Sentences with phrase «nearshore waters»

The cold nearshore waters couple with the descending, adiabatically warmed air aloft to form a stable lower atmosphere with a strong temperature inversion, which has long been linked to a prevalence of low stratiform clouds.

Where: All events will take place in the nearshore waters of Kaanapali and on the beachfront of the Ka'anapali Beach Hotel

This «kelp highway hypothesis» suggested that highly productive kelp forests supported rich and diverse marine food webs in nearshore waters, including many types of fish, shellfish, birds, marine mammals, and seaweeds that were similar from Japan to California, Erlandson and his colleagues also argued that coastal kelp forests reduced wave energy and provided a linear dispersal corridor entirely at sea level, with few obstacles to maritime peoples.

Other species of birds, such as grebes and loons migrate from Baja California over the nearshore waters, and will stop to fish and feed.

Results of new budget study help establish how nearshore waters and sediments influence climate.

Other notable announcements include a commitment by Hawaii Gov. David Ige (D) to protect 30 percent of the state's high - priority watershed forests and to manage 30 percent of the state's nearshore waters by 2030.

It is big, and it is growing, and that trend is all the more worrisome in light of rapid population growth in the coastal zones of the world and our heavy dependence on nearshore waters for economics, nutrition and recreation.

Experts have shown a hydrologic connection from these wastewater discharges and the nearshore water quality on the Northwest coast of Maui.

Not exact matches

Groundwater that seeps into the coastal zone beneath the ocean's surface — termed submarine groundwater discharge (SGD)-- is an important source of fresh water and nutrients to nearshore coral reefs throughout the globe.

Townspeople know when an eruption has occurred because nearshore fish die and rock lobsters run ashore, fleeing the poisonous water.

Whether fish hunt nearshore or in the open water and what prey they eat affect the amount of mercury that accumulates in them, a Dartmouth College study shows.

When fish feed on organisms that live around bottom - growing plants and on the mud in the nearshore areas (benthic organisms in the littoral zone), they accumulate less mercury than when they are feeding on plankton in the open water.

Coastal and boundary current systems with a focus on processes that link the nearshore and continental shelf to the open ocean, such as along - and across - shore transport processes, stirring and mixing of water masses, and the coastal response to larger - scale forcing events; long - duration, high - resolution observations using autonomous underwater gliders.

Though we had planned on working nearshore today in SOCAL - BRS with some planned refueling and transfers of people and gear, the small craft advisory from large swell and 20 + knot winds in outer water ensured it.

She has worked with sanitation authorities on research pertaining to impacts of disposal on coastal waters, and with the research community and municipalities on impacts of storm water runoff on nearshore coastal environments.

«The large rocky promontories of Cape Perpetua and Heceta Head, the productive ocean waters and expansive sandy seafloor environments, mark a unique transition from the nearshore rocky reefs to the north off Seal Rock and the subtidal reefs and kelp forests to south at Cape Arago.

Long Description: Littoral Drift Nearshore # 209 (Springridge Road, Bainbridge Island, WA 02.12.15, Fletcher Bay Water Poured and Fletcher Bay and Fay Bainbridge Silt Scattered) unique cyanotype 114x216»

Municipalities may be forced to invest in new infrastructure to protect human health and water quality in the Great Lakes, and local communities could face tourism losses from fouled nearshore regions.

Other key areas that require attention include quantification of the effect of trawling and mining on benthic habitats, assessment of the impacts of alien species, quantification of the impacts of pollution (sewage and storm water) in the nearshore environment, and the quantification and prediction of future climate change effects.

Beside that these islands would make a huge amount of offsore wind nearshore, in german, dutc, danish, norwegian and british water, and so would collect offhore power from there.

While temperatures on offshore reef environments have been > 17 - 18 deg C (likely due to oceanic influence from the Florida Current), shallow - water and nearshore environments have fallen well below 14 deg C (e.g., 10 - 11 deg C near Long Key).

Water from glacial landscapes is also recognized as an important source of organic carbon, 69,70 phosphorus, 71 and iron72 that contribute to high coastal productivity, so changes in these inputs could alter critical nearshore fisheries.70, 73,74,75

Nearshore benthic communities also could undergo significant change induced by reduced ice cover, longer open - water season, changing flows through the Bering Strait, increased frequency and intensity of storms, increased river and freshwater runoff, and increased ice scouring and coastal erosion.