocean waters usually less than eighty feet deep.

They are found in ocean waters great distances from the continents as well as coastal regions near deep waters, such as near the Mississippi River in the Gulf of Mexico and the waters off of the Costa Maya.

When the New Moon shines on Dog Island you can encounter bioluminescence in the ocean waters.

Ocean waters at three beaches (East Beach at Mission Creek, Carpinteria State Beach and Jalama Beach), have warnings to residents as bacterial levels in the ocean waters at each of these beaches slightly exceed standards.

Features of the Slate - Pencil Sea Urchin Slate - Pencil Sea Urchin are abundant in the ocean waters...

However, they are used elsewhere in the world; and because they are stable in the environment, they are a big concern in ocean waters.

Is the Southern Moor, newly finished vessel and never before tested in the ocean waters, strong enough to sail through storms and cannon fire to reach the warm lands of the African shoreline and make the same journey back?

I think Fish Oil is becoming increasingly more dangerous what with all the toxins in the ocean waters of late.

The DNA in seawater can reveal the diversity and abundance of fish species living in ocean waters.

Researchers looking to solve this mystery found that ocean heat content had remained high, so a sudden chill in ocean waters (which would have caused upper layers of the seas to shrink in volume) wasn't the answer.

Using existing databases of CO2 measured in ocean waters, the team derived an index relating the two substances, and used it to estimate the amount and distribution of mercury contributed by human activities in different ocean basins.

In recent years, say scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, these baleen whales that typically sift out little crustaceans from the bottom are now eating mysid shrimp and even krill in ocean waters.

Analysis of the teeth suggests, however, that the giant croc was a marine reptile, which sought its prey in ocean waters, while alligators tended to hunt in freshwater and on land.

And unlike other biofuel feedstocks, algae production has minimal impact on freshwater supplies — especially when it can be undertaken in ocean waters or even wastewater.

Despite slower temperature shifts in ocean waters, ocean life from plankton to fish have begun moving in response to global warming

Wild Alaskan sockeye salmon are caught in the ocean waters of the Cook Inlet, having spent 2 - 4 years in the open sea.

At that time, there were lots of nutrients in the ocean water there, because small organisms called diatoms, which have silica shells, were able to thrive.

The natural seeps of gas and oil could contribute to the overall levels in the ocean water, possibly complicating scientists» attempts to understand how much oil spilled and what the effects will be on the gulf.

Even without a proper accounting of overlapping water supplies, the plan warned that demand for water could «outstrip existing supplies» by 2035 unless the state pursued dramatic solutions like desalinating and piping in ocean water or artificially seeding clouds to make it rain.

«No one expected that the highest levels of cesium in ocean water today would be found not in the harbor of the Fukushima Dai - ichi nuclear power plant, but in the groundwater many miles away below the beach sands,» said Sanial.

Yet previous work, in part by the same authors, suggested the process is employed rather frequently by octopuses and squid to respond to changes in ocean water temperature.

Most methane hydrates are buried in ocean water so deep that the journey through the water column is too far for the gas to ever reach the atmosphere, according to Ed Dlugokencky, a researcher at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

«Even though parasite treatments on farms were effective, we saw that treatments failed to protect wild salmon, and this happened at a time of unexpected warming in ocean water in these regions,» says Martin Krkosek, assistant professor in U of T's Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology.

For instance, RPO alone can be used to track organic carbon cycles in rivers and their watersheds, in soils, and in ocean water.

Some microbes living and transported in ocean water, however, threaten human health.

As the amount of carbon dioxide in ocean water goes up, the pH of ocean water goes down.

Atmospheric carbon dioxide dissolves in ocean water, making it more acidic and difficult for animals to build their shells or skeletons, especially corals.

This is more than the estimated total burden of microplastics currently present in ocean water.»

But that number has been falling as the amount of carbon dioxide in ocean water has been rising.

When carbon dioxide dissolves in ocean water, a process begins that uses up carbonate molecules.

My homemade Beach Waves Texturizing Spray uses the same minerals, salts and magnesium found in ocean water that give hair such wonderful volume and waves so that you can achieve the look at home everyday.

It also contains many other essential minerals and nutrients like potassium, calcium, iron, magnesium and iodine because they are so concentrated in ocean water.

Technically they say it can withstand being submerged in 2 meters of fresh water, and they recommend taking some extra precautions if it ever gets dropped in a hot tub, bath tub, a swimming pool, in ocean water, etc..

Those assertions are false and the concerns largely unfounded, scientists and government officials said last week, because Fukushima radionuclides in ocean water and marine life are at trace levels and declining — so low that they are trivial compared with what already exists in nature.

The ocean surface layer is what directly matters, that contains somewhat more CO2 than the atmosphere (1,000 GtC vs. 800 GtC), but the chemical reactions in the ocean water push the equilibrium back, so that ultimately the surface water - air equilibrium is reached with a 1:9 partitioning between water and air, reverse and far away from the 50:1.

So in Ocean the water glows from sunlight - the light is less directional.

Sea ice is ice formed in ocean water that freezes, in the oceans of Earth's North and South Poles.