Sentences with phrase «marine environments»

The most remote of all, Glover's Reef Atoll is the ultimate in pristine and diverse marine environments, offering over 20 sites with sharks, eels, rays and other tropical critters, with good visibility even on poor weather days.

It is known as one of the most diverse marine environments in the world — there is more than 2,000 species of fish and 400 species of corals, this is more than 70 % of the know species in the world!

Because the entire coastal waters of Bonaire are encompassed within a national park, paddlers can enjoy some of the most pristine marine environments in the Caribbean.

Much of the country's land and marine environments have been designated as protected areas, and most are managed for tourism and recreational use.

Sea Center Director The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History's Sea Center is a superb place for learning about our all - important marine environments.

The Galápagos National Park creates, regulates, and oversees cruise vessel itineraries to help control crowd size and reduce human impact on fragile island and marine environments.

These Great Barrier Reef Islands provide visitors with luxurious isolation in beautiful pristine marine environments, created naturally by Mother Nature, that make the most of the Coral Reefs on The Great Barrier Reef.

Looking ahead, Tolonen says that retailers and consumers can count on the company to deliver innovative, science - driven products that help create healthy, thriving marine environments.

The PWD is a robust and substantially - built dog well suited to work in marine environments as a swimmer, diver, retriever, fish herder, and courier.

Intertwining activism and data can prove helpful in any community, and he's seen everyone from schoolteachers in Shanghai to scuba divers off the coast of Maldives collect information on all types of debris in urban, rural, and marine environments.

The FISS team would anxiously wait for Boaty to return after being gone for upwards of 48 hours at a time, and in largely unknown marine environments.

Permian marine environments were abundant in mollusks, echinoderms, and brachiopods.

The Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) is an environmental research organisation committed to research, monitoring, assessment and studies on freshwater, coastal and marine environments in addition to environmental technology.

«The process is effective in removing benzene, toluene, and xylene, and has been tested under a number of different conditions to show that it is a powerful way to clean up polluted land and marine environments.»

The massive amounts of plastic trash in marine environments may be leading to toxic metals entering the food chain.

The issue of how much methane comes from fossil sources crosses both onshore and marine environments of the permafrost region and includes both natural sources and losses of methane from oil and gas exploration and transport.

These could lead to inappropriate disposal and further accumulation in marine environments as well as compromising recycling streams.»

Marine environments are typically considered more open than those on land when it comes to animal movement.

The department's main research focus is the investigation and the modeling of the dynamics of marine environments / ecosystems with a focus on the Baltic Sea.

We are investigating the relationship between microbial diversity and ecosystem health in marine environments.

«From the scientific perspective, this study suggests that ecosystem and species - level migration processes affecting population dynamics in marine environments such as the Gulf of Mexico may be operating at a larger scale than typically appreciated or examined,» Jue said.

«With this information, we can work collectively on ways to reduce pollution and protect our marine environments for future generations.»

REON, located at Beacon Institute's Center for Environmental Innovation and Education (CEIE) in Beacon, N.Y., will collect, sort, analyze and graphically display information about the river, making it available to Beacon Institute and Clarkson researchers as well as those studying marine environments worldwide.

They would need to experiment with a whole range of exposures, as Davies's study was on the high end of the artificial light scale that marine environments experience.

«The chemical diversity found in nature has always been a significant source of inspiration for drug design and development, but although the medicinal properties of plants have been recognized for thousands of years, marine environments remain relatively unexplored,» said Jane Ishmael, Ph.D., associate professor of pharmacology at Oregon State University and the lead author of the new study.

Previously, Ishmael's team had relied on samples isolated from natural specimens, which could not be grown in the lab and had to be harvested from marine environments.

Past oil disasters have shown that only 15 to 25 percent of the oil can be effectively removed from the marine environments.

The discovery of a gene (named DSYB) responsible for synthesising DMSP, published today in Nature Microbiology, represents a huge step forward in the field of sulfur cycling in marine environments.

This discovery represents a huge step forward in the field of sulfur cycling in marine environments.»

Aichi Target 11 calls for increasing by 2020 terrestrial protected areas to 17 percent on land and 10 percent in marine environments.

Picocyanobacteria are tiny, unicellular microorganisms that are abundant and widely distributed in freshwater and marine environments.

Cod dominates in marine environments, but herring, saithe, haddock, spiny dogfish and plaice are also important species.

In the study, the individuals were divided up into those who lived in marine environments and those who lived in freshwater environments.

Many uncultured microbes play unknown roles in regulating Earth's biogeochemical processes; everything from regulating plant health to driving nutrient cycles in both terrestrial and marine environments, processes that can impact global climate.

In the new study, the authors began with a set of 75 webs of interacting species that other researchers had previously described from a wide range of terrestrial and marine environments.

Dr Webb said: «Until now, there has been a general assumption that, despite pressures on marine environments like pollution and overfishing, marine species are unlikely to be threatened with extinction.

«Bivalves have been around for a long time and have survived different geologic periods of high carbon dioxide levels in marine environments,» says George Waldbusser, an Oregon State University (OSU) marine ecologist and biogeochemist and lead author of the paper.

Turtles in healthy marine environments can still carry the virus, but it often lies dormant with no symptoms, she says.

A lot of that litter contains especially durable plastics, such as polyethylene and polypropylene, which are designed to survive in marine environments.

The ecological impacts of a changing climate are evident, from terrestrial polar regions to tropical marine environments.

James Witts said: «Most fossils are formed in marine environments, where it is easy for sediment to accumulate rapidly and bury parts of animals, such as bones, or bodies of creatures with a hard shell.

The problem of plastic pellets in marine environments has been reported since the 1970s and the first recommendations for legislation were introduced in the USA back in the 1990s.

The block copolymer alters its structure in response to salt solution, enabling it to survive intact in dynamic marine environments.

Our results highlight the extent of the problem and the need for action to prevent increasing accumulation of litter in marine environments.»

«It appears to be highly tolerant of fluctuations in pH and temperature too, which means it is potentially useful for dynamic marine environments.»

Plastic litter is one of the most significant problems facing the world's marine environments.

«Stemming the Tide of Plastic Marine Litter: A Global Action Agenda,» the Emmett Center's most recent Pritzker Environmental Law and Policy Brief, documents the devastating effects of plastic marine litter, detailing how plastic forms a large portion of our waste stream and typically does not biodegrade in marine environments.

«There also are implications for the nature of marine environments,» he said.

A polyester sweater may seem cozy and innocent on a winter day, but its disintegrated fibers could be bad news in marine environments, Browne says.

Other researchers have shown that some terrestrial plants make compounds that inhibit reproduction in herbivores, but «this type of interaction was not known for marine environments,» says Ianora.