Sentences with phrase «in sea environment»

The NUS team will be testing MantaDroid in sea environment next, to investigate its swimming capability at different depths and its ability to withstand underwater current.

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2016.09.20 RBC Heritage begins Sustainability Certification The Heritage Classic Foundation today announced that it has taken steps, in partnership with the Golf Environment Organization (GEO) and The Sea Pines Resort,...

The Heritage Classic Foundation today announced that it has taken steps, in partnership with the Golf Environment Organization (GEO) and The Sea Pines Resort,...

Today, flexible work options have contributed greatly to this sea change in the work environment.

With the rapid pace at which the payment industry is gathering momentum, the global payment environment will go through a sea change in near future.

Mr Gove said leaving the EU would provide a «once in a lifetime opportunity to reform how we manage agriculture and fisheries, how we care for our land, our rivers and our seas, how we recast our ambition for our country's environment, and the planet».

He puts on an aqualung in the sea or a space suit in the hostile environment outside the earth's atmosphere.

This new law, passed by the Dominican Republic's Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, is an important development in the fight to free sea mammals from their tanks where they do not belong.

Single - use plastic items, such as straws, stirrers, and plastic - stemmed cotton buds, have a significant impact on our environment, both on land and in our seas and rivers, when they are either littered or discarded incorrectly after use.

We are privileged to farm in a way that respects the estuary and the environment, and when we do simple things, such as reducing our impact on the lake bed allowing the sea grasses to regrow, it is actually good for the oysters and the health of this beautiful estuary.

And when they tire of climbing, kids can watch through glass windows as the sea otters joyously play in their own environment on one side, or witness beavers hard at work on the other.

Their Owl (Dark Chocolate + Sea Salt and Almonds), Bat (Dark Chocolate + Cacao Nibs) and Wolf (Dark Chocolate + Cranberries & Almonds) bars are not only delicious, they are fairtrade, non-GMO, gluten - free and creating positive change in our environment.

Song of the Stars a Christmas Story by Sally Lloyd Jones is one of my favorites — written in poetry it looks at how the natural environment may have reacted to the birth of Jesus from the Stars in the Sky through to creatures in the sea and on the land.

Twitter helps create the sea of information in which modern campaigns swim, and whether or not they're active on Twitter themselves, it's likely to shape the political communications environment in which they operate.

Twitter helps create the sea of information in which modern campaigns swim, and whether or not they're active on Twitter themselves, microblogging is likely to shape the political communications environment in which campaigns operate.

The Conservatives have a poor record on the environment in office, launching a dash for fossil fuels including massive tax breaks for fracking and North Sea oil and gas.

Olonishakin expressed optimism that the 25 gunboats newly acquired by the Nigerian Navy would help in drastically reducing oil theft, sea piracy and other forms of illegalities in the nation's maritime environment.

She now works in extreme environments such as the frigid Chukchi Sea between Alaska and Siberia, gauging the effect of underwater ambient noise on marine mammals.

In sea turtles, sex is determined by the nest's environment: warmer temperatures produce females and cooler temperatures produce males.

The Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission (HELCOM) seeks to put a complete stop to oil spills in the Baltic Sea by 2021.

Hydrogen sulphide is a widespread, extremely toxic compound in the Baltic Sea's seabed environment that is devoid of oxygen.

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.

«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).

Excess amounts from human activities often end up in rivers, streams and coastal environments, causing algal blooms, loss of sea grass and low oxygen levels in the water, which can kill large numbers of fish and other organisms.

However, this does not apply to our seas, since there are no clear noise regulations for that environment,» says Eva - Lotta Blom, author of the doctoral thesis, which explores how underwater noise affects reproduction in sand and common gobies (Pomatoschistus minutus and Pomatoschistus microps, respectively).

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.

Lots of animals differ in the parts of the color spectrum that they see best because of how they are tuned to their environments — whether they live in the deep sea or in caves, whether they mostly go out in the day or at night, or whether they're trying to pick up ultraviolet patterns on flowers or on prey.

