Sentences with phrase «northern gulf»

Acting for salvors in relation to the MT STOLT VALOR, a chemical tanker which was ripped apart by a large explosion and fire in the Northern Gulf.

The largest hypoxic zone currently affecting the United States, and the second largest hypoxic zone worldwide, is the northern Gulf of Mexico adjacent to the Mississippi River.

# 1: «We know that some coastal areas in the northern Gulf were degraded by the BP spill, and when storms come, toxics that have accumulated in the bottom sediment could reenter the water column, as has been observed decades after the Exxon Valdez disaster.»

No, it has nothing directly to do with the BP oil spill, but it won't help things... Scientists supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have just announced that the northern Gulf of Mexico hypoxic zone — that's the Gulf Dead Zone to you and me, where there's so little oxygen that it doesn't really support life — is likely to be of above average size this summer, though it won't set a new record (phew).

Northern Gulf of Mexico (Pigmy Basin) Richey, J.N., Poore, R.Z., Flower, B.P. and Quinn, T.M 2007 about 1.5 °C warmer than present - day temperatures.

This goes beyond the scope of the surface layer, and speaks experientially to the macro temperature profile specifically in the northern Gulf of Mexico but ends with several questions.

Last week, a very large and slow - moving low - pressure system began drifting westward across the northern Gulf of Mexico, where the air was exceptionally saturated with moisture, Krautmann said.

Using electronic measurements, the researchers will investigate variations in hydrate system dynamics beneath hydrate - bearing mounds on the continental slope of the northern Gulf of Mexico in response to changes in local environmental conditions.

Ohio State University will conduct research in collaboration with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to increase our understanding of the occurrence, volume and distribution of natural gas hydrates in the northern Gulf of Mexico using more than 1,700 petroleum industry well logs that penetrate the gas hydrate stability zone, or the offshore depths and locations where gas hydrates flourish.

Armstrong, J. L., J. L. Boldt, A. D. Cross, J. H. Moss, N. D. Davis, K. W. Myers, R. V. Walker, D. A. Beauchamp, and L. J. Haldorson, 2005: Distribution, size, and interannual, seasonal and diel food habits of northern Gulf of Alaska juvenile pink salmon, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha.

Royer, T. C., and C. E. Grosch, 2006: Ocean warming and freshening in the northern Gulf of Alaska.

Julie Richey et al., «1400 yr multiproxy record of climate variability from the northern Gulf of Mexico,» Geology, Vol.

Some scientists have sought comfort by noting that extrapolating trends in atmospheric CO2 show that the northern Gulf Stream circulation might not shut down for another 400 years.

Leslie Smith 2018-04-25T15:48:50 +00:00 March 20th, 2018 Comments Off on Study Characterizes Dissolved Organic Carbon Cycling in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

Sentinel - 1 satellite radar image of the northern Gulf of Mexico, taken about 7:30 pm local time on February 14, 2017.

It was recently estimated that we lose approximately 28 square miles of (northern gulf of Mexico) coast a year.

Just before making landfall in the record hurricane season of 2005, Katrina intensified to a category 5 hurricane while passing over a warm core ring in the northern Gulf of Mexico.

Only one model (NGFDL) is tracking away from the Northern Gulf of Mexico.

The illegal gill - net fishing of totoaba in the northern Gulf of California is causing the vaquita's perilous decline.

The area of hypoxia, or low oxygen, in the northern Gulf of Mexico west of the Mississippi River delta covered 20,000 square kilometers (7,722 square miles) of the bottom and extended far into Texas waters.

I am sure that there are plenty of people that would tell you that it has not disappeared from the marshes and shorelines of the northern Gulf.

Next, there is already an area set aside with fishing restrictions in place to protect the vaquita in their extremely small range in the northern Gulf of Mexico.

What better way to «give back to the Gulf» — and to the people whose livelihood depend on a healthy Gulf — than to protect the deep reefs and string of «topographic highs» in the Northern Gulf, the spawning areas for tuna, the critical places for menhaden, grouper, snapper, shrimp and others, as well as the vital — but neglected — seagrass meadows of Florida's Big Bend area, from Panama City to Tampa Bay.

But it certainly means there will be little rest around a large swath of the Caribbean and the northern Gulf of Mexico next week.

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Off the northern Gulf Coast, the Florida Panhandle Shipwreck Trail marks dive sites for a dozen of wrecks - turned - artificial reefs including the massive USS Oriskany, a WWII - era aircraft carrier.

The Northern Gulf Islands extend from Lasqueti Island near Parkville, north to Quadra and Cortes Islands near Campbell River, and from Texada Island near Powell River north to Savary and the Copeland Islands near Lund, including Jedediah Island Provincial Park.

The Discovery Islands have been labeled by some as the Northern Gulf Islands.

Part of a chain of 6,000 islands that dot the British Columbia coastline between Washington and Alaska, the Northern Gulf Islands include Quadra, Cortes, Denman, Hornby, Texada, Lasqueti, Jedediah, Rendezvous and Savary.

The Northern Gulf Islands each have distinct island cultures and charms.

Oxygen - depleted «dead zones» often form in the northern Gulf of Mexico due to nutrient - rich runoff from the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers, which are seen here as tan and greenish - brown plumes visible from the International Space Station in 2012.

UL Lafayette researchers had an edge when they applied for a $ 5.2 million grant to study whales and dolphins in the northern Gulf of Mexico.

March 20, 2018 Researchers analyzed dissolved organic carbon from water column samples collected in five regions to establish baseline data about its relative persistence and cycling in the northern Gulf of Mexico.

Three new LTER sites receive NSF funding: Northeast U.S. Shelf (NES), Northern Gulf of Alaska (NGA), and Beaufort Lagoon Ecosystem (BLE);

«Our findings give new geopolitical context to the scope of the spill, placing its impacts far beyond the present focus on the northern Gulf of Mexico,» said Putman.

Researchers investigating the impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on sea turtles found that over 320,000 juvenile sea turtles from populations throughout the Atlantic Ocean were likely present in the northern Gulf of Mexico during the 87 - day oil spill.

«There is a perception that the spills impacts were largely contained to the northern Gulf of Mexico, because that is where the oil remained,» said study's lead author Nathan Putman, a researcher at the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies located at the UM Rosenstiel School.

According to USGS estimates, 153,000 metric tons of nutrients flowed down the rivers to the northern Gulf of Mexico in May, an increase of 94,900 metric tons over last year's 58,100 metric tons, when the region was suffering through drought.

For example, studies have shown that the abundance of blue crabs, a preferred food item for the Kemp's ridley, has significantly declined in the northern Gulf of Mexico in recent decades.

Restricted to river systems that drain into the northern Gulf of Mexico, the species are divided by geography, which led to differences in genetics, said co-author Kenneth Krysko, a herpetologist with the Florida Museum on the UF campus.

Conservation of coastal rivers of the northern Gulf of Mexico is vital to the survival of the alligator snapping turtle, including two recently discovered species, University of Florida scientists say.

We do know that dolphins in the northern Gulf have been subjected to a number of environmental challenges in the past few years, and we do know that each one of those challenges will have affected their ability to deal with the others.»

Between January and April 2011, 186 bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) washed ashore in the northern Gulf of Mexico.

For the tens of thousands of sea turtle eggs incubating in the sands of the northern Gulf of Mexico — and dangerously near the oil — it's come to this: Officials are planning to dig up the approximately 700 nests on Alabama and the Florida panhandle beaches, pack the eggs in Styrofoam boxes, and fly them to a facility in eastern Florida where they can mature.

Although this could change the genetic makeup of east coast populations, which aren't identical to those in the northern Gulf of Mexico populations, he thinks the risks of negative effects are minimal.

Oysters — sedentary organisms particularly susceptible to harm from oil and dispersant exposure — were also directly affected, with decreased recruitment of oyster larvae throughout the northern Gulf in 2010, 2011 and the fall of 2012.

NOAA's National Ocean Service has been funding monitoring and research for the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico since 1985 and currently oversees the NGOMEX program, the hypoxia research effort for the northern Gulf which is authorized by the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Act.

Around 75 - 90 % of creatures in the northern Gulf of Mexico spend part or all of their lives in the estuarine waters surrounding these wetlands, which are enriched with nutrients from the Mississippi River.

Nearly two years to the day after the Deepwater Horizon incident, scientists from the Consortium for Advanced Research on Transport of Hydrocarbon in the Environment (CARTHE), based at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, conducted a drifter experiment in the northern Gulf of Mexico spill site to study small - scale ocean currents ranging from 100 meters to 100 kilometers.

«This is the first large - scale gillnet ban to save a species from extinction, and includes provisions for the development of alternative fishing gear to replace gillnets,» said Barbara Taylor, chair of the Society's Conservation Committee, who recently returned from more than two months aboard a research ship surveying the northern Gulf of California for vaquita.