Sentences with phrase «lakes and river systems»

Scientists analyzing satellite data were astonished to discover the size of the vast lakes and river systems flowing beneath the Antarctic ice sheets, which may lubricate the movement of these glaciers as they flow into the surrounding sea.

To a birders delight, local forests, lakes and river systems, estuaries, and the coastal shoreline and ocean waters are alive with species throughout the year.

Its most important function is to protect and reclaim the waters of our lake and river system.

Implementing the framework's steps and establishing a common understanding of the lake and river system depends on widely shared, reliable data and analysis, the report says.

To guide choices about the lake and river system, the Academies» new report recommends a decision framework grounded in scientific and engineering information, and the use of decision analysis techniques to account for multiple objectives and the values of interested and affected parties.

The process should include broader participation by groups and parties whose safety, livelihoods, and quality of life are affected by decisions about the lake and river system, the report says.

Not exact matches

The tiny beads seep out of water - treatment systems into lakes and rivers, choking fish and marine life that ingest it.

This action supported the flushing of salt and nutrients from the Murray - Darling river system and helped to manage salinity levels in the Lower Lakes and Coorong.

High rainfall conditions and inflows to the Menindee Lakes during winter - spring 2016 provided the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder with an opportunity to deliver environmental water to support native fish populations in the Lower Darling as well as the longer - term health of the river system.

The minister, Mr Burke said the river system constraints such as the Barmah Choke, Menindee Lakes and certain narrow channels had been well - explained in the consultation documents.

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There will be a new generation of equipment to control the flow between treatment facilities, pumping stations and tanks; there is a system to alert customers and large institutions, such as hospitals, to interruptions in service; old pipes are replaced more rapidly to limit leaks; and officials are working toward a system to move water from north to south, so the Southtowns can rely on the Van De Water treatment plant on the Niagara River should the Sturgeon Point plant on Lake Erie fail or lose its links to customers, like when a 42 - inch main failed last summer.

The International Lake Ontario — St. Lawrence River Board meets on Monday to talk about the release of water throughout the system and the recent flooding along the river and the south shore of the lLake Ontario — St. Lawrence River Board meets on Monday to talk about the release of water throughout the system and the recent flooding along the river and the south shore of the River Board meets on Monday to talk about the release of water throughout the system and the recent flooding along the river and the south shore of the river and the south shore of the lakelake.

State lawmakers representing communities along the south shore of Lake Ontario are lining up against a plan to regulate water levels in the lake, and in the St. Lawrence River sysLake Ontario are lining up against a plan to regulate water levels in the lake, and in the St. Lawrence River syslake, and in the St. Lawrence River system.

With the current state of emergency in the region, and as water levels continue to rise throughout the Lake Ontario and St. Lawrence River system, the Governor is directing State Parks to institute the expanded speed restriction.

They work best in more sheltered systems with moderate wave energy, like the Chesapeake Bay, river systems, Puget Sound and even the Great Lakes.

The properties of the climate system include not just familiar concepts of averages of temperature, precipitation, and so on but also the state of the ocean and the cryosphere (sea ice, the great ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, glaciers, snow, frozen ground, and ice on lakes and rivers).

«Our report stresses the importance of thinking of Spirit Lake and the Toutle River as a system,» said committee chair Gregory Baecher, Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor of Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Operational risks — those related to operating engineered structures in the river and lake system — should be explicitly considered when evaluating alternatives for management, the report adds; such risks do not appear to have been systematically considered so far.

In 2015, the U.S. Forest Service asked the National Academies to convene a committee to propose a decision framework to support the long - term management of risks related to the Spirit Lake and Toutle River system.

Meanwhile, on hazy Titan, Huygens and Cassini found an Earth - like landscape of rivers and lakes filled with liquid methane — the only liquid bodies found on the surface of moon or planet in the solar system, except Earth.

«Prior to the invasion of zebra mussels, Great Lakes and inland - river system habitats already had been extensively modified by human activities.

Stuart Minchin, an environmental chemist and IT whiz who heads the WRON team, shows me around a climate - controlled room where hard drives the size of meat lockers corral information from the nation's diverse water management agencies and track virtually every drop of water in lakes, reservoirs, aquifers, and river systems.

Using supercomputers, the researchers found that this dense piece of ocean floor material (called a lithospheric slab) is slowly sinking into the Earth's mantle and is responsible for the formation of the Lake Eyre Basin, one of the Earth's largest internally drained basins and home to the lowest point in Australia at 15m below sea level, as well as the Murray - Darling Basin, home to the largest river system in Australia.

Heavy downpours can overwhelm New York's antiquated 19th - century sewer systems, the miles of pipes and tunnels that carry away wastewater and, when overtaxed, divert billions of gallons of raw sewage and contaminated urban runoff into the rivers, lakes and the ocean.

But population growth in the First World has taxed sanitation systems: 90 percent of the globe's sewage ends up untreated in oceans, rivers and lakes.

Titan is arguably the most Earth - like body in the solar system, boasting lakes, rivers, clouds and rainfall.

Regardless of whether the states can keep the Mississippi and Great Lakes systems segregated, Asian carp are expected to keep spreading throughout other parts of the U.S. through river systems that connect up with the Mississippi directly or otherwise.