The technique used by ChemCam, called laser - induced breakdown spectroscopy, has been used to assess composition of targets in other extreme environments, such as inside nuclear reactors and on the sea floor.

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.

Among other important changes now occurring in the marine environment, rising sea levels will create the need for increased protection from such severe storms.

This approach allowed them to create a metabolic index for each species, which sets clearly defined limits for oxygen - breathing sea life: «Marine animals like eelpouts, rock crabs and Atlantic cod can only survive in environments with enough oxygen for them to increase their metabolism to between two and five times their resting metabolic rate if need be.

Linse says she expects to find something similar to ecosystems found in the deep sea — a dark, extremely food - sparse environment with no plant life.

These environments, along with other forms of coastal ecosystems such as tidal marshes and sea grasses, have been given the name «blue carbon» to differentiate them from the «green» carbon of other forests, where carbon is absorbed above ground in trees.

Given that in biology many phyla, families and genera have some species that live in the sea and others that live on land, marine biology classifies species based on the environment rather than on taxonomy.

NUI took its first dip in the Arctic in July, exploring the under — sea ice environment and relaying environmental data and video back to its operators in real time.

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.

Given the turtles» environment, he was not surprised by what he found, Witherington told the 14th Annual Sea Turtle Symposium held last week in South Carolina.

A study in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment notes that reflected light — off of buildings or roadways — can be as disruptive to animal behavior as the direct light that attracts sea turtle hatchlings to begin life in the wrong direction.

Linse expects to find something similar to ecosystems found in the deep sea — a dark, extremely food - sparse environment that spawns odd creatures such as carnivorous sponges and bivalves.

Results from numerical modeling with the control algorithms showed a large potential, so the team took the converter to the U.S. Navy's Maneuvering and Sea Keeping facility at the Carderock Division in Bethesda, Maryland, in August to test the new control methods in an ocean - like environment.

In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers used mitochondrial DNA microsatellites from skin samples gathered from more than 3,000 individual humpback whales across the Southern Hemisphere and the Arabian Sea to examine how whale populations are related to one another, a question that is difficult to answer with direct observations of whales in their oceanic environmenIn the largest study of its kind to date, researchers used mitochondrial DNA microsatellites from skin samples gathered from more than 3,000 individual humpback whales across the Southern Hemisphere and the Arabian Sea to examine how whale populations are related to one another, a question that is difficult to answer with direct observations of whales in their oceanic environmenin their oceanic environment.

WCS's research is done in collaboration with a number of regional and local partners in the Arabian Sea working on advocacy and conservation, notably the Environment Society of Oman, among others.

«The population has basically come into balance with its environment,» said coauthor Sharon Melin, a research biologist at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center who has tracked sea lion numbers in Southern California's Channel Islands for years.

Northern sea ice in the Arctic is receding at historic rates, and a live science experiment is underway: What exactly is this melt doing to the underwater environment?

This includes, for example, how the atmosphere responds to increasing levels of greenhouse gases, how the gases cycle through the environment, and changes in water temperature and sea - levels.

«As in the environment above the sea, we tend to think about movement in a horizontal dimension, across the breadth of the oceans, but at sea there are perhaps even greater habitat boundaries and gradients as species move vertically with depth.

Lombardy created nine technological clusters: in agrifood; aerospace; green chemistry; energy, construction, and environment; smart factories; land and sea mobility; life sciences; smart community technology; and living environment technology.

Most octopuses can change their shape and texture to blend in with their environments, but the mimic octopus can go one step further: It impersonates other animals, such as jellyfish, sea snakes, and fish.

«The study suggests that loss of sea ice not only has an effect on the environment and wildlife of the Arctic region but has far reaching consequences for people living in Europe and beyond.»

Cornell University scientists are beginning to unravel the complicated connections between viruses, the environment and wasting diseases among sea stars in the waters of the Pacific Northwest.