Sentences with phrase «north along the continental shelf»

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The project, headed by NEFSC, will utilize existing archival acoustic data from recorders previously deployed along the western North Atlantic continental shelf area.

Their scientific cruises on the shallow continental shelf occurred as sea ice in the Arctic Ocean was rapidly melting and as northern Siberia was earning the distinction — along with the North American Arctic and the western Antarctic Peninsula — of warming faster than any place on Earth.

«We found a large corridor of reefs that escaped the most severe damage along the eastern edge of the continental shelf in the far north of the Great Barrier Reef,» Hughes said.

Most pending offshore wind projects are along the New England and Mid-Atlantic coast for three reasons: First, the strong, consistent winds there — which a recent University of Delaware estimated as having the potential to generate 330 gigawatts of power, enough to meet a significant proportion of the energy needs of the Atlantic coastal states from Massachusetts to North Carolina — can be tapped on the broad, shallow continental shelf.