Titan is the only other body in the solar system to show evidence of an active weather cycle, where liquid evaporates from lakes to form clouds, and rains back down to the surface, forming rivers and channels.

Asian carp, currently confined to the Mississippi River system, are threatening to invade Lake Michigan and the Great Lakes through the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.

For more than 100 years, the Illinois - Michigan Canal, the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, and the Cal - Sag Canal have connected the Great Lakes and Mississippi River systems.

Endocrine disrupters, which are found in almost 25 percent of our streams, rivers and lakes, can disrupt the normal functions of the endocrine system by mimicking or blocking the activities of hormones in wildlife leading to impaired development.

This project addresses feedbacks between microbial matabolism and ecosystem processes in a forest soils, prairie potholes, river systems, and lakes.

A new airborne Light Detection And Ranging (LIDAR) system will be built to enable future interdisciplinary ecological and environmental research involving optical measurements of fish, plankton, water turbidity, and related quantities in lakes and riveAnd Ranging (LIDAR) system will be built to enable future interdisciplinary ecological and environmental research involving optical measurements of fish, plankton, water turbidity, and related quantities in lakes and riveand environmental research involving optical measurements of fish, plankton, water turbidity, and related quantities in lakes and riveand related quantities in lakes and riveand rivers.

Titan is in some ways the most Earthlike body in the Solar System, with a thick atmosphere and prominent lakes, rivers, and seas.

Why else would the kid need to befriend an amphibious monster that lives in an underground system of lakes and rivers (making the amphibious part of its biology one of evolutionarily convenience for the screenplay).

This unit is basically about an inland water system (Lake and connected River catchments and inflows).

The American landscape is a catalogue of noxious weeds and invasive pests that have disrupted native ecosystems: Japanese kudzu in the South, African tamarisk in the Southwest, Amazonian water hyacinth and Burmese pythons spreading through the Everglades, Russian zebra mussels choking the Great Lakes, Asian carp invading the Mississippi River system, and European brown rats everywhere.

Stretching across over 900 km the labyrinth of lakes, rivers, inlets and creeks form a truly magnificent eco system and...

Dine al fresco at a lakeside restaurant or pub, have a family picnic by a river, or take a stroll through the waterfront villages of Paynesville, Metung or Lakes Entrance, known widely as the seafood capital of Victoria and where the region's lakes system meets theLakes Entrance, known widely as the seafood capital of Victoria and where the region's lakes system meets thelakes system meets the sea.

See the old river port of Goolwa where the Murray meets Lake Alexandrina separated by a lock and barrage system..

Day One — Travelling from Adelaide through Hahndorf an early German settlement, Strathalbyn and Langhorne Creek winery region, crossing the Murray, Australia's largest river system by ferry at Wellington where the Murray River enters Lake Alexandrina, before emptying into the Southern Oriver system by ferry at Wellington where the Murray River enters Lake Alexandrina, before emptying into the Southern ORiver enters Lake Alexandrina, before emptying into the Southern Ocean.

You will see all the scenic highlights of the Ord River system by joining Triple J Tours at 1130 and navigating 55 kilometres upstream to the base of the Lake Argyle dam wall before turning around and soaking it all up again on the return journey!

Spend an entire day cruising the stunning Ord River system from Kununurra to Lake Argyle and stop at a secluded riverside location for a sandwich smorgasbord lunch.

Surrounded by Lake Cooroibah, over 50 kilometres of pristine beach at the gateway to the Great Sandy National Park and Queensland's cleanest urban river system, the Noosa Rriver system, the Noosa RiverRiver.

Lakes Entrance... 9000 years ago a vast system of rivers, lakes, lagoons and islands was enclosed by 140 kilometres of the most secluded, untouched ocean beaches in the world - to create the largest inland waterway system in AustrLakes Entrance... 9000 years ago a vast system of rivers, lakes, lagoons and islands was enclosed by 140 kilometres of the most secluded, untouched ocean beaches in the world - to create the largest inland waterway system in Austrlakes, lagoons and islands was enclosed by 140 kilometres of the most secluded, untouched ocean beaches in the world - to create the largest inland waterway system in Australia.

Located in the eastern corner of Victoria, surrounded by the unique Gippsland Lakes, the largest inland waterway system in Australia covering some 400 square kilometers and the spectacular Wilderness Coast incorporating Croajingolong National Park which extends some 100kms from Bemm River to the far east of Genoa, Gipsy Point, Mallacoota and Gabo Island and across the border into NSW.

MONSTER OF THE DEEP: FINAL FANTASY XV Platform: PlayStation ® VR system Developer: Square Enix Release: 2017 In the completely new FINAL FANTASY XV VR game, MONSTER OF THE DEEP: FINAL FANTASY XV, players will explore the world's oceans, lakes, ponds and rivers and participate in a wide variety of fishing challenges, witness stunning details only in PlayStation ® VR, and reacquaint themselves with familiar faces like Noctis, Prompto, Ignis, Gladiolus, and more.

UMFULA aims to improve climate science in central and southern Africa, and to use the new understanding to improve modelling of hydrological systems (Rufiji basin in Tanzania and Lake Malawi / Shire river systems).

It is located on Sachigo Lake, which is part of the Sachigo River system and Hudson Bay drainage basin, approximately 425 kilometres (264 mi) north of the town of Sioux Lookout